(4331.) ALICE HIATT (2345.) (845.) (228.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
m. NATE WILSON. (R70).
(4332.) TOM HIATT (2345.) (845.) (228.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
m. JENNIE POWERS. (R70).
Settled in Williamsburg, VA. A great Great Grand-daughter was the grandmother of the 10th president of the US, President Tyler. According to Broderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #5116, William and his brother James were transported in 1655 for being loyal to the King. They were sent to Barbados. In 1658, they got on a boat to Williamsburg, Virginia. Subsequently settled in Maryland. John A. Shields says William settled at Williamsburg. There is little information on William, but considerable information on his descendants in the records of Bruton Chapel Church at Williamsburg.
Judge Littell reports William was a tavern keeper.
Some sources have said James and William came from Barbados to Virginia on a cattle boat. One source says it was a chattel boat--a slave ship. The same source says James and William came together to Williamsburg, but James did not remain, going to Baltimore before 1660 and then to Kent County. James later moved his family to New Castle County, Delaware. It was there that William married Jeanette Parker.
Three years later, Thomas Parker, Jeanette's father, who died in 1695, left property to James.
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The two brothers, William and James, were deported from Ireland to Barbados by Oliver Cromwell in 1655 for being loyal to the Crown (King Charles I). In 1658, they obtained passage to Williamsburg, VA and soon after settled in MD.
Selected History of the Shields Family Dr. Martin L. Skubinna, Ph.D. The major Shields family in America is chiefly of Irish origin and can probably lay claim to having ancestry in Ireland dating back to the time of the initial Celtic Invasions --- sometime between 500 and 1000 B.C. As one member of the Shields family from Georgia expressed it, "we Sheilds' are Irish, nothing but Irish, and damn proud of it. There is no family any better, and very few as good." Irish Orginas The original migrating generations of the Shields family to America appears to have een the sons of a family member who lived at the turn of the 17th century in County Atrim, Ireland. County Antrim is "on the shores of Lough Neagh", adjacent to Belfast, and the largest lake in the British Isles. William Shields, born at some time between 1590 and 1600, fathered four sons of whom we have record. He may well have fathered daughters as well, but we know only of the sons - as many genealogical records from this period often mention female offspring only in passing or omit them entirely. These were: William (born 1630); Daniel and John (born apparently in the early 1640's and presumed by other circumstances to have been significantly younger than the two older Shields sons). Exile The two elder Shields offspring seem to have been involved in the roundups and deportation of young Irish men during the Commonwealth Period (1653-1659) under Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Their principal offense was the fact that they were Irish. Accounts report the family was greatly harassed, and younger sons were kept in concealment for much of their youth. This suggests that, for whatever reasons, the Shield's were in particular disfavor with Cromwell and the "Roundheads."
Family historians and tradition hold that these two older Shields brothers, William and James, were both exiled while in their early twenties to Barbados in the West Indies. At this time, during the middle of 17th Century, Barbados was an important British trading center and had a greater European population than the entire North American mainland. How they survived their exile we do not know, but family history is agreed that within less than two years they managed to take passage via a slave ship to Virginia, arriving around 1655 at Middle Plantation, the site of present-day Williamsburg.
The Subsequent histories of these two SHIELDS brothers is extensively chronicled, chiefly in books by the late John Arthur Shields, the late John Edgar Shields, and other descendant members of the resultant family lines. Other accounts exist which connect these two Shields immigrants with the two younger sons of William 1600, the youngest of whom, John Shields (ca 1640), was the progenitor of the line which is the subject of this compilation. To treat with their careers and descent in a very summary manner:
William Shields (1630) A few years after the arrival of the two Shields brothers to Middle Plantation, James migrated northward to the port of Baltimore. He subsequently located in Kent Co, MD. William, meanwhile, remained in Wiliamsburg. William became the owner and operator of Shields Ordinary, a noted inn and tavern of the day. The tavern is noted occasionally in constabulary records, as one assumes for occasional breaches of the peace. Shields Tavern has been restored within the past two decades as one of Colonial Wiliamsburg's historical points of interest and informal dining establishments, and has become a popular stop on tours of the restoration. William became the progenitor of a lengthy family line. Later generations migrated elsewhere in Virginia, to the river settlements in North Carolina, and ultimately into Indiana Territory around 1800. Various genealogical works treat with the resultant lines, which, collectively, are sometimes referred to as "The Wiliamsburg line." Among prominent Americans in this branch of the family were President John Tyler, and William Tyler Page.
