These are the full records of the information I found in "Tavern in Town" by Bernice Leonard concerning William Nevill, wife Jane and Sarah Noble in Queen Annes county: 26 Mar. 1694 WILLIAM NEVILL, Planter, and Jane his wife, to John Sallter, Innholder - all those lotts, houses and fences in Talbot county in the town of Westchester at the fork of the Chester River. Wit: Elias Robinson, Dennis Conley. Acknowledged by William Hemsley, Attorney for William Nevill, 19 Jun 1695. Memo: That the day and year specified, the said WILLIAM NEVILL made delivery of the key of the doors of the chiefs house being upon the within bargained premises. Wit: E. Robinson, Dennis Conley. [Talbot County Land Records, Bk 3. Leonard. p.22] 15 June 1694. WILLIAM NEVILLE 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: Jonathan Fuller, Jonas Greenwood. [Talbot County Land Records, Bk 3. Leonard. p.20] (This is the one I found mention of earlier, here's the actual record.0 There's a Robert Noble is mentioned in 1705 as having willed some land to his daughter Frances. He's a "Gent." in 1702. There's also a Thomas Noble as early as 1696. Could be Sarah's family. These are new to me: Col. Thomas Richardson 23.20 I Balt Co. 5.16.0 1702 The amount of the inventory also included #1200 Appraisers: WILLIAM NEVILL, Thomas Jones List of debts: William York. [Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Prerogative Courts of Maryland, 1699-1704] (my note: this is particulary interesting to those of us whose John Neville married Sarah Richardson and served under Col. William Richardson during the Rev.) Davis, Mary, of Shrewsbury parish, at Court, 1731 was found guilty of committing fornication on 10 April 1730, and begetting a bastard child. She was ordered to receive 10 lashes. She named WILLIAM NEVELL as the father. (Kent County Criminal Records, JS#25:430). My guess is that this is the William Nevill whose estate was appraised by John Collins and Richard Gould in 1746 in Queen Anne's County; there is no mention of relations in the record. Peter Neville =================================== Jeanne, Thanks for the response. As a novice trying to work my way through all of this; it sure is good to get feedback. I like your idea that West Chester is on the West side of the river from Chester. My understanding is that William was accused of bigamy in Charles County, but I don't actually have ANY of the early John, William etc. records. I only have what I've gleaned from NEVILLE-LIST e-mail postings. As for the exact date for Wm. Nevill conveying the West Chester lot to Sarah Noble, the book does show the exact date. I'll have to go through Talbot Co. Records. INNKEEPING: ---------- Your suggestion that the house William Nevill gave to Sarah Noble may have been an Ordinary can be backed up with some evidence. I found the record in a book called "Innkeepers of MD" or something (I still haven't retraced my steps to i.d. the source). The author is not explicit, but seems to link the the Wm Nevill to S. Noble house to "Innkeeping." I'm inserting the full record at the message bottom. John Nevil was an Innholder 80 years later and lived at "Fork" (same location as the Inn?): 15 July 1777 - 19 January 1778. JOHN NEVIL (Innholder) to Thomas Williams, Taylor - a lease of 3 ½ acres, part of the "Fork" whereon JOHN now dwells - a term of four years, paying yearly on 10 August the sum of £50 rent - Thomas to have firewood and timber for necessary repairs from any part of JOHN's land called "Birmingham's Fortune." JOHN to provide materials to build a shed to the side of the stables, to cover the old meat house and to lay an upper `floar' in the barn and pay the workmen and help saw the board timber. Wits: James Roberts, James Massey. [QA Co. Land Rec _. _. _. p. 124] [QA Co, MD Land Rec, Bk 8. Leonard. 1997]. (My Note: John Nevil bought Birmingham's Fortune in 1770 from George Lambdin of Kent County on Delaware -- QA Co, MD Land Rec, BK 7. Leonard. 1997. p.70) A John Nevil is on the rent roll for "Fork" from at least 1705 - 62: John Nevell: Land: Fork, Acrage: 3.5a; Dates: 1705-1762; Ref: #12-520. [MD Archives Index #56, Rent Rolls 1639-1776 _ v. 1-13 ] So, John the Innkeeper living at "Fork" in 1777/8 looks like the same family line as John Nevil on the rent roll for "Fork" starting in 1705 -- only 9 years after Wm. Nevill and Sarah Noble appear to be in the Ordinary business in West Chester. March 26, 1694 William Nevill and wife Jane of Talbot Co (Northern part of which became Queen Anne's in 1706) sold lots to John Salter at the FORKS of Chester river [Talbot Co. Land Rec. L.L. #7, p99-100.] I need to determine where "Fork" is and see if it could concevabley be related to the Forks where Wm. & Jane Nevill sold lots to Salter in 1694 and/or to the Wm. Sarah Noble conveyance. If Wm. sold a few lots to Salter, maybe he kept a few for himself and family? Nevills also had lots in King's Town, so it might be in that area: 19 April 1739. William Shepard, Yoeman, and Catharine his wife, to JOHN NEVILL, Planter - consideration £50 current and 3,000 pounds of tobacco - part of a lot adjoining Number Eleven in Kings Town. William and Catherine (she being first privately examined) acknowledged their deed before William Jumpe and Thomas Wilkinson. Alienation fine, one pence sterling, paid to Richard Tilghman, Jr. (QA Co. Land Rec _. _. _. p. 217) [QA Co, MD Land Rec, Bk 3. Leonard. 