Davis Stockton

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Davis Stockton is said to have come from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s and to have settled first in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and in 1734 in Goochland, now Albemarle County, Virginia. He was given a grant of 400 acres of land in that county on 12 March 1739.
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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.
"Shields Family," Christine R. Brown, 1980, p 54.

Davis — Sarah. [Group Sheet]

Davis — Adam Godylouch. [Group Sheet]

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Richard Stockton obtained a grant of 400 acres in Albemarle County 23 July 1745 and later other grants in the same County. He made his will 21 July 1775 and it was proved October of the same year.
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genserv2, Cliff Manis
"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.
"Shields Genealogy", Mary O. Derrick Coleman, 1979.
"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15.

Richard married A. Agnes 1732, Goochland County, Virginia. A. was born Abt 1720; died Abt 1780. [Group Sheet]

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.

Thomas — Rachel Allen. Rachel (daughter of Samuel Allen and Martha Chapman) was buried Stockton Family Cemetery, Albemarle County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 54.

Samuel — Prudence. Prudence was buried Whiteside-Stockton Family Cemetery, Rutherford County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 54.

Hannah — Adam Goodylanch. [Group Sheet]

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.

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John Stockton signed the Albemarle Declaration of Independence.
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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 54.

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.
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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.
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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.

Jemima — Sharp. [Group Sheet]

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.

Elizabeth — Lockhart. [Group Sheet]

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genserv2, Cliff Manis
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Deborah — John McMahan. John (son of Robert McMahan and Joan) was born Abt 1731, Augusta County, Virginia; died 1784, Augusta County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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"The Shields Family," John Arthur Shields, 1917, p 7.
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 54.

Mourning — Wilkey. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 8S9C-HX

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Misty Spinelli
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 53.
Fred E. Clark, Jr., brewglas@netkonnect.net, 19 September 1999.

Nancy married Robert Shields 1761, Sevier County, Tennessee. Robert (son of John Shields and Margarette Perry) was born 9 Nov 1749, Harrisburg County, Virginia; died 18 Jan 1802; was buried Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Davis — Susannah. [Group Sheet]

Davis — Elizabeth Whiteside. Elizabeth was born Abt 1751; was buried Whiteside-Stockton Family Cemetery, Rutherford County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

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His first wife and four of his five children were massacered by Indians. One daughter survived the massacre and was taken captive by the Indians. Robert searched for her and found her and bought her back from the Indians. He remarried and started another family with is second wife.

http://www.pcahs.org/gems/GEMSV6N2.pdf
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Sande Gregg Parks,park8693@flash.net, 10 April 1999.

Robert married Margaret Clark Crab Orchard, Kentucky. Margaret was born 1769; died 26 Jan 1795; was buried 30 Jan 1795, McMahan Family Cemetery, Burksville, Monroe County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Robert — . Unknown [Group Sheet]

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Buried in Riverview Cemetery.
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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 18.
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 57.

Jennette married Joshua Tipton Abt 1785, , Sevier County, Tennessee. Joshua (son of John Tipton) died 18 Apr 1793. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 8S9C-K9

Notes:

Thomas Shields enlisted in the Revolutionary War under General John Sevier. On
7 October 1780, he fought at the Battle of King's Mountain. After being
mustered out he spent a year hunting and exploring in what is now the Great
Smoky Mouintains National Park. For nearly two years more he wandered through
the area of the mountains returning to his father's home in Sevier County,
Tennessee.

In 1795, Thomas and his two small sons were boiling sap in the sugar maple
orchard on Birch Creek when he was shot from ambush. Ordering his sons to run,
he rolled behind a log within reach of his rifle. He shot one of the Indians
before he was killed. Thomas was the only Shields son killed by Indians. His
death can be fixed fairly accurately by a newspaper clipping found in the Knox
Gazette dated 6 March 1797.

"Just as this paper was going to press we received information that Thos.
Shields was killed by Indians in Sevier County, They cut his head nearly off,
took out his bowells, otherwise shockingly cut and mangled him. The youth lived
with his parents Robert Shields and Nancy Shields at Upper Middle Creek section
of the County."
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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 18.
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 58.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 340.

