Eleanor's Family Tree:Information about William Rives
William Rives (b. 1683, d. 1735)
Notes for William Rives:
William Rives is the first of the family whose name appears in the Virginia land patent books.On September 19, 1711, he was granted 422 acres of land in Prince George county on Blackwater Swamp. (Reliques of the Rives, p. 79).
Rives was known as Col., a title that must have been derived from service as commander or deputy-commander of the county militia of Prince George, and betokened a man of means and importance in the life of his little community. (Id., pp. 80-81).
William Rives left a will which must have been destroyed in the almost total destruction of records of that county at the hands of Northern troops in 1865, an act, it is sat to reflect, characteristic of of their wanton depredations in Virinia. (Id. 80-81).
Children of William Rives and Elizabeth Foster are:
- Benjamin Rives, b. 1706, d. date unknown.
- Mary Rives, b. 1708, d. date unknown.
- Timothy Rives, b. 1710, d. date unknown.
- +William Rives, b. 1712, Prince George County, Virginia, d. 1786, Bath Parish, Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
- Foster Rives, b. 1714, d. date unknown.
- Elizabeth Rives, b. 1716, d. date unknown.
- George Rives, b. 1720, d. date unknown.
- Robert Rives, b. 1722, d. date unknown.