Hi Shirley and List members, I haven't been very active in researching or on the Nev-List since our last child was born, I guess it's time to get going again. Thanks for raising one of my favorite issues -- the William Nevill of Talbot/Queen Annes County connection. A question and a comment. Do we know that Salem in Dorchester County existed in the late 1600s? Salem, New Jersey is also a possibile "source" for Sarah Noble who marries William Neville in 1694. Salem, NJ is only 30 miles from the head of the Chester River which was the main trade route for northern Talbot County. The following is circumstantial at best, but kinda interesting. There were Nevilles, Salters and Nobles in Salem, NJ in the 1690s and there are Nevilles, Salters and Nobles in the town of Westchester in northern Talbot (later to become Queen Annes County), MD. - There was a Richard Noble in Salem New Jersey by 1675...I haven't researched this guy/family any further. See record #1 below. - There was of course James Neville in early Salem, NJ who was an agent for William Penn. I have a record that appears to show James Neville married to "Creseda". So, there's at least one Neville in Salem, NJ in the late 1600s, but no evidence of children has been found. Some Nevilles show up in Perth Amboy, NJ in the 1730s, but thats up near New York. The record appears to show that this James Neville "of Salem..." owned a property next door to Henry Salter. See record #2 below. A James Neville and Henry Salter actually come from London on the same ship in 1677. Does anyone know what "yoeman" means in the 1690s? - A John Salter was buying up all the property he could in Westchester on the Chester River in Talbot County records (that would put Westchester on the south side of the river and in modern Queen Annes County). This is the same town where William Neville transfered a property to Sarah Noble in 1694. See records #3 and #4 below. Note: nobody seems to know where this town of Westchester was. I do recall reading once that Maryland government was trying to create towns at this time to encourage trade, and that most of these towns they tried to set up failed. - John Salter is still buying up properties in 1697, one transaction is witnessed by Robert Noble. See record #5 below. Again, this doesn't really prove anything, but suggests that further research Salem, New Jersey may shed some light. Record #1: Elmer Garfield Van Name Guy, Richard, of the I st part, Thomas Pile of the 2nd part, John Edridge, Joseph Helmesley, RICHARD NOBLE, Edw. Champneys, Edmund Warner, of the 3rd part. 10,000 acres of land within the province of New Cesaria (with provisions) for the heirs of Thomas Pile). Original Tripartite Declaration of Trust, dated June 16, 1675. Inrolled in Register, Liber A belonging to Fenwick's Colony, June 24, 1675. (D- 1 5) (Old Deeds belonging to the Salem County Historical Society with an Index of Unrecorded Deeds. ) Record #2: 1687-8 Feb. 13. Do. [did not copy words which Do. repeats] JAMES NEVILL of SALEM TOWN, W. J., yeoman, to JOHN PAINE of the same place, planter, for 16 acres, a townlot there, on the Westside of the street, adjoining HENRY SALTER; bought by said NEVILL and wife CRESEDA, now dec'd, of ANNA SALTER, widow of HENRY SALTER, of SALEM, dec'd, April 16, 1683. (Page 588, Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey 1664-1703. Edited by Wm. Nelson. Gen. Pub. Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1976. Salem Deeds, No. 4, p. 110:) Record #3: 6 March 1688. Thomas Bruff, Innholder, purchased 200 acres on Chester River called "Ramsey's Folly," only AA p one of the many transactions by which he obtained a large amount of land. Some by patent, some by purchase. 2- ir,6.7 One of these purchases has to do with a mysterious town called "Westchestee, - formally laid out by 1689, but by whom and for what purpose? The first mention is the sale of a lot in the town, called "Whitehall; "followed by a sale of another lot in 1691 and 1693, all to John Salter. On IO April 1696 Thomas Bruff, Inholder, sold a lot in Westchester to John Salter - of which no record of purchase can be found. By 15 June 1697 Thomas and Rhoda had moved to Doncaster on Wye River where they carried on the Tavem until Thomas' death in 1702. He provided for Rhoda during her lifetime; divided "Crouche's Island" and land at Doncaster between his sons Richard and Thomas; divided "Knottley's Enjoymenf'between his daughters Susanna Bruff and Rebecca (Russell), and made a gift of personalty to Mary Stevenson, a third daughter (Thomas Bruff's will MCW 11:246). P. 48. Record #4: 080. 