Thomas married Rhonda 1783, , Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 8S9C-LG

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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 18.
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"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 59.

Richard married Abt 1783. Unknown [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 8S9C-MM

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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 19.
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"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 60.

David — . Unknown [Group Sheet]

David married Susan Edwards 1786. (daughter of Robert Edwards) [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 8S9B-Z7

Notes:

Williams children bitterly opposed his second marriage to his first wife's niece.
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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 19.
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 62, 63.

William married Margret Wilson 1789. Margret (daughter of Samuel Wilson) died 1813, Madison, Indiana. [Group Sheet]

William married Amanda Logan 10 Sep 1817, Logans Fort. Amanda (daughter of Ezkiel Logan) died Abt 1824. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 8S9C-NS

Notes:

John Shields was the gunsmith with the Lewis & Clark expedition to Oregon in 1804. He subsequently lived in southern Indiana and in Sevier County, Tennessee but little is known of his later life, or descendants.
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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 20.

This biography is from a paper by George H. Yater originally presented at the 1991 annual meeting of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation in Louisville and subsequently published in "Nine Young Men from Kentucky," a May 1992 supplementary publication of We Proceeded On, the official publication of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation

We are not sure when John Shields came to Kentucky. Work by earlier researchers shows that he was born near present-day Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1769, the sixth son of Robert and Nancy Stockson Shields, and one of ten brothers and a sister. Harrisonburg, by the way, located in the lovely Shenandoah Valley, is Louisville's twin city in the truest sense of the word. Both Harrisonburg and Louisville were given corporate life in a single act of the Virginia legislature in 1780.1

By then, young Shields was eleven years old. Shortly after, in 1784, the family emigrated to Pigeon Forge in the Tennessee foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Here he learned blacksmithing at a shop owned by a brother-in-law, Samuel Wilson, and also operated Wilson's grist mill. He was an apt pupil of blacksmithing and his skill proved unusually valuable to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.2

By 1790 he was in Kentucky and about that time married a girl named Nancy, family name unknown. The only reference I have been able to find to a John Shields locally is from a session of the County Court on November 8, 1797, when persons named to appraise the estate of a John Williams, deceased, included John Shields. Was he our man? Perhaps, but there is no way to be certain.3

In any event, he became a private soldier in the Expedition, even though Lewis had earlier called for only unmarried men. He was, at age 34, the oldest man in the party and was the blacksmith, gunsmith, and all-around mechanic. His work as blacksmith brought in badly needed corn during the winter sojourn of 1804-05 at Fort Mandan. On February 5, 1805, Meriwether Lewis noted in his journal that the party was "visited by the natives, who brought in a considerable quantity of corn for the work the blacksmith had done for them … They are peculiarly attached to a battle ax formed in a very inconvenient manner in my opinion, it is fabricated of iron only." There were several such entries. And on April 8, 1806, Clark noted that: "John Shields cut out my rifle and brought hir to shoot very well. The party owes much to the injinuity of this man, by whome their guns are repaired when they get out of order which is very often."

At the conclusion of the Expedition, Lewis wrote of Shields: "Has received the pay only of a private. Nothing was more peculiarly useful to us, in various situations, then the skill and ingenuity of this man as an artist, in repairing our guns, accroutements, &c. and should it be thought proper to allow him something as an artificer, he has well deserved it." There is no record that Lewis's suggestion was acted upon. Shields' skill as a hunter comes through the journals, as well. There are at least seventy references to his hunting accomplishments.4

As an acute observer of anything new that he had come across, Shields proved a "medicine man" to another Kentuckian on the Expedition-William Bratton. Bratton, as one of the saltmakers on the Pacific Coast, came down with back pains so acute that he could scarcely walk. On the return journey Bratton traveled by canoe or horseback. When the Expedition halted in present-day Idaho at "Camp Chopunnish" to wait for the snow to melt in the high Bitterroots, Shields suggested a treatment for Bratton. He said he had seen men with similar complaints cured by violent sweats.

