James Shields 
James was born on March 10th, 1770 in Augusta Co., Virginia. James' father was Robert Shields and his mother was Nancy Stockton. His paternal grandparents were John Shields and Margaret Perry. He had nine brothers and a sister, named Thomas, Richard, David, William, John, Robert, Joseph, Benjamin, Jesse and Janet. He was the fifth youngest of the eleven children. He died at the age of 77 on February 2nd, 1848 in Seymour, Indiana.General Notes
Sixth of the Ten Brothers. According to John A. Shields, went to Indiana
in 1808 and established a fort at the present site of Seymour.
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 bring them back on pack animals to Shields Fort in Sevier
County, Tennessee, traveling by way of the Watauga and Traders Trail.
John A. Shields tells that in 1784, James, then 13, accompanied his
mother, sister and four smaller brothers to the Yadkin settlement in
North Carolina The next year, he brought them on pack animals to Shields
fort in Tennessee via the Watauga and Traders Trails.
In 1808, with his sister Janet Tipton, he settled in Indiana, building
his own Shields Fort on the present site of Seymour, Indiana. He acquired
several thousand acres in the area.
His wife was Penelope White, a niece of James White, the founder of
Knoxville, Tennessee and cousin of Congressman Hugh Lawson White, who had
been a presidential candidate.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1600 in County Antrim, Ireland d.1655 in County Armagh, Ireland
- b.1633 in County Armagh, Ireland d.1712 in Newcastle, Delaware
- b.1668 in Kent Co., Maryland d.1741 in Augusta Co., Virginia
- b.1709 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania d.Jan 1772 in Harrisburg, Virginia
- b.1668 d.> 1741
- b.04 Jul 1744 in Harrisburg, Virginia d.18 Jan 1802 in Sevier Co., Tennessee
- b.21 Oct 1710 d.Wft Est 1747-1805
- b.10 Mar 1770 in Augusta Co., Virginia d.02 Feb 1848 in Seymour, Indiana
- b.1745 in Albemarle Co., Virginia d. in Sevier Co., Tennessee
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James and Penelope were married in a religious ceremony in 1795 in Sevier Co., Tennessee.
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