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From: Vernon9323 <>
Subject: Re: [PAINDIAN-L] Re: NEAL
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 14:53:54 EST


Pioneer settler of Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

William Neal

Notes
Of the McNiel Clan of Scotland Came to the colonies about 1750 settling first
in Hagerstown, Maryland. By the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, he had
moved to Young township in Indiana county, Pennsylvania.

From "History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania 1880, bio of Thomas Sharp Neal,
pp. 849-851:

"...his great grandfather, William Neal, the first of this branch of the
family to settle in America, was from the north of Ireland. his wife was Mary
Reynolds. They first located at Philadelphia, later in Franklin county, Pa.,
and eventually came to Indiana county, in the seventeen hundreds, where he
obtained nearly three thousand acres of land west of Indiana, near
Jacksonville. He was a surveyor, and became very well known. His death
occurred in 1813., when he was seventy-seven years old, and he was buried in
the cemetery at Bethel Church, in this county. We have the following record
of his children: (1) Thomas lived on part of his father's old place at
Jacksonville, where he put up a gristmill, and later moved to near
Georgeville, this county. He was twice married, first to Margaret Creviston,
by whom he had four children: William, who was burned to death at Phoenix, )a;
John, who had a gristmill east of Punxsutawney, Pa., and Samuel and Thomas who
went West. To his second marriage, with Catherine Barnhart, were bom five
children: Margaret, who wed S. Hoover and (second) George Weaver, and lived in
Perry township, Jefferson county, Pa; Arr, who lived in Punxsutawney, Pa; Ogg,
who was killed by a live wire at Horatio, Pa; Thomas who was killed by a
boiler explosion in Homer City, Pa; and Mary R., who married R. Trusel. (2)
John lived near Jacksonville and was engaged in farming and sawmilling. He
married Lydia Lewis and they had four children, John, Hugh, Rachel Loman and
Kissie. (3) Mary died unmarried. (4) Rosanna died unmarried. (5) William was
the father of John Neal.

Also See Broderbund's WFT Vol 7-3070 for John Neal

1913 Indiana County, Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present 1545, 1546

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