When Rachel Sheldon was born in 1775, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Elijah Sheldon Jr., was 37 and her mother, Rachel Hanchett, was 36. She married Capt. Daniel Sheldon in 1793, in Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Sennett, Cayuga, New York, United States for about 5 years. She died on 15 August 1855, at the age of 80, and was buried in Sennett, Cayuga, New York, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1799: Cayuga, New York, United States
English: habitational name in most cases from Sheldon in Derbyshire, but sometimes from Sheldon in Warwickshire or Devon, or from Sheldon in Chippenham (Wiltshire). The Derbyshire place, recorded in Domesday Book as Scelhadun, probably takes its name from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + the placename Haddon, itself from Old English hǣth ‘heath’ + dūn ‘hill’. The Warwickshire and Wiltshire placenames probably derive from Old English scelf + dūn, while the Devon placename probably comes from Old English scelf + denu ‘valley’.
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