Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
NameJohn Shelton 
, 3C8R
, 3C8RBirth19 Jul 1722
Death1778 Age: 55
FatherRalph Shelton (1685-1734)
MotherMary Crispen (->1757)
Notes for John Shelton
Following from “RALPH SHELTON, OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS”; An Account by his great-5-grandson, Kenyon Stevenson (deceased), Hudson, Ohio, 1953:1472
Third of the brothers to buy Amelia land was John Shelton, who in 1749 acquired 269 acres on the north side of Great Nottaway River from Richard Clark. Next year he deeded 100 acres of this land, on Ready Branch and Great Nottaway, to his brother Daniel Shelton, with witnesses Crispin and Benjamin Shelton and the Buefords, James and Henry. The remaining 169 acres John retained until August 25, 1774, when he and wife Elizabeth of Nottaway Parish, Amelia County, deeded it to William Crenshaw.
On May 30, 1750, the mother, Mary Clark, calling herself “of the Parish of Nottaway in the County of Amelia”, wrote her will. She left one shilling sterling each to her grandchild Reuben Shelton, son Ralph Shelton, son Crispin Shelton, son John Shelton, son Benjamin Shelton, son James Shelton, and grandchild Patient Catey Blackey. To her daughter Elizabeth Davis she gave “the best of my wearing clothes.” All the rest of her estate, including “negro wench Janey”, she bequeathed to Daniel Shelton, her youngest son (nearing his 21st birthday) and named him “sole Executor and so-forth”.
Third of the brothers to buy Amelia land was John Shelton, who in 1749 acquired 269 acres on the north side of Great Nottaway River from Richard Clark. Next year he deeded 100 acres of this land, on Ready Branch and Great Nottaway, to his brother Daniel Shelton, with witnesses Crispin and Benjamin Shelton and the Buefords, James and Henry. The remaining 169 acres John retained until August 25, 1774, when he and wife Elizabeth of Nottaway Parish, Amelia County, deeded it to William Crenshaw.
On May 30, 1750, the mother, Mary Clark, calling herself “of the Parish of Nottaway in the County of Amelia”, wrote her will. She left one shilling sterling each to her grandchild Reuben Shelton, son Ralph Shelton, son Crispin Shelton, son John Shelton, son Benjamin Shelton, son James Shelton, and grandchild Patient Catey Blackey. To her daughter Elizabeth Davis she gave “the best of my wearing clothes.” All the rest of her estate, including “negro wench Janey”, she bequeathed to Daniel Shelton, her youngest son (nearing his 21st birthday) and named him “sole Executor and so-forth”.