William Shed made a choice of Thomas Sangster as his guardian when he was 14 years of age, following the death of his father (Loudoun Co., VA, Order Book F:352, 11 April 1774). This occurred at the same time his mother was named administrator of her husband's estate and was awarded legal guardian of her two daughters, Eleanor and Frances Herd, in place of George Winn and Thomas Sangster, who were discharged. Martha, with son-in-law Thomas Millan and John Orr as securitors, entered into bond of 200 pounds.

William was the oldest son of James Shed still living in Virginia in the mid-1770s. By then, his older brothers, George and James Thompson, had migrated to South Carolina. In about 1777, it would appear that William decided to relinquish his portion of the Virginia estate passed down from his father in a distribution of property court filing (William Kitchen v. William Shed, filed 13 March 1775, settled December 1777).

It is certain beyond a reasonable doubt that William Shed, son of James Shed, is the William Shed who settled in present Spartanburg County, SC, in the 1700s. William Shed had a son named James born in South Carolina in 1779. William Shed was a Revolutionary War veteran, having served in Roebuck's Regiment from July 2, 1781, to June 1, 1782, and Roebuck's Regiment was recruited from backwoodsmen of present Spartanburg County. In 1782 William Shed received an original grant from the State of South Carolina of a tract of land on "Case's Creek" in present Spartanburg County, and he lived there with his family until he sold the property and moved from the county in November 1806. Census records show William Shed as a family head living in Spartanburg County in 1790 and 1800 and indicate that he raised a family while living there. That family included one son born in 1779, two younger sons and several daughters.

On Jan. 7, 1807, William Shed was deeded a tract of land on Chauga Creek in what was then Pendleton District, SC, later a part of Pickens County and now Oconee County. He apparently acquired more than 2,000 acres of land in the Chauga Creek section, where he and other Shedds lived for many years. In his old age he left his Chauga Creek home and went to live with his son in Coffee County, Tenn., at some time prior to 1846. He apparently was the William Shed shown as a delegate from Chauga Baptist Church of Pendleton District who attended a convention at Poplar Springs Church in Franklin County, GA., on Sept. 18, 1818, when the Tugaloo Baptist Association was organized. Census records indicated that he was born in 1756 or a few years thereafter. Since he died during or shortly before 1846, he must have lived to be close to 90 years old.

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