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/wNHBAIB/3000.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Some records, one being a church record and others tax records, indicate that this Stephen Shelton was the son of Ezekiah Shelton who came to be referred to in all his KY and TN records as Hezekiah Shelton. Ezekiah/Hezekiah Shelton was the son of Ralph Shelton, II, d. 1789 in Henry County, VA, who was the son of Ralph Shelton, l, who died in 1733 in Middlesex County, VA. Ralph Shelton, I, came into the Colony of Virginia in 1702 as the headright of Thomas Merriwether of Essex County, where the importation record is recorded. However, Ralph served no headright contract and when Thomas died in 1708, he left in his land to Ralph Shelton land in Middlesex County, VA, which shares a boundary line with Essex County.