Gen. Pressley Neville and Nancy Morgan

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Husband Gen. Pressley Neville ¹

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            AKA: Col. Presly Neville 2
           Born: 6 Sep 1755 - Winchester, Frederick Co, VA 2
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           Died: 1 Dec 1818 - Clermont Co, OH 1
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         Father: Gen. John Neville (1731-1803) 3 4
         Mother: Winifred Oldham (1736-1797) 1 5

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       Marriage: 15 Oct 1782 2

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Wife Nancy Morgan ^{1 2}

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         Father: Gen. Daniel Morgan (      -      ) 6
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General Notes: Husband - Gen. Pressley Neville

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He was a distinguished military officer during the Revolution, reaching the rank of colonel, and was for some time aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette, taking part in most of the principal battles. He died on land granted him for his Revolutionary services, at Neville, Clermont County, Ohio.

He was an aide-de-camp on General Lafayette's staff, and an accomplished man of fine education. His declination to become a candidate for congress, Aug. 4, 1798, was a very great disappointment, the district at that time being composed of Greene, Washington and Allegheny counties. He entertained on different occasions two of the most distinguished characters in the history of France-the duke of Orleans, afterwards King Louis Philippe, and that other uncrowned king, the Marquis Lafayette. When the revolution, which broke out in 1789, upturned the monarchy of France, the exiled heir to the throne, with his two brothers, Montpensier and Beaujolais, took refuge in America. In 1794 the future king of France, accompanied by his two brothers, reached Pittsburgh. Gen. Pressley Neville then lived at the corner of Water and Ferry streets, and being the friend of the outcast and the oppressed, he was importuned by a French resident to entertain the strangers. To this he at first demurred, saying that while he was "the friend of Rochambeau and Lafayette and the friend of the unfortunate Louis-not as a monarch, but as a man," he hesitated as an American to receive the representatives of the fallen monarchy. But his humanity and hospitality overcame all other scruples, and he received the noted Frenchmen into his home and entertained them during their stay in Pittsburgh. Louis and his kinsmen never forgot the kindness of General Neville. Afterwards, when a son of the latter, Capt. Frederick Neville, of the United States navy, happened to be in Marseilles, Louis, then king, sent for the young officer and lavished upon him every attention.
At the ceremonies in Pittsburgh over Washington's death, a famous oration was delivered by Gen. Pressley Neville, Jan. 11, 1800.

He and his wife had fourteen children.

1 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 356.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1164.

3 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 355.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1162.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1163.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1165.