James Shields From a Malthusian standpoint, James Shields was probably responsible for a greater portion of the Shields family in America than any other member of an immigrant generation. His own descent is not fully known, but included a son, William, born in 1668 at Kent County, Maryland. He died in 1741, at Augusta, Virginia, while helping one of his sons build a cabin. This William Shields married Jeanette Parker and fathered five children; James "The Cordwainer" Shields, Jane Shields (did not marry), Thomas Shields, Eliza Shields (Hathaway), and John Shields (born in 1709). The three sons migrated to Augusta County, Virginia and became major landowners, farmers, surveyors, and shoemaker/leatherworkers (cordwainer) in the Beverly Manor portion of the huge Borden Tract which included among his children a Robert Shields (1740) who married Nancy Stockton. This family, which later migrated father south in present day Pigeon Forge, consisted of ten sons and a daughter. Known as the "family of the Ten Brothers," all lived to maturity and fathered what inmost instances were large families. Many of the Ten Brothers migrated to Indiana Territory about 1800. Among this group were David "Big Dave" Shields, a man of great strength and equally great compassion. In his later years he was active in the Underground Railway, helping slaves escape to freedom in the North. Another of the Ten Brothers was John Shields, official scout and gunsmith of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Ten Brothers family built Shields Fort on Middle Creek in Sevier County, Tennessee, at the foot of Shields Mountain.
Major William Shields William Shields was the son of the John Shields who died on the Ocean voyage to America. He was born in County Armagh on July 14, 1728. Certain basic particulars of his early life and emigration to America were written in a family Bible presented to William Shields II, in January 1796 and subsequently given by him to his daughter, Jane Shields Hunter, and comprise a basic family history of this line.
A note of orthography is in order. The spelling of most English words did not become standardized in the language until the appearance of Noah Webster's first dictionary in the early 19th century. Both common and proper nouns, in particular, were spelled in widely variant ways. In William Shield's hand written will, he spells his own family name three different ways. In consequence, until roughly the mid nineteenth century, spelling variations in teh family name did not necessarily denote different family lines, but simply the inconsistancy which characterized much of the spelling during ealier periods.
The wording of the above Bible account suggest that William arrived in America by himself. But this does not appear to be the case. He was, indeed, an orphan hood was then defined - The loss of a father - but so were his sister(s) and brother(s) as well. The Bible account, written some 60 years after the event, was focused on William Shields, not the other memebers of his family. There is substantial record which strongly suggests that hismother, one or more sisters, as well as at least one, and probably several older brothers were also part of the immigrant party. There was a James SHields associated with William Shields during the early years of the American Revolution hwo clearly was not his son, James (although both sons, James and John did serve with their father), but was quite possibly his older brother. A second probable brother was named David, who married Nesbitt, and concerning whom a genealogical record exists which suggests a family connection with William.
Profession By profession, William Shields was a surveyor who, his role, if any, in helping William Emmit lay out his new town is lost in history. What we do know is that in 1787 he purchased 106 acres just to the west of William's new town, upon the northern tip of which he laid out what became known as Shield;s Addition to Emmitsburg.
With his wife, the Welsh widow Jane Williams Bentley, daughter of John Williams, William fathered eleven children over a 28 year period, all born at the family plantation south and west of the town of Emmittsburg. The area comprised what was in the mid eighteenth century the Appalachian frontier. During the French and Indian War period, it was an area not unknown to Indian raids -formented by the French - on the Frederick County settlers.
Revolutionary War Service By the outbreak of the American Revolution, William's older sons had reached adulthood, and several (John and James to our certain knowledge, and possibly one or more others) served with him in the Frederick County Military Company which he organized and commanded as a Captain. His later Revolutionary career included service with the Continental Army as a Major in a regiment organized by a member of the prominent Maryland Goldsborough family.
Major Shields is believed to have participated in several important early engagements of hte Revolutionary War, most notably the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, Long Island on August 27th, 1776 and the Battle of White Plains, New York on October 28th, 1776. During these confrontations, his company served in the Continental Line under direct command of General George Washington during the period of his majority in the later stages of the war.
