This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/3874 Message Board Post: The David referred to here is called by many researchers "David of Caswell" in an effort to separate him from other Davids of his era. He died in 1801 and his parentage is held to be a Thomas Shelton of Louisa County, VA, who sold his Louisa land, left and moved to his daughter's in 1777 where he died. However, this is preponderance of evidence data from the work of numerous researchers in Virginia records and not proven by legal documentation beyond the 1777 sale, including the parentage of David of Caswell, who, incidentailly, married first Elizabeth Matlock which is documented by the will of her father as are the names of her three children, John, Lucy, Agnes. This line is thought to be descended from Peter Chilton/Chelton/Shelton (most of his records are recorded as "Chilton" but records with the other two spellings do exist) from Middlesex County, VA., living there about 1680 or so. The David Shelton of Fairfield County, South Carolina, is the son of Samuel Shelton, son of John Shelton, d. 1726, at "Rural Plains", Hanover County, VA. This John is not the same as the John who married Eleanor Parks but rather was the father of the John that married Eleanor. Whether his son William lived in Union, SC, is data I do not have but it is documented that David's daughter was married to a Sims and did live in Union County, SC. There is in the Union County, SC, 1830 census a William Shelton, Esq. while there is also a William Shelton in the 1830 Haywood County, North Carolina, census, so I do not believe the Union County William is the same one as the NC William who married 1st Mary Bates, 2d Lydia Parker. That "Esq." is quite typical of the "Rural Plains", Hanover County, VA, family. I would be so appreciative if you have the time to share the documentation showing William Shelton of Greenville County, South Carolina, moved to Haywood County, North Carolina, then returned to South Carolina, then moved back to North Carolina, where, according to census information William must have died between 1850-1860. In the 1860 census, "L. Shelton, age 60, born in South Carolina, is resident in the household of William's son listed in William's household in 1850 as Samuel. In 1860 he is heading his own household as S. P. C. Shelton with his wife, his children and "L. Shelton" in the newly created county of Jackson, North Carolina which was created from Haywood County in 1852. William owned $500 in real estate in the 1850 Haywood census and S. P. C. Shelton owns $1,500 in real estate in Jackson in 1860. Does anyone has access to those real estate records? Thank you for any assistance.