John Neville was an American military officer, land speculator, local official, and slave owner, who served in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War and the American Revolutionary War. As an e
Woodville, Neville's initial home near Pittsburgh, built during the late 1770s
The Whiskey Rebellion 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 impo
John Neville (general)
…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. Neville's parents were Joseph Neville Sr. (son of John Neville and Elizabeth Bohannan) and Ann Bohannan of Gloucester County, Virginia. According to…
George Washington reviews the troops near Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
Alexander Hamilton in a 1792 portrait by John Trumbull
Artist's conception of an American whiskey still in the 1790s, as illustrated in an 1887 history book (Scribner's Popular History of the United States).
Pittsburgh in 1790, engraving from a watercolor by Lewis Brantz (University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections)