Richard
Shockley
III
Born in Marion, Somerset, Maryland
Ancestors 
Son of Richard Shockley II
and Elizabeth (Paynter) Shockley
Brother of
Thomas Shockley Sr.
Husband of
Elizabeth (Adkins) Shockley
— married
1754 in Pittsylvania County, Colony of Virginia
Descendants 
Father of
Thomas R. Shockley Sr., Elizabeth (Shockley) Dalton, Alice Elsie (Shockley) Farmer and William Shockley
Died
at age 65
in Hillsville, Carroll, Virginia, United States
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Biography
Richard was born in 1732. He lived in Virginia.[1]Richard Shockley fought in the Revolutionary War in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He was under the leadership of Lord Dunmore [2][3]. He passed away in 1798. [4]
Spouse
- Elizabeth Meredit ADKINS married 1754 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Children
- William SHOCKLEY
- Ephraim SHOCKLEY
- Elizabeth Betsey SHOCKLEY
- Margaret SHOCKLEY
- John SHOCKLEY
- Richard SHOCKLEY
- Nancy SHOCKLEY
- Wilson SHOCKLEY
- Thomas SHOCKLEY b: 15 SEP 1755 in Pittsylavia County, Virginia
- Ann SHOCKLEY b: 1758 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia
- Isaiah Josiah SHOCKLEY b: 1766 in Virginia
- Elizabeth SHOCKLEY b: 17 JUN 1768
- Meredith SHOCKLEY , Sr. b: 1770 in Pittsylavia County, Virginia
Farmer and Extended Family Tree - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3279209&id=I00070
According to Find a Grave, he is buried in a lone grave in the lawn of Elwood Reynolds Home. Parents are listed as Richard Shockley and Elizabeth Paynter. Spouse is Elizabeth Meredith Adkins, dau of William V A Jr Adkins and Lydia Owens. 13 children are listed, but they don't necessarily match this profile [4].
Sources
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002. Text: Residence place: Virginia.
- ↑ http://blackloyalist.com/cdc/people/influential/dunmore.htm
- ↑ https://www.history.org/almanack/people/bios/biodun.cfm
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 19 September 2019), memorial page for Richard Esau Shockley, Jr (5 Mar 1732–31 Jan 1798), Find A Grave: Memorial #76863502, citing Richard Esau Shockley Grave, Five Forks, Carroll County, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Victoria Taylor-True (contributor 47036752) .
- Source: #S474 Ancestry Family Trees; Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
- Census records, family records
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to Jerry Powers for creating WikiTree profile Shockley-202 through the import of Powers-White-Beddo Lines_2013-03-17_01.ged on Mar 17, 2013.
Note: removed the 835 Local file reference. could not find another source for the revolutionary war connected to Richard with any confidence. Rearranged a little for a better flow. turned project box to sticker till it gets account, 931 ProjectBox Without Project Account McClintock-715 20:55, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Richard by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Richard:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Richard by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Richard:
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~1.56%
~3.12%
P Epperson 
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T639506 [compare], FTDNA kit #463363
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~0.78%
Reggie Crawford :
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A836273 [compare], Ancestry member regman_traveler
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~0.78%
Thomas Goodwin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A614636 [compare], Ancestry member tfgoodwin39
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~0.78%
Mary Pardue :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YR2823504 [compare], Ancestry member angelpar1690
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~0.78%
Jacalyn McCoy :
AncestryDNA
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MyHeritage DNA
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~0.39%
Erin Shockley :
23andMe, GEDmatch M333722 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member eshock8
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B16747
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MyHeritage DNA
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~0.39%
Nancy Brogan :
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AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
~3.12%
Patricia (Parker) Belcher :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member tntitanz
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Shelley (Mair) Monson :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member shelleymonson1
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MyHeritage DNA
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Living DNA
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~0.39%
Richard Dalton :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A046990 [compare], FTDNA kit #334186
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Categories: Conflated Profiles
Buried among these comments is Pattie's comment that THIS Richard (married to Elizabeth Adkins) was NOT the son of Richard II (married to "Elizabeth") but was the son of William Shockley. Pattie cited the Niese/Gates authoritative treatise on the Shockley-Adkins genealogy as support. According to the Niese/Gates treatise, Richard "The Emigrant" Shockley had four sons (one of whom is Richard II) and all but one of those four sons each had a son named Richard. That is, Richard "The Emigrant" Shockley had three grandsons with the name Richard Shockley. Definitely easy to confuse these Richards!
What I don't see in this thread of some 25 comments is anyone's response to Pattie's comment about the correct(?) parentage for Richard-married-to-Elizabeth-Adkins. If I missed it, maybe someone could cut and paste it again here or in an email to me at [email address removed] Otherwise, let's see if we can get this one straightened out (and Find-a-Grave is not an authoritative cite or site for parentage! LOL!). Thanks!
Second: The "note" you may be looking for (below) says that THIS Richard, Richard Shockley III, son of Richard Shockley II and Elizabeth Paynter, was born in Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware. He married REBECCA HUDSON. They had one child, a son named Curtis, born 21 Jan 1758 in Sussex County, Delaware and his will was drawn in 1831. SOURCE: Neises, Beverly J. and Gates, James H., "Richard Shockley and Elizabeth Adkins, Their Ancestors and Descendants, Volume I," Evansville Binbery, Inc, Evansville, Indiana: 2003. Page 13.
Third: rather than remove someone else's notes on Shockley-51, I did add some information for the Richard Shockley that lived in Delaware -- just over the state line from Maryland. jg
edited by Janne (Shoults) Gorman
Isaiah Josiah needs to be removed from the list of children.
