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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: abt 1740 Death: aft 05 Feb 1805 / Ohio / VA
Author: James Harrison Frey
In 1777 Hugh Neely served as a private in the Mt. Pleasant Company of Associators in Westmoreland County, Pa. in the Revolutionary War. He was probably born in Virginia about 1740. In 1773 he purchased 267 acres in South Bend Township, Armstrong Co., Pa. and was among the first settlers there. In 1774 he served as a private in Capt. Hugh Stephenson’s Company in Lord Dunmore’s War.
In October 1776 Neely relocated to 318 acres he purchased in Mt. Pleasant Township, Westmoreland Co., Pa. from Jeremiah Meek, Jr. He was among the signers of a petition in 1787 to form Washington County from Westmoreland Co. Neely’s name appears on tax records in Mt. Pleasant through 1801 when he purchased a 200 acre tract of land called “Southampton”, which was surveyed pursuant to a warrant for the land he was granted in 1787.
At an unknown date he married Florenna who is believed to be a member of the Meek family; but no records have yet been found to confirm her surname. The Neelys had four daughters, Anna Barbara (“Nancy”), Rachel, Eleanor and Sarah, and two sons, Thomas and Bazeel Meek Neely. Their daughter Nancy married John Nichols, whose only surviving son, Hugh Nichols, is my third great-grandfather. Nancy died in 1790 and John Nichols was remarried the following year to Ruth Van Meter, widow of patriot Benjamin Hammett. Hugh Nichols was raised by his Neely grandparents who relocated to Wheeling, WV sometime between 1801 and 1805 when Hugh Neely died. His widow Florenna lived to 1817.
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