Bef 1735 - lived in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester county, VA
1735 - granted a license to keep an ordinary in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County
1743 - Joseph Nevill and wife Mary, acknowledged a deed to Thomas Roy
1745 - purchased land in Prince William County
1753 and 1754 - on PWC rent rolls
1762 - sold the PWC land he purchased in 1745 to son George ; land was now in Fauquier County
1790 - age given as 83
1792 - age given as 85
References
1803 Letter from Presley Nevill in historical records of the LeMoyne House, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
The following is the only history of my family which I am in possession of and which I this day collected from my father Gen. John Nevill Feb 8, 1803. ... Joseph Nevill, my grandfather, one of the sons of the aforesaid couple [John Nevill and Miss Weeks] was born about 1700 in Gloucester County, Virginia and was bred a planter, he married a Mary Barget a very handsome and genteel woman. She was an only child, ...