In the 1850 US Census, Isaiah is listed with his wife Ruth and that census can be found here- https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-66TS-1CY?i=18&cc=1401638&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMC6S-N2M
If Isaiah were an enslaved person then he wasn't by 1850 as he appears in the regular 1850 US Census. His wife was also not enslaved by 1850. I can't prove his middle name right now but it appears that even this profile (for his father) is using a middle name (Esau) that doesn't appear in any documents. I'd suspect that the same person that has applied a middle name to the father probably added one to the son as well despite no source for doing so.
I've been cleaning up the Adkins family on WikiTree and since a Richard Shockley married an Adkins I was trying to help clean up the Richard's.
Isaiah does have a profile on WikiTree here- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shockley-81 but the profile look like a GEDcom import. (That's why the statements look so sloppy). I'm pretty sure the Ancestry.com sources at the bottom will no longer link to the supporting documents.
I'll make sure as I am going through sourcing the two Richard's (and separating out which records belong to who) that I'll double check the records on Isaiah as well.
His grandon, Thomas Nathaniel, 1832 to 1898, was shown on "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slaves Registers, 1813-1834" He was a baby, so he was in no way a slave owner.
edited by Lee Niceley
Source:
Sorry, but I didn't mention Isaiah's grandson as a slave holder, it was Isaiah that owned the enslaved people in 1850. Thomas Nathaniel doesn't seem to have a profile on WikiTree yet.
I did an internet search and came across an article from Family Tree Magazine (https://www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/unlocking-slaverys-legacy/) that contains a photo of Isaiah Shockley down towards the bottom of the article. It identifies everyone in the photo and could possibly be of the family you are talking about? The photo was taken about 1890's and in the photo are Amanda (Sparkman) Shockley, her sister Myra Lou (Sparkman) Cummings and Isaiah with three children. That Isaiah has his own profile on WikiTree but his parents aren't shown. There seems to be a bit more detail on Amanda's profile.
The "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slaves Registers, 1813-1834" are on Ancestry but when I search for the surname of Shockley I get only 12 results with the surname of Shickle and Sheckle all from Jamaica. I tried to search using the surname of Nathaniel as well but got no hits. Do you know what page number Thomas Nathaniel appears on?
I did find a land record on 11 Dec 1824, Isaiah bought 50 acres of land in Tennessee. It was surveyed on 16 Sep 1826.
Source:
I also saw quite a few land deeds from the early 1800's in Tennessee for Isaiah but I'd need to double check them to see if they were for him or his son of the same name.
There is a ton of information in Volume 1 of the book I posted as a reply but here is a direct page that would be of interest- (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/252377-richard-shockley-and-elizabeth-adkins-their-ancestors-and-descendants-vol-1?viewer=1&offset=4#page=354&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=)
Volume 1- https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/252377-richard-shockley-and-elizabeth-adkins-their-ancestors-and-descendants-vol-1?viewer=1&offset=4#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=
Volume 2- https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/238433-richard-shockley-and-elizabeth-adkins-their-ancestors-and-descendants-vol-2?viewer=1&offset=5#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=
SOURCE: Neises, Beverly J. and Gates, James H., "Richard Shockley and Elizabeth Adkins, Their Ancestors and Descendants, Volume I," Evansville Binbery, Inc, Evansville, Indiana: 2003. Page 13.
edited by Pattie (Breed) Plummer-Everett
1. Hard to know which entry in this database the entry refers to. Here are the possibilities:
a. Volume 40, Number 1, page 21: Reference to Amos Worrell and his Bounty Land Warrant (BLW) Application in which several Shockley's are mentioned. The father Shockley is not given a first name but his three children are listed as William, Meredith and Isaiah. Does not appear to be for this Richard, it appears to apply to this Richard.
b. Volume 25, Number 1, page 24: References a list of men to survey a road from the mouth of Snow Creek to Hickeys Road but this is known to be the other Richard who married an Adkins and lived in Virginia.
2. Link only talks about Lord Dunmore, not about those that served with him. The Draper Manuscripts are where we get the list of participants in Lord Dunmore's War, specifically the Battle of Point Pleasant, but Richard is not listed with the participants. (See the book "Documentary history of Dunmore's war, 1774")
3. No longer links to Dunmore. Link goes to the home page of Colonial Williamsburg.
4. Find a Grave is conflated and has mixed the two different Richard's as this profile has done.
5. Source #S474, link circles back to this page. Family tree that it referenced is unknown so sources on that tree can not be verified.
6. Census reports, family records. This is not specific enough to follow.
7. Link to William Owen goes to an error 404 page. It appears this was a genealogy at some time?
The only Richard Shockley shown as a revolutionary war soldier on Fold3.com is one that enlisted in Massachusetts. He appeared on a list of Rebel prisoners taken at Quebec on 31 Dec 1775 and returned on 27 Jul 1776. He was from Massachusetts Bay and only 22 years old.
I hope some of this helps to get the two men untangled.
edited by Pattie (Breed) Plummer-Everett
"United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYY8-3S88?cc=1803959&wc=3XTM-B83%3A1584070902%2C1584070723%2C1584070607 : 14 May 2015), Maryland > Worcester > Not Stated > image 5 of 10; citing NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Mindy
- documentation needed to determine which are correct. Wife the same and children appear to be correct. Birth and death dates slightly different also.
Richard Shockley and Ann Boydon also had a son named Richard who married Elizabeth Paynter. Records have not supported a number designation to those named Richard, it seems that the number designation may have come from those researching the Shockley family in order to tell one Richard Shockley from another. These two men have different dates of birth and I have not found any record that supports Richard's middle name is Esau. Therefore I must reject this merge. Jeanette
https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1143038?availability=Family%20History%20Library and if the info is correct the right set of parents are Shockley-77 and Davis-6220 which has sources in the digital book which seem to be right unless the sources and info are wrong but i dont think so ...