Eliphaz Shelton^[1]

1741 - 1826  (85 years)

• Name	Eliphaz Shelton
  Birth	1741	, , Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Feb 1826	, Patrick, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I37872	Master
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	Ralph Shelton, Jr,   b. Oct 1709, Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia, USA d. 30 Mar 1789, , Henry, Virginia, USA (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Mary Daniel,   b. 7 Mar 1714, Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia, USA d. 1766, , Henry, Virginia, USA (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	10 Jun 1731	Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F9011	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy Ann Shelton,   b. 1758, , Amelia, Virginia, USA d. 19 Mar 1818, , Patrick, Virginia, USA (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	18 Aug 1772	, Goochland, Virginia, USA
  Children	1. Lucy Shelton,   b. 1748, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 19 Feb 1816, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]   2. Francis Shelton,   b. 1760, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1801, Roanoke, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 41 years)  [Father: natural]   3. Sarah Shelton,   b. 1765, , Patrick, Virginia, USA d. 1818 (Age 53 years)  [Father: natural]   4. Charlotte Shelton,   b. 1766, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA  [Father: natural] + 5. Claiborne A Shelton,   b. 1768, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1848, , Madison, Indiana, USA (Age 80 years)   6. Hannah Shelton,   b. 1768, , Patrick, Virginia, USA d. 27 Dec 1860, , Patrick, Virginia, USA (Age 92 years)  [Father: natural]   7. Archibald Shelton,   b. 1774, Stuart, Patrick, Virginia, USA d. 1816, , Patrick, Virginia, USA (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural]   8. Lettice Shelton,   b. 1774, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1851, Roanoke, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]   9. Nancy Shelton,   b. 1775, Louisa, Louisa, Virginia, USA  [Father: natural]   10. Phillipena "Peany" Shelton,   b. 1776, , Henry, Virginia, USA d. 1 Feb 1856, , Patrick, Virginia, USA (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]   11. Jane Shelton,   b. 1776  [Father: natural]   12. Mary Shelton,   b. 1779  [Father: natural]   13. Elizabeth Nancy Shelton,   b. 1780, , Patrick, Virginia, USA d. 1860 (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]   14. Olive Shelton,   b. 1784, , Patrick, Virginia, USA d. 1840, , Washington, Indiana, USA (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]   15. Frederick Shelton,   b. 1784, , Patrick, Virginia, USA d. 20 Dec 1813, Camp Slaughters Field, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 29 years)  [Father: natural]   16. Hudson Shelton,   b. 1792, , Patrick, Virginia, USA d. 1823, Stuart, Patrick, Virginia, USA (Age 31 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F9010	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1741 - , , Virginia, USA Marriage - 18 Aug 1772 - , Goochland, Virginia, USA Death - 16 Feb 1826 - , Patrick, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Eliphaz donates land for courthouse After the Revolution and the Independence won, Captain Eliphaz Shelton on February 28, 1784 received from Benjamin Harrison, then Governor of Virginia, a grant of 590 acres on both sides of Mayo River in Henry County. He applied for a grant selecting two adjoin­ing tracts of 400 acres and 190 acres bordering his father's land astride the South Fork of Mayo River. The official survey of this grant of land was made by John Dickerson, Henry County Surveyor, as of November 25, 1782, duly recorded in Henry County Survey Book No. 1, page 197, on file in clerk's office in Henry County Court House, Martinsville, Virginia. His land was bounded on the south by the 400-acre tract owned by his brother, Captain James Shelton, At a point close by Captain Eliphaz Shelton's western boundary the waters from Bull Mountain Fork joined the South Mayo River as it flowed out of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With the formation of Patrick County in 1791, a site was needed for the county seat. The first court was held in a tobacco warehouse near Mayo Forge in the eastern part of the county. Later the place for holding court was moved to the home of Edward Tatum on Peters Creek. But the permanent site of the county seat was chosen by the 255 Justices to be the heart of the 590-acre tract of Eliphaz Shelton near the south Fork of Mayo River. Records in the office of Circuit Court Clerk of Patrick County show that Eliphaz Shelton donated 18 acres for the site of the county seat. This was by deed dated Octob­er 10, 1791 recorded in Deed Book 1, page 17. Four men — William Banks, Samuel Clark, Charles Poster and William Carter — or any 3 of them, were appointed to lay off the land. A courthouse was built and the land was laid out and named Taylorsville, this for one George Taylor. The town was later called Stuart for J. E. B. Stuart, Confederate General, and was incorporated as such in 1884. That year the Danville and New River Railroad ran its line into the town. Eliphaz Shelton owned and operated a gristmill on Campbell Branch, which flows through the town, one Samuel Staples as early as 1791 operated a blacksmith shop on land in the county seat donated by Eliphaz Shelton. A meetinghouse in the vicinity is mentioned in a deed from one James Beuford to Eliphaz made in 1793. So the Sheltons particularly Ralph sr., Eliphaz and James, were very instrumental in forming Patrick County. Their adjoining tracks of land in the Taylorsville area were so situated with relation to each other that if a line was drawn from a point on the western boundary of Eliphaz‘s land eastward through the town of Taylorsville, crossing the adjoining tracts of Ralph Shelton, Sr. and James Shelton to the latter’s eastern edge, such a line would be two and one-fourth miles long. A 1794 record shows that Eliphaz witnessed in Patrick County the wedding of John Chandler and Elizabeth Bennett on December 10, 1794. Another witness was Thomas Boiling, Sr. Eliphaz Shelton died in August 1826 at his residence near the Patrick County courthouse, is buried on land formerly owned by Ralph Shelton (5), which is in the present town of Stuart, as is Ralph, the old cemetery being on land now owned by the Carter family.

  
  

• Sources

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