NATHANIEL FIELD (S)
(ca: 1728-1777)

by Mrs. J. O. Lewis


Nathaniel Fields was born about 1728, probably in Hanover County, Virginia.  He
served as a private in Captain Alexander Rose's Company in the Sixth Virginia
Regiment of Continental Forces, commanded by Lieut. Col. James Hendricks.  He
died while in service, April 1, 1777.

In 1779, his widow, Mary Fields, and children were granted four hundred and 
forty acres, of land on the east side of Mayo Mountain in Guilford County, North 
Carolina.  It was from this survey of land that Mary Fields and her orphan 
children, the children of Nathaniel Fields, deceased, were identified by name, 
Ansel, John, Agnes (Agathy), William, Elija, Susanna, Nelson and Allen Fields.  
The two oldest children Ansel and John also served in the Revolution, and it was 
from John Fields' application for pension that we learned that the family moved 
from Hanover County, Virginia to Rowan County, North Carolina in 1765.

Next to the youngest child, Robert Nelson Pleasant Fields was born February 26, 
1768 in Rowan County, North Carolina and died in Williamson County, Tennessee 
February 11, 1839.  Hw was married to Mary Dodd, December 8, 1790, the daughter 
of Allen Dodd and Mary, his wife of Rockingham County, North Carolina.

In 1809, Robert Nelson Pleasant Fields moved his family to Williamson County, 
Tennessee. There were 11 children, namely Elizabeth, Ambrose, William, Allen 
Dodd, Nelson, Absolum, Matilda, Martha, Mary and Maacha.  Of this number seven 
settled in the western section of Tennessee and Kentucky, called "The Jackson 
Purchase", Nelson, Jr. being one of this number. 

Nelson Fields, Jr. (189701868) and his wife, Mary Rankin moved from Davidson 
County, Tennessee, near Nashville to what is now Fulton County, Kentucky, 
settling on land bought in 1828 from the Commonwealth of Kentucky for 50 cents 
an acre-land known as the Highlands addition of Fulton.  Their home place was 
the site of the Derby Café on the State Line Road.  Their 10 children were:  
John G.  who married his first cousin, Mary Ann Fields; Ambrose Peter who 
married Lavina Whitesell and Catherine Whitesell; George Washington who married 
Susan Emily Herring; Nicholas who married Margaret Bard; Sarah Catherine who 
married Peter Whitesell; James Henry Green who married Sarah Ware Bransford; 
Emaline Tennessee who married James J. Swigart; William L. who married Sarah 
Catherine  Brittain; Mary Ann who married William C. Brown; and Margaret J. who 
married George W. Cosby.  Many descendants of these families still live in this 
area. 

The following descendants of Nathaniel Fields are :  Kate Swiggart (Mrs. Joe M. 
Reed) a member of the Jacob Flournoy Chapter DAR;  Ruth Fields (Mrs. J. O. ) 
Lewis, member of the DAR at large; and Charlotte Terry (Mrs. Henry) Ivey a 
member of the Jacob Flournoy Chapter DAR.