I did a fast www.google.com search on "Neal Plantation" and this is all I found aside from http://www.coastalconnections.com/wills-c.html which has some Neale in NC, Abstract of Wills Manuscript Department Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION #4370 NEAL FAMILY PAPERS Inventory http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/n/Neal_Family Neal, Aaron, d. 1869. INTRODUCTIONBiographical Note The two generations of the Neal family prominent in these papers lived between 1816 and 1915. Principal figures in the earlier generation included Moses, James, John, Aaron, and Mary (Timberlake), children of Moses Neal (d. pre-1830), planter of Franklin County, N.C. Other individuals who figure in the earlier portion of these papers are Aaron's wife, Elizabeth Fox; her relatives (probably siblings) Burrell, Robert, Richard, Martha, and William Fox; Richard Timberlake (Mary Neal's husband); and the slaves Sim Neal and Foxes Peney. In the 1820s, James and John Neal moved west, first to Alabama, then to Tennessee, to buy land and establish cotton plantations. Their sister Mary Timberlake and her family soon followed. By the 1830s, Burrell, Richard, Robert, and William Fox were in Mississippi setting up plantations, and their sister Martha and her family were homesteading in Tennessee. Aaron Neal (?-1869) remained on the family plantation with his mother. He later married Elizabeth Fox. Moses Neal was a merchant (and a bachelor) in Williamsboro (Granville County), N.C., until his death in 1853. The Neals, Foxes, and Timberlakes were all slave-owning planter families of at least moderate wealth. Those who went west all took slaves with them and had the cash to buy good farm land. A check of the Population and Slave Schedules of the Federal Census for Franklin County revealed that Aaron Neal in 1860 had real estate worth $15,210 and personal property worth $20,402, and was the owner of 18 slaves. Members of the second generation of Neals represented in these papers are the children of Aaron Neal, their spouses, and a few friends. The 1860 Federal Census for Franklin County listed Aaron's children as Transbry C. (20, male), Temperance B. (17), Mary E. (14), Lavinia (11), Moses (8), Charles I. (5), and Mit (2, female). Aaron had two older sons living away from home in 1860, Nathan (24), and James (26). Nathan was a student at the University of North Carolina in 1857, and during the Civil War worked in Alabama as a railroad construction engineer. His brother Transbry served in the Confederate Army in Virginia. After the war, Transbry returned to the family farm near Louisburg, but Nathan went west and settled in Waxahachie, Tex., (about 30 miles south of Dallas) where he remained until his death. Nathan eventually married and raised a son, Garrett, who joined his father in the land surveying business. Aaron Neal died in 1869, and his wife apparently died earlier. The 1870 Federal Census for Franklin County listed Transbry Neal, age 30, as head of household with the following family members (all his siblings): Temperance (26), Lavinia (21), Moses (17), Charles (15), and Stilla ? (10). The Civil War had nearly impoverished the Neal family: the 1870 census listed Transbry's real estate as worth $5000, and his personal estate $300. Abstract: Members of the Neal family were planters, businessmen, and farmers in Franklin, N.C.; Fayette and Henderson counties, Tenn.; Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hinds County, Miss.; Waxahachie, Tex.; and other areas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among them was Aaron Neal of Franklin County, N.C., who died in 1869. Correspondence, and financial, legal, and other papers of Aaron Neal, his siblings, in-laws, and children, and other members of the Neal family. Most of the correspondence relates to the antebellum era and consists primarily of letters from family members in the Old Southwest that describe to relatives in North Carolina the everyday problems associated with moving west, buying land and slaves, and establishing profitable cotton plantations. There are also letters, 1857, to and from Nathan Neal, a student at the University of North Carolina. There are twelve letters from the Civil War years that describe camp life and combat experiences, mainly in the Virginia theater. Most postbellum letters pertain to late nineteenth-century farm life in North Carolina and to small-town life in Texas. Financial, legal, and other items date from both before and after the Civil War. Neals Plantation To: wvjackso-l@rootsweb.com Subject: Neals Plantation From: SPRAD666@aol.com Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:17:24 EST CC: va-roots@vlinsvr.vsla.edu, VA-WVA-ROOTS-L@listserv.indiana.edu Looking for information on the location and history of Neals Plantation in Jackson Co., VA in the 1840s. Am also wondering about its proximity to Kanawha Co., VA. Thank you. Tim Spradling In a message dated 8/31/2000 11:01:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time, << Subject: [WVA] Huffman/Neal Plantation Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My gggg & ggg grandfathers Thomas Huffman & John Stuart Huffman purchased 500 acres of Jackson County, VA/WV property on 6 December 1842, referred to as the "Neal Plantation." This information comes from Jackson County Deed Book 9 pages 454-455 in a deed transaction dated 11 May 1853, where Thomas Huffman's "heirs-at-law" (children) sold the property to their mother Margaret Huffman. Also on 11 May 1853, Margaret Huffman, Thomas' widow, sold 400 of the 500 acres to a Benjamin Boggess. This is from Jackson County Deed Book 9 page 456. I am not privy to & have not viewed the original deed of sale, in which the "Neal Plantation" was sold to Thomas Huffman & John Stuart Huffman. (I would definitely like to see it.) Also, Jackson County land records, mention a deed of "bargain & sale" re: said property on 14 April 1847 where a Henry Middleton is mentioned. Does anyone have any information on the 500 acre parcel of property once called the "Neal Plantation?" Do you know where it might have been located? I believe that the location is somewhere in the vicinity where Jackson County borders the Poca District of Kanawha County. It may have been somewhere between Goldtown, Jackson County & Sissonville, Kanawha County. Does anyone know the history of the Neal family? Thank you in advance for any information or guidance. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Mike Peters npeters102@aol.com >>