Samuel Neale (1729-1792) was a renowned Quaker minister [1].
He was born in Dublin on 9 November 1729, son of Thomas and Martha Neale. His mother died when he was about six, after which his father went to reside in America.
About the age of 18 he was placed apprentice in Dublin, where he spent several dissipated years. In his twenty-second year he was deeply impressed by the preaching of Catherine Peyton and Mary Peisley at Cork and decided to become a Quaker minister. In 1752, he accompanied William Brown, an American Friend, on a journey through Ireland, England, Holland and Germany. In 1753, he moved to Rathangan, near Edenderry, King's County.
He married the minister Mary Peisley on 17 May 1757, but she was carried away by a sudden illness after only three days. Three years later, on 8 June 1760, he married Sarah Beale and they settled in the city of Cork.
Over the coming years, he visited England and Wales on numerous occasions, as well as Scotland at least once. In August 1770, he sailed for America, accompanied by Joseph Oxley. He travelled on horseback to most of the meetings in Philadelphia, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, East and West Jersey, New England and New York, and returned to Cork on 16 September 1772.
He died at Springmount, near Cork, on 27 February 1792, and was buried in the Friends' burial-ground there on 2 March, having been a minister forty years.
"He was generally and much beloved; benevolent, helpful, and kind; an affectionate husband and a sincere sympathising friend."[2][3][4]
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