Peter, Thanks for the great posts of Nowell and Nevill! Your notes do make a case for them perhaps being the same families in the records you cited. If you didn't file the following note from Barbara Jensen in Dec., you might want to now. She found a North Carolina ref. to Richard Nowell in the same area where James and Dorothy Nevill showed up in the late 1600s (Bath/Beaufort Co., NC area). Other Nevills coming to NC with James and Dorothy included Richard. As you know, we have discussed James and Dorothy perhaps being the same two people of that name up in Northampton Co., VA (across the water from Somerset Co., MD) but have found no hard evidence to support the idea yet. Shirley established that James of Norhampton Co., VA was probably the son of Richard Nevell imported by Randall Revell. Jan At 03:01 PM 12/6/98 -0500, Barbara Jensen wrote: >>From "Province of North Carolina 1663-1729 Abstracts of Land Patents" by >Margaret M. Hofmann: >Patent Book One >Page 23 Richard Nowell 1 September 1694 400 acres on little River in >Perquimans Precinct, joining the mouth of a branch, William Tomlin, and >the pocoson of the River. signed Philip Ludwell, Tho. Harvery, Wm. >Wilkison, Francis Tomes, Benj. Laker, Tho. Pollock, Saml. Swann > >Page 147 James Keith 8 September 1707 635 acres at Smyths point, >joining ye branch and Mr. Nevill. signed Thomas Cary, Saml. Swann, >Richd. Sanderson, W. Glover