Well, thanks to Phyllis Clendaniel and her kind husband, I now have a copy of the Fry -Jefferson 1755 map of Virginia and it's beautiful. It's also amazing, Joseph Neville's Ordinary is out in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. Looking at the Prince William County section in Virginia Gen Web http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb/ I found an interesting article about Prince William County during the French and Indian War. None of "our" guys were mentioned but good old Cuthbert Bullit fought a duel! I guess because I've been reading land causes lately I got the impression there were "lots" of people about. No, this place was really the frontier in 1738-1765! Even the merest hint of Indians only four miles away was causing settlers to flee. Amazing and humbling to this urbanite. As I worked through the land causes, I've put together some ideas about the Neville children and land. My guess is the first child of John and Elizabeth Bohannon Neville to head west was probably daughter Elizabeth Neville (b. 1691) who married Joseph Bohannon (brother of Ann Bohannon). The two of them with their children purchased land near THE Bull Run in Prince William in 1733. Joseph died five years later. Elizabeth then apparently bought more land, nearby on the South branch of the Broad Run in 1742. She remarried a Thomas Faulkner then they gave that land to her sons Neville Bohannon and William Bohannon in 1745. The Faulkners and Bohannons then sold that same piece of land to ta-da Thomas Dodson (probably III) in 1751. (Thanks to Bill Scroggin's research for some of this insight) Meanwhile, Thomas Dodson II apparently purchased land intermingled with all the above about 1740. The land his son bought bordered that of the father. And the land Joseph Neville Sr. lived on (and rented from the ubiquitous Rev. David Stuart) was somehow mixed in or around all of this. Joseph Neville Sr.'s Rockingham property which he purchased in 1750 was not far away. And of course George Neville's property and ordinary weren't too far distant either. It's nice to think they had relatives to run to when the Indians got too close! (I just hope they were in brick houses and not straw!). Anyway, it's been interesting. Michelle Ule Robertule@aol.com Ukiah, CA