Janella, You are right. There are questions about the Neville lineage in Boddie's Hisorical Southern Families. According to the article, John Neville and wife Elizabeth of Nansemond Co., VA made a deed in 1689 which named Benjamin Neville as a son. The article also states that the John Neville who is found in Isle of Wight Co. records at the same time is the same John Neville. That may need more checking because more than one John Nevill seems to have been in that area at that time. A Benjamin Neville, said to be the same one named in John and Elizabeth's deed, was living in Nansemond in 1704. Then the article states that the Benjamin Neville found in Edgecombe County, NC records in 1745 is the same Benjamin, but no evidence is offered to establish that both men are the same person. Assuming that Benj. Neville named in the 1689 deed of John and Elizabeth was at least 20 or older at the time of the deed (his parents were already married in 1665 when they sold 400 acres to John Marshall in Isle of Wight), by 1745 he would have been about 75 or older. Jesse, the son of Benj. Neville of NC, was b. in 1746, and Benj. had at least two other children. The date of Jesse's birth seems to indicate that his father was a younger man than the one who was named in the deed of John and Elizabeth Neville in 1689. Benj. of Edgecombe Co./Halifax Co., NC had several real estate transactions after 1746, which might also indicate he was a younger man. However, several families of the same names are connected with both the VA group and the NC group, so they surely seem related. One of the contributors to Boddie's article was David B. Trimble. In American Origins, Trimble later wrote a different account of the early end of the Nevills in Isle of Wight/Nansemond Co., VA, in his article Nevill of Orange Co., NC and Coffee Co., TN. He wrote that the Benj. Nevill who was in the Edgecombe Co., NC 1745 deed was born about 1705. He does not show how he came up with an approximate date of birth. He is careful to state that the Benjamin Nevill who was in Nansemond Co. in 1704 might have been the child of John and Elizabeth Nevill of Nansemond/Isle of Wight Co. records and might have been the father of the Edgecombe Co., NC Benjamin. In past discusssions we have had about this subject, no one has come up with more evidence to support links between the Nansemond Co., VA group to the Edgecombe/Halifax Co., NC group, even though they are almost certainly related. From Jesse on down, I think we have agreed that everything is pretty firm. Jan At 06:07 PM 4/15/99 -0500, you wrote: >I am also a descendant of this family -- Elizabeth Neville and Francis >Barbee. >I would like to contact anyone else working on the ancestry of this family. >It seem to have a lot of twists. Doddie gives Benjamin's parents as John >Neville >and Elizabeth Reynolds. However, there seems to be some question >concerning >the proof of this relationship. >Janella >