General John Neville served in the French and Indian War in Dunmore's War and in the Revolutionary War. He was socially prominent and one of the wealthiest men in town. His political feud with Hugh Henry Brackenridge is known well in Pittsburgh history. Neville had moved from Virginia to the Chartiers Valley outside Pittsburgh around 1775. During the Revolution, Neville outfitted a troop of militia at his personal expense and headed east to fight at Washington's side. In 1780, Neville was taken prisoner along with his son Presley. He was awarded the rank of Brigadier General at the end of the war in recognition of his patriotism and bravery and he returned to the region as a hero. When the whiskey excise tax was passed in 1791, Neville was a member of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives. Perhaps more than any other single factor, it was General John Neville's unbending will that lit the tinder box which flared into the Whiskey Rebellion. General Neville was the proprietor of two Collier Township homes. "Bower Hill," burned in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and "Woodville," a National Historic Landmark. Neville's daughter Amelia married Major Isaac Craig (died May 14, 1826) another Revolutionary veteran who acted at various times as quartermaster, river operator and military engineer and who was partner with James O'Hara in the pioneering glassworks venture of 1797