At 03:58 PM 3/21/99 -0500, you wrote: >Jan, Shirley, Peter, Gabe, and others... > Thomas WELSH raised Ephriam Cole MITCHELL >and at least one daughter who I believe was Mary NEVILL. I also found a >Margaret NEVILLE on an 1813 list of school children in Charlotteville Twp. >where Thomas WELSH lived so she could also be a possible child of >Martha Nevill. So what I don't know for sure is when Thomas WELSH said >in his petition that as I know that Moses was not living there at that time. >John NEVILL himself stayed in Humberstone Twp. some distance away. > Paddy and others in the Canadian Neville lines, Some of the names related to the Nevills in the Canadian posts are amazing because the same surnames were in the Natchez Territory in MS. I think some of the Natchez folks were almost certainly related to some of your Ontario families. When I saw the Ephraim Cole Mitchell in Paddy's post above, I got real excited. However, I finally realized I was thinkin of Ephraim COLEMAN. His land bounded Philip Nevills' land on COLE's Creek in Jefferson Co., MS (which was formerly located in Natchez Territory). Philip's claim was located 15 miles above Fort Panmure and bound by the lands of Ephraim Coleman, Benjamin Fletcher, John Stampley, John Clark, and William Thomas. I believe Philip to be the same person of that name in the MD/PA Rev. War patriot soldier records. Ephraim Coleman was part of the Swayze brothers' Presbyterian settlement which went to Natchez from New Jersey in the 1770s or 1780s. Paul and others who have posted their Canadian Neville families to the list also show connections with the Swayzies in Canada. I wonder if the Canadian Swayzies also came from NJ? I checked the index to the Natchez Court records for Cole first names but not find an Ephraim. There were Coles in the Cole's Creek area. I am posting one of the Natchez references on the Coles and Osbornes, since Paddy has both names in her line. (Did I just imagine I saw an Issac Johnson in one of the Canadian Neville posts? I went back through them and could not find the name. That is another name related to our MS Nevill/Nevels.) Natchez Court Records 1767-1805 by May Wilson McBee, p. 29 Book A, p. 228, 28 Dec. 1784. Notice received of the death of Joanna Osborn, widow of late Samuel Osborn and since wife of Elijah Routh, said Joanna died at Cole's Creek and left 4 children, 2 sons and 2 daus. lawful issue by her first marriage, the boys Samuel and Boyd, one 14 and the other 11; the daus. Sarah and Buldah [Huldah?]. Curators appointed; Isaac Johnson and James Truly, of district, who accepted the charge. p. 229, 28 Dec. 1784. Appraisers of above estate Richard Harrison and John Burnet, both residents and planters of sd District, who accepted. (p. 230) Jany. 1, 1785. Inventory and appraised $2435. Nothing more being found on account of Elijah Routh, last husband of the deceased Joanna Osborn, having absconded on 26 of last month, taking two children, Samuel and Boyd, three slaves and seven horses and sundry other effects, belonging to the four minors. Signed James Truly and Isaac Johnson. Wit: John Burnet, Jno. Joseph Rodriguez. Trevino // p. 230, 3 Jany. 1785. Plantation to James Elliot, Thos. M. Green, surety. Other buyers: Gibson Clark, surety John Burnet; James Armstrong; James Elliott; Thomas Calvit; George Killion - surety John Stille, Abner Green - Thomas M. Green; Thomas M. Green - Abner Green; James Armstrong - John Burner; William Ferguson - Richard Devall; Jeremiah Brian - James Elliott; James Truly - Jeremiah Brian; Manuel Texada - Estavan Minor; Estevan Minor - James Elliot; William Ferbens - Richd. Devall; John Terry .... Total $3003. My note: Manuel Texada was the son-in-law of Philip Nevill. Estevan Minor was Stephen Minor, the eldest son of William Minor of Greene Co., PA; Wm. Minor was from Lyme, Connecticut, and was the last Governor under Spanish rule in the Natchez District. (p. 598, McBee) Another note of interest, since Paul shows a Green link. According to the McBee book, Thomas M. Green, above, was from VA, but emigrated to Georgia and South Carolina with his son-in-law Cato West. Next, Green represented Georgia interests in taking over the Natchez Territory from the Spanish. (Georgia claimed much of the Spanish Mississippi area as its own and did not want to recognize Spain's right to the territory.) Others from the Georgia/SC area are said to have come with him. Because some of the Nevills in the Bath/Beaufort Co., NC area may have gone to Georgia, I thought this worth mentioning. Since Greens lived near our Nevels in MS, I have wondered if my Nevels from South Carolina went to MS because of Thomas M. Green. The Spanish were a little peeved when Thomas M. Green showed up with intentions of claiming land under a GA claim. Because he would not give up, they finally put him in jail in New Orleans but felt sorry for him when his wife died, and they released him. They liked the sitution of his land so well that the Spanish governor Gayoso established his headquarters on Green's plantation. Jan