The Shields of VA, TN, MO, CA, OR, WA:Information about John Shields
John Shields (b. 1709, d. 1772)
Notes for John Shields:
Robert moved to Tennessee, and the other brothers moved to VA, NC, and PA.
Information from G. Ronald Hurd of Vienna, VA, and letter to Walter Davidson from Ila and Oliver Shields of Veneta, OR (1 May 1983).
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[Donald C. Shields.FTW]
In the name of God, Amen. The twentieth-third day of January 1772: John Shields of
Augusta [VA], freeholder, being very weak of body but of perfect mind and memory, Thanks be given unto God, therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principly and first of all I give and recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the Disposition of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God, and is touching such worldly estate where with it has pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form,--
First, I give and bequeath to Margaret, my dearly beloved wife, is to have her vittels and Drinck and the House wee Live in and the Belled cow and the Brindled cow and four ewes and her bed and two calfs, not to be leaved off this estate as her last request til her death.
I give to my son, John, the half of the estate he now possesses and a Ewe and Lamb; also to my son, Thomas, I give this estate I now live on, by him to be possessed and enjoyed, and a Cow and hepher with Calve and a Black and White Hepher; also is to ansuier [insure] all Debts or Demands Legally Due on the said Estate; also to my son, Robert, I give a Cow and Hepher and a Ewe and Lamb; and to my daughter, Marrey, I give thirty pounds to be paid to her by my son, Thomas, in the space of two years and her Horse and her Cow and two Sheepe;
and I also constitute and appoint and ordain Thomas Shields [brother] and my son, William Shields, and William Hays my sole Executors of this last Will and Testament, and I do Here by utterly Disallow, Revoke, and Disannul all and every other Testaments, Wills, Ligacees, Bequests, and Executors by me in any ways before named, willed, and bequested satisfying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have here unto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above written.
Signed, Sealed, published, pronounced, and declared by the said John Shields as his last will and Testament in the Presence of us, the Subscribers. John Shields[his mark], John Shields, Thomas Shields, William Shields, William Hays
Following is the codicil to the John Shields will:
Be it known to all Men by these presents that I, John Shields of Augusta, freeholder, have made and declared my last Will and Testament in writing having date the Twentieth Fourth January 1772. I, the Said John Shields, by this present Codicil, do ratify and confirm my said last Will and Testament and do give and bequeath unto my son William the other half of that estate where my son John now Lives in Securety until he be Paid the money he has laid out for it, and the Said half Estate be valued as Sold and he paid his money----I also give to my beloved wife the half of the remainder of the other half I give to my son Robert to be Paid by my Executors and my Will and meaning is that this Codicil be ajudged to be apart and parcel of my last Will and Testament and that all things therein mentioned and contained be Faithfully and truly performed and as fully and amply in every respect as if the Same Were So. Declared and set down in my Said last Will and Testamentwitness my hand this Twentieth fourth Day of January 1772.
John Shields
Court Records, Augusta Co., VA, p. 199, 15th March, 1774.--Recorded. Appraisement of John Shields's estate by Robert Christian, Robert Wilson, Mathew Thompson, Thomas Shields.
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Chalkey's CHRONICLES OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH SETTLEMENT IN VIRGINIA, Vol. 1, Augusta County, VA Court Records, Order Book No. XX, p. 439 for December 26, 1787 orders "To John Tate for an inquest on the body of John Shields." [This could not be John Shields, son of James, as he did not die until 1802.]
William Hathaway's (1790) "History of the Shields Family" depicted the future for the descendants of John Shields: "Uncle John's children scattered. One lived in Pennsylvania. One went to North Carolina. One went to Boone's settlement in Frankland [the state of; now Tennessee] a few years ago. Some of them still live in Virginia.
Sources: Bob Felton's "Spokane Felton Ancestry - Listing Families: Shields (327), Felton (169), Fitzrandolph (140), Punneo (130), Clay (103)" citing Misty Spinelli; Judge Noble K. Littel (1992),"Kin of My Grandchildren, Vol. III," p. 9, 11-12; Christine B. Brown (February, 1980), "Shields Family," p. 46; Broderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #5116--Date of Import: March 6, 1997.
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The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-One Members and a Composite Diary of their Activities from all Known Sources (Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1970), 37-61.
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11. PRIVATE JOHN COLTER (COALTER; COULTER).
Born about 1774, near Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. He was a son of Joseph and Ellen (Shields) Colter and a grandson of Micajah Coalter. When he was about five years old, his parents moved to Maysville, Kentucky. John spent his boyhood in Maysville and as a young man he probably served as a Ranger under Simon Kenton.
He was five feet ten inches tall; rather shy; had blue eyes; an open pleasing countenance; was quick minded, courageous and a fine hunter. He was recruited by Captain Lewis at Maysville on October 15, 1803 - one of the "Nine young men from Kentucky" a nd a permanent member of the expedition. He was trusted with many special missions while with the party.
When the expedition was enroute home, Colter was honorably discharged on August 13, 1806. He returned to the Yellowstone with Forest Handcock and Joseph Dickson, free trappers from Missouri and Illinois. Colter had probably known both men during his Maysville days. The partnership with Handcock and Dickson lasted only some six weeks, for a falling out had occurred. Colter and Handcock returned to the Mandans during October 1806, and they spent the winter there. In the spring of 1807, Colter started for St. Louis alone, and by July he was at the mouth of the Platte River when he encountered, and joined, Manuel Lisa's trapping party bound for the Yellowstone. They arrived there in October 1807, and Lisa immediately dispatched Colter to the Crow Indians then on the Bighorn River. During 1808-1809, Colter trapped the area around the Stinking Water (Shoshoni) River.
By May 1809, Colter had returned to St. Louis. He sold his military warrant for land, probably to the land speculator, John G. Comegys. Colter soon signed up with Andrew Henry whose trapping expedition was headed for the upper
More About John Shields and Margaret Perry:
Marriage: Bef. 1734964
Children of John Shields and Margaret Perry are:
- John Shields, b. Abt. 1734964, d. Abt. 1800964.
- William Shields, b. Abt. 1736964, d. Abt. 1800964.
- Thomas Shields, b. Abt. 1738, d. Abt. 1770.
- +Robert Shields, b. November 09, 1740, Albemarle County, Virginia965, 966, d. January 18, 1802, site of the old Shields Fort, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee967.
- Mary Shields, b. Abt. 1742967, d. Abt. 1810967.