Neville, Presley

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Neville, Presley

NEVILLE, PRESLEY. (1756–1818). Continental officer. Son of John Neville, Presley Neville was born in Pittsburgh and graduated from the College of Philadelphia in 1775. On 9 November 1776 he became a lieutenant in the Twelfth Virginia Regiment (of which his father was lieutenant colonel), and transferred to the Eighth Virginia Regiment on 14 September 1778. In that same year he served as aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette with the temporary grade of manor. On 21 October 1778 he became brevet lieutenant colonel. On 10 May 1779 he was given the regular rank of captain, and on 12 May 1780 he was captured at Charleston. He was included in a prisoner exchange a year later. After this he became brigade inspector and was elected to the state assembly. He married a daughter of Daniel Morgan, and from 1792 until his death in 1818 he was a merchant in Pittsburgh.

SEE ALSO Neville, John.

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