A few years after their marriage William Shelton bought 80 acres of land in Halifax County, Virginia in 1763 on the north side of the Dan River for ten shillings. This land adjoined the land of the Green Family.

William Shelton is listed in the 1767 tithables taken by John Wilson in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He bought 198 acres of land on the north branch of the Dan River in Pittsylvania County in 1773 for 20 shillings.

In 1778 William Shelton was named executor of John Yates' (Hannah's father) estate. In 1784 he bought 250 acres of land in Pitttsylvania County on the north side of the Dan River for one pound and five shillings. This land adjoined his earlier property and also that of John Ware and William Wilson.

William Shelton was a charter member of Masonic Lodge #24 in Pittsylvania County. He died in February 1794 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, intestate.

There was an old family Bible in which Myrtle (Shelton) Hanor states the land in Union/Webster was a land grant to William Shelton for service during the Revolutionary War. The Bible says three brothers, William, Josias, and Joseph Rankin Shelton came from Ireland to Pennsylvania. I have no personal proof of this to date.

There is a Virginia Land Grant to William Shelton of 1012 1/2 acres on 6/30/1785 in Lincoln County, Drowning Creek, Book 11 page 280 of the Virginia Land Grants. Most of this land was given for military service in the French/Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Webster, Union, Hopkins, and Henderson counties were all part of Lincoln County KY at that time.