Capt. Hugh "Henry" "the Indian Fighter" O’Neale

Hugh O'Neale c 1629 - c 1675

also spelled Nale, Neile, O'Neal, O'Nale, O'Neill, Neale, Oneal, Neal, Niele.

Hugh O’Neale was probably the brother of Sarah Doughty who married his wife’s brother, their parents unknown.

Biography

From https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Maryland%20Families/Neale%2...

Captain Hugh (Hew, Hewgh) O'Neale was born about 1627 in England.

He lived in Long Island before coming to Maryland before 1659. In 1659 he, and others, petitioned the court for payment "for trouble & paynes wee tooke in taking Mr Hutts Vessell." He was paid 20 pounds of tobacco a day for eight days work.

He owned Oneals Desert which was 700 acres in St. Mary's (later Charles) County.

He had at least three children with his first wife, Mary [SIC]

• Daniel O'Neale
• Charles O'Neale
• Joye O'Neale

”Mary [Doughty, widow of Adriaen Van der Donck] had no children with Adriaen van der Donck and with Hugh O'Neal had Charles, born 1663 and Joy, born 1667”
The Deed of Gift of Capt Hugh Oneale to his Daughter Venifrett one browne Cow called cherry wth a starr on her foreheade & a flowre Deluce on both ears & the tipp taken away on her left eare & the mark of her increase Cropt on both ears & an hole in the left witness my hand & seale Augt the 10 1669 Huhg Oneale 0 Witness Henry Bonner

Hugh was a supporter of Fendall's Rebellion. On February 8, 1660/61 he was among the 30 armed men with Captain John Jenkins who went to Josias Fendall's house to attempt to free him.

He married his second wife, Mary Doughty Vanderdonck, about 1662 and received a land warrant for 400 acres in 1667 for transporting them to Maryland.

Mary was a healer.

In 1661 and 1662 Richard Morris testified in court cases on Mary's behalf.

Hugh O'Neil took William Heard, the executor the Parker estate, to court to force him to pay the estate's debt of 1,000 pounds of tobacco that Mary O'Neale earned for Joane Parker's care. The court ruled in William's favor. During the case, William said that Joane Parker said that Mary posioned her. Mary sued William for slander. William asked for forgiveness. Again the court ruled in William's favor.

In a 1663 Charles County lawsuit, Hugh sued William Bowles "for the Care" of the defendant

Notes

From http://www.frostandgilchrist.com/getperson.php?personID=I9030&tree=...

(1) Hugh O'Neale is mentioned often in the MD State Archives <http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us>. References to him, which are too voluminous to report here fully, are on the following pages of the MD State Archives:

Proceedings of the County Court of Charles County, 1658-1666, Vol. 53, pp. xlvi, lii, 16-17, 18, 49, 71, 126, 139, 142-143, 148-149, 199, 219, 221, 229-231, 240-241, 261-262, 262-263, 286-287, 318, 326, 326-327, 329, 367, 396, 435-436, 442-443, 540, 541 and 620.

Proceedings of the County Court of Charles County - 1666?1674, vol. 60, pp. xxvi, xxix-xxx, xxxvii, 104, 206, 380, 440, 441, 444, 495, 514, 519, 550 and 559.

Proceedings of the Council of Maryland - 1636?1667, vol. 3, p. 471.

Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly - April 1666-June 1676, vol. 2, pp. 358 and 383.

Proceedings of the Provincial Court - 1663-1666, vol. 49, pp. 130, 175-178 and 528.

Proceedings of the Provincial Court - 1666-1670, vol. 57, pp. 8 and 80-81.

Proceedings of the Provincial Court - 1670/1? 1675, vol. 65, pp. 133 and 532.

Proceedings of the Provincial Court - 1675?1677, vol. 66, pp. 284-285 and 420-421.

1663 "Deed of gift: I, Enoch Doughty, have delivered unto Joye Oneale, my brother Heugh Oneale's daughter, on black heifer; 20 Nov 1663; /s/ Enoch Doughty; wit. Samuel Clarke, Thomas Branso (mark)." [1]

Footnotes:

[1] Elise Greenup Jourdan, Abstracts of Charles County, Maryland Land and Court Records, 1658-1666, Vol. I (2009), 180, GoogleBooks.

