James Shirley
born about 1649 came
from Ireland to America about 1730 at an advanced age and settled
in Chester, New Hampshire. He was 105 years old when he died.
James was first married to Mary
Wilson and 2nd to Anna _______.
He was the father of 8
sons...
1. John 1688 Ireland d. 1768 Chester New Hampshire
m. 1st Janet Glenn 2nd Mary Miller
(widow)
(1) Ann 1716 Ireland m. Robert
Wilson
(2) James 1718 Ireland d. 1749
Boston, Massachusetts
m. ____
A. James
(3) Mary 1720 Ireland m. James
Wilson
(4) Martha 1722 m. Alexander
Gilchrist
(5) John 1724 died Aug 22, 1773.
He was a butcher & victualer. He married Mehitable Williams.
A. John May 5, 1761 Roxbury Massachusetts.
He was dismissed from the church at Barre, to Northampton Co.
Pa Aug 1783. He married Hannah Trapp.
(a) Susanna 1789 Bucks Co. PA
m. Simon Meyers
(b) John
(c) Robert 1796 m. Hannah Houser
(d) Frances 1800 m. Samuel Warner
(e) Hanna 1801 Hamilton PA
(f) Veronica 1801 (twins)
(g) David 1803 Hamilton PA
B. Robert June 20, 1763 same,
d. 1780 Barre Mass.
C. David April 8, 1765 same,
d. 1783 Barre Mass.
D. Mehitable 1767 d. 1773 Roxbury
Mass.
E. Barbara 1770 d 1773 Roxbury
Mass.
(6) Jane 1726 m. Robert McMurphy
(7) Deacon Thomas 1728 d. 1808
Goffstown New Hampshire
m. Margaret Shirley (dau. of
Capt. James Shirley)
A. Jane m. Robert Patten
B. Polly m. Robert Gilchrist
C. James 1759 d. Mar 31, 1855
m. 1st Mary Moore (dau of Col.
Daniel Moore and Nancy Cox)
m. 2nd Abigail Colby McCutchins
(a) Nancy 1784 d. Dec 12, 1818
m. Joshua Vose
(b) Jane 1785 d. Dec 9, 1865
m. Wm. McKinney (they lived Newburg, Indiana)
(c) Thomas 1789 d. May 13, 1834
Satartia Mississippi.
(He went South to teach).
(d) Daniel Moore 1791 d. Aug
23, 1855 m. Jane Moore (dau of Robert and Janet Rolfe Moore).
He kept tavern one year (1825), moved to Shirley Hill where he
did an extensive business in farming & butchering.
1. Robert Moore 1819 d. 1883
m. Margaret Dodge
2. Joseph 1821 d. 1825
3. Nancy 1823 m. Gilman Shirley
4. Mary Jane 1826 m. Ephraim
Heald
5. Joseph 1831 m. Nellie Niles
6. Harriett 1835 m. Sylvanus
D. Johnson
7. Daniel 1838 m. DeEtte Sackett
8. Horace 1841 d. 1863 Drowned
in Vermillion Bayou in Louisiana.
(e) James 1794 d. 1863
m. 1st Harriet Walsworth and
2nd Andeline Quincy.
(f) John 1797 d. Oct 20, 1886
m. Margaret Houston. They lived at Suspension Bridge New York
for awhile. In 1832 they were living Melbourne Canada.
1. Alfred 1819 Bedford NH m.
Jane Woodbury
2. James 1821 d. 1824
3. Gilman 1823 d. 1864 m. Nancy
Shirley. They were living in Essex County Mass. in 1850 census.
4. John 1825 d. 1885 m. Susan
Parker. Living in Essex County Massachusetts in 1850 census.
5. Maria 1827 d. 1886
6. Mary Jane 1829 d. 1831
7. Mary Jane 1832 Melbourne Canada
8. William Thomas 1834 Canada
9. Sarah Caroline 1836 d. 1869
10. Margaret 1840 Canada
(g) Gilman 1799 d. Aug 18, 1822
Franklin Co. Alabama, unmarried.
(h) William 1802 d. Aug 25, 1824
Franklin Co. Alabama
(i) Robert Moore 1808 d. 1889
m. 1st Sophia McCutchins
and 2nd Lucretia Houston. (They
had a son, James Quincy who went to Portland Oregon. He died
there in 1895).
(8) Daniel 1730 He went to West
Chester, now Hill NH.
2. James 1690 Ireland
d. 1700
3. Thomas 1692
Ireland d. 1701
4. Hugh 1694
Ireland
5. Robert 1696
6. Henry 1698.
In 1733 he went from Boston Massachusetts to Jamaica in the Brigatine
SARAH.
7. James 1700
d. 1796 Chester, New Hampshire
m. Janet Shirley in 1726 Ireland.
