Immigration

of

WALTER REEVE

 

The following are two records of the arrival of Walter Reeve to America:

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The book containing this record detailed information about the ships and passengers that arrived prior to 1684 aboard the 23 ships of William Penn. Arrival was through the Delaware River, disembarking at present day Philadelphia.

"The exact date of the arrival of the fourth ship, the Society of Bristol, is not known. The only reference to it merely says it arrived ‘in the 6th M° 1682,’ that is, in August, 1682. 1

The Society of Bristol

Thomas Jordan, master, for Pennsylvania
(The list of Passengers follow. Recording only Walter for brevity)

[12 April] WALTER REAVE: 50 lb. Brass manufactured; 20 lb. Pewter; 24 lb. Serge’s; 1 cwt. Wrought iron." 2

Transcribed from, "Penn’s Colony, Vol. I, Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684," Reprint of a Welcome Society Pub’l. by the Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970.

1682

"12 April - 3 May.  Shippers by the Society of Bristol bound from Bristol for Pennsylvania:"

(List of Passengers follow)

" …. Walter Reave, …. (PRO:E190/114411)." 3

Transcribed from, "The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1661 - 1699," Peter Wilson Coldham, Surrey, England. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990.

About Passenger arrivals [Condensed]:

"Various port books kept by custom officials list vessels, dutiable goods, destinations, and names of shippers and shipping agents. Port books name only people who shipped merchandise for sale (personal items were not subject to duty), but this includes many emigrants who took small quantities of goods for barter or sale on arrival at their destination."

"Best known are those for London, Liverpool, and Bristol which provide evidence of the emigration of some of the ‘first purchasers’ and adventurers who arrived in the Delaware River aboard Penn’s 23 ships in 1682.[Note 22]"

"[Note 22] Best known work on this is the work of Marion R. Balderdton whose reconstruction of passenger lists from the 1681 - 83 port records of London, Bristol, and Liverpool should be required reading for students of colonial emigration. See in particular, "William Penn’s twenty-three ships, with notes on some of their passengers," "Pennsylvania’s 1683 ships and some of their passengers," and "Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684," ed. By Walter E. Sheppard, Jr., Publications of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (Baltimore: Gen. Pub. Co., 1970) 27-69, 75-120. See also Peter W. Coldham, "Passengers and Ships to America, 1618-1668," (Gen. Gleanings in England), National Gen. Society Quarterly 71 (1983): 163-92, 284-96; 72 (1984): 132-45."

Transcribed from, "American Passenger Arrival Records," Michael Tepper, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988, p.29.
1. For the date of arrival of the Society, see PMHB, IX, 228, which notes that Ann Knight came on this vessel. The loadings are from Bristol port book E 109/1141/1, the controller’s book.
2. "Walter Reave (Reeves) m. 11 Dec. 1682, Ann Howell, and was deceased by 18 June 1698, when Ann Reeves proved his will in Burlington Court. See ‘Court Records, Burlington, New Jersey,’ in John E. Stillwell, History and Genealogical Miscellany (New York, 1906), 29, 35."
3. PRO = Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LR. Such citations are followed by the Reference number of the documents.

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