Death, Will and Estate
In the 1780's and 1790's, a number of William's children began to migrate to East Tennessee, where they joined a number of their cousins who were descended from James (1633), the Cromwell deportee. By 1797, the year of William's death at the age of 69, only the youngest few of his children appear still to have been at home. William's will and estate inventory, as well as Maryland land records in Annapolis, indicate a substantial and comfortable lifestyle that was exceptional on the frontier. His possessions included a number of books, chiefly religious and cartographic in nature, a copper still, many furnishings and personal possessions; and seven slaves, whom he bequeathed to his wife and older sons.
In a message dated 9/12/2011 7:59:47 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, rickrussell@att.net writes:
First name I notice is Stockton. W F. Stockton witnessed the marriage bond of my Davs Clinard.
I attached a file on the Clinards. Keep in mind it is not complte, and not all of it is confirmed, so it is not gospel. My line is noton it since I don't know yet where it is attaches.
Marriage Notes for William Shields and Miss -86876
Line in Record @F0066@ (MRIN 30239) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
Settled in Williamsburg, VA. A great Great Grand-daughter was the grandmother of the 10th president of the US, President Tyler. According to Broderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #5116, William and his brother James were transported in 1655 for being loyal to the King. They were sent to Barbados. In 1658, they got on a boat to Williamsburg, Virginia. Subsequently settled in Maryland. John A. Shields says William settled at Williamsburg. There is little information on William, but considerable information on his descendants in the records of Bruton Chapel Church at Williamsburg.
Judge Littell reports William was a tavern keeper.
Some sources have said James and William came from Barbados to Virginia on a cattle boat. One source says it was a chattel boat--a slave ship. The same source says James and William came together to Williamsburg, but James did not remain, going to Baltimore before 1660 and then to Kent County. James later moved his family to New Castle County, Delaware. It was there that William married Jeanette Parker.
Three years later, Thomas Parker, Jeanette's father, who died in 1695, left property to James.
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The two brothers, William and James, were deported from Ireland to Barbados by Oliver Cromwell in 1655 for being loyal to the Crown (King Charles I). In 1658, they obtained passage to Williamsburg, VA and soon after settled in MD.
Selected History of the Shields Family Dr. Martin L. Skubinna, Ph.D. The major Shields family in America is chiefly of Irish origin and can probably lay claim to having ancestry in Ireland dating back to the time of the initial Celtic Invasions --- sometime between 500 and 1000 B.C. As one member of the Shields family from Georgia expressed it, "we Sheilds' are Irish, nothing but Irish, and damn proud of it. There is no family any better, and very few as good." Irish Orginas The original migrating generations of the Shields family to America appears to have een the sons of a family member who lived at the turn of the 17th century in County Atrim, Ireland. County Antrim is "on the shores of Lough Neagh", adjacent to Belfast, and the largest lake in the British Isles. William Shields, born at some time between 1590 and 1600, fathered four sons of whom we have record. He may well have fathered daughters as well, but we know only of the sons - as many genealogical records from this period often mention female offspring only in passing or omit them entirely. These were: William (born 1630); Daniel and John (born apparently in the early 1640's and presumed by other circumstances to have been significantly younger than the two older Shields sons). Exile The two elder Shields offspring seem to have been involved in the roundups and deportation of young Irish men during the Commonwealth Period (1653-1659) under Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Their principal offense was the fact that they were Irish. Accounts report the family was greatly harassed, and younger sons were kept in concealment for much of their youth. This suggests that, for whatever reasons, the Shield's were in particular disfavor with Cromwell and the "Roundheads."
Family historians and tradition hold that these two older Shields brothers, William and James, were both exiled while in their early twenties to Barbados in the West Indies. At this time, during the middle of 17th Century, Barbados was an important British trading center and had a greater European population than the entire North American mainland. How they survived their exile we do not know, but family history is agreed that within less than two years they managed to take passage via a slave ship to Virginia, arriving around 1655 at Middle Plantation, the site of present-day Williamsburg.
