James Roderick Shelton^[1]

1734 - 1784  (50 years)

• Name	James Roderick Shelton
  Birth	22 Feb 1734	, Amelia, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Name	James Shelton
  Residence	1782	, Amelia, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Death	14 May 1784	, Henry, Virginia, USA
  Residence	1810	, Grainger, Tennessee, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I37866	Master
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2021

  
  

  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   [4]
  Family ID	F9000	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna Vardaman,   b. 1737, , Amelia, Virginia, USA d. 1816, , Lincoln, Tennessee, USA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	1750	, Lincoln, Tennessee, USA
  Children	1. John Shelton,   b. 1751, , Middlesex, Virginia, USA d. 1777, Brandywine, Prince Georges, Maryland, USA (Age 26 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. David Shelton,   b. 1752, , Amelia, Virginia, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Anna Shelton,   b. 1755   d. 1760 (Age 5 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. George W Shelton,   b. 1756, , Amelia, Virginia, USA d. 29 Mar 1833, , Fentress, Tennessee, USA (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 5. Vardiman Shelton,   b. 1757, , Amelia, Virginia, USA d. 18 Jul 1815, , Lincoln, Tennessee, USA (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Joseph Shelton,   b. 1758, , Amelia, Virginia, USA   7. James Shelton,   b. 1759, Roanoke, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA d. 4 Jun 1831, , Ray, Missouri, USA (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Susanna Ann Shelton,   b. 1760, , Fauquier, Virginia, USA d. 1855, , , Illinois, USA (Age 95 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Mark Shelton,   b. 1761, , Amelia, Virginia, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Nancy Sarah Shelton,   b. 1762, , Fauquier, Virginia, USA d. 1830, , , Tennessee, USA (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Peter Shelton,   b. 1763, Roanoke, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA d. 1857, , Lincoln, Tennessee, USA (Age 94 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   12. David Anderson Shelton,   b. 1776, , Amelia, Virginia, USA d. 1857, , Madison, North Carolina, USA (Age 81 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   13. Clary Shelton,   b. 13 Sep 1778, , Charlotte, Virginia, USA d. 1816, , , Kentucky, USA (Age 37 years)   14. Letty Lettice Lilly Shelton,   b. 1780, , Patrick, Virginia, USA d. 1846, Alma, Marion, Illinois, USA (Age 66 years)   15. Hamen L Shelton,   b. 1784, , Amelia, Virginia, USA d. 27 Sep 1856, , Miller, Missouri, USA (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F9004	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 22 Feb 1734 - , Amelia, Virginia, USA Marriage - 1750 - , Lincoln, Tennessee, USA Residence - 1782 - , Amelia, Virginia, USA Death - 14 May 1784 - , Henry, Virginia, USA Residence - 1810 - , Grainger, Tennessee, 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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