Captain
Jabez
Jarvis
Sr
Born about in Surry County, British Colony of North Carolina
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Elizabeth Keziah (Ridge) Jarvis
— married
1750 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
John Jarvis, Eliphalet Jarvis, Ann Hill (Jarvis) Ball, Sarah (Jarvis) Rose, Jabez Jarvis Jr, Rezia Jarvis, Mary Jarvis and Elizabeth (Jarvis) Anderson
Died
at about age 85
in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States
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Biography
Captain Jabez Jarvis Sr served with Surry County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.
DAR Record
- JARVIS, JABEZ
- Ancestor #: A132158
- Service: NORTH CAROLINA
- Rank: CAPTAIN
- Birth: CIRCA 1730
- Death: POST 1800 SURRY CO-LIV NORTH CAROLINA
- Service Description: 1) LIGHT HORSE CAVALRY,COL JOSEPH WILLIAMS2) 4-4-1775 FOR 31 DAYS[1]
Jabez Jervis Sr. was born about 1730 in Surry, North Carolina. The name of his spouse is not known.
Jabez rode into Salem, North Carolina on 4 Apr, 1775 to control the Moravian population. On 09 July 1794, he received a land grant in Surry County. [2]
Research Notes
Elizabeth is the only name I have found for the wife of Jabez. They married about 1755 but this Elizabeth does not appear to be Elizabeth Ridge as a lot of trees show. She was too young and was also still unmarried in 1800.
"1800 September 22, Deed Book 1, p. 194. William Ridge & wife Sarah to Mary [sic] McGuire, all of Lee County, Virginia, for sum of $250 for 100 acres lying under Wallens Ridge between plantations of Robert Walker and Obed Gardner. Signed: William Ridge, Sarah Ridge; witnesses: Jacob Weaver, Joseph Denny, Elizabeth Ridge. (Duckworth, R. D. , Lee County VA Abstracts. Deed Book No. 1 1793-1804, p. __.)" The above deed was witnessed by Elizabeth Ridge, likely one of the orphans of William Ridge, Sr. If this is correct, then Elizabeth was unmarried in 1800.
Steve Martonak states that according to the estate papers of William Ridge, Kiziah was not William Ridge's daughter, was never married to Jabez Jarvis and that his only wife was a woman named Elizabeth. There is also a deed from 1798 that mentions Elizabeth as the wife of Jabez Jarvis. See Jarvis Notes 1, 2, & 3.
I wonder if the name Keziah was misprinted for Reziah. In 1790 Jabez is recorded to have 2 free white males over the age of 16 and 2 free white females. Eliphalet, John, Stephen, and William Jarvis are also recorded there in Surry, NC. In addition there is a Keziah (sic, Reziah) Jarvis recorded to have 1 free white male over 17 and 2 free white males under 17 and 6 free white females. I believe this may be where the mistaken name of Keziah came from.
In 1749 in New Jersey the name of Jabez Jarvis appears in the Jan 4 Deposition of John Hackett attached. (www.mindspring.com/~baumbach/cody/tory/harness.htm). From "A History of the Old Presbyterian Congregation of 'the people of Maidenhead Presbyterian Church'" located in Hunterdon, New Jersey, Jabes (sic) Jarvis is listed as having 4 horses and 100 acres of land.
In 1750 he is mentioned in the "History of Buncombe County, North Carolina". Sometime after 1750 Jabez moved to Frederick County, Maryland where he is leasing 150 acres of land in 1763. His name appears twice on the rent rolls of Frederick Co, MD.
In 1767 he is residing in Frederick Co, MD--Maryland, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890
In 1769 he is in Surry Co, NC and he is mentioned as living in Surry during the Rev. War in a deposition given about 1800. (Joseph Winston Land Entry Book 1778-1781 Surry, NC).
A record dated 3 Nov 1784 in Surry, SC, Book C, p133, lists Jabez Jarves (sic) was granted 191 acres of land. This tract and the one granted to his son, Rezia on the same date are both tracts of land on Fishers River. Jabez Jarvis land is in the fork of the Fishers and Yadkin Rivers. It appears he continues to live in this county and is found on the Taxable List, Atkins District, Surry Co., NC in 1786 as well as the 1790 census.
A deposition done about 1800 of John Harness, Davidson Co, Tennessee, talks about him boarding the the home of Jabez Jarvis during the Revolutionary War.
His death is given by a One World Tree project as 1810 in Beaufort Co, NC but I can't source that.
According to my research, children of Jabez Jarvis Sr and Elizabeth were:((citation needed)) Rezia (1751-1835) m. Elizabeth Rose Levi (1756-1792) John (1757-__) m. Lucy Parmelia Rose, sister of Elizabeth Rose Ann Hill (1760-1854) m. Daniel Ball Eliphalet (1762-__) Daughter __ (abt 1763-bef 1808) m. Abner Rose Sr Jabez Jr (1765-1840) m. Margaret "PollyP Holcombe Elizabeth "Lizzie" (1766-1851) m. Robert Anderson Mary (1766-1833)
Sources
- ↑ DAR Database.
- ↑ Land grant #1591, Surry Co., NC.
- "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRD-4LP : accessed 4 July 2022), Jabs Jarvis Sr, Salisbury, Surry, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 667, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 32; FHL microfilm 337,908.
- The american Revolution in North carolina for Capt. Jabez jarvis: Associated with Surry County Regiment. He served as a Captain from 1775 to 1779. Known Battles/skirmishes were 'Cherokee Expedition 1776 (TN)' on 8/1-12/28/1776 and 'French Broad River' on 10/1776
- J.D. Lewis, North Carolina Revolutionary Patriots
- US Federal Census: 1790, 1800
- Maryland, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890
- North Carolina Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790.
- North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
- North Carolina, State Census, 1784-1787
- "200 years of London family in America" Enid, Okla.: O.L. Cox, 1976.Original data: Cox, Opal London
- Burleson Family Association Bulletin Name Index. This index was created from the first seventeen volumes of the Burleson Family Bulletin.
- Early Germans of New Jersey (Ancestry.com)
- History of Buncombe County, North Carolina Vol II, Asheville, N.C.: Advocate Print. Co., 1930 by Asheville, N.C.: Asheville, N.C.: Sondley, F.A.
- Index to Snell's History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties
- Marriages of Surry County, North Carolina 1779-1868
- Maryland Records, Vol. II
- North Carolina Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790.
- North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
- North Carolina, State Census, 1784-1787
- Pioneers of Old Monocacy by Tracey, Grace L., Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002
- Index to Snell's History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties
- NC State Library and Archives, CR085.508.136, Estate Records, Rowan Co., NC, Folder: William Ridge (1785)
- Jarvis Notes 1, 2, & 3
Acknowledgements
Jervis-172 was created by Becky Jenkins through the import of lolarobinson.ged on Jul 6, 2017.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jabez by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jabez:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jabez by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jabez:
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The profile of Jarvis-4006 contains very little information, and there's no evidence of any kind that he was a son of Foster Jarvis. There is no evidence that Foster Jarvis ever existed. The son Reziah Jarvis is common to both Jabez Jarvis's.
A person named Jabez Jarvis clearly existed. If Jarvis-1271 and Jarvis-4006 are merged and Foster Jarvis is detached from the result, Reziah Jarvis will be one of Jabez's sons and we will have a situation that reasonably approximates reality. Whether Elizabeth Ridge-346 needs to be detached as a wife is another matter.