Person:Ralph Shelton (6)

Transcript of Will of Ralph Shelton by unknown from Henry Co Virginia Will Book 1, pg 170-171

The following is the Will of Ralph Shelton, Jr.:

In the name of God amen the twenty third Day of April One Thousand Seven hundred Eighty Seven I Ralph Shelton Sen. Of Henry County being of Perfect sound Memory and calling to mind that it is appointed for all men once to die do make constitute and Ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following (Viz.) First and Principally I Recommend my Soul into the hand of Almighty God who gave it me, and as Touching that Worldly Estate it hath pleased him to bestow on me I Dispose of them as follows. I give and Divize to my son John Shelton five Pounds Sterling Current Money of Virginia. The Intent of my Willing my son John Shelton five Pounds Sterling is to cut him from his kinship. And Also my Will and desire is that my four Last Children namely Easop Shelton, Abbegal Shelton, Mary Shelton, Liberty Shelton shall be rased of my Estate. And the Remainder part of my Estate Lands and Moveables to be equally Divided between Ralph Shelton Palitiah Shelton Eliphaz Shelton James Shelton Ezekiah Shelton Jeremiah Shelton Azariah Shelton Roger Shelton Easop Shelton Abbegal Shelton Mary Shelton Liberty Shelton Katherin Rutherford, Sarah Robertson Elizabeth Arnold Rina McGehe Susannah Jones they or their heirs. I also appoint my son Ralph Shelton and Eliphaz Shelton Executors of this my Last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament hereunto set me hand and affirmed my Seal the day and year above Written. Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and Declared to be my Last Will and Testament. Signed by: Ralph Shelton Henry Holt John Fletcher John Branham At a Court held for Henry Count on the 30th Day of March 1789. The within Last Will & Testament of Ralph Shelton Deceased was Exhibited in Court by Eliphaz Shelton one of the Executors there in named who took the oath of an Executor & the same was proved by the oaths of the Witnesses thereto to be the Last Will & Testament of the said Ralph Shelton deceased & and the said Eliphaz Shelton with Stephen Lyon & John Parr jr. his Securities entered into Bond & Acknowledged the same & was ordered to be Recorded by the Court. The said Eliphaz Shelton having obtained a Probate thereof in due form Agreeable to Law. Teste. John Coe C. M. (Source: Webpage[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ralph [Shelton], in The Parish register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Va., from 1653 to 1812. (Richmond, Virginia: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1897)
   79.

   Birth of Ralph, 23 Oct 1709, son of Ralph & Mary Shelton

2. ↑ Edmund West (compiler). Family Data Collection - Deaths: [database on-line] (not a reliable source). (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001).

   Death date: 1789; Death place: Henry, VA, USA