When Reverend George Sheldon was born on 11 October 1757, in South Kingstown, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, John Sheldon, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Webb, was 33. He married Lucy Niles in 1779, in Stephentown, Rensselaer, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He registered for military service in 1777. He died in 1840, in Ripley, Indiana, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Moores Hill, Sparta Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States.
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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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