The Subsequent histories of these two SHIELDS brothers is extensively chronicled, chiefly in books by the late John Arthur Shields, the late John Edgar Shields, and other descendant members of the resultant family lines. Other accounts exist which connect these two Shields immigrants with the two younger sons of William 1600, the youngest of whom, John Shields (ca 1640), was the progenitor of the line which is the subject of this compilation. To treat with their careers and descent in a very summary manner:
William Shields (1630) A few years after the arrival of the two Shields brothers to Middle Plantation, James migrated northward to the port of Baltimore. He subsequently located in Kent Co, MD. William, meanwhile, remained in Wiliamsburg. William became the owner and operator of Shields Ordinary, a noted inn and tavern of the day. The tavern is noted occasionally in constabulary records, as one assumes for occasional breaches of the peace. Shields Tavern has been restored within the past two decades as one of Colonial Wiliamsburg's historical points of interest and informal dining establishments, and has become a popular stop on tours of the restoration. William became the progenitor of a lengthy family line. Later generations migrated elsewhere in Virginia, to the river settlements in North Carolina, and ultimately into Indiana Territory around 1800. Various genealogical works treat with the resultant lines, which, collectively, are sometimes referred to as "The Wiliamsburg line." Among prominent Americans in this branch of the family were President John Tyler, and William Tyler Page.
James Shields From a Malthusian standpoint, James Shields was probably responsible for a greater portion of the Shields family in America than any other member of an immigrant generation. His own descent is not fully known, but included a son, William, born in 1668 at Kent County, Maryland. He died in 1741, at Augusta, Virginia, while helping one of his sons build a cabin. This William Shields married Jeanette Parker and fathered five children; James "The Cordwainer" Shields, Jane Shields (did not marry), Thomas Shields, Eliza Shields (Hathaway), and John Shields (born in 1709). The three sons migrated to Augusta County, Virginia and became major landowners, farmers, surveyors, and shoemaker/leatherworkers (cordwainer) in the Beverly Manor portion of the huge Borden Tract which included among his children a Robert Shields (1740) who married Nancy Stockton. This family, which later migrated father south in present day Pigeon Forge, consisted of ten sons and a daughter. Known as the "family of the Ten Brothers," all lived to maturity and fathered what inmost instances were large families. Many of the Ten Brothers migrated to Indiana Territory about 1800. Among this group were David "Big Dave" Shields, a man of great strength and equally great compassion. In his later years he was active in the Underground Railway, helping slaves escape to freedom in the North. Another of the Ten Brothers was John Shields, official scout and gunsmith of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Ten Brothers family built Shields Fort on Middle Creek in Sevier County, Tennessee, at the foot of Shields Mountain.
Major William Shields William Shields was the son of the John Shields who died on the Ocean voyage to America. He was born in County Armagh on July 14, 1728. Certain basic particulars of his early life and emigration to America were written in a family Bible presented to William Shields II, in January 1796 and subsequently given by him to his daughter, Jane Shields Hunter, and comprise a basic family history of this line.
A note of orthography is in order. The spelling of most English words did not become standardized in the language until the appearance of Noah Webster's first dictionary in the early 19th century. Both common and proper nouns, in particular, were spelled in widely variant ways. In William Shield's hand written will, he spells his own family name three different ways. In consequence, until roughly the mid nineteenth century, spelling variations in teh family name did not necessarily denote different family lines, but simply the inconsistancy which characterized much of the spelling during ealier periods.
The wording of the above Bible account suggest that William arrived in America by himself. But this does not appear to be the case. He was, indeed, an orphan hood was then defined - The loss of a father - but so were his sister(s) and brother(s) as well. The Bible account, written some 60 years after the event, was focused on William Shields, not the other memebers of his family. There is substantial record which strongly suggests that hismother, one or more sisters, as well as at least one, and probably several older brothers were also part of the immigrant party. There was a James SHields associated with William Shields during the early years of the American Revolution hwo clearly was not his son, James (although both sons, James and John did serve with their father), but was quite possibly his older brother. A second probable brother was named David, who married Nesbitt, and concerning whom a genealogical record exists which suggests a family connection with William.
Profession By profession, William Shields was a surveyor who, his role, if any, in helping William Emmit lay out his new town is lost in history. What we do know is that in 1787 he purchased 106 acres just to the west of William's new town, upon the northern tip of which he laid out what became known as Shield;s Addition to Emmitsburg.
