I represent Arthur Neil. I was a resident of Pensacola during the British period. I was a military supply contractor and officer of the ordnance for the garrison. In 1767 I was elected to represent Pensacola in the House of Commons of the provincial General Assembly. I was elevated to the council, which both advised the governor and sat as the Upper House of the Assembly in December 1767 and I served until July 1771. My wife was Elinor. My family and I arrived in Pensacola on the sloop Friendship in 1764. In 1766 I purchased 60 acres near prsent-day Bayou Chico about 12 miles west of what was then the town. We started a dairy farm there and called it Greenfield; it was our primary residence. Greenfield sat on the road between Pensacola and Mobile, a vital artery that stayed busy. When the Spanish besieged Pensacola, they used our house as a camp and staging ground because they could monitor the road and see Fort George from it. My name appeared on the list of householders remaining in Pensacola after the capitulation in May 1781, so I would have become a prisoner of war with the rest of the survivors.
Sources: 3, 6, 7, 14, 75, 132