CAPTAIN WALTER NEAL

(ca. 1633-1712/1717) - Piscataqua and New Castle, Rockingham co., NH

(Third Generation - Neal Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
Captain Walter NEAL
NOT KNOWN

BIRTH Born ca. 1633 in Piscataqua, NH.[1].

This Walter Neal is believed to be an abandoned illegitimate child of his father. According to Noyes, Libby and Davis[18], "..They note that the year of his birth as calculated from a 1683 deposition is 'coincident with the departure for England of the gallant artilleryman,' and that the proposed relation 'has been, in view of their names and connect[ion] with N.H., an obvious conclusion, and worldly experience teaches that where there are soldiers there are apt to be babies' ..."[19]

DEATH Walter died in New Castle, Rockingham co., NH between February 1712 & November 1717; he was 79.[1].
MILITARY & OCCUPATIONS He was the 1st Ensign of the Strawbery Banke Training Band and later became a Lieutenant and Captain.[1]
RESIDENCE Walter was also given a land grant in Greenland (Portsmouth), NH in 1655.[3].
MARRIAGE By 1661 when Walter was 28, he married Mary HAINES, in Dover, NH.[20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28] Mary died after 31 March 1668.

CHILDREN 4. i. Samuel NEAL Born on 14 June 1661 in New Castle, Rockingham co., NH[1]




GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G8) Grandfather
FAMILY NUMBER 1088
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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