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James Fielder (abt. 1750 - abt. 1813)

James Fielder
Born about in Virginiamap
Husband of — married about 1779 in Virginia, USAmap
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 63 in Little River Plantation, Madison, Morgan, Georgia, United Statesmap
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Biography

James was born in 1750. He was the son of John Fielder and Mary Stuart. He passed away in 1813.

When James FIELDER was born in 1750 in Virginia, his father, John, was 28 and his mother, Mary, was 27. He married Sarah Ann "Sallie" Benge in 1779 in his hometown. They had 13 children in 26 years. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain, South Carolina, on 7 Oct 1790. [1] He died on March 1, 1813, at his Little River Plantation in Madison, Morgan County, Georgia, at the age of 63, and was buried there.

Excerpts from "The Fielder Family Record" by Herbert Fielder: “James, the second son, was born about 1750. Served several years in the war of the Revolution; was married towards the close of the war in Virginia, to a woman by the name of Sally Benge, who has a brother by the name of Obediah Martin Benge, for whom my father was named. The father of Sally abandoned her while an infant, in Virginia, and came to the Cherokee nation and married an Indian squaw, by whom he raised the Indian family of half-breeds named Benge, who were somewhat famous with their tribe.

James, after he married Miss Benge, came to South Carolina and resided several years in Edgefield District, from which place he moved to and settled in Green County, Ga., and from there to Morgan, some ten or fifteen years before his death, which occurred in 1813, on Little River, where his dust reposes.

His father-in-law, Benge, eventually commenced an Indian store in some of the older counties of Georgia. He purchased his goods on credit from Phinizy, of Augusta, and James stood his security. Benge, having been extensively robbed and plundered by the Indians, broke; and the property of James, consisting of about twenty negroes, his plantation, and other property, was taken to pay his debts and he remained poor to the end of his life. Sally lived a widow to 1830, and died, aged 70 years. She sleeps beside her husband.

Old Benge went deranged, and shot himself with a pistol. His widow removed to Tennessee and married a man by the name of Fielder, a cousin to James. By him she had three children - John, Nimrod and Polly; showing that a branch of the old Virginia family emigrated to Tennessee. But I have not attempted to trace them further. A tasty gentleman, he was to marry a widowed squaw! But she was said to be exceedingly handsome.

James by Sally had thirteen children - Lewis, Thomas, Polly, John, Obediah, Josiah, James, Isham, Terrell, Betsy, Sally, Maria and Tempey.” [2]

James was born in 1750. He passed away in 1813. [3]

Sources

  1. https://www.fold3.com/image/246/19368856
  2. “A Family Record of Facts Connected with the Fielder Family”, Fielder, Herbert of Cedar Town, Ga., For Private Circulation; Rome, GA., Printed at Mason’s Book and Job Office; 1857: pg. 6
  3. Source will be added by B McCool by 3 Apr 2021.




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Link to James’ will which seems to contradict the story about financial losses related to John Benge: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/morgan1/citizens/Fielder/fielder_james_will.htm
posted by Kathie (Parks) Forbes

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