Obadiah Reeve, <

Abt 1765 - 1781  (16 years)

• Name	Obadiah Reeve  [1]
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  Birth	Abt 1765	Blooming Grove, Orange, NY   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Oct 1781	Brattleboro, Windham, VT   [1, 2, 3]
  	He died by falling in a well.[His gravestone has been transcribed in some sources as Oct. 2, 1787, which appears to have been a misreading. See gravestone image.]
  Burial	Brattleboro (Meeting House Hill), Windham, VT   [3]
  Person ID	I5858	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	Phebe Foster, ^,   b. Abt 1724, {Southampton, Suffolk, NY} d. 26 Feb 1790, {Brattleboro, Windham, VT} (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	1761  [4, 5]
  Family ID	F2808	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He died at the age of 16 from a falling into a well being dug on the "minister's lot."

  
  

• Sources

  [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), p. 424. [S815] Lewis Grout. In the Times of Old: A Discourse on the Early History of the Congregational Church in West Brattleboro, Vt., Delivered December 31, 1876. Published by D. Leonard, Steam Job Printer, 1877. Original from Harvard University. Digitized. [S819] Meeting House Hill Cemetery, Brattleboro, VT. Listing of interments at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GSsr=481&GScid=182407&CRid=182407&CScnty=2951&CSsr=81&pt=Meeting%20House%20Hill%20Cemetery&. [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. [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.