From https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0101...

Huege Nale (O'Nale). Service by 1659.

Source: Maryland Land Office, Patent Records, Liber 4, pp. 214, 598.

Herege (Hugh) O'Nale (Neile). [Immigrated] by 1659.
Source: Maryland Land Office, Patent Records, Liber 4, pp. 214, 598.

Capt. Hugh O'Neale. Of Charles Co., immigrated by 1667 with Mary, his wife, Daniel, Charles, & Joy, his children, Pelthya Moore, Mary Urin (or Vrin), Jean Marloe, Olife Panton, Silvester Bell, & John Hicks, his servants, & Enoch Dowty & Mary, his wife, & Joy Dowty.

Source: Maryland Land Office, Patent Records, Liber 11, pp. 104 and 401-2

• URL: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/md/montgomery/vitals/marriages...
• URL title: O'NEAL/O'NEALE Marriages (1662-1894): Montgomery County, MD
• Note: 1662 Maryland Charles

ONEALE Hugh Vanderonck, Mrs. Mary Hugh was the brother-in-law of Enoch Dougherty. Hugh & Mary Vanderonck O'Neale had these children: Charles, Daniel, and Joy O'Neill Family Papers Charles County Archives 53 pg 219 & 229. Archives 60 pg 206 Sween Library, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=11733-31&id=I5756...

Hugh O'Neal was a planter and “active man of the county”. Hugh O'Neal married Mary Doughty Vanderdonck just prior to April 22, 1662. Charles County, VA. ( his wife had came to VA from MD and her father had lived in Accomock, Rappahannock and Richmond, he had came to New England in 1638 from Oldbury, near Bristol, England ).

• * 3 ** On 1673 Oct 18, appointed his brother (brother in law) Francis Doughty to act as his attorney

Know all men whom these may concerne that I hugh Onell of Charles County doe appointe my welbeloved Brother ffrancis Doughty my lawfull Attorney to act in my business that is now Depending this next Provincial Court at St Maryes as he shall see good and what my Attorney shall act in ye prmises I shall ratefy and confirme In confirmation of the said premises I set to my hand & scale Anno 1673 Octob 18th. Hugh Onell (sealed) Witnes The marke of Garret 0 Hamon John Harris.

Know all men whom these may concerne that I hugh Onell of Charles County doe
appointe my welbeloved Brother ffrancis Doughty my lawfull Attorney to act in my
business that is now Depending this next Provincial Court at St Maryes as he
shall see good and what my Attorney shal! act in ye prmises I shall ratefy and
confirme In confirmation of the said premises I set to my hand & scale Anno 1673
Octob 18th. Hugh Onell (sealed) Witnes The marke of Garret 0 Hamon John Harris.
On the backside of ye foregoing pap was thus writ. I ffrancis Doughty Attorney
of Hugh Onell within named doeth put & place in his stead Robt Carvile one of
the Attorneys of the Provincial Court to appeare for the sd Hugh Onell at the
suite of John Morecroft & to take coppy of the Decleracon & put in such plea as
the said Robert shall thinke fit witness my hand this first of November 1673.
ffrancis Doughty. Testis Edw: Williams

• * 4 ** Colen-Donck' Chain of Ownership (Land in Westchester County, NY):
• 1. Hugh O'Neal
• 2. Elias Doughty (brother in law of Hugh)
• 3a. to John Arcer (Archer) of Westchester (1667 Mar)
• 3b. to John Heddy (1668) - part of the van Courtland estate
• 3c. to William Betts and George Tippet (1668 Jul)
• 3d. to Francis French & Ebeneezer Jones (1670 Dec)
  • 5 ** O'Neale's Land in MD chain of ownership (appx):
• 1. to John Hadden (1672)
• 2. to James Tyler
• 4. to William Stone, Gov of MD
• 5. one half of it then willed to Thoams Matthews and Mary Stone Matthews in 1730

Other tracts mentioned in Charles County, MD records:

1. Neale's Desire ( it appears this property belonged to the family of Capt. James Neal)

• * 6 ** It appears the Hugh O'Neale story may end in the year 1675. Apparently, Hugh had either died or had fled the area to avoid the consequences of a substantial laswuit brought againt him by James Neale

Comments

From http://www.ronsattic.com/iradiemails.html

... I notice that Hugh married in Delaware, and his wife died in Virginia (i.e. either side of Maryland).

