I represent Elinor Neil. I was a resident of Pensacola during the British period. I was the wife of Arthur Neil, a military supply contractor and officer of the ordnance in Pensacola. My family and I arrived in Pensacola on the sloop Friendship in 1764. In 1766 we purchased 60 acres near 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. In February 1768, I was granted 2,000 acres on the Escambia River north of town in my own name. This may have been used to start a sawmill.
Sources: 12, 34, 75, 132