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A silhouette of John Neville. John Neville (July 26, 1731 – July 29, 1803) was an American military officer, land speculator, and local official who served in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War and the American Revolutionary War. As an early federal tax collector he became a central figure in the Whiskey Rebellion.
The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government.
John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer (1520–1577), English peer; John Neville (general) (1731–1803), American Revolutionary War officer later prominent in the Whiskey Rebellion; John C. Neville (1815–1898), Wisconsin politician; John Neville (actor) (1925–2011), English-Canadian stage and theater actor; John Neville (died 1420), eldest son of ...
Woodville, also known as the Neville House or John Neville House, is a house which is located on Washington Pike south of Heidelberg, Pennsylvania. [5] It is significant for its association with John Neville, a tax collector whose other house was burned in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. The oldest portion of the house dates to 1775, with a main ...
Some militia members are buried on the grounds, including Major James McFarlane, revolutionary war veteran, mortally wounded at the July 1794 battle of Bower Hill during the climax of the resistance of the Whiskey Rebellion at the residence of John Neville. [2] [5]
July 17 – Whiskey Rebellion: 500 armed Pennsylvanians attack and burn the home of General John Neville. August 7 – Whiskey Rebellion: President Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 mobilize a federal army of 12,500 men.
They considered the whiskey tax inspector John Neville, a reasonably-wealthy man, as an agent of their eastern enemies. James McFarlane, chairman of the Society of United Freemen, was killed while he was trying to force Neville's resignation, an event that triggered the Whiskey Rebellion .
Oliver Miller died in 1782, a decade before the Whiskey Rebellion, which put the property at the center of early-American history. His son, James Miller, inherited the farm. In 1794, US Marshal David Lennox was led to the home of William Miller, brother of James, by John Neville (who was related to the Millers through marriage) to issue a writ ...