Unless you have specific documentation showing that your Hugh O'Neall definitely immigrated himself from County Antrim, Ireland sometime after his birth, then I would be inclined to believe that your Hugh O'Neall - given his name and geographic proximity - is possibly a descendant (possibly grandson) of the Capt. Hugh O'Neal(e), "Indian fighter" of Maryland in the mid 1600's, whom I'm trying to reseach at the present time, because I am descended from a Sarah O'Neal of Maryland (b.c.1636) whom I believe to be his sister.

The Maryland State Archives are online, free, and very easy to use. Plus, their name-indexed, with a name search engine. My Hugh O'Neal and his wife the widow Vanderdonck (n�e Mary Doughtie, dau. of maverick preacher Francis Doughtie, "witch hunter") figure very prominently in the archives of the early Maryland colony. I am descended from Rev. Francis Doughtie's son Elias, who married "Sarah O'Neal." Elias' sister Mary, after being widowed, married the aforementioned Capt. Hugh O'Neal(e). So, you can see why I suppose that Capt. Hugh O'Neal and Sarah O'Neal were likely siblings, who each married Doughtie siblings.

The "Ark" and the "Dove" were the first two boats to come to the Maryland colony in 1634, but I did not see the O'Neal name listed on the reconstructed ships' manifests. The early settlers to Maryland were a mixture of both Roman Catholics and Puritans, and if memory serves me correctly, Lord Baltimore - the founder - was a Roman Catholic who was raised to the "Irish Peerage" by King James.

If you have any further information regarding the documented ancestry of your Hugh O'Neill, I'd be very interested in knowing.

15 Aug 2006

Actually, I'm kinda surprised no mention was ever made on the O'Neal/var. Website of Capt. Hugh O'Neal/var. (even if no one is his descendant), as Hugh O'Neal "Indian-fighter" and his nut-job wife the widow Vanderdonck (who practiced as a Surgeon in MD/VA, by virtue of the fact that she had formerly been married to one in Nieuw Amsterdam), and his even nuttier father-in-law Rev. Francis Doughtie, witch-hunter-extraordinaire, who all figure so prominently in the early histories of MA, RI, NY, MD and VA (Mr. Doughtie having the dubious honor of having been systematically expelled from ALL of those colonies, in that order, and usually with great fanfare!) We know this, thanks to their having been embroiled in endless legal actions in the various colonies mentioned, typically with the ruling authorities both ecclesiastic and civil, which records still exist to this day detailing their absolute insanity.

16 Aug 2006

Ed's note: Link provided by John O'Neall Who's Hugh

After reviewing the link provided by John O'Neall to the webpage entitled "The history of a family tradition", several points become obvious:

1. There is absolutely no proof - not even rumor - that the Hugh O'Neill allegedly born c. 1700, or his wife Anne Cox, had themselves, personally, immigrated to the Americas.

2. Any speculation regarding the origins of the Hugh O'Neill allegedly born c. 1700, is ALL based upon the early 19th century writings and opinions (albeit over 100 years after the initial facts) of John Belton O'Neall, who simply states and/or implies that Bryan McPhelim O'Neill, Lord of Shane's Castle, was progenitor of the O'Neill family of Virginia, and had a son named "Hugh" (albeit not naming him specifically as the father of the Hugh O'Neill living in the Virginias in the 1700s).

3. The fact that the supposed progenitor in Ireland, B.P. O'Neill, probably died in 1669, if so, makes it impossible for him to have subsequently fathered a son named Hugh O'Neill supposedly born c. 30 years later, regardless of the fact that the connection between the O'Neills of Shane's Castle and the O'Neills of Virginia, as best as I can tell, is still based purely on 19th century fanciful speculation.

