1775 DB F: 212 1/10/1775 - 7/17/1797.
Robt Shirley planter and wife Jane and his mother Mary Shirley
of Craven Co to Andrew Cunnningham of same for L450 cur. 350
acres where we now live, part of 500 acres granted by Montagure
2/15/1769 to Richard Shirley dec'd father of Robert Shirley and
husband of Mary Shirley. on Raburns Creek of Reedy River. Wit:
David Cuningham, Godfrey Isbell, Joseph Pinson. Wm Moore, J.P
Abbeville Co.
married Genny_______. Various deeds up through 1811 list her name
as Jennie or Genny. She was alive in December 1811 when she relinquished
her claim of dower rights upon her husband's sale of land in
that year.
children:
(census indicates Robert Shirley had only 2 sons and no daughters)
2(i). Elijah
Shirley born about 1768, son of Robert
and Genny Shirley. Occupation: blacksmith; He was enumerated
in the 1800 census for Fairfield Co SC with a wife and 4 daughters;
In 1810, his census household consisted of him and his wife,
his 4 daughters and 1 young son under the age of 10 years; In
1810 his father in law John Gwin Sr gave him 94 acres of land
on Beaver Creek. His brother John Shirley who also married a
daughter of Gwin witnessed the deed; Both Shirley boys witnessed
the will of Gwin that same year; Elijah then still living in
Fairfield County sold some of Gwin's land in 1813 then Chester
Co SC thereafter. Elijah "of Fairfield District" later
sold more of this land in 1830; In 1812, Elijah purchased 106
acres from Thomas Gwin, but Elijah and his wife Nancy later sold
the same land [date?]. They had moved from Fairfield County to
next door Chester County by that time; Elijah was enumerated
in the 1820 census for Chester county with 5 children in the
household; He apparently returned to Fairfield County where in
1830, he and his wife Nancy sold more of the land originally
owned by her father John Gwin; Elijah was apparently still alive
in 1833
married Nancy Gwin; She was the daughter of John Gwin Sr of Fairfield
Co SC
2(ii). John
Shirley born 10 January 1776, son of
Robert and Genny Shirley. Married with young family in the 1800
Fairfield Co SC census; He lived adjacent to his father-in-law
John Gwin in the Fairfield Co 1810 census, wife and 1 young daughter,
1 teenage son and 2 young sons in the family at that time. John
was given 87 acres in Fairfield Co SC by his father-in-law in
1810. Gwin died that same year. John Shirley was enumerated in
the 1820 census of Fairfield Count with an expanding family of
children, 5 sons and 2 daughters remaining unmarried and living
in the household; He purchased 295 accres of land in Fairfield
County from John McWeir/Weir in 1831 and purchased and sold land
in Fairfield County several times in the 1830s, the last being
1838. The elder John Shirley does not appear in federal census
records in 1840, thus indicating he may have died by that date.
married Mary Gwin on 16 February 1797; She was the daughter of
John Gwin Sr of Fairfield Co SC
Richard Shirley