Notes: McNeill family tradition holds that "Sailor Hector" and his brother "Shoemaker John" were young boys when their father immigrated to North Carolina in 1740. It has been said also that Hector got his knickname during the Revolution but Sailor Hector is found first using "Sailor" with his name in the 1771 Bladen County tax list, which stated his father was Neill McNeill; living with them was a man named John Hart. "Sailor Hector" settled just south of Sizemore Branch (the stream that bisects the Red Springs School property) in Red Springs on the hill where the J.A. Hodgin home stood near the McNeill cemetery in town. Mary's will was executed 2 Feb 1818 and probated Feb 1819. Research by Barden Culbreth of Raleigh, NC, into the records of Mecklenburg Co., VA have revealed a great deal of circumstantial evidence to support the idea that Mary's Culbreth family there was somehow connected to Sailor Hector's McNeill family; there was a small McNeill family living in that county that had connections to the Culbreth family.