When Martha "Patsy" Shelton was born about 1788, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, her father, Armistead Shelton, Ensign Va, was 29 and her mother, Susannah Shelton, was 39. She died in 1883, at the age of 96.
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The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English (Nottinghamshire): habitational name primarily from Shelton (Nottinghamshire), but also from Shelton (Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and Staffordshire). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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