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- Roberts Rives , the owner of extensive estates in Dinwiddie county, Virgin ia, was born about 1750, and died in Dinwiddie 1807- 09, where he resid ed throughout his life. The destruction of almost all the early Dinwidd ie county records makes it impossible to recite much concerning him.
With Thomas Henry Rives, his brother, he was co-executor of the esta te of his father, William Rives, and was co-plaintiff with his broth er in numerous suits in Dinwiddie in I789 and subsequently which arose o ut of the settlement of the various claims which his father left. The grad ual growth of his land and slave holdings is not without interest. In 178 2, the first year for which there are extant Dinwiddie county tax lists, R obert Rives appears as the owner of 440 acres of land, a holding which w as increased to 1,000 acres in 1787 (with the distribution, no doubt, of t he landed estate of his father), to 1,331 acres in the years 1794- 9 8, to 1,434 acres in 1799, to 1,731 acres in 1801, and to 1,959 acres in 1 807. In 1809 taxes were assessed against his landed holdings in the na me of "Robert Rives' Estate." During this same period of time he was credi ted with 5 slaves in 1783, 7 in 1784, 9 in 1788, 10 in 1802, 11 in 180 5, 12 in I806, and 13 in 1807.
The home of Robert Rives was in Bath Parish, and comprised an estate lat er known as "Cedar Green," where five - and perhaps six - generation of t he family resided without interruption.
Robert Rives. married about I777, Martha Peterson Hardaway, of Hardaway Mi lls on the Nottoway river, a member of one of the old and leading famili es of Eastern Virginia in Colonial times. Martha Hardaway was descended fr om Thomas Hardaway who married Jane Drewry, of Drury's Bluff, and settl ed early in the 18th century at Osbornis in what was then Prince George Co unty and now Chesterfield. It was her on May 4th, 1733 that the vest ry of Bristol Parish met at the house of Mr. Thomas Hardaway and agre ed to build a brick Church at Well's Hill. Thus was born Old Blandford Chu rch, now an historic landmark of Petersburg Virginia. Mr. Thomas Hardaw ay died in 1745.
Robert married Martha Peterson Hardaway daughter of Thomas Hardaway and Ag nes Peterson about 1777 in probably Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Martha was bo rn about 1755 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
They had the following children:
166 M i Robert Rives 1 was born about 1778 in probably Dinwiddie Co., Vi rginia.
Robert married Mary Rogers in 1803 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Ma ry was born in 1783 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
+ 167 M ii Richard Augustus Rives was born in 1780. He died in 1819.
+ 168 M iii Thomas Rives was born on 3 Nov 1782. He died on 28 May 184
+ 169 M iv Benjamin Rives was born about 1785. He died after 1860.
170 M v T. Hardaway Rives 1 was born in 1788 in Dinwiddie Co., Virgini a. He died in 1817.
171 F vi Mary Rives 1 was born in 1791 in Dinwiddie Co., Virgini
Mary married Robert Rogers in 1811 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Rob ert was born about 1790 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
+ 172 F vii Clarissa Rives was born on 16 Apr 1788. She died about 186
+ 173 F viii Martha Peterson Rives was born on 23 Apr 1795. She di ed on 1 Jun 1845.
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1743 - 1809 (65 years)
