This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------932AB39BE326F27C84C5CE43 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jan & David Faulkner wrote: > 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? > Try these connections on the Judge Samual Swayze Family tree - they are Canadian Nevills and if you trace them back some of the family came from New Jersey. http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/o/l/David-C-Holmes/GENE3-0045.html Will send a copy of e-mail from Betty (Holmes?) from when I queried their site about their Canadian Nevill connections. Dave Neville > 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 > > ==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== > Have you tried Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet? > http://www.oz.net/~cyndihow/sites.htm --------------932AB39BE326F27C84C5CE43 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for David Neville Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: David Neville n: Neville;David org: Proud member TLC Brotherhood email;internet: [email protected] note;quoted-printable:355th AMS=0D=0A= Takhli Apr 68 - Jun 69=0D=0A= F105 ECM Shop=0D=0A= x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------932AB39BE326F27C84C5CE43--