1792 The will of Smith Fields was dated on March 15 in Anson County. The will named sons James, John, and Micajah and daughters Celia and Elizabeth and wife Elizabeth. [1] [2] [3]
1808 James and John Fields petitioned the state legislature (of North Carolina) to be renumerated for services rendered in the militia service in the last war - Referred to the committee on military land warrants. [4]
1809 James Fields was granted 100 acres of land on the S.W. side of Island Creek on June 3. [5] [6]
1812 David Jernigan of Anson county, North Carolina sold land to James Fields on February 19. The land was on the west side of the Pee Dee River. Perhaps David and James were the spouses of Mercy Hinson and Sally Hinson, respectively. [7]
1813 James Field received a land grant on November 24, 1813 in Anson County, North Carolina. [8]
c 1816 James Fields died. The dates in a deed suggest that James Fields died about 1816-1817.
1817 Thomas Godfrey sold an enslaved person named Dick (age about 18) to James Smith on January 18 and the bill of sale was witnessed by James Fields (spouse of Sally Hinson). James Fields died before the bill of sale was executed. Handwriting was proved by Pleasant Diggs (spouse of Elizabeth Hinson) in April court 1816. [9]
1828 Sally Fields, widow of James Fields, was named in a document dated January 2 in Anson County, North Carolina. [10]
The Private examination of Eliz Liles …
Whereas John Hailey jun'r hath produced a deed of conveyance made to him from Sally Fields Henry Fields Green Fields Ruden Fields & Elijah Webb and Mary his wife Anderson Liles & Elizabeth Liles his wife of a certain piece of land …
This is to certify that I Charles Hinson one of the commissioners appointed to examine Elizabeth Liles with regard to her free will & consent to the conveyance & title of a certain or parcel of land which she with the rest of the legatees and widow of James Fields dec have conveyed to John Haley …
Research Notes:
Daughter Mary Fields married Elijah Webb.
1850 Mary Fields Webb (age 50, born in North Carolina) lived in District 11, Shelby County, Tennessee, in a household with Elijah Webb (52), James Webb (16), Sophia Webb (14), Louisiana Webb (13), and Emily Webb (11). [11]
This information came from a copy of a page from old family Bible in Fields File Folder at Gordon Browning Genealogy Library, McKenzie, Tennessee. Found in Anson County, NC. [12]
The children and Sarah (Hinson Fields) came West ( from Anson Co. NC into Carroll & Henry Co.'s TN ) several years after James died. Notes for Sarah Hinson: Date of death came from an old family Bible record. Per Fields family files, James Fields and Sarah / Sally Hinson Fields children's dates of births are listed accordingly :
Henry Fields was born January the 25th, 1798
Mary Fields was born January 2nd, 1800
Elizabeth Fields was born September 2nd 1802
Green H. Fields was born September 2nd 1804
Smith Fields was born May 2nd 1806
Alexander Fields was born February 7th 1808
John Fields was born October 15th, 1809
Michael Fields was born September the 7th 1811
Lydia Fields was born September 4th, 1813
James Fields was born May 25th 1815
1790 James Fields lived in Onslow County, North Carolina, in a household with 2 males age 16 and over, and 2 females. [13]
The relationship, if any, to James Fields of South Carolina is unknown:
1823 The sheriff of Anson county, North Carolina seized land (in Anson county, listed by the clerk as 230 acres, but only 100 acres by inspection) supposed to be of James Fields of South Carolina for taxes levied in 1819. [14]
1823 Abraham Harrel of Anson county sold land to James Fields of Chesterfield district, South Carolina. The land was on Brown Creek. [15]
[1] North Carolina. County Court (Anson County), Anson. Wills 1802–1812,A-38, image 49, [FamilySearchImage].
[2] North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Raleigh. Newspapers 1808, The Star, Vol II, page 191, IGN=009055767, image 233, [FamilySearchImage].
[5] Anson. Land Warrants 1600–1959, IGN=007164524, image 1295, [FamilySearchImage].
[6] North Carolina, Land Grant Files, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[7] Anson. Deeds 1812–1816, U-269, IGN=007510450, image 683, [FamilySearchImage].
[8] North Carolina, Land Grant Files, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] Anson. Deeds 1814–1815, R-179, IGN=007510440, image 407, [FamilySearchImage].
[10] Anson. Deeds 1824–1827, W-243, IGN=007510439, image 431, [FamilySearchImage].
[11] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[12] Tina Beller Email: jtb36@cox.net, [URL].
[13] United States Federal Census, 1790, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[14] Anson. Deeds 1812–1816, U-207, IGN=007510450, image 643, [FamilySearchImage].
[15] Anson. Deeds 1812–1816, IGN=007510450, image 663, [FamilySearchImage].