When Francis Reeve was born in 1755, in Laxfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Reeve, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Mayes, was 31. He married Susan Burridge on 30 December 1776, in Laxfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. He died in September 1801, in his hometown, at the age of 46, and was buried in Laxfield, Suffolk, England.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
English (East Anglia): occupational name from Middle English reve, refe ‘reeve’ (Old English gerēfa). In medieval England a reeve was an official responsible for the administration of a manor, including organizing work done by the peasants on the land for their lord, collecting rents, selling produce, and so on.
Irish: variant of Reeves 5.
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