Rachel Ashford

In the Charles Co. lawsuit [John and Joanna] NEVILLE vs. [Thomas] BAKER. John and Joanna NEVILLE of Charles Co. were involved in a huge neighborhood fight that brought about lawsuits and counter-suits about assault & battery and defamation. July 1662 testimony said that Joanna had given birth "last year" to a daughter (Rachel NEVILLE who married Michael ASHFORD), and while still recovering had invited a man into her bed to give her a son! Evidently there were "eye-witnesses" to this, people under Baker's influence I guess, and Baker also spread the story around the neighborhood. Baker was found guilty of defamation. Source: Proceedings of the County Court of Charles County, 1658-1666, Volume 53:231-234 (as well as other cases that summer in the same volume).

My point is, they were living in Charles Co. in 1658 when John's first disagreement with Thomas Baker occurred, and they were living in Charles Co. when the baby was born ca 1661. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/neville/2008-08/12193...

“Legal Daughter of John & Joanna (Porter) Neville.”

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Porter-916

Joanna had been in England one or two years before, while John stayed in Maryland. The father of Rachel is unknown. This is confirmed by a lawsuit detailed in Archives, 53:380-382, and Charles Co. Court and Land Records, G:72, when Joanna and her second husband Thomas Hussey on 13 Nov. 1677 gave to Rachel Ashford, "natural daughter of Joannah and wife of Michael Ashford of Charles co., carpenter" a tract on the west side of Zachiah Swamp called Moore's Ditch (Charles Co. Court and Land Records, C:61, G:72.

Records, C:61, G:72.

(John Neville had only two children, both by his first wife Bridget.)[1]

1664[/5] Jan - will of John Neville of Port Tobacco, Charles Co., MD. I give to my wife Johanna the real & personal estate in a deed of gift given to her. To my son William Nevill the plantation where I dwell. Moveables to be jointly divided between son William Nevil and daughter Ellen Lambert except that which I formerly gave by deed of gift to my wife and such other legacies here after named. To my son [in law] John Lambert my best suit of apparel & to my grandson John Lambert one filley foale. To my son [in law] John Lambert my horse foale. My son William Nevill to be administrator of my will and my son [in law] John Lambert and my loving friend William Price to be assistants and overseers. My cattle are not included in the moveables given to my daughter Ellen Lambert. All accounts between me and my friend William Price are to be balanced and I discharge him from a bill of 600 pounds of tobacco he owes Francis Wine. 7 (or 15?) Jan 1664. John signs by mark. Wit: Henry Bailye & Andrew Bashar (mark). Proved? 4 Feb 1664[/5] [Land Records, Vol. 1, p221-22]

This identifies two children, son William and daughter Ellen (married to John Lambert).