John FIELD

                   NAME:
    Major John FIELD
DEATH:
    Died at the Battle of Point Pleasant, Louisa County, Virginia
OCCUPATION:
    Farmer



He was in Hanover Co., VA., before 1747, where he was living when he purchased a plantation from Thomas and Eleanor Kimbow/Kimbrough in St. Martin’s Parish, Louisa Co., VA. (Louisa County was formed in 1742; and Albemarle County, where some of his children settled, was formed in 1744). (The two counties swapped land).
12 Apr 1773; from James Smith of Louisa Co., VA.
In Louise Co VA by 1768; died there and left a will  dated 17 Jan 1789, proven 12 Oct 1789.
Patriot during the Revolutionary War.
1782 Census: Single with 9 slaves. Sold 4 slaves to his son-in-law on 9 Jun 1788.
Majie says she thinks he is a descendant of Henry Field, jr.,  b 1611 in ENG. Henry Jr  immigrated to VA  in 1635.
Majie's earliest  proven FIELD ancestor.

Birth Surety:2  Taken from Field Genealogy, Vol I  by Frederick Clifton Pierce Historian and Genealogist. John Field was a Col. John Field who was born in Culpeper county, Virginia and married Anna Rogers Clark, sister of Gen. George Rogers Clark, the celebrated solider.  General Clark was born near Monticello, Albermarle county, Va., but spent his early life in Caroline county, and enjoyed some educational advantages from a noted Scotch trader, Donald Robertson, in King and Queen county. Richard Rogers lived some time in Albermarle, owning the estates known as Franklin Place , Wilton and River Bend.  He married a sister of the Rev. Thornton Rogers, of Albemarle, a lineal descendant of Giles Rogers, who emigrated from Worcestershire, England, to King and Queen county, Virginia, late in the seventeenth century.  His son John married Mary Byrd, the sister of Col. William Byrd, who obtained a grant of 7351 acres of land from Sir William Berkley , governor of the colony, on March 15 1675.  "beginning at the mouth of Shoccoe's Creek," as the deed specifies, being the present site of Richmond, Va.  This John and Mary Rogers came to Albemarle, and were the grandparents of Mrs. Anna Clarke Field and Gen. George Rogers Clarke, the famous hero of the Revolutionary war.  From his son Byrd Rogers have descended quite a number of preachers. John Field, when of proper age to obtain better advantages of education , was sent to England, where after a college course, he obtained office as ensign in the British army, in which capacity he continued until by promotion he was made full colonel of a regiment. About 1760, perhaps, his company was ordered with General Brad Braddock's defeat, in which General Braddock was killed, the command devolving upon Col. George Washington,  the colonel of Virgini a Volunteers, and saved the remnant of the army, eventually falling back to Fredericksburg. Afterwards Colonel Field was ordered to northwest Virginia to repel the invading enemy.  Afte r a march across the trackless wilderness through the Allegheny mountains he descended the Kanawha to its junction with the Ohio-now Point Pleasant.  There he built a fort, in which  his regiment and Colonel Lewis' regiment of Virginia Volunteers were subsequently attacked by numerous army of French and Indians.  In this bloody engagement Colonel Field was killed by the Indians under Cornstalk. Col. Field married Anna Clark, of Virginia, eldest sister of Gen. George Rogers Clark, and was his guardian in minority.  He was of large frame and splendid figure, six feet and four inches high, dark hair and eyes and of great endurance.  He left four daughters, Mary, Ann Elizabeth and Judith, who married Slaughter, Hill, Kelly and Dulany. It is stated also that Col. John Field, who was a lieutenant under Washington, in Braddo ck's campaign, and commanded the Virginia troops at the battle of Point Pleasant, on the Ohio river, where he defeated the French and Indians, for which his heirs were granted a large tract of land in now Bourbone county, Kentucky, by the Governor Lord Fairfax. Among other things John Field's Will states: Item  I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Anna Five Negroes, viz,: Jack and his son James, Moll, Suck and Bridgett for her to enjoy her natural life and at her disposal so that it is a our decedent I also lend all the lands on the south side of Mountain Run for her Peaceably to enjoy until my son Larkin comes of age at which time he is to have possession of the lands I purchased of my brother Daniel and my Nephew Abram Field.
Item   I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Slaughter eight Negroes, viz:   Sara h, Phill, Sydda, Kate, Kick, Daniel, and Lewis together with the increase of the said Negroe s since she has had them in possession.  ---- Item   I give and bequeath to my son John Field and his heirs and assigns forever the following slaves.:   Harry, Frank, Will, Tom, Hannah, Austin and Lewis, also my lands on the north side of Mountain Run.
Item   I give and bequeath to my daughter Anna Field and her heirs and assigns forever five Negroes viz."   Lucy, Rachael, Milly and Adam and Nell Item   I give and bequeath to my grandson John Field slaughter and his heirs forever one Negro boy named Sam.
Item    I give and bequeath to my grand-daughter Milley Slaughter and her heirs foreve r one small track of land lying on the Rapidan River called Carrafare.
