| BIRTH | Born by 1595[3,4]. Neal's birth date is estimated from his entry into the English Army ca. 1615[1]. |
| DEATH | Died after 1639[3,4]. Neal's death date is estimated from the fact that he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth, England in 1639[7]. |
| MILITARY & OCCUPATIONS |
Walter entered into the English Army ca. 1615 - serving in Bohemia and the Rhine
country under Count Ernst Von Mansfeldt. It is here that he earned the rank of Captain.[1]
He was Governor on the Piscataqua (what is now the area surrounding Portsmouth, Rockingham co., NH) from 1630 to 1633.[7] |
| MIGRATION |
Walter first arrived in the Summer of 1630 on the bark Warwick[5].
He returned to England permanently in 1633 aboard the Elizabeth Bonadventure, Mr. Graves, master; along with "...some eight of his company..."[6]. |
| COMMENTS |
Walter was instrumental in the Colonial History of New Hampshire and Maine.
John Winthrop records that during the week of 14 December 1630, "Capt. Neal and three other gentlemen came hither to us [in Boston]. He came in the bark Warwick, this summer, to Pascataqua, sent as governor there for Sir Ferdinando Gorges and others"[3,8]. Further details of Walter's contibutions to history can be found in Andersonıs book.[3] Accomplishments listed in the Neal Family Book[9] should be viewed with suspicion in light of newer and better research. For example: Neale "...appears as a witness to the forged Wheelwright deed..."[3,10] The details of this are as follows: "One of the earliest of Passaconaway's transactions with the English is said to have been his signing of the famous Wheelwright Deed. By many this has been considered a forgery. The Rev. N. Bouton, D. D., Editor of the Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, writes thus, however: "The famous 'Wheelwright Deed', which has been pronounced a forgery by Hon. James Savage, the distinguished antiquarian of Boston, and the late John Farmer, Esq., of Concord, bears date May 17, 1629. Hon. Chandler E. Potter, who has devoted much attention and research to the subject, maintains the validity of the deed. But whether the deed be a forgery or not it forms part of our history;-is the basis on which rests the grant of several townships in the state, is recognized in various ways in our public records as genuine . . . The deed is recorded in the office of Recorder of Deeds, at Exeter."[11] "...[T]he substance of this famous document [is as follows:]. It certifies that Passaconaway, for certain valuable considerations, sells to John Wheelwright and his associates a tract of land extending from the then (1629) Massachusetts line thirty miles into the country, and from the Piscataqua to the Merrimac, reserving the hunting and fishing rights to his people. The seventh and last article declares that "every township within the aforesaid limits or tract of land that hereafter shall be settled shall pay to Passaconaway our chief sagamore that now is and to his successors forever, if lawfully demanded, one coat of trucking cloth a year." The names or marks of several noted sagamons were affixed to the deed as were also the signatures of some of the respectable planters of Saco and Piscataqua. Whether the Wheelwright Deed is valid or not, it affords proof of the extent of the Bashaba's power and dominions."[11] In addition, Walter "...arrested Edward Ashley in May of 1631...helped organize the expedition sent after the murderers of Walter Bagnall in October 1631[12], and more than a year later he sent forces to capture Dixey Bull, New Englandıs first pirate..."[3,13] "...In June of 1631, he forwarded to Winthrop a packet of letter from England addressed to Sir Christopher Gardener[14]; these letter became an important element in the dispute between Massachusetts Bay and some of its enemies."[3] "...On 1 December 1631 Captain Walter Neale was appointed by the Council for New England one of three men who were to delever [sic] possession of the Trelawny patent, but it was Richard Vines who actually carried out this duty[15]. On 23 May 1633 Walter Neale delivered to Thomas Cammock possession of the land that had been patented to him by the Council for New England on 1 November 1631[16]. On 27 may [sic] 1633 Walter Neale delivered to Abraham Shurt posession of the land that had been patented to Robert Aldworth and Gyles Elbridge by the Council for New England on 29 February 1631/2..."[3,17]. |
| MARRIAGE | Nothing is known of his consort or her parentage. He probably never married the mother of his son and namesake. |
| CHILDREN | 3. | i. | Walter NEAL | Born ca. 1633 in Piscataqua, NH[1] |
| GENERATION | Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G9) Grandfather |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 2176 |
| SOURCES |
1. Brigham, Emma E. (Neal), Neal Family. 2. Ibid. p. 1. 3. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig], II:1325. 4. Dictionary of National Biography, 5. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig], II:1325 6. Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, ed. James Savage, (Boston, 1853), 1:127. 7. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig], pp. 1324-1325. 8. Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, ed. James Savage, (Boston, 1853), 1:46. 9. Brigham, Emma E. (Neal), Neal Family, pp. 1-2. 10. Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, ed. James Savage, (Boston, 1853), 1:508-509. 11. William James Sidis, Passaconaway in the White Mountains, http://www.sidis.net/PASSChap1.htm, 26 November 2001. 12. Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, ed. James Savage, (Boston, 1853), 1:75. 13. Ibid. 1:114-115. 14. Ibid. 1:68. 15. The Trelawny Papers, James Phinney Baxter, Collections of the Maine Historical Society, 2nd Series, 3:7. 16. York Deeds, (Portland, Maine 1887, 2:85 and 1:1:1. 17. Suffolk County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 3:56. 18. Noyes, Sybil, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin David, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (Portland, ME: Anthosensen Press 1928-1939; rpt Baltimore: Gen. Publ. Co., 1972), [GDMNH], p. 507. 19. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig], II:1326. 20. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society), [Torrey]. 21. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR or Reg.], 53:355, 90:274. 22. Noyes, Sybil, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin David, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (Portland, ME: Anthosensen Press 1928-1939; rpt Baltimore: Gen. Publ. Co., 1972), [GDMNH], p. 507. 23. Ham, John R., Dover, New Hampshire Marriages, 1623-1823, (Dover, NH., 1880-1902), typescript, [DoverNHMar], p. 150. 24. Neal, John, The Neal Record, (Boston: Dutton, 1856), [Neale(1856)], p. 10. 25. Stackpole, Everett S., Old Kittery and Her Families, (Lewiston, ME: Lewiston Journal Press, 1903), [Kittery], p. 27. 26. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, (Boston: C.H. Pope, 1908), [Pope'sPioneersofMEandNH], p. 148. 27. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Jr.,, The Ancestry of Charity Haley 1755 to 1800, Wife of Major Nicholas Davis of Wilmington, Maine, (Boston: Stanhope Press, 1916), [HaleyAnc], 2:59-60. 28. Farwell, John Dennis, Jane Harter Abbott, and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and of Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., 1605 to 1927, with Twelve Generations of Their Descendants; Also Many Lineages of Allied Families, 2 vols., (Rutland, Vt.: F.H. Farwell, 1929), [Farwell(1929)], 471. 29. Locke, Arthur Horton, A History and Genealogy of Captain John Locke (1637-1696) of Portsmouth and Rye, N.H., and His Descendants; Also of Nathaniel Lock of Portsmouth, and a Short Account of the History of the Lockes in England., &$40;[Concord, NH: The Rumford Press, 1916?]), [Locke], p. 18.
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