Ryan, Thank you very much for your opinion about James's relationship to Enoch. I am so glad that Ruth Nevels has joined the list so she can evaluate your information. She is a long-time Neville/Nevels researcher whose husband is descended from the MS Nevels line that is related to my Nevels family. We have a James, Martin, and William (and possibly a John) Nevels who were in the same generation (b. ca 1770s) and who came to the Mississippi Territory about the same time -- late 1700s to early 1800s. Evidence is fairly conclusive that Martin, who is the ancestor of Ruth's husband's family, and James, who is almost certainly my ancestor (several sources of collaborative evidence) were brothers. William Nevell/Nevels arrived on the scene in MS with another Martin Nevels a few years after our Martin and James arrived. That William and Martin appear to be the same men of those names found earlier in Sumner Co., TN, just below the Wayne Co., KY area. My James may have lived in SC, but Ruth has some evidence which also indicates or hints at a KY connection for some of the family. I know much of this is repetitious, but I am more or less wondering "out loud" to see if you see anything that might indicate a reason to suspect a connection with the Neavill/Nevels in the Wayne Co., KY area. Jan At 12:46 PM 2/11/99 -0600, you wrote: >Jan & David Faulkner wrote: > >> Ryan, >> >> Thank you for your response about James Nevell. Do you think Enoch's role >> as surety would indicate that he is also James's father? > >Yes. As far as I know, the only person in the vicinity and of an age to be James' >father would be Barbara's ancestor, George NEAVILLE but he already had a son named >James (who later married Indiana--possibly Enoch's daughter). So my guess is that >Enoch was James' father. > >Ry > > >==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== >You may contact the Neville list manager at: >mailto:[email protected] > >