Family:Peter Shelton and Susannah Jackson (1)

In Middlesex County, a Peter Chilton married Susan Jaxon on March 2, 1685/86.  This is the first notice of a man who appears in the records as Chilton, Chelton and Shelton over the next 30 years.  Three of his sons’ births are recorded in the Christ Church Parish Register as Chilton, but his own name occurs in his 1718 will as Chilton, Chelton and Chellton.  He signed his name by mark, Peter Chellton.  It has been assumed by some students of the family that Ralph Shelton of Middlesex was a son of this Peter, but there is no particle of evidence in either the Parish Register or the county records to suggest or confirm this inference.  Peter’s will speaks of sons Peter (deceased), William, Thomas and Zebulon, and of no others.  A fifth son Henry Chelton, so noted in the Register, had predeceased his father, aged about 26 and probably unmarried.

Quoted from RALPH SHELTON OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS, by Kenyon Stevenson, a Shelton Descendant [born 31 May 1895 – died 30 August 1957] Hudson, OH, 1955 Version, Typed and Corrected, Spring 2002, by Margaret S. Alford, 1520 Young’s Ferry Road, Bowling Green, KY 42101, msalford@mindspring.com.