4. Capt. Hugh O'Neill/O'Neal, Indian fighter, was living in Charles Co., Maryland in the mid 1600's and was probably born about 1630 (his assumed sister, and confirmed sister-in-law, Sarah (n�e O'Neal) Doughtie, would have been born about 1635). I have not been able to find any O'Neal/var.s mentioned in the English Americas before him. This is not surprising. In fact, what IS surprising is that there were actually settlers of Irish nationality in the Americas of the early 1600's. Capt. Hugh was living in what was started as essentially an Irish Catholic safe haven-colony in the Americas in 1634, by the Irish Catholic Lord Baltimore, which colony, ironically, also became more so a safe-haven for English Puritans and Reformists.

5. I have been able to find absolutely no mention of the parents of Hugh and Sarah O'Neal (no land deeds, oaths, etc.), which may actually be an indication that their parents, whoever they were, never came to the New World to start with, or died in transit. Capt. Hugh's estimated birth does coincidentally put him at the right age to have been the "Hugh O'Neill" born to the B.P. O'Neill who allegedly died c. 1669. If so, the Hugh O'Neill of VA, who was allegedly born c. 1700, is quite possibly the grandson or great- grandson of Captain Hugh O'Neal of MD/VA, who already had several minor children by 1669, as can be seen from this extract from the Maryland State Archives

Citations

• Origin and History of Manors in the Province of New York and in the County ... By Edward Floyd De Lancey Page 160a link
• does not seem related to “Hugh O’Neill of Shanescastle” link
• Charles County Gentry: A Genealogical History of Six Emigrants - Thomas Dent ... By Harry Wright Newman. “O’Neales Desert” link
• O’NEAL/O’NEALE Deeds (1670-1879): Montgomery County, MD, appears to be an extract from a greater work, entitled ROBERT MIDDLETON (c. 1651-c. 1707) OF CHARLES AND PRINCE GEORGES COUNTIES,MD. AND NUMEROUS DESCENDANTS OF HIS. By John Goodwin Herndon, 1954. link
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josias_Fendall#Fendall's_Rebellion “Toward the end of his tenure as governor, Fendall was criticized by the proprietor for negligence at courts and for contradicting court orders. In March, 1660, with a number of associates, including Capt. William Fuller (died 1695), and the Assembly, he suddenly attempted to overthrow the proprietary government. This was a bloodless rebellion against Lord Baltimore, probably instigated by the Cromwell Government in England, and was termed "Fendall's Rebellion". ....
• from “St. Mary’s college students may have uncovered history” By Jason Babcock January 10, 2013. Washington Post. “But Gerard supported Fendall’s Rebellion in 1659. Josias Fendall, appointed governor by Philip Calvert, renounced the charter and rights of Lord Baltimore, Hammett wrote, and said the authority in Maryland should come from England. Gerard sided with Fendall. Gerard’s “love-hate relationship with the Calvert family is legendary,” King said. “These are super Type-A personalities that are trying to make a fortune, and part of that is to be great landowners,” she said. “The Fendall Rebellion has been seen as a kind of blip, a governor gone bad,” King said. “It was more symptomatic of Lord Baltimore’s struggle for sovereignty” in the early years of the colony. ... After Calvert’s authority was reasserted, Fendall and Gerard were banished from the Maryland colony. Both paid fines and were allowed back, the college students said. But Gerard could not vote or hold office in the colony ever again. He died in 1673 and was buried somewhere in St. Clement’s Manor. ...”
• https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Maryland%20Families/1661%20...
• “America’s First Republicans: Fendall’s Rebellion of 1660”
• Mary in the Maryland, Compiled Marriage Index, 1634-1777 Name: Mary Spouse's Name: Hugh O'Neale Marriage Date: 26 Sep 1661 Source Information Ancestry.com. Maryland, Compiled Marriage Index, 1634-1777 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Barnes, Robert, compiler. Maryland Marriages, 1634–1777. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1975. AncestryImage
• The Journal, Volume 14. By American-Irish Historical Society. Page 208. “Irish Pioneers in Maryland.” GoogleBooks