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Andrew Neel

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(1757-1780)

BIRTH

1757

PLACE

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DEATH

August 1, 1780

PLACE

Chester County, South Carolina

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Andrew Neel b.abt 1757, was the son of Col Thomas Neel Jr. and Jean Spratt Neel. Jean was the daughter of Thomas Spratt Sr. and Mary Clark Spratt. After the death of Col. Thomas Neel, Andrew Neel and Billy Hill were elected colonels of the York Co. After this, Col. Andrew Neel went in pursuit of Col Floyd, a Tory colonel, who was committing depredations in the western part of the district. He died on Aug 1, 1780 in Chester County, South Carolina.

EARLY LIFE

The exact date and place of Andrew Neel’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.

The available biographical record identifies Andrew Neel with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Andrew Neel died on Aug 1, 1780 in Chester County, South Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.

CAREER

DEATH

Andrew Neel is recorded as being killed during the Revolutionary fighting in the South Carolina backcountry on August 1, 1780. The supplied account identifies him with the Neel family and with militia leadership after the death of Colonel Thomas Neel. It also describes a pursuit of a Loyalist officer called Floyd during a period of raids and local reprisals. That setting supports a military death, but the precise engagement, wound and immediate sequence are not securely established here. A battle name or a detailed final exchange should not be added merely to make the narrative more dramatic. Much of the surviving description is genealogical and preserves relationships and offices more firmly than the last hours. The name also occurs within a family whose members served in the same conflict, so another Neel's death should not be transferred to him. The supported ending is a reported combat loss in Chester County in 1780, with the conventional date retained and the exact medical mechanism unknown. There is no dependable evidence of a long terminal illness or a period of hospital recovery before the death. His final activity belongs to the struggle between local Patriot and Loyalist forces rather than to an independently recorded private medical decline.

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MARKER

Attack on Rocky Mount Marker

Catawba Road, Fairfield County, South Carolina, 29055, USA

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POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES

Andrew Neel, the South Carolina Patriot colonel associated with the 1780 backcountry campaign. These are related military histories and reference. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.

1. The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May–July 1780 — Michael C. Scoggins. [Related campaign and biographical history] Find on Amazon

2. The Partisan War: The South Carolina Campaign of 1780–1782 — Russell F. Weigley. [Related campaign and biographical history] Find on Amazon

3. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas — John Buchanan. [Related campaign and biographical history] Find on Amazon

4. Thomas Sumter — Anne King Gregorie. [Related biography of his commander] Find on Amazon

5. The South Carolina Encyclopedia — Walter Edgar (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon

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