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m. 1758 - Jacob McNeil, Sr.1759 - 1841
Facts and Events
Notes
According to family history, Jacob's father was unknown and his mother was Mary Hughes [likely born out-of-wedlock]. Jacob took the name of his step-father (Mary's 2nd husband), Thomas McNeil (1749-1790). Some internet trees claim Jacob was a son of a James Ireson who died in 1758, but without any foundation or records to support this notion.
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. X, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
McNeil, Jacob, born 6/1759 in Virginia; entered service 1776 as Indian Spy & Ranger when residing on Virginia frontier; moved after Revolutionary War to Franklin County, Virginia, where granted Pension 1832 as Jacob Sr.; Gabriel Mcneil 9no kinship given) mentioned then; query letter in file in 1836 from great great grandson Robert O. McNiel, Roanoke, Virginia, states that soldier was born in Pocahontas County, Virginia*, & was stepson of Mr. Ireson. F-S5745, R1699.
- Note: Pocahontas County, [West] Virginia was not established until 1821. Other sources have Jacob McNeil's place of birth as Frederick County, Virginia.
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References
- Find A Grave.
Jacob McNeil Sr.
BIRTH Jun 1759
Frederick County, Virginia, USA
DEATH Feb 1841 (aged 81)
Franklin County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Jacob McNeil Sr. Family Cemetery
Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia, USA
Guard Hendersons VA Co. Rev War
Married Annie Stevens in Franklin Co VA
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150323389/jacob-mcneil
- United States. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans.
Name Jacob McNeil Sr
Unit (Viginia) Henderson Va Co
Company Capt Corps Va Co
Enlistment Date 1777
Discharge Date Dec 1777
Death Date 1841
Cemetery Family Cemetery
Cemetery Location Rocky Mount, Virginia, USA
- United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252).
Name Jacob McNeal
Residence Date 6 Aug 1810
Residence Place Franklin, Virginia, USA
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over 1 [b. 1765 or before]
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10 2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15 2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44 1 [b. bet. 1766-1784]
Number of Household Members Under 16 5
Number of Household Members Over 25 2
Number of Household Members 9
- United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33).
Name Jacob McNeal
Enumeration Date 7 Aug 1820
Home in 1820 (City, County, State) Franklin, Virginia, USA
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over 1 [b. 1775 or before]
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15 2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over 1 [b. 1775 or before]
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture 2
Free White Persons - Under 16 4
Free White Persons - Over 25 2
Total Free White Persons 7
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other 7
- United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M19).
Name Jacob S McHal
[Jacob Sr McNeil]
[Jacob S McNeel]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State) Franklin, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14 1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39 1
Free White Persons - Males - 70 thru 79 1 [b. bet. 1751-1760]
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59 1 [b. bet. 1771-1780]
Free White Persons - Under 20 4
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49 2
Total Free White Persons 8
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored) 8
- American Genealogical - Biographical Index. (Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States|Middletown, Connecticut: Godfrey Memorial Library).
Name Jacob McNeal
Birth Date 1760
Birth Place Virginia, USA
Occupation Rev.war
Volume 115
Page number 229
Reference Census of Pensioners For Rev. Military Serivces. Washington, Dc. 1841. (195p.):130
- Pioneer Families of Franklin County, Virginia by Marshall Wingfield
1964.
Jacob McNeal, Sr., pioneer ancestor of the McNiels of Franklin (b. Jacob Ireson, but assumed the name or his mother's 2nd husband), was born June 1759 near, Harper's Ferry. The Christian name of his father is not known. His mother was Mary, dau. of William (b. 1723, d. 1822) and Molly (Daton) Hughes. Welsh emigrants who settled in the Capon Valley section-or Frederick Co. Mary Hughes Ireson, widow, m. ca. 1768, Thomas McNeel (b. ca. 1747, d, 1809), one of several sons of a Scottish emigrant settler in Frederick Co. Thomas McNeel brought his wife
and step-son Jacob to Swago Creek in Greenbrier Co.A later Bath Co., now Pocahontas Co., W. Va., between 1768 and 1~70, and settled on a 300 acre homestead. There he operated a powder mill.
In 1776, Jacob Mc:Neal served as spy and ranger for 3 months in Capt. John Cook's Company on the Virginia frontier in the Greenbrier country. In Mar. 1777, he enlisted as a guard at Ft. Randolph where Point Pleasant is now located. In July he joined Capt. John Henderson's Company, and served for several months.
Conflict existed between the Shawnees and the whites for years. In 1774, General Lewis defeated the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and made peace with the tribe, but within three years the tribe was again hostile. Cornstalk, wiser for his defeat and respecting the treaty, spoke for peace. When his counsel was ignored, he informed the garrison at Ft. Randolph. Capt. Matthew Arbucke, detained him and his two companions as hostages. Cornstalk's son, Ellinipsico, hallooed from the river bank, and was brought across to the fort and also detained. In the mean- time two men from the fort crossed the river to hunt wild turkeys. One of them was killed from ambush and when his body was brought to the fort his comrades overpowered the guard, of whom Jacob McNeal was one, and killed the Indians. McNeal said that Cornstalk begged them to kill him and to spare his son, but he plead in vain. In his pension claim of Sept. 3, 1832, Jacob McNeal stated that he tried to prevent the murder of the Indians.
He ended his military service in Nov. 1777, and bought 147 acres on Buckeye Mountain in what is now Pocahontas County, W. Va. He lived on the frontier for the remainder of the Revolutionary War and was out frequently against the Indians.
Jacob McNeal m. Annie Stevens, c. 1783, and in 1790, settled in Franklin Co., on the south side of Blackwater. Two land patents are extent conveying to him 362 acres. One for 312 acres is dated Aug. 19, 1794, and the other for 50 acres bears date of Sept. 12, 1796, These 362 acres are acres are between Wirtz and Rocky Mount.
Annie Stevens McNeal a. ca. 1800, was probably the first person buried in the family cemetery on Blackwater.
Jacob and Annie (Stevens) McNeal had issue: (l) John (2) William, (3) Daniel, (4) Jacob Jr., (5) Elizabeth, (6) Rebecca, (7) Naomi, (8) Annie and (9) Susannah.
https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/H011549.pdf
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