Tapping (Tappen, Topping) Reeve, ^

1744 - 1823  (79 years)

• Name	Tapping (Tappen, Topping) Reeve  [1, 2]
  Suffix	^
  Birth	17 Oct 1744	Fire Place (now Brookhaven Hamlet), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Tappen or Topping Reeve  [3]
  Death	13 Dec 1823	{Litchfield, CT}   [3]
  Person ID	I5829	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Abner Reeve, ^,   b. 22 Apr 1708, Southold, Suffolk, NY d. 6 May 1798, Brattleboro, Windham, VT (Age 90 years)
  Mother	Deborah Tapping,   b. 1717, Long Island, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 18 Nov 1759, {Fire Place (now Brookhaven), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY} (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	Dec 1743  [4, 5]
  Family ID	F2806	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Burr,   b. 1754   d. 1797 (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	4 Jun 1771  [2, 3]
  Children	1. Aaron Burr Reeve, <,   b. 1780   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2810	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

• Notes

  While named Erastus Toppen - Toppen after his mother, he latter dropped the Erastus, and Tappen or Tapping seems to have been the most common given name variants to which he was referred.

  
  

• Sources

  [S40] George Borthwick, The Church at the South: A History of the South Haven Church (Mattituck, N.Y. : Cutchogue Presbyterian Church, 1989.. Written c. 1940 in manuscript form.), p. 63. [S231] Wikepedia, online [http://wikipedia.org ], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapping_Reeve. [S40] George Borthwick, The Church at the South: A History of the South Haven Church (Mattituck, N.Y. : Cutchogue Presbyterian Church, 1989.. Written c. 1940 in manuscript form.), p. 88. [S296] Wesley Logan Baker, Study of the Reeve family of Southold, Long Island, N.Y. : and Southold descendants of the Southampton, L.I. Reeves family and genealogy of said families up to 1800 (Douglaston, N.Y. (manuscript, HeritageQuest Online), 1970), pg 422. [S38] Cemetery: South Haven Presbyterian Church (1925 & 1938).