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9. Richard RIVES (John RIVES
, William
) was born about 1690 in Surry Co., Virginia. He died after 1762 in Pitt Co., North Carolina.
RELIQUES OF THE RIVES (RYVES) Volume II, by James Rives Childs, J. P. Bell Company, Inc., Lynchburg, Virginia, 1929. Facsimile Reprint Published 1994 by Heritage Books, Inc., 1540E Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, Md. 20716, ISBN 0-7884-0091-6. Page 412.
2447. Richard-3 Rives (John-2, William-1) resided in that part of Surry county, Virginia, from which Sussex county was formed in 1752, in which latter county he was living as late as 1759. His first appearance in the Surry records was made soon after the death of John Rives, his father, when he witnessed on January 27, 1723, the will of Giles Underhill who had been one of the appraisers of the estate of John Rives in 1720.
On August 14, 1730, richard Rives purchased from Lambert Zell 220 acres in Surry county on the southside of the Nottoway river, and on June 19, 1732, he obtained a conveyance for five shillings from Nicholas and Martha Harford of two tracts of land in Surry county on the southside of the Nottoway river of 100 and 50 acres, respectively, adjoining the lines of Thomas Weathers, and Edward and John Pettway, "formerly called Robert Rieves' line." As "Richard Rives of Albemarle Parish" in Surry county, he appeared on April 16, 1740, in a boundary dispute with one of his neighbors, Edward Pettway. In the same year, on September 16th, he was the patentee of 400 acres of land in Surry county on the southside of the Nottoway river for shich he paid forty shillings. In 1744, with Christopher Tatum and George Rives [2540. George-3], he witnessed the will of William x Moor, and, with Edward and William Petway, the will of Thomas Weathers, both of Surry county.
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