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- Mary Helen Haines notes:
In the Wythe Co. tax list of 1793 there is a Louesa McFarland in Sect. 3, north of Walker's Mountain, James Davies Commissioner. It was recorded on May 22. Also recorded on this day was Thomas Neel (Neal), husband of Eleanor McFarland, daughter of William McFarland. This would be Bland County today. There are no other McFarlands in the list. Also on May 22 was William Kidd, therefore another neighbor, and father of Elijah Kidd who married a daughter of Thomas Neel.
We know from other documents that William McFarland's land was on Wolf Creek, and near Round Mountain. When William died in 1791 his son James was made administrator of his estate. James ended up buying up his siblings interest in this property from 1801 to around 1817 according to documents from Isabella Crawford. In James' will of 1825, he specifically mentions that his property in Tazewell County will go to his heirs, but that his sister Eleanor Neal and her daughter Mary Neal can live on this property for their lives.
Eleanor McFarland Neel is living on this property in 1830 census with a total of 7 people. Her husband Thomas Neel is dead.
Also living in this same district are the many Peary (Peery) family and the Spanglers and the Robinetts, both Michael and Daniel Robinet. Rhoda McFarland marries Michael Robinet by 1810.
The sons and relations of William McFarland have moved down the valley and are living on property in Russell Co. by 1790.
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