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Thomas Shelton and Daniel Slayton (Slayden) were neighbors on adjacent plantations in Pittsylvania Co., VA. Both signed the Oath of Allegiance to the United States and Declaration of Religious Freedom and both contributed to supplying the Continental Army. Several of their children married and their lines are interwoven in Virginia, Tennessee and Texas. Thomas Shelton married twice (both to women named Jane). Daniel Slayden married Anne Waller.
Both Daniel Slayden and Thomas Shelton signed the marriage bonds of Arthur Slayden and Lucy Shelton in Pittsylvania County Va on Dec. 19, 1796. Thomas Shelton's son William Shelton married Ann Lomax. Her widow's pension application documents Williams' service in the Revolutionary War and includes affidavits from Lucy Shelton Slayton and Nancy Shelton Slayton. Numerous land records document these intertwined families. Descendants still reside on the land where the Slayton's and Shelton's settled prior to the Revolutionary War. The Kerns family currently operates a dairy farm on the land and the pre-revolutionary war era cottage and an early post Revolutionary War two story home are in ruins on the property along with cabins and sheds used as smoke house, and for drying toabacco.
Several descendants migrated to Tennessee in the early 1800s and to the Republic of Texas in the late 1830s. Bible Records of Wm J. Fergusson (son-in-law of Sanford Gustavous Slayton) and of Hickmon Slayton (son of Lucy Shelton Slayton and Arthur Slayden) and of John Dorgan (son-in-law of Sanford Slayton) and numerous land records and census records document the Texas branch of the Slayton/Shelton descendants. There are marriage bonds, marriage licenses, wills, deeds, bible records and military records on these ancestors and descendants. Complications exist because so many share the same first and surname and were born in the same state or county. Some life events have been published of brothers, nephews or cousins and attributed to the wrong person. Extensive work has been done to "unscramble" much of these entangled lines. Now we need to link primary source data (sources) to life events to clarify the work that has already been done.
We are not researching the Arthur Slayden (Slayton) who migrated to the Republic of Texas. He is a cousin of the son of Daniel and Ann Waller Slayden of Pittsylvania County, VA and is not the husband of Lucy Shelton Slayton, daughter of Thomas Shelton and Jane Bennett Shelton Jr of Pittsylvania County, VA.
John Frederick Dorman chronicled the ancestors of Daniel Slayden and Thomas Shelton. This project is an effort to add sources to the narrative and trees of the descendants and ancestors of Thomas Shelton and Jane Bennett and Daniel Slaydon and Ann Waller.