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, ...