Robert Shields

1749 - 1802  (52 years)

• Name	Robert Shields
  Born	9 Nov 1749	Harrisburg County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  AFN	8S9C-GR
  Died	18 Jan 1802
  Buried	Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee   [1]
  Person ID	I9099	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	26 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	John Shields,   b. 1709, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1772, Augusta County, Virginia  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Margarette Perry,   b. 21 Oct 1710
  Family ID	F3363	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Nancy Stockton,   b. Abt 1749,   bur. Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Married	1761	Sevier County, Tennessee
  Children	+ 1. Jennette Shields,   b. 7 Mar 1762, Botetourt County, Virginia ,   d. 17 Feb 1827, Seymour, Indiana  (Age 64 years) + 2. Thomas Shields,   b. 1763, Augusta County, Virginia ,   d. 4 Mar 1797, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age 34 years) + 3. Richard Shields,   b. 4 Jul 1764, Rockingham County, Virginia + 4. David Shields,   b. 1766, Rockingham County, Virginia ,   d. Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee + 5. William Shields,   b. 4 Jul 1768, Augusta County, Virginia ,   d. 24 May 1817, Washington County, Indiana  (Age 48 years) + 6. John Shields,   b. 1769, Augusta County, Virginia ,   d. 1809  (Age 40 years) + 7. James Shields,   b. 10 Mar 1770, Augusta County, Virginia ,   d. 2 Feb 1848  (Age 77 years) + 8. Robert Shields,   b. 1772, Harrisburg, Augusta County, Virginia ,   d. 1835, Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age 63 years) + 9. Joseph Shields,   b. 17 Mar 1773, Shenandoah, Augusta, Virginia ,   d. 28 May 1847, Fulton County, Illinois  (Age 74 years)   10. Ezeziel Shields,   b. 1778 + 11. Benjamin Shields,   b. Abt 1779, Rockingham County, Virginia ,   d. 10 May 1819, Harrison County, Indiana  (Age ~ 40 years) + 12. Jesse Shields,   b. 10 Mar 1782, Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia ,   d. Mauckport, Indiana   13. Joshua Shields,   b. 10 Mar 1782, Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia ,   d. 16 Sep 1848  (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F3362	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Married - 1761 - Sevier County, Tennessee Buried - - Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Private in Francis Lang's Company and officer in the Revolutionary War. Came to Sevier County, Tennessee in 1784 and built Shields Fort in Sevier County, Tennessee in 1794. ---------- Reference:"Shields Genealogy", Mary O. Derrick Coleman, 1979. "Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 12, 15. "Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 53.

  
  

• Sources

  [S34] In the Shadow of the Smokies, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, (1993), 310.