1997]. I clearly have quite a bit more work to do. I'm supposed to be off work next Monday, I'll try to get to either NGS or DAR library. A FEW LAST THOUGHTS: -------------- Note that Richard Tilghman, Jr. in the Kings Town transaction. That's kinda interesting given Calvert Co John's will: NEVILL, John, Calvert Co., 5th Oct., 1673 - 14th Oct., 1674. To RICHARD TILLMAN, Talbot Co., personalty. Patrick Sullivant of Talbot Co., ex. and residuary legatee of state, real and personal. Test: Ralph Blackhall, Jas. Barkhurst. 2. 16. [Maryland Calander of Wills] There are several Neville/Tillghman records in QA Co from 1736 - 1760s, including land sales etc. There's a Tilghman's Island in Talbot County just across the river from the town of Neavitt. Hmm...? FULL CITATION FROM "MD INNKEEPERS": ---------------------------------- Innkeepers of Maryland (?) 6 March 1688. Thomas Bruff, Innholder, purchased 200 acres on Chester River called "Ramsey's Folly," only one of the many transactions by which he obtained a large amount of land. Some by patent, some by purchase. One of these purchases has to do with a mysterious town called "Westchester" - 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. In 1694 WILLIAM NEVILLE conveyed to SARAH NOBLE the 64th lot in the town of Westchester together with a forty by twenty feet dwelling house. On 10 April 1696 Thomas Bruff, Innholder, 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 Tavern 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 Enjoyment" 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 II:246). P. 48. Peter Neville ============================================================ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:00:47, -0500 From: [email protected] ( JP BARTON) To: [email protected] Message-Id: <[email protected]> Subject: [NEVILLE-L] Talbot Co. Free Library Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- [ From: Jeanne Barton * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] -- Peter: I don't know anything about the Talbot Library, that mesg. was on one of the other lists I am on - but it sounded good. Yes, I spotted your post ref. the Westchester town lot - I don't think I've ever seen that before. I just didn't have time to ponder it, as I would like to. The name Westchester threw me off - this a.m. it dawned on me its probably West Chester, i.e., west of the town of Chester/Chestertown, on the river. I couldn't find it on my modern map, but it just may have been a designation meaning the west side of the river, as the river ran through the town, if I recall. You know, that's a pretty good size building, for the times [20x40]. I wonder if it was a public building, like a ordinary? I've seen church sizes noted as 20x40. John Salter was a commissioner or similar office, and evidently a land speculator, as I've come across other deeds to him, while browsing some books trying to make sense of all this. Chester Town was in existance as early as 1650s, although outranked as a port by Oxford, downriver, at the time. It evidently was deep-water even up until around the Revolution, when it was very active as a port of exit, and shipbuilding center. I also had the same thought about William and Sarah Noble, and William and his wife, Jane - possibly father and son? If you have it at your fingertips - wasn't the court record about William possibly living in bigamy in Charles Co.? If not, where? William married Sarah Noble 1694, and the same year [see if you can get the exact date] conveyed the Westchester lot to her... I wonder what this suggests? Are they an older couple and he is securing her financial security in case of his death? Then, is this lot among the lots sold by William & Jane 26 Mar 1694 [which would be 1695]? This surely needs more investigation. Now - from the book Ship Passenger Lists New York and New Jersey 1600- 1825 by Carl Boyer: John Fenwick's Colony - the oldest English speaking settlement on the DE River, Salem Co., NJ. Passengers on the Griffith 1675: [arrived, fall, 1675] p. 215 James Nevill History of the Colony.... New Jersey... p. 217 One moiety or half part of the province of NJ belonged to the Lord Berkeley, and now was sold to John Fenwick, in trust for edward Bylling and his assigns. Fenwick, in 1675, set sail to visit the new purchase in a ship from London, called the Gritfith; arriving after a good passage... he called [the place] Salem... near the DE River. Other passengers... Richard Noble... This was the first English ship that came to West Jersey, and none followed for two years, owing to a difference between Fenwick & Byllinge ... The proprietors, William Penn, Nicholas Lucas, E. Byllinge, John Eldridge and Edmond Warner.... Among other purchases of the West Jersey lands were two companies, one made up of Friends of Yorkshire, the other Friends of London [Quakers]. The same book has a list of oath of abjuration 1715-16: Rachel Neufeile [of New Rochell, widow] I think I've posted all this previously, but I'm including it to ponder if their is some connection with James Neville and Richard Noble arriving at the same time... Jeanne