With his wife, the Welsh widow Jane Williams Bentley, daughter of John Williams, William fathered eleven children over a 28 year period, all born at the family plantation south and west of the town of Emmittsburg. The area comprised what was in the mid eighteenth century the Appalachian frontier. During the French and Indian War period, it was an area not unknown to Indian raids -formented by the French - on the Frederick County settlers.
Revolutionary War Service By the outbreak of the American Revolution, William's older sons had reached adulthood, and several (John and James to our certain knowledge, and possibly one or more others) served with him in the Frederick County Military Company which he organized and commanded as a Captain. His later Revolutionary career included service with the Continental Army as a Major in a regiment organized by a member of the prominent Maryland Goldsborough family.
Major Shields is believed to have participated in several important early engagements of hte Revolutionary War, most notably the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, Long Island on August 27th, 1776 and the Battle of White Plains, New York on October 28th, 1776. During these confrontations, his company served in the Continental Line under direct command of General George Washington during the period of his majority in the later stages of the war.
Death, Will and Estate
In the 1780's and 1790's, a number of William's children began to migrate to East Tennessee, where they joined a number of their cousins who were descended from James (1633), the Cromwell deportee. By 1797, the year of William's death at the age of 69, only the youngest few of his children appear still to have been at home. William's will and estate inventory, as well as Maryland land records in Annapolis, indicate a substantial and comfortable lifestyle that was exceptional on the frontier. His possessions included a number of books, chiefly religious and cartographic in nature, a copper still, many furnishings and personal possessions; and seven slaves, whom he bequeathed to his wife and older sons.
In a message dated 9/12/2011 7:59:47 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, rickrussell@att.net writes:
First name I notice is Stockton. W F. Stockton witnessed the marriage bond of my Davs Clinard.
I attached a file on the Clinards. Keep in mind it is not complte, and not all of it is confirmed, so it is not gospel. My line is noton it since I don't know yet where it is attaches.
John Edgar Shields: The second wife of William the immigrant was a widow, Mary Norcott-Mason, whom he married when he was 65 years of age. Mary, of English ancestry, had been born in 1668 and was thus 38 years younger than her second husband. She had three children by her first husband, Richard Mason, whom she had married in 1690: Ruth (b. 1691) and two other children who died young. Following Mary's marriage to William Shields the immigrant, she gave birth on April 16, 1696 to twins, a son named Delight and a daughter named Comfort. The daughter died unmarried. William the immigrant died in 1699. After William's death, his widow and her children moved to Accomac County, Virginia, where Delight Shields, William's son, married Jerusha Stalker of Kent County, Maryland, in l719. That same year their son John Shields was born; in 1747 he married Mary Chipman, a Mayflower descendant. John and Mary had three children, Abel (b. 1746), Reuben (b. 1750) and Elizabeth or Perusia (b. 1753).
Continuing from JES: To follow this selective line of descent a generation or two further, John's son Abel, born in Sussex County, Delaware, married Grace Freeman in 1773. At some time in the late 1770s or early 1780s, Abel's family settled in Rowan County, North Carolina on the Yadkin River. Many Quakers and Baptists from Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, including some of the Stalkers and Lewellings from Kent County and some of the Shields[es] from Rockingham County, emigrated to the so-called "Yadkin Settlements" between 1760 and 1780, seeking religious tolerance and relief from burdensome taxation. Also, at about this time, several Coffin families from Nantucket Island, Mass. settled in North Carolina. The most important Quaker-Baptist settlement was in western Guilford County, some 40 miles northeast of Rowan County, and evidently the Abel Shields family later moved there, as the deaths of both Abel and his wife, Grace, are recorded at Kemersville, N. C. He died May 7, 1833; she died May 20, 1830. They had nine children: John (b. 1775), Mary (b. 1776), Sarah (b. 1779), Elizabeth (b. 1781), Rachel, b. 1783), Ann (b. 1786), Reuben (b. 1788), Deborah (b. 1789) and Grace (b. 1793).
Marriage Notes for William Shields and Mary NORCOTT-86898
Line in Record @F0098@ (MRIN 30240) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
Comfort died unmarried.