They first lived in Brookline Massachusetts and in 1734 moved
to Chester, NH
(1) James
(2) Margaret
m. Deacon Thomas Shirley (son
of John)
(3) Agnes m. John McNair
(4) John 1735
Chester New Hampshire d. 1826 Warren County Pennsylvania
* m. Hannah Stevens
(5) Hugh
(6) William m. Mary Morrison
8. Thomas 1710
d. 1776 m.____
(1) John
(2) Samuel d. Jan 7, 1832
at his son John's home
m. 1st Margaret Graham,
2nd Anna Dearborn
3rd Eliza McDuffie.
After having been an extensive
business man in that part of Chester which is now Auburn, owning
mills at the upper end of Massabesic Lake, building the first
grist mill at Auburn Village, carrying on large lumber operations
with Haverhill, Newburyport, etc., and running a well known country
hotel at Auburn, he became the victim of unjust litigation, which
he fought against till his property was much reduced. He then
moved to Sanbornton with his oldest son and most of his other
children in 1801. He lived first in Northfield then for three
years, 1802-05 in what is now Franklin, and finally at Union
Bridge where he became known as the "reed maker"
A. Ann 1774-75 m. Daniel McDuffie
Descendants of Ann Shirley (info
from Jonathon)
1 Ann Shirley 1774 - 1860 b in Chester, NH (?)
.. +Daniel McDuffie 1769 - 1855
... 2 Hazen McDuffie 1792 - 1869 b in NH
....... +Lydia Hazelton 1801 -
......... 3 Elizabeth J. McDuffie 1829 - 1911
............. +Freeman Brown 1824 - 1911
.............. 4 Frank Martin Brown 1865 -
.................. +Susan Merriam 1874 - 1944
.............. 4 Harrison F. Brown 1852 -
.................. +Ada
.............. 4 Alvin F. Brown 1854 - 1933
.................. +Sarah
.............. 4 Hazen B. Brown 1868 - 1913
.................. +Ella Poore
.............. 4 William G. Brown 1863 - 1939
.................. +Mary Cilley
.............. 4 Alden P. Brown 1860 - 1913
.................. +Ida Sutherland
.............. 4 Myron F. Brown 1873 - 1934
.................. +Fannie Preston
.............. 4 Lydia Ann Brown 1856 - 1933 b in
Candia, N.H.
.................. +Wilbur M. Keyes 1856 - 1915 b in Brookfield,
Mass
.............. 4 Mary Adeline Brown 1858 - 1946
.................. +Frank P. Reid
.............. 4 Alice M. Brown 1870 - 1909
.................. +Harrison Runnells
......... 3 Hazen L. McDuffie 1835 - 1922 b in Candia,
N.H.
............. +Hannah J. Harris 1836 - 1913 b in Manchester,
NH
......... *2nd Wife of Hazen L. McDuffie:
............. +Dilley L. Crandall 1838 - 1917 b in Dalton, ,
Nh
......... 3 Diantha McDuffie 1828 -
......... 3 Lorenso McDuffie 1836 -
......... 3 Mary McDuffie 1834 -
......... 3 Clarissa McDuffie 1841 -
......... 3 Steven Francis McDuffie 1831 -
......... 3 Samuel McDuffie 1838 -
... 2 Samuel McDuffie 1794 - 1867
... 2 Margaret McDuffie 1796 -
... 2 Sarah McDuffie 1797 -
... 2 Daniel McDuffie 1800 - 1887
....... +Nancy Buswell 1802 -
... 2 Achibald McDuffie 1802 - 1887
....... +Dillie Crandall
......... 3 Lowell McDuffie 1833 - 1911
... 2 Ann McDuffie 1804 -
... 2 Mary McDuffie 1804 -
... 2 David McDuffie 1806 - 1881
... 2 Ruth McDuffie 1808 -
... 2 Elizabeth McDuffie 1810 -
... 2 Charles McDuffie 1811 -
... 2 Ruth McDuffie 1815 -
... 2 Jane McDuffie 1820 -
B. Mary 1777 m. Alexander Donovan
C. John 1779 d. 1780
D. John May 25, 1781 m. 1st Martha
Gibson d. 1816
m. 2nd Joanna Gale in 1819. She
had been a teacher for several years before marriage. They lived
at Union Bridge and a few years in Boston Mass. (4 children)
E. Elizabeth 1783 m. Caleb H.
Gibson
F. James Aug 23, 1787 d. 1851
m. Ann Leamons
He was a grocer in Boston; then
a merchant and hotel keeper in New York City, being there during
the yellow fever and cholera excitement of 1832, and having freat
success as a nurse of the sick, His own health (always feeble)
finally gave way and he moved to Mattituck, Long Island, but
rallied again; there kept hotel and d. June 26, 1851.
(a) James William 1816 NY d 1823
(b) John 1818; was a leading
politician and sheriff in Suffolk County NY; was a real-estate
broker as was his son, John L., in NY.
