Paddy, Jan and anyone else following the latest round of "head of the Chesapeake Nevilles" Speaking of insolvents etc, I've always been kinda bothered by the John Neavil pauper record below from Cecil Co. Who in the world is Lucy Nash? He's always struck me as an "extra John" in the Cecil/Harford County area, though he may "belong" to paddy or me. Is it possible, do you think, that he is the John that went to Canada with Paddy's Moses? Could this be the Bush River Harford Co. John Nevel (7 years old in 1776) that may have been an orphan? Bettie Carothers, 1783 Tax List of Maryland, Part I, Cecil, Talbot, Harford & Calvert Counties (l977) 1783 Tax Cecil Co p22 John NEAVIL & Lucy Nash, paupers, 9 whites [paupers=owned less than 10 pounds worth of property] Peter ------------------reply separator----------------------------------- X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:37:16 -0500 (EST) From: Paddy Chitty <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NEVILLE-L] John NEVILL of Harford & Mrs. Burns (2) Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi Peter: On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 [email protected] wrote: > I could swear that I once collected a record of a Ruth Nevil and some other Neville being orphans and adopted by someone. I'll check my stack of less organized records and see what I can find. I really appreciate your help, thank you. I keep wondering if the William Nevell on a 1768 list of insolvents in St. Mary Anns Parish, Cecil Co. could possibly be the father of Ruth and John. I keep thinking that maybe the mother died and things were just too much for him so he skipped out leaving the children with Mrs. Burns. > As for the 1790 Census, there is no record of a Mary Burns or a Mathew Burns in Maryland. > There is a Mathew Barnes in Charles Co (3 white males 16+, 1 white male under 16, 5 white females and 2 slaves). I don't know how good a candidate he would be. I really don't think the above is relavant; just a feeling. > There are three records for Mary Burns in Pennsylvania: Northampton County (the current Northampton Co is on the Eastern border of I am now tracing the route the party took from Harford through PA to see if they could have passed through Northampton or PA where they could have picked up Mrs. Burns. My geographic prowess is second only to my mathematical skills so it could be an interesting trip <g>. Tomorrow is my day to volunteer at the FHC and I am going to try to get up early before the throngs arrive so I can get my hands on a reader long enough to check the Canadian records for Upper Canada Land Petitions in the hope that Mrs. Burns petitioned for land. I can't imagine that she would not have done, John, Moses, Thomas Welsh and even old Hannah Mitchell did. If she did it could possibly state her relationship to John. One can hope. Thanks sincerely for your help. Paddy ______________________________