In the early morning light of July 16, 1794, retired Brigadier General John Neville, recently named regional tax inspector for the western district of Pennsylvania, found himself surrounded.  Several dozen armed men, some former Revolutionary war veterans who were part of the local Mingo Creek militia, demanded that Neville turn over a federal marshal who they suspected he was housing.  Unbeknownst to the armed protestors, the U.S. Marshall they were seeking—the same one they believed had been in the area issuing writs to area distillers who had yet to pay their taxes—was not on Neville’s Bower Hill Plantation property.