Shirley and others looking at East Coast Nevilles, Your notes on Richard Nevell, likely father of James Nevill of Northampton Co., VA, indicate that Mary, Richard's widow probably married John Furrs. In other notes related to the Furrs surname, there are variations of the spelling. Your notes also show that Richard was imported by Randall Revell I want to note a couple of surnames associated with James Nevill of New Salem, West Jersey: Farr and Revell. I am posting notes below in case anyone has anything to add that might indicate a relationship between Elias Farr and Burlington, NC and John Furrs and between Randall Revell and the Revells who lived in New Salem, West Jersey. Shirley's note: 1696- by 28 Jan 1696, Mary, widow of Richard Nevell had married John Furrs (?). (Marriages by inference, Northampton Co., VA in Ljungstedt, Co. Court Note-Book, p22) [my note - Jan: Richard Nevell transported by Randall Revell] --------------------------- >From a post I sent to the Neville List. All brackets mine. Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey 1664-1703. Edited by Wm. Nelson. Gen. Pub. Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1976. Page 373 Revel's Book of Surveys [my note-Jan: Revels in West Jersey. That surname also associated with the Northampton Co., VA James Nevell who was imported by Randall Revell.], p. 115 1686 June 24. Do. Do. [return of survey] by Richard Tindall, for Joshua Barkstead, of 4,984 a. on a little creek, running out of the River Caesaria. "Examined by JAMES NEVILL, Agent to Govr Penn." Page 421: West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1, p. 173 1686 Oct. 2 Do [power of attorney]. JAMES NEVELL of London, citizen and merchant tailor, surviving executor of Henry Stacy of London, merchant, dec'd, and one of the executors of Mary Stacy, late of Waltham Holy Crosse, Essex Co., widow, dec'd, in right of the children of said Henry and Mary, vizt.: Samuel, joint executor of his mother's will, Mary, Elizabeth and Stacy (sic), to Elias FARR, ut supra, p. 172. [My note - Jan: "ut supra" refers to 1684 Apr. 30 Power of Attorney: Mary Stacy of Stebonheath alias Stepeny Parish, widow and executrix of Henry Stacy, to Elias FARR of Burlington, planter, to dispose of her land in West Jersey. This power of att. also found on p. 421 of book.] --------------------------------- [According to the book which was the source of the above notes, James Nevell, of Stepney, London, was the same James Nevill in New Salem, West Jersey.] Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey 1664-1703. Edited by Wm. Nelson. Gen. Pub. Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1976. p. 342 Town Grants, New Salem, Liber A p. 32 1685 _____. Do [Patent]. Same [Executors of John Fenwick] to JAMES NEUILL [footnote ref. #1 after his name; footnote given below] of New Salem, gentleman, and wife Creseda, for 29 acres in New Salem between John Mattox, his own plantation, the Millers Creek and a small one (rest destroyed). Page 342 footnote #1 to James Neuill name above: JAMES NEVILL was a weaver, of Stepney [aka Stebonheath], London, but in the West Jersey records is usually styled "gentleman," indicating that he did not follow his trade in this country. He came over with Fenwick, and brought a wife, but apparently no children. He seems to have had a decided taste for the law, and a fondness for writing, which led Fenwick to appoint him Secretary for the Salem Colony, April 30, 1678. He was a magistrate (commissioned Oct. 26, 1679), a conveyancer and scrivener, real estate agent, and a little of everything else. He signed the West Jersey Concessions, March 3, 1676-7. In 1681-4 he was an agent of William Penn, adversely to Fenwick. One of the volumes of Salem Records is filled with miscellaneous memoranda, made by him, of leases, law suits, contracts, etc., etc., of the greatest interest and value to the local historian. [Note-Jan: On p. 341: William Penn, "Proprietor and Governour of Pennsilvania, also Proprietor of Salem Tenth, West Jersey" listed as an executor of will of John Fenwick along with Samuel Hedge, John Smith, and Richard Tindall.]