(c) Martha Ann 1820 d. 1821
(d) Zebulon Leamons 1822; lived
Brooklyn
(e) James William 1824
(f) Samuel 1827 d. 1830
(g) Martha Ann 1829 m. 1st William
H. Wood, real estate broker in NY m. 2nd Mr. Terry
(h) Samuel 1832 NY; lived in
Brooklyn
(i) Esther Elizabeth 1834 Mattituck
m. John B. Terry
G. Margaret 1789 m. Withrop Watson
(no children)
H. Sarah 1790 m. Jonathan Watson
I. Lucretia 1792 m. Christopher
Moulton
J. Samuel 1794 d. Lowell Mass.
(3 children)
K. William 1796 d. in South Boston
Mass. (3 daughters)
L. Stephen Dearborn 1798; lived
Union Bridge, was a tanner; moved to Littleon. (2 children)
M. Nancy
(3) Alexander
(4) James
(5) Thomas
(6) Anna
*Daniel Shirley, the
first son of John and Hannah (Stevens) Shirley, was
born about 1761 in Chester, Rockingham County New Hampshire.
He moved to Chautauqua County New York in 1826 and died Sept
4, 1831 in Warren County Pennsylvania. He served in the Revolutionary
War, enlisting in Londonderry New Hampshire. He was placed on
the Pension Rolls June 15, 1819 and transferred from New York
to Pennsylvania Mar 4, 1826.
It is assumed Daniel is the father
of Moses Shirley b. ca. 1800. He was listed as a single man on
the tax rolls in Warren Co. Pa. He married Sarah Cogswell about
1825 and they lived for a time in Chautauqua County New York.
It is further assumed they had a son Benjamin F. Shirley b. 1827
who was born in New York state, about the same time Moses lived
in New York. Benjamin named his first son Moses.
Benjamin F. Shirley 1827
d. Apr 4, 1907.
He married Hannah H. Shirley.
They are both buried in Warren County Pennsylvania.
1. Moses 1849
2. Emery 1851
3. James 1853
4. Albert 1855
5. Cynthia 1857
6. Richard 1862
7. George Oct 18, 1865
m. Ada Harvey in NY They lived
Warren Co. PA
(1) Ruth
(2) Lela m. Ralph Thurston
8. Lillie 1867
9. Aletha 1871
10 Livingston 1872
11 Harry 1876
12 Alice 1877
Material for this article
came from several sources. Members, books, etc. I will list the
books but know I will not be complete in giving credit to those
who have sent the copied pages from these books and the family
data.
Bill Thurston, Bernice Hook,
Alice Powers. History of Sanbornton (Genealogies-- Shirley),
History of Goffstown (NH). Ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley.
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On January 1, 1851,
James Shirley bought the house and grounds from Mr. Ben Johnson
in Vicksburg Mississippi. James was a native of Goffstown, New
Hampshire and is descended from James Shirley who came from Ireland
to New Hampshire.
James graduated from
Dartmouth College, read law at Albany New York and soon left
for Augusta Georgia where he was in charge of an academy. He
began his practice in Florence Alabama and pursued it in Huntsville Alabama.
He finally settled in
Vicksburg Mississippi. The towns people referred to him as "Judge
Shirley".
He married twice. His
first wife was Harriet Walsworth and they had one son, James
Jay. His second wife was Adeline Quincy of Boston Massachusetts
and their children were: Alice, Quincy and Frederick.
During the siege at Vicksburg,
Alice stayed in Clinton with her sister-in-law and Qunicy remained
with his parents at the Shirley house. No mention was made as
to Frederick's whereabouts during this period.
James Shirley's character
was unblemished, his loyalty to the Union uncompromising. It
was his plantation that the interview occurred between General
Grant and General Pomberton which lead to the surrender of Vicksburg,
July 4, 1863.The entrenchments ran through his front yard and
his house was destroyed. General Grant gave him possession of
the house of a Confederate.
After the surrender of
Vicksburg a great many claimed to have been loyal and General
Grant referred their cases to Mr. Shirley.
He survived the siege
but a few days, however his wife lived several years longer.
Both are buried behind the house in Vicksburg National Military
Park.
General Grant was the
commander of more than 50,000 men in the Yankee Army whose sole
object at the time was to wrest control of the Mississippi from
the boys in Gray. The key to strategy of both was Vicksburg.
As long as that city of 5,000 (then) stayed in the hands of the
Confederates, the CSA had a slim chance. Food and other supplies,
plus military replacements could flow into the Confederacy from
its Western third. If Vicksburg changed hands all would be lost.
The Yankees could use the fortress city to control the river
and choke off supplies.
On July 4, 1863, the
day after Picketts charge at Gettysburg failed, Vicksburg fell.
It was a bloody six weeks from May to July. Union casualties
totaled 10,000, consisting of 1500 dead, 7500 wounded and 1000
missing. Gray losses were 9000 of which 1400 died, 3800 wounded
and 3800 missing.
James
Shirley