CAPTAINS JOHN SHIELDS died Nov. 3, 1821 buried in Congruity Cemetery
Title: History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania / v.1
Authors: Boucher, John Newton, 1854-1933., Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Pg. 541
CAPTAIN JOHN SHIELDS came from Adams County to Westmoreland in 1766.The land he purchased was near the present town of New Alexandria.He was a captain in the Revolutionary War.He was a blacksmith, and had made pinchers and tools with which he could extract teeth, there being no dentists, and most of the time no physicians within reach.He was one of the five commissioners appointed in 1785 to purchase land in trust for the inhabitants of the county upon which to erect a court house.He was also a justice of the peace, and for many years a ruling elder in the Congruity Church, when REV. SAMUEL PORTER was a pastor.He died Nov. 3, 1821, aged 82 years, and was buried in Congruity Cemetery.