I suspect we have more than one early Richard floating around. If you go back & look at Harry Wright Newman's The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate, you will see that Richard most likely was a Nevitt rather than a Neville. For those not familiar with this work, I will quote some passages (p242-3). "Casual writers on Early Maryland have incorrectly transcribed Richard Nevitt as Richard Nevill [Nevell], but careful study discloses that Nevitt and Nevill were the family names of two distinct personages on the Ark and were progenitors of two separate and unrelated families in Southern Maryland. It is admitted that owing to the illegibility of the early 17th century script or poor penmanship, Richard Nevill does appear in the public records as Richard Nevill, but studying both families, one will readily agree that they were two separate entities and both left descendants. Knevett is the usual English orthography and it was frequently used in the early Maryland records." ... "In 1641 he [Richard] was still domiciled in St. George's Hundred, when he voted for the burgess to represent that district, and in March 1641/2, when all freeholders were summoned to the General Assembly, he gave his proxy to John Worthy. But in September 1642, for his non-appearance at the Assembly and his failure to send a proxy he was duly fined, but soon gave his proxy to William Broughe.* *Up to this point his name had been printed in Archives vol. 1 as Nevill, but in this instance he appears in print as Nevett for the first time." Now if you go back and look at material Peter J Neville posted 5 Nov 1997 you will see data from the MD Land Office that is on file cards at the MD State Archives. I will repeat the portion on Richard here. "Richard Nevill, 1641, Tract: St. Mary's Certificate: 100 Liber: AB&H folio:98 Patent:100 Liber:AB&H folio:98 Note: Richard Nevitt is recorded: 1651, Tract: Nevet, Charles Co & in 1647 Certificate 200 in St. Mary's Richard Nevill, 1641, Supra. St. Mary's Certificate:50 Liber:1 folio:120 Patent:50 Liber:1 folio 121" I have not studied the Maryland records to determine if I agree with the conclusion that this Richard was later called Nevitt rather than Nevill, but I did see evidence of the interchange of spellings in the early years & there were Nevetts later on in St. Mary's Co., MD. By the way, the Richard Nevill with wife Mary lived in Northampton Co., VA. But to confuse the issue there was much movement between MD & VA, especially on the Eastern Shore. Shirley On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:50:51 -0700 REN AND JUDY NEVILLE <beschutzer@earthlink.net> writes: > Guess I started to hallucinate on exuberance. If the baptismal > record > in 1733 of Joseph, son of Joseph is correct and we interpret that > as > Joseph Neville Sr (1707) and Joseph Neville Jr. (1733) and we know > that > Gen. Joe Jr. (1733)and Gen. John (1731) were brothers via testimony > and > letters to Cuthbert Bullitt, then that has to put Joliffe and > Wulfect > out some where left of center as Richard and Ann Buroughs could not > be > then Gen. Johns parents if he is brother to Joseph, son of Joseph. > Sorry about that. Now, while on the Richard and Ann kick, Shirley > has > Richard Neville the emigrant married to Mary who has a son James > born > 1655. On 10-14-1651, John Lewger demanded land for transporting > persons > among whom was "Ann____, now wife of Richard Neville (Maryland Land > Office, Liber AB-H, folio 150). Does anyone know who this Ann is. > Is > this Ann Burroughs, now non mother to John Neville 1731, is this > the > first wife of the immigrant Richard who secondly married Mary or do > we > now have two Richard's running around at the same time......... > > -- > ======================================================================== > > Ren and Judy Neville > 925-516-4976 voice/FAX > > "If God so clothe the grass of the field..... > shall He not much more clothe you" MATT. 6:30 > > "My fathers badge, old Nevil's crest, the rampant bear > chain'd to the ragged staff" > Henry VI, part 2, verse 1........William Shakespeare > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=johnneville > > Ne vile velis > "Form no mean wish" > > > > ==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== > Archived postings to the NEVILLE mailing list can be found on the > WEB at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.