Robert M FIELD

                   Taken from Field Genealogy, Vol I  by Frederick Clifton Pierce Historian and Genealogist
Robert was not mentioned in John Fields Will, and his name first appears in the records of Albemarle county, Virginia in 1766.  Gen James G. Field, of Gordonsville, Va, writes me that he thinks he was a brother of Gen. Fields, his grandfather.  Robert mentions five children in his Will.  He resided in Albemarle county, Virginia.
In the Field Genealogy Book these six names are mentioned in John Field's Will:  Green B. married to Mary E. Cogwell
John married to a Wood
Joseph married to a Wood
Ralph who moved to Ky
Jane who married a Grayson
and Nancy who married William Wood.
In the  HISTORY OF ALBEMARLE and under the Field History  Robert Field was said to have begun purchasing land in Albemarle county in 1766.  From small beginnings he rose gradually, till he acquired a considerable estate.  He died in 1824.  He was twice married and raised a family of ten children.
The children listed in the history of Albemarle are:
1. Mary, the wife of a Garland
2. Elizabeth, the wife of John Mills
3. Sarah, the wife of Charles Yancey
4. Jane, the wife of Thomas Grayson
5. John, Robert, Ralph, Joseph
6. Susan, the wife of Nelson Moss
7. Nancy, the wife of William Wood
Three of the brothers married sisters, daughters of the elder Jesse Wood, John being united to Sarah, Ralph to Mildred, and Joseph to Elmira.  Joseph died before his father leaving two children William and Joseph.  His widow afterward became the wife of John Robinson.  Robert led the way in emigrating first to Kentucky, and subsequently to Missouri, and was ultimately followed by most of the family;  by all indeed bearing the name.   In 1807 he conveyed to Marshall Durrett, James Wood, Charles Massie, Honathan Barksdale and others, ground for the Mount Ed Church.
Combining the information from both sources it seems that it would be most likely that the two families mention were identical, one and the same.  Husbands and wives were common to all those mention.