Eleanor's Family Tree:Information about George Rives
George Rives (b. 1660, d. Aft. 1719)
Notes for George Rives:
George Rives said in a deposition in 1719 that he was born in 1660. He was a trader "who braved not only the ordinary perils of the seas but, even more implicit of danger, the pirates who infested the American coast in the latter part of the 17th and the early part of the 18th century." (Reliques of the Rives, p. 77.)
His name does not appear as a landowner among the patentees of land whose grants of land are of record in the land office in Richmond.He was evidently a man of some substance but if he left a will it has been lost in the destruction of most of the Prince George county records.The name of his wife is not a matter of record, nor the names of all his children; but it is evident . . . that he was the founder of the earliest Rives families of Prince George and Brunswick (formed from Prince George and a part of Isle of Wight counties in 1732) counties and that his issue included, William, Thomas, Mary and Joseph.
Children of George Rives are:
- +William Rives, b. 1683, Prince George County, Virginia, d. 1735, Prince George County, Virginia.
- Thomas Rives, b. 1690, d. date unknown.
- Mary Rives, b. 1695, Prince George County, Virginia, d. date unknown.
- Joseph Rives, b. 1698, d. date unknown.