Lewis detailed the process in his journal: Shields dug a circular hole four feet deep, lighted a fire to heat the surrounding earth, put in a seat and willow hoops across the top to hold blankets. Bratton was placed in the hole and given water to sprinkle on the hot earth to create steam. The steam and plunges into cold water cured the back pain. Lewis added that during the treatment Bratton was given "copious draughts" of a strong tea of horse mint. This was also Shields' idea and he told Lewis he had seen "Sinneca snake root" used when mint was not available.5

Following the Expedition's return, Shields spent a year trapping in Missouri with famed Kentuckian Daniel Boone, who was evidently related to him in some way. [Recent research places Shields back home by the spring of 1807.] Upon his return to the Falls of the Ohio area he spent some time with Daniel's lesser-known brother, Squire Boone, in Indiana-in what is now Harrison County some thirty miles west of Louisville. Shields died in December 1809 and is probably buried in the rather neglected Little Flock Baptist Church graveyard south of Corydon, Indiana, in Harrison County. I might note that Squire Boone was, among other things, a Baptist preacher and likely presided at Shields' burial. John and Nancy Shields were the parents of a daughter named Janette who married her cousin John Tipton, a man who became a power in Indiana politics.6


FOOTNOTES

1. Charles G. Clarke, The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-one Members (Glendale, Calif., Arthur H. Clark Co., 1970), 53.

2. Ibid., 53.

3. Jefferson County Minute Book 5:84, November 8, 1797.

4. Donald Jackson, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962), 367.

5. Lewis's Journal, May 24, 1806.

6. Clarke, Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 54.

John — Nancy. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 8S9C-P0

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In 1784 James accompanied his mother and father, and his sister and four
smaller brothers to the Yadkin Settlement in North Carolina. The next year he
helped to bring them on pack animals to Shields Fort in Sevier County,
Tennessee, via the Watauga and Traders Trail. In 1808, he settled in Indiana,
building his own Shields Fort on the present site of Seymour, Indiana.

James is buried in Riverview Cemetery by the side of his wife.
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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 20.
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"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 65.

James married Penelope White 1795. Penelope (daughter of Meady White and Sarah Mara "Mary" Raynor) was born Abt 1776; died Abt 1841; was buried Seymour, Indiana. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 8S9C-Q5
• Census: 1830, Sevier County, Tennessee

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Private Indiana Militia in War of 1812.
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Misty Spinelli
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 66.

Robert married Sabra S. White 1792. Sabra (daughter of Meady White and Sarah Mara "Mary" Raynor) was born Abt 1774, Tennessee; died Aft 16 Sep 1850. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: G15M-T0

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Joseph was severely wounded by a party of Cherokee Indians, near Sevierville,
Tennessee on 18 April 1793, at the time his brother-in-law Joshua Tipton was
killed. He lived in the vicinity of Sevier County, Tennessee until about 1808
when he removed to Indiana with his other brothers. He later settled in
Harrison County, Indiana.
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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 20.
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 66.

Joseph married Martha Veatch 22 Aug 1799, Sevier County, Tennessee. Martha (daughter of Nathan Veatch and Elizabeth Craig) was born 8 Mar 1781, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 1 Dec 1847, Fulton County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 8S9C-SH

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• AFN: G15N-BJ

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Buried in Little Flock Cemetery, near Elizabeth, Indiana.
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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 21.
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 67.

Benjamin married Mary Veatch 22 Aug 1799, Sevier County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Nathan Veatch and Elizabeth Craig) was born 27 Aug 1783, Sevier County, Tennessee; died Astoria, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 8S9C-TN

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"Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15.
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Jesse married Catherine Fox 1803. Catherine (daughter of John Fox) was born 26 Mar 1796; died 18 Jul 1877; was buried , Indiana. [Group Sheet]

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Buried in Old Cross Roads Cemetery about 12 miles from Mauckport, Indiana.
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"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 68.

Thomas — Nancy Pruett. Nancy was buried Whiteside-Stockton Family Cemetery, Rutherford County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]