1618–1639) was an English military officer and an explorer and colonial administrator in the territory of New England that later became New Hampshire.
In 1629 he was hired by Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason.
Gorges and Mason, who between them claimed most of the territory north of the mouth of the Merrimack River, formed the Laconia Company to explore the interior, and they hired Neale to do this exploration, as well as to administer Mason's "lower" plantations on the Piscataqua River (on the coastline of present-day New Hampshire).
He led exploratory expeditions as far as the White Mountains in the interior of New Hampshire, but never located the "Lake of the Iroquois" that his employers believed to exist.
In 1634 King Charles I gave him command of the artillery park in London, and he was soon after appointed muster master of the city militia.