Item    Whereas my son Ezekiel Field is unhappily missing and the certainty of his being dead or alive not known.  But should it please the Almighty God that he is among the living , I give and Bequeath to him and his heirs and assigns forever all my lands and stocks at th e Mountains and all my lands on the Great Thankaway together with the following slaves:--Will , Dinah, Bett, Harry, June, Joe Jacob, Isaac, Ailick, Easter, and Judy.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ ------------------------------- Information copied from Encarta 98 Encyclopedia  "Clark, George Rogers (1752-1818), American soldier and frontiersman, who commanded importan t victories over British troops in the Northwest Territory during the American Revolution (17 75-1783). The brother of famed explorer William Clark, he was born near Charlottesville, Virginia. With little education, he became a surveyor while still a young man. Clark was living i n Kentucky, then part of the Virginia Colony, when the American Revolution began. He convince d the colonial government of Virginia to send aid to Kentucky settlers who were under attack from Native Americans. The British, who were supplying these Native Americans with weapons , were trying to gain control of all land west of the Appalachian Mountains. In 1777 Clark was made a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia. He led an expedition of 175 men against the British in the Illinois country, where he quickly captured the British forts at Kaskaskia and Cahokia (now in Illinois) and Vincennes (now in Indiana) during the summer of 1778. The British retook Vincennes, but Clark returned on a forced march of 290 km (180 Mi) to recapture the fort in February 1779. He prevented the British from reestablishing control in the region, and in 1782 he overwhelmed the Shawnee at Chillicothe (now in Ohio). His conquests allowed the United States to claim the region after the war and to develop it as the Northwest Territory after 1787. Clark later supervised the settlement of the Northwest. He completed his Memoirs in 1791 and eventually retired to his sister's home in Kentucky." Copied from Encarta 98  In 1755 the British general Edward Braddock was sent to America to take Fort Duquesne. In July, however, near the fort, a French and Native American force badly defeated Braddock's British regulars and colonial troops. The British won a small victory in Nova Scotia and repulsed an attack by French and Native American forces in New York at the Battle of Lake George i n 1755, but these were their last victories until 1758. Meanwhile, the British government sought to impose central control on the war effort in America and to compel the colonists to pay for the campaigns against Canada; these measures only alienated the Americans. For the Anglo-Americans the years (1755-1757), therefore, were distinguished by defeats and friction between British and colonial soldiers, while the French and their Native American allies won battle after battle. The expanding Northwest Territory, which was made up of the present-day states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota, was far from the markets for its gr ain and cattle. It needed such internal improvements for survival, and so supported the North east's demands for high tariffs. In return, the Northeast supported most federally financed improvements in the Northwest Copied from Encarta 98.
Clark, William (1770-1838), American explorer, Native American agent, and frontier politician , who served as co-leader, with Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-180 6), the first overland exploration of the American West and Pacific Northwest. Clark was born in Caroline County, Virginia. In 1784 the Clark family moved to the Kentucky frontier, establishing a plantation called Mulberry Hill near present-day Louisville. Clark followed the powerful examples of his brothers Jonathan and George Rogers Clark, both of whom made military life the path to success. In 1789 William joined a militia company and soon became an infantry officer in the army of General Anthony Wayne. During service in the Indian wars in the Ohio Valley, Clark gained a reputation for leadership and courage. He met Meriwether Lewis at this time when Lewis served briefly in Clark's rifle company. Under General Wayne, Clark took part in the Battle of Fallen Timbers (near what is now Toledo, Ohio) in A ugust 1794, which destroyed the power of the Native Americans in Ohio. Clark also grew to b e an experienced frontier diplomat, earning Wayne's praise for a dangerous scouting mission i n 1796. When debts incurred by George threatened Clark family lands in Kentucky and Indiana , William resigned his commission and spent the next eight years defending family interests. In June 1803 Lewis asked Clark to join him as co-leader on a government-sponsored expedition through the Louisiana Territory to the Pacific Ocean. Clark was promised a captain's commission to match Lewis's rank, but bureaucratic confusion made him a lieutenant. Despite this, both Lewis and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, who commissioned the expedition, always considered Clark an equal partner in command. As commanding officers on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Lewis and Clark informally divided leadership responsibilities. Clark was the expedition's map maker. Years of frontier experience had taught him to understand and record intricate terrain-land, rivers, and mountains. Clark's army experience also prepared him to be the expedition's most able negotiator and diplomat, a role he played in many meetings with Native Americans. The expedition to the Pacific made Clark both famous and influential. For the rest of his life he played a key role as a federal Native American agent and territorial Copied from Encarta 98


Birth year might be about 1747?
Will proved 15 May 1775.
Dwelling: The Field Manor, St. Mark’s Parish, Culpeper Co., VA.
He probably served in Braddock’s War and who fell fighting gallantly at the head of his regiment, at the battle of Point Pleasant.