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• Name: Thomas SHANNON
• Sex: M
• Birth: 25 Mar 1753 in Nelson Co, Virginia ^b
• Death: 12 Nov 1841 in Poplar Hill, Virginia ^d
• Burial: Family Graveyard, Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Samuel SHANNON Birth: Abt 1716 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 4 Oct 1811 in Nashville, Davidson Co, Tennessee
Mother:

• Jane REID Birth: Abt 1730 in Delaware Death: 1807 in Davidson Co, Tennessee

Family:
Marriage:

• Agnes CROWE on 20 Jan 1778 at Montgomery Co, Virginia .^m1
  
• Agnes CROWE Birth: 17 Jun 1760 Death: 16 Oct 1823 in Poplar Hill, Virginia

Children:

1. Ann SHANNON Birth: 16 Aug 1779 in Poplar Hill, Virginia Death: 2 Jul 1781 in Poplar Hill, Virginia
2. Samuel SHANNON Birth: 7 Nov 1781 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia Death: Oct 1841 in Hendricks Co, Indiana
3. William SHANNON Birth: 1784 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia
4. John Crowe SHANNON Birth: 26 Dec 1786 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia Death: 2 Mar 1850
5. Jane SHANNON Birth: 15 May 1789 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia Death: 20 Jul 1848 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia
6. Hannah SHANNON Birth: 19 Jun 1793 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia Death: 15 Jul 1861 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia
7. Thomas SHANNON Birth: 25 Jan 1797 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia Death: 1 Jul 1884 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia
8. David SHANNON Birth: 21 Jan 1801 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia Death: 1 Apr 1801 in Poplar Hill, Giles Co, Virginia

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Dedman SHANNON p1, ShannonD SHANNON p44]

1753 [Ref: Bell SHANNON, Craig AmAncestrySupp3 p85, DAR #157472],

place:

[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p44]

Virginia [Ref: DAR #157472],

parents:

[Ref: Bell SHANNON, Craig AmAncestrySupp3 p85, Dedman SHANNON p1, ShannonD SHANNON p44]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p44]

1841 [Ref: Bell SHANNON, Craig AmAncestrySupp3 p85],

place:

[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p44]

Virginia [Ref: DAR #157472]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

date:

12 Nov 1844 [Ref: Dedman SHANNON p1]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: Dedman SHANNON p1]

Sources with Information about marriage to Agnes CROWE

date:

[Ref: Dedman SHANNON p1, ShannonD SHANNON p40, ShannonD SHANNON p44]

1778 [Ref: Bell SHANNON, Craig AmAncestrySupp3 p85, DAR #157472],

place:

[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p44],

child:

[Ref: DAR #157472, John Peeling 8/6/1998, Johnston MiddleNewRiver AppC-Shannon, ShannonD SHANNON p51, ShannonD SHANNON p73, ShannonD SHANNON p74, ShannonD SHANNON p75, Stimpson SHANNON p64]

Research Notes:
born near Rockfish River, in what is now Nelson Co, VA [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p44]

1780: received from father 465 acres of land on Little Walker's Creek in Fincastle Co (now Giles Co) [Ref: Stimpson SHANNON p64]

Feb 1781: Captain of the Middle New River Company, in which Alexander Marrs was a Lieutenant. Joined the battalion at the New River Lead Mines about the middle of Feb 1781, and on the 18th under the command of Colonel Preston and Major Cloyd, marched to the Haw River section of North Carolina [Ref: Johnston MiddleNewRiver AppC-Shannon]

Captain of the Middle New River Company of Virginia [Ref: DAR #157472]

Captain in Rev. War [Ref: Dedman SHANNON p1, ShannonD SHANNON p44]

1789: listed on Virginia Tax Rolls, list C [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p44]

Jun 30 1789: living near Walker Creek and Neck Creek, VA [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p44]

1789, 92, 93: also listed on Tax List M for Montgomery Co, VA [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p44]

planned to follow parents and brothers and sisters to Cumberland Settlement, Davidson Co, Tenn, but never did [Ref: Dedman SHANNON p1, ShannonD SHANNON p48]

elder of the New Dublin Church, as far back as the records go (1795) [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p44]

will dated Apr 22 1833, mentions daughters Jane King and Hannah Hudson, son Thomas Jr, Samuel, heirs of William and John [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p50]

will proved in Giles Co, VA, November term 1841 [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p51]

DAR erected a monument on his grave in 1933 [Ref: Dedman SHANNON p1]

----- Text from _A History of the Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory_, by David E Johnston, 1906, Appendix C:
Thomas married Miss Agnes Crowe, and continued in possession of the Poplar Hill property, which is still in the hands of his descendants. He became a man of prominence in civil and military affairs; was long a Magistrate of Giles County, Sheriff thereof, and a Representative in the Legislature. In the month of February, 1781, the British Army advanced northward through the Carolinas toward Virginia, and Colonel William Preston, the military commandant of the Montgomery troops, and of which Joseph Cloyd was Major, called out the forces to go to the help of the American Army commanded by General Greene. Thomas Shannon was the Captain of the Middle New River Company, in which one Alexander Marrs was a Lieutenant, and among the members thereof were Thomas Farley, Isaac Cole, Matthew French, John French, Joseph Hare, Edward Hale, the Clays, and others. Captain Shannon and his company joined the battalion at the New River Lead Mines about the middle of February, 1781, and on the 18th day of that month the command under Colonel Preston and Major Cloyd, 350 strong, marched to the Haw River section of North Carolina, in the vicinity of which was the Army of General Greene, as was that of Lord Cornwallis. Being in a strange country, and not being advised of the positions of the respective armies, Preston's men went into camp, finding themselves the next morning between the combatants, and close by the British pickets. Colonel Preston had been ordered to report to General Pickens, and was on his way thither when he halted and camped between the armies. On the 2nd day of March Lee's Legion and Preston's Battalion had a spirited encounter with Tarleton's Cavalry, inflicting upon it considerable loss. Again on the 6th of March, at Wetzel's Mills, Pickens' command, including Preston's and Cloyd's men, had quite a battle with the British advance. General Pickens retreated to Guilford Court House, where the troops of Preston and Campbell, under Colonel William Campbell, were posted on the American left, and put up a good fight. They were attacked by Colonel Tarleton, who led the British right wing, and he says in his "His. of His Southern Campaign," that his troops were badly hurt by the Backwoodsmen from Virginia; that "they were behind a fence, and stood until the British Infantry, with their bayonets, climbed the fence." Captain Shannon lived to the age of ninety years, leaving a son, Thomas, who married Julia Allen, and their children are: Thomas, Joseph, James R., all three of whom are dead; William R., who married a Miss Bush; Nancy, now dead, who married John Henderson Bane; Eliza, who married James B. Miller; and Samuel B., who resides on the old homestead. The second Thomas Shannon served as a Magistrate in his county, and sat as a member of the County Court for long years, and was more than once a member of the Virginia Legislature. At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 he was reckoned the wealthiest man in Giles County. His sons were all gallant Confederate soldiers. [Ref: Johnston MiddleNewRiver AppC-Shannon]



Pedigree of Thomas SHANNON
                                     /-----John SHANNON
                            /-----John SHANNON
                   /-----Robert SHANNON
          /-----Thomas SHANNON
         |         \-----Annal (SHANNON)
 /-----Samuel SHANNON
|         \-----Agnes (SHANNON)
Thomas SHANNON
|                  /-----Thomas REID
|         /-----John Col REID
|        |         \-----Mary McKEAN
 \-----Jane REID
          \-----Jane STUART



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