Notes: Turquill McNeill immigrated with the Argyll Colony in 1739-40. His lands were located on Buffaloe Creek, Carver's Creek and on the Cape Fear River in Cumberland Co., and on Wilkinson Creek in Bladen Co. (now Robeson). He was very likely a relative, perhaps a brother, of James McNeill of Rockfish Creek. Turquill bought land around Carver's Creek and Lower Little River from "Hector carver" McNeill, who may also have been a brother. Turquill may have been buried at Philippi Church cemetery, known then as 'McCaskills'.
    Jonathan Butcher, genealogist of Raleigh, NC, deceased, claims Mary Bethune to have been Turquill's wife. There were Bethunes (Beaton) in the area where Turquill lived around Buffalo Creek. This information comes from a letter written by Mrs. Evelyn Cliett to my mother, Dot Edgerton, in 1984. Mrs. Cliett did not know Butcher's sources as she was given the information without paying for his services. Butcher also believed that Turquill, Hector, James and Archibald were sons of Laughlin and Margaret Johnstone McNeill of Scotland, but did not cite a source for that belief.