Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
John Neville
1662 - 1733 (71 years)-
Name John Neville Birth 1662 Northampton County, Virginia 
Gender Male Death 1733 Goochland County, Virginia Person ID I38552 Tree1 Last Modified 26 Nov 2023
Father James Neville, b. 1 Dec 1640, 'Cliffs' Calvert County, Maryland d. 1672, Northampton County, Virginia (Age 31 years) Relationship natural Mother Elizabeth O'Canny, b. 1642, Isle of Wight County, Virginia d. 1711, South Carolina (Age 69 years) Relationship natural Marriage Abt 1660 Northampton County, Virginia Family ID F6712 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Bohannon, b. 1664, Gloucester County, Virginia Marriage Abt 1682 Isle of Wight County, Virginia Children 1. James Neville, b. 1686, Isle of Wight County, Virginia d. 9 Nov 1752, Albemarle County, Virginia (Age 66 years) [Father: natural]2. George Neville, b. 1695, Gloucester County, Virginia d. 27 Feb 1774, Fauquier County, Virginia - probate (Age 79 years) [Father: natural]3. Anne Neville, b. Abt 1698, Gloucester County, Virginia [Father: natural]4. Joseph Neville, b. 1707, Gloucester County, Virginia d. 1790, Rockingham County, Virginia (Age 83 years) [Father: natural]5. John Neville, b. Bef 1712, Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia d. 27 Apr 1768, Hamilton Parish, Fauquier County, Virginia - probate (Age > 56 years) [Father: natural]6. Elizabeth Neville, b. Abt 1691, Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia d. Aft 1784, Truro Parish, Prince William County, Virginia (Age ~ 94 years) [Father: natural]Family ID F24340 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 26 Nov 2023
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Notes - Boogher showed James in his 1902 very first genealogy of the Neville family, other respected genealogist like H.W. Newman did not. The only work I know about by Newman was his "The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate" in 1984, in which he devoted 7 pages to John and his children. In it Newman observes that John's last will, probated 1665, identified only one son, William, one daughter, Ellen Lambert, and one grandson, John Lambert. He mentioned that William may have married late in life, and that there was also a court record of a Thomas Nevill who may or may not have been William's son. Newman positively identified no male descendant of John in this work. He did find another daughter, Rachael, who was not shown in his will. By his will, John left his son William the plantation on which he (John) lived. The will also mentions a separate deed of gift to his wife Joanna. We know John had several plantations and more children (at least Rachael) than were shown in the will -- probably because they had been provided for earlier. I do not see anything in Newman's writing that precludes the existance of another son, James. In fact, Newman leaves with no Nevill ancestor at all that explains where any of us came from -- unless he had other writings of which I am not aware.
On the other hand, Boogher states: "James Neville, first of John and Bridget, born in 1640, at the Clefts in Calveert County , Maryland; settled in Northampton County Virginia in 1660-1, where on March 22, 1662, he obtrained a warrant for 1300 acres of land (See Liber 4, Folio 339, Land Office of Richmond, Virginia) and where he doubtless married; settling later in Isle of Wight County. On March 6, 1674, James Neville, Sr., purchased 100 acres of land in Gloucester County, Virginia, in the name of his son John, then a minor, from Duncan Bohannan, formerly of Charles County, Maryland. It would appear from the records that the said 100 acres of land were deeded by Bohannan in settlement of the suit brought by his father, John Neville, Sr., against the said Duncan Bohannan, in Charles County, Maryland,in 1662. (See Liber 6, folio 549, Land Office, Richmond, Virginia)." This statement was quoted in footnote 1 to page 6 of J.B. Neville's "370-year History."
walkerjg@juno.com (James G. Walker)8/27/97
- Boogher showed James in his 1902 very first genealogy of the Neville family, other respected genealogist like H.W. Newman did not. The only work I know about by Newman was his "The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate" in 1984, in which he devoted 7 pages to John and his children. In it Newman observes that John's last will, probated 1665, identified only one son, William, one daughter, Ellen Lambert, and one grandson, John Lambert. He mentioned that William may have married late in life, and that there was also a court record of a Thomas Nevill who may or may not have been William's son. Newman positively identified no male descendant of John in this work. He did find another daughter, Rachael, who was not shown in his will. By his will, John left his son William the plantation on which he (John) lived. The will also mentions a separate deed of gift to his wife Joanna. We know John had several plantations and more children (at least Rachael) than were shown in the will -- probably because they had been provided for earlier. I do not see anything in Newman's writing that precludes the existance of another son, James. In fact, Newman leaves with no Nevill ancestor at all that explains where any of us came from -- unless he had other writings of which I am not aware.
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