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About James Neville
BEWARE: There were at least two James Nevilles, and they are all too easily confused. The one who married Dorothy Sturgis was NOT the son of John and Bridget, but of Richard the carpenter and Mary unknown
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The following is from the work by Joseph B. Neville, 2624 E. Southern Ave., Tempe, AZ 85282, called; A 370-YEAR HISTORY OF ONE NEVILLE FAMILY (1612 - 1982) 1988
[ James Nevill, first child of John and Bridget Nevill, obtained a warrent for 1300 acres of land in Northhampton County, Virginia, in 1662. He probably settled and married there. The only evidence i have found concerning the name of James's wife is in connection with a sale of Northampton land in 1683 by James Nevill and his wife, Dorothy. (1) Some writers show his wife to be Margaret, and others say Elizabeth. Because of the spread of approximately 40 years between the births of the first child and the last, I assume that he likely had more than one wife, and he may very well have had three.
Boogher identified the third-generation of John Nevill as being the only child of James. I have always wondered how he could assume there were no more children simply because he could not find them and also how he could infer that James and his wife were killed by indians merely because he found no will for either. It turns out that Boogher was wrong on the first assumption but right on the second, even though James's death came more than 30 years after the time estimated by Boogher. (2)
The Whitelaw book mentioned below also lists James Nevill land transactions in Accomack County, Virginia, in 1662, 1678, and 1681. By about 1703 James had moved to Bath (now Beaufort) County, North Carolina. He fathered three more sons after John, I have found no daughters.
(1) This is recorded in VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE by Ralph T. Whitelaw, pages 325-6. This transaction took place after Boogher assumed James to have died. Boogher's complete statement about James Nevill is as follows: "James Neville, first of John and Bridget, nee Throsley, born in 1640, at the Clefts in Calvert County, Md; settled in Northampton County, Va., in 1660-1, where on March 22, 1662, he obtained a warrant for 1300 acres of land (See Liber 4, Folio 339, Land Office of Richmond, Va.) and where he doubtless married; settling later in Isle of Wight County. On March 6, 1674, James Neville, Sr., pruchased 100 acres of land in Gloucester County, Va., in the name of his son John, then a minor, from Duncan Bohannan, in Charles County, Md., in 1662. (See Liber 6, folio 549, Land Office, Richmond, Va.) The name of James Neville, Sr., does not appear in the records of Virginia after the purchase of the 100 acres of land for his son, John, in 1674, so far as this writer has been able to find. It is believed that he was killed by Indians about 1680, as we find no will of either said James or his wife."
(2) The executive committee of The Society of John Neville Descendants agreed that James Nevill died about 1674, because we found no future record of him. But in 1978 we got new information, first from member Jeanne Barton that she had found him living in 1698, and secondly, from member Dr. Thomas Reed Dirksen that James had moved from Virginia to North Carolina, where he settled on Neville's Creek, and further that he was killed there by Indians about 1711, according to WIREGRASS FAMILIES OF GEORGIA. That is where the matter stood until 1982.
In July 1982, Cousin Bob Jett, president of the former SoJND, learned about a book, THE NEVILLE FAMILY OF BULLOCK CO., GEORGIA, written and published by Hugh Floyd of Norcross, Georgia. I corresponded with Hugh Floyd, and we exchanged books. Hugh's very large family is descended from our James Nevill through a son of James of which Bob and I had been unaware. Hugh Floyd's work is outstanding in its detail and careful documentation; and it contains one feature of very special interest. That is a letter written by a military man, Major Christopher Gale, in Charleston, South Carolina, on November 2, 1711. The letter tells of an Indian massacre of settlers, and I quote from it:
"I shall not trouble you with a particular relation of all their butcheries, but shall relate to you some of them, by which you may suppose the rest. The family of one Mr. Nevill was treated after this manner; the old man, himself, after being shot, was laid on the house floor, whith a clean pillow under his head, his wife's headclothes put upon his head, his stockings turned over his shoes, and his body covered all over with new linen. His wife was set upon her knees, and her hands lifted up as if she was at prayers, leaning against a chair in a chimney corner, and her coats turned over her head. A son was laid out in the yard, with a pillow laid under his head and bunch of rosemary laid at his nose. A negro had his right hand cut off and left dead."
The letter tells of other atrocities in which the bodies were treated, to say the least, with much less respect, but names no other victims. The complete letter is included in Hugh Floyd's book. This massacre appears to have been the start of the Tuscarora Indian War (1711-1713) which began in the area of North Carolina's Chowan and Roanoke Rivers, and durnig which the town of New Bern was abandoned. It also seems that the Nevill family mentioned by Major Gale was our own James Nevill, his wife, and their youngest son, Richard. We can hope that Major Christopher Gale played a large part in bringing the war to an end.
I have listed four sons of James Nevill, but two are not known to have had children. My assumption is that Richard is the young boy whom the Indians killed along with James and his wife in 1711.
One source claims James died in 1672, but this is clearly in error.
GEDCOM Note
Family Tree states lived in Maryland and Virginia
Killed by Indians
- * https://archive.org/details/descendantsofhug00bren/page/128/mode/2up page 128
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James Neville's Timeline
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December 25, 1640
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Calvert County, Maryland, United States
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| 1658 |
1658
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Saint Charles, Charles, Maryland, United States
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1658
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Saint Charles, Charles, Maryland, United States
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1661
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Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States
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1662
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Northampton County, Virginia
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1665
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Northampton, Virginia, United States
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1665
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Kingston Parish, Gloucester, Virginia, United States
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1665
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Kingston Parish, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America
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1675
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North Carolina, British Colonial America
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