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   Neill McNeill on Jobs Branch & unknown wife
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 Associated Grants/Deeds:
1768 - James Stewart of Bladen County to Neil McNeil of Cumberland County, 100A west side of Raft Swamp, Bladen Co., NC;
1769 - James Stewart of Bladen County to Neill McNeil of same, 100A on Jobs Branch, Bladen Co., NC;
1772 - Joseph Fort to Neil McNell of Bladen County, 100A on Jobs Branch west of the north prong of Raft Swamp adjacent James Stewart and William Carver, Bladen Co., NC;
1774 - Hector McNeill of Bladen County to Neil McNell of Bladen County,2 tracts: 100A on west side of Mill Branch of Raft Swamp five miles above the mouth, and 50 acres on west side of Mill prong, Bladen Co., NC;

Sources:
• 1784 Bladen County tax list for McNeill's District; NC Legislative Papers.
• Bladen County deeds;
• Bladen County Tax Lists 1768-1789 by William Byrd III;
• Robeson County deeds;
• Research and McNeill family history compilation by James S. Roberts;
• Research by Ruth McArthur of Wilmington (deceased) and information from her cousin Charles McNeill of Red Springs, NC;
• Research of Steve Edgerton of Raleigh, NC.
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  Neill McNeill on Jobs Branch

Birth c.1700-1710 Place Scotland
Chr – Place –
Death alive 1784 Place Robeson (now Hoke) County , NC
Burial – Place probably today's Hoke Co., NC in the Neill McNeill burial ground across the road from "Big Will" McNeill's home
Father unknown Mother unknown
Marriage – Place –
Other spouses – Marriage –
WIFE   unknown, possibly dead before Neill arrived in NC
Birth – Place –
Chr – Place –
Death – Place –
Burial – Place –
Father – Mother –
Other spouses – Marriage –

Notes: I have come to believe this McNeill family's assertion and James Roberts statement that this Neill McNeill immigrated from Scotland with his two young sons in 1740, very likely with the Argyll Colony. One Bladen County deed states that Neil McNeil of Cumberland County bought from James Stewart a 100 acre tract on west side of Raft Swamp in 1768, the same year he bought land on Jobs Branch from Stewart. Little is known personally about this early Neill McNeill. But he is positively identified in Bladen County tax list for 1771 (Archibald McKissick's district) as head of household with 'Hector McNeill, sailor' living with him, and again as "Neill McNeile Sen" with 450 acres, a neighbor of Hector McNeill and Mary McNeill in a Bladen tax list of 1784 in the NC legislative papers at the archives. All 450 acres can be accounted for in existing Bladen County deeds. This is NOT the Neill McNeill who immigrated in 1774 with wife Isobel Simpson.
Children Birth Death Spouse Cht #
1. "Sailor Hector" McNeill
c.1730-40
c.1809
Mary (__?__)
2. "Shoemaker John" McNeill
c.1730-40
before 1790
Mary Peterson