15 June 1694 WILLIAM NEVILL to Sarah Noble a dwelling house and lot at the town of Westchester - the sixty-fourth lot of the said town, according to the numbers as laid out by the surveyor - the dwelling is forty feet in length and twenty feet in breadth - formerly belonged to Michaell Hackett. Wit: Jonathon Fuller, Jonas Greenwood. (Talbot County, Maryland Land Records. Book 3. Compiled by R. Bernice Leonard. p.20) Record #5: 19 June 1697 Thomas Bruff and Rhoda his wife, to John Salter, Inn- holder - 150 acres called "Highfield" near Tuckahoe Creek. Wit: William Hemsley, ROBERT NOBLE. (Talbot County, Maryland Land Records. Book 3. Compiled by R. Bernice Leonard. p.45) Just for fun I'll mention that James Nevill of Salem (that came from England in 1677) was a weaver when he came, though he appears to have abandoned weaving in this country. A William Neville is apperently also a weaver in Cecil County, MD about 20 miles from Salem, NJ...but this is 60 years later. WILLIAM NEVILL to John Hyland Jr, Sold "weavours loom", a quil wheel, 5 slays and 5 good pare of gears belonging to slays. April 25, 1753. Wit: Edward Johnson, Nich. Hyland. (MD Archives Land Records, Cecil County. bill of sale, vol 7, p. 517, WK 945-946-1.) ______________________________ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:48:59 -0500 From: Shirley L Wilcox <slwilcox@juno.com> To: NEVILLE-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20020305.224945.-264881.1.slwilcox@juno.com> Subject: [NEVILLE-L] Two William Nevills - VA & MD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I do not believe that the William Nevill of Nansemond & Isle of Wight Co., VA is a son of John Nevill of Charles Co., MD. I have done original research in MD but not in this area of VA. Instead I have relied on published material, so there may be important records of which I am not aware. The William Nevill of Isle of Wight Co., VA is assumed dead by 25 April 1665 because on that date Roger Nevill sold to his "father-in-law" Arthur Skinner all claims to the estate of his father William Nevill. (John Bennett Boddie, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1993 reprint, p541) Arthur Skinner had married William Nevill's widow. In Colonial times, some relationship terms had broader meanings than we currently use. "Father-in law" in this case means step-father. i.e. a father by marriage or by law. In contrast to the above William Nevill who died PRIOR to 1665, the William Nevill of Maryland, son of John Nevill (will probated 1664) was still living in 1665. On 10 9ber 1667, William Nevill, son of John Nevill dec'd sold inherited land in Charles Co., MD to William Allen & John Munn. The chain of title calling him the son of John Nevill deceased, can be found in various deeds (Liber D:88 & D:99), some of which have been published. (See Elise Jourdan Greenup, Abstracts of Charles County Circuit Court, Court & Land Records, Volume 2, 1665-1695, p1 & 13). I am not aware of any definitive records that prove what happened to this William Nevill, son of the immigrant John. He is probably the man married by 17 Aug 1666 to Joane/Jane Browiske (Charles Co., MD Deeds C #1:61-64 & 150-159). He may also be the man who said he married Sarah Noble 18 Oct., 1694 at Salem (?MD?*). On 26 March 1694 William and Jane Nevill of Talbot Co., MD sold a lot in Westchester. (Talbot Co., MD Land Records L.L. #7, p99-100). I do not know of another William with a wife Jane during this time period so I suspect this is the couple found in earlier Charles County records. A few months later on 15 June 1694 William Nevill deeds to Sarah Noble a dwelling house & lot in the town of Westchester. (Leonard, Talbot Co., MD Land Records, Book 3, p20). The court records of 14 Sept. 1697 say the sheriff is to command William Nevill late of Charles County, plantor, to answer charges that he "doth keep & Entertaine another mans wife by forse against ye pease of our Sovereigne Lord..." William comes & says that she is his lawful wife & produces in court a certificate "from Salem October ye 28th day 1694. This may satisfye whom it may conserne that William Neville & Sarah Noble is lawfully marryed by mee according to ye Laws of our countrey - given under my had ye day & yeare above written. Tho: Hardshorne. It is witnessed by Wm ffraford, Richard Whittman & Mary Whitman" It goes on to say that as it has been alleged in court that he hath another wife. To clear himself in that case, William Nevill produced this discharge: "Know all men by these presents that I Jane Browiske doe hereby Exonerate discharge acquitt for Ever William Nevill from all claim of Dowers, Titles of Dowers or any other matter or thing whatsoever having Reseived full satisfaction from ye sd Nevill as by his Deed of gift appears as wittness my hand this 26 [or 20 or 28?]th day of March one thousand six hundred ninety five. And that ye sd Jane does hereby acquit & discharge ye sd Wm Nevill from any pretense of marryage, and will never trouble nor any wayes molest ye sd Nevill during his naturall life." It is signed by the mark of Jane Browiske & witnesses were Jno: Salter & Elias Robinson. (Charles Co. Land & Court Records Vol. 18, V #1, 1696-1698, p243-4). William Nevill was accused in 1698 of having two wives, but no witnesses appeared in court & he was cleared by proclamation & discharged (Provincial Court Judgements, Vol. 7, I.L., 1698, p202). Note that in 1697 he is called LATE of Charles Co., MD. I suspect he is the man who shows up in Talbot Co., MD records in 1694. *Back to the marriage in Salem. The original record gives no state & many have assumed it was Massachusetts, forgetting that there was a much closer Salem in Dorchester Co., MD. Dorchester County is right across the bay from Calvert County where the immigrant John Nevill had been at one time. Talbot County is the county to the north of Dorchester County. I have no record of a William Nevill with wife Martha. Shirley Langdon Wilcox

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