♀Ann (surname unknown)

Ann was the wife of Francis Wingfield Neal of Talbot County, Maryland, in the eighteenth century. She was, it seems, the fifth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Hannah Rachel Neal (1732–1816). She is known from two records. Her will, dated 27 April 1745 and proved on 10 May, names her children Samuel, Solomon, Forten, Hannah, Rachel and Jonathan Neall. A Talbot County register of deaths kept by the Quakers carries the entries “Wife of Francis Neall” and “Daughter to Francis & Ann Neall” and so gives her given name. The entry for her gives her death as 28 April 1745, at the age of 50; the register writes the month as the second, which the Quakers counted from March. Her surname is not known, and no record names her parents. A compiled family history calls Hannah the daughter of “Francis and Ann Ferrell Neal, who were Quakers”, but no record confirms the surname Ferrell.

Notes

The descent from her to Floyd Amatus Delahorne passes through John Dillahunty (1780–1830), whose descent from John Dillahunty (1750–1797) of Davidson County, Tennessee, is probable but not proved.