Joseph Neville Jr. (December 2, 1733March 4, 1819) was an American soldier, planter and politician from Virginia. In addition to military service during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812, Neville represented Hampshire County in the Virginia House of Burgesses, several of the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions and in the House of Delegates during the American Revolutionary War. Fellow legislators twice elected him to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 1793 until 1795. He died at the age of 85 in what became Hardy County during his lifetime. Early life Joseph Neville, Jr., was born December 2, 1733, in Gloucester County in the Colony of Virginia, to Joseph Neville, Sr. (1707–1783), and his second wife, Ann Bohannon Neville (1710–1762). He had at least five brothers and two sisters who survived to adulthood. His eldest brother John (1731–1803) would become a career soldier, first serving on the Appalachian frontier in the French and Indian War. His younger brothers Captain William Neville (1740- ) and private James Neville (1741–1841) also served in the Virginia militia or Continental Army. His father, a landowner of the same name, was too old to fight but during the American Revolution provided the troops with food and supplies. The surname Neville appears in several different forms in early documents; Neavil, Nevil, Nevill, and Neavel are other common variations of the name. Neville married Agnes Brown in Bedford County, Virginia in 1764. They would have ten children, including Joseph Neville II, although only six reached adulthood. Career In 1772, when Alexander White accepted the position of King's attorney (prosecutor) for Hampshire County, Neville (or his father as discussed below) replaced him in the part-time position of delegate to the House of Burgesses. Although a relatively recent settler, he served alongside non-resident lawyer and real estate investor John Mercer. Both men won re-election in 1774, during Lord Dunmore's War (during which his brother John Neville was a Virginia militia officer). As the colony chafed under what Virginians called the Intolerable Acts, Joseph Neville signed the non-importation pact in May 1774, and Mercer signed in August. Relatively new and unpopulated counties west of the Appalachians had difficulty funding the travel of representatives to the state capital, either when it was Williamsburg (in the Tidewater region), or later Richmond, and travel was also difficult and time-consuming. Thus, his fellow Hampshire County delegate James Mercer actually lived in