Early Settler

Nickname:

Moses

Born:

1760, North Carolina

Died:

1786, Jefferson, Alabama

Notes:

•  When viewing genealogy in some places and for some of his children, he is known as simply "Moses Fields" - Editor's note

•  Son of Issac & Bertie Fields - Ancestry.com

•  Married Elizabeth Ann Martin (1762-1829) in 1784. - Ancestry.com

•  Moses is listed in the Census of Madison County, enumeration taken Jan, 1809. One white male under 21; Three white males over 21; Four white females under 21; One white female over 22; Nine white individuals total; One slave. - Brantley

•  Record presents a list of early settlers in Madison County. He says the 1809 Census is actually a squatters list. Moses is on that list along with William Fields. Mayes Fields is on an 1811 list and Record says that comes from a tax records. Record also says that "Many of these settlers were in Madison County before the dates shown, but proof is sparse." - Record

•  "Moses and Elizabeth Ann Fields came into Madison County, AL, before 1809 Census and received land grant Certificate No 260 for 160 acres in Section 5, Township 1, Range 1E, granted Feb. 13, 1809, on Flint River near the TN line, later moved to Jefferson County, where Elizabeth Ann Fields died before Feb. 6, 1829." - Belcher

•  All of their children were born in South Carolina before they moved to Madison County, Alabama. Most, maybe all, of these children came into their adulthood in Madison County. None of them died in Madison County. Their names are: Moses Fields, Jr.; Samuel J. Fields; Isaac Fields, Mary Ann Fields Matthews; Anna Fields Hutchinson; Letetia (Lettice) Fields Sharp, Polly Fields. Moses Fields, Jr. was born in 1784 and he is the one that fought in the war of 1812 (not his father, the man featured in this listing). "Moses Fields volunteered in Huntsville, AL, Madison Co, Mississippi Territory, on 15 Dec 1812 in the War of 1812 and discharged on 15 May 1813 at Fayetteville, TN; Company Commander was Capt Samuel Allan; Regimental commander was Col John Stump." He is listed as a corporal on a Valley Leaves list. - Belcher

•  "Other AL families who are allied with my RAYS include NOBLES & BUSH. Andrew MARTIN's sister might be Elizabeth Ann MARTIN FIELDS, d. 1829, Jefferson Co., AL, who removed from Chatham Co., NC, following the death of her husband, Samuel Moses FIELDS. Elizabeth & Samuel's son, William Moses FIELDS, was b. Chatham Co., NC, 1788." The speculation that Samuel Moses Fields died before the family reached Alabama is not supported by any of the Ancestry.com pages connected to his decedents. But, sometimes, these possibilities need to be considered. - Chatham county Query Archives


Related Links:

•  Ancestry.com - Page owned by JoeyBrackner and can be viewed only with an Ancestry.com paid membership (Originally found at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13971758/person/47405208.)

•  Belcher - Article submitted by Connie Belcher for The Heritage of Madison County, Alabama by The Madison County Heritage Book Committee, John P. Rankin, Chairman, page 94

•  Brantley - Three Capitals: A Book About the First Three Capitals of Alabama St. Stevens, Huntsville & Cahawba by William H. Brantley, 1947, 1976, page 221.

•  Chatham county Query Archives - Genealogical connections to Moses's wife,

•  Record - A Dream Come True: The Story of Madison County and Incidentally of Alabama and the United States, Volume II by James Record, 1978, page 523

•  The Fields Family - Fields family stories collected by Edith Ora Jacks in Birmingham, AL in 1968. The emphasis is on the Fields family settling in Jefferson County and there are many men named Moses (including our Samuel Moses almost always referred to as Moses Sr.). It is hard to keep track of the generations. But we are including the link here because of the interesting family lore clearly intersecting with Madison County.

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