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About James Shackelford
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James and Elizabeth lived in Abington and Ware Parishes, VA. James sold his wife's property, in Elizabeth City, without her knowledge in the same county Elizabeth Co., VA (Ref: William W. Hening, Statues at Large, from the first session of the legislature, year 1619, Vol IV, Chapter XXIX, pp 461-465).
James, son of Roger, born about 1660, married Elizabeth Robins, at Christ Church, Middlesex County, July 14, 1687. She was a grand-daughter of John Robins, of Robin's Neck, Gloucester. She had a sister, Ann, who married Robert Freeman.
Through this marriage James came into possession of considerable land in Gloucester and Elizabeth City Counties, the final disposition of which will appear in a later chapter. James and Elizabeth resided in Abingdon and Ware Parishes in Gloucester, where James died in 1734, leaving a son James and many other children. Elizabeth lived to be very old, about 98, when she "was buried Aug. 2, 1748". James was evidently not a very thrifty man, as will appear later on in this story.
There is hardly a doubt that the immigrant Roger left other children than those I have mentioned (James, Francis, John and Zachariah), but I am not able to find their names. All of "Tidewater" Virginia is full of Shackelfords, even to this day, and they must be descendants of the immigrant, Roger.
There is a question as to the date James died - it was evidently prior to 1734, because in that year she is called a widow. James Shackelford and Elizabeth Robins, his wife, left a large number of children, including James, born June 10, 1690, Mary, John, Charles, Roger, Robert, Richard, Jane and Diana.
But it so happened that James Shackelford, and Robert Freeman, who married Ann Robins, Elizabeth's sister, had sold most of the land that belonged, by inheritance, to their respective wives, with the result that they were left in desperate circumstances.
In an effort to rescue themselves and their numerous children, Elizabeth Shackelford and her eldest son, James, and Ann Freeman and her eldest son, Robert, made a petition to the House of Burgesses for their relief.
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James Shackelford's Timeline
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1662
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Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
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1685
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Virginia
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June 10, 1690
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Gloucester County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1694
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Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
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1705
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1710
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Gloucester County, Province of Virginia
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1712
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Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
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1734
Age 72
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Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
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