Living Individual - Details withheldNathan operated a mill in Hamilton County TN on property he acquired in 1828 on the lower side of Opossum Creek. He was in business with Richard Shipley, Jr in the firm N Shipley and Brother.
Hamilton Co, TN, Deed Book A, p 142, July 28, 1828, Charles McCLung, Knox Co and James COzby, Rhea Co TN by WIlliam Smith, their attorney to Nathan Shipley Hamilton Co. Consideration $150-200 a land beginning lower side Posom Cr. supposed to be McGill's upper corner, etc. Benjamin Shipley was a witness.
Nathan Shipley in 1835 invested $30.12 in a Dallas lot, which he sold later in the year to Samuel Igou for $150. However, Nathan Shipley was not always so fortunate in business, and he fell into debt. A judgement was entered against his mill and surrounding several hundred acres. The property went in 1820 to Robert McRee and Lewis Patterson for $500, but that sale was voided and it passed to John W Saunders and George W Martin for $200 in 1842. FInally, William CLift in 1843 took advantage of the Nathan Shipley bankruptcy by getting his 300 acres for "50 cents - he being the highest and best bidder."
Might be this Nathan
Index to Mexican War Pension Files, transcribed by Virgil D White, National Historical Publishing, Waynesboro, TN 1989, p 480: Shipley, Nathan H, SC-18716, 2 May 1887, TN, serv Co D, 5th TN vols
