Hugh Reese (abt. 1725 - 1790)

Born about 1725 in Prince George, Virginia

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Died 1790 at about age 65 in Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Birth Year

Just a guess based on the known birth year of his son Isham.

Dinwiddie Co., Virginia Personal Property Tax List

The first year in which personal property tax lists are available for Virginia counties is 1782. Capt. Hugh Reese is in the Dinwiddie Co. personal property tax list every year from 1782 until 1790. He has 5 or 6 adult slaves and from 1 to 3 young slaves, from 4 to 6 horses, and about 20 head of cattle.

Dinwiddie Co., Virginia Land Tax List

The first year in which land tax lists are available for Virginia counties is 1782. Capt Hugh Reese is in the Dinwiddie Co. land tax list from 1782 until 1790. He owns 160 acres valued at 6/1 per acre (6 shillings 1 penny). That is a middle level valuation. The total value is £48 13s 4 d and the tax is 48s 8d. In 1791 his son Jordan is taxed on that land.

Probate

Court records of Dinwiddie Co., Virginia at FamilySearch.org, "Order book 1789-1791", film # 31090, item 2, pg 253, image 363/421:

At a court held for Dinwiddie County at the courthouse on Monday, October 18, 1790, the last will and testament of Hugh Reese, dec'd, was exhibited into court by Isham Reese and Jordan Reese, the executors therein named, and proved by the oaths of James Amos and John West, two of the witnesses thereof, and ordered to be recorded. With Jeremiah Bailey and Thomas Rogers as their securities, the two executors entered into and acknowledged their bond in the amount of 1500 pounds, and they were granted certificate for obtaining a probate of the said will.

page 254, image 364/421:

John Pride, Henry Reese, Eppes Spain, John Old, or any three of them are ordered to appraise in current money the slaves, if any, and personal estate of Hugh Rees, dec'd, and return the appraisement to the next court.

Who is his Father?

The only person with surname Reese in the personal property tax lists of Dinwiddie Co. after 1782 with a military designation is Captain Hugh. He is probably the person mentioned as a "Capt. in the Revolution" in the letter cited under Henry Reese (1777-1856). The letter says that the Captain in the Revolution had 4 sons, Ishram[sic], Jordan, James, and Joseph and that Ishram and Joseph were Methodist ministers. The letter says that the captain was Henry's grandfather, but that is impossible since the letter previously identified Henry's grandfather as Thomas Reese and Thomas died in 1775. Probably a word is missing. If the missing word were 'brother', the soldier would be implausibly old. Isham was born in 1748. His father, Capt. Hugh, could have been born as late as 1728. If he had been born in 1728, he would have been 48 in 1776.

If the missing word is 'nephew' and Capt. Hugh Reese is a nephew of Thomas Reese, then he could be a son of any of the other conjectured sons of Roger Reese (Hugh, John, Roger, Jr.) or of another son that we are unaware of. That Capt. Hugh is a son of old Hugh is conjectural.

Sources

• Dinwiddie Co., Virginia Personal Property and Land Tax Lists
• Dinwiddie Co., Virginia Court Records