This page was begun 4 May 2001 -- rak.
"Several family researchers have said that she was Mary Crispin. There was a Thomas Crisp who married Dorothy Long in Middlesex Co. in 1687, and Mary may have been their daughter [Ayers, p.141, note 285]."
"Although no record is known to exist, it seems quite likely that Ralph's widow Mary then married Thomas Clark, a witness to [Ralph's] will. Susannah, wife of Thomas Clark, died 19 February 1733, less than a month before Ralph Shelton died. Thomas Clark died 18 September 1746, and the following month his heirs signed a paper stating that they had received their parts of his estate from Mary Clark, his widow. In 1757 Mary Clark and Peter Clark of Essex County sold 150 acres of land to John Lambeth for 1,050 pounds sterling. (The identity of Mary and Peter Clark is not known to the author [It should be the widow and the eldest son --rak].) The land is described as being on Dragon Swamp, and may have been part of Thomas Clark's estate [Ayers, p.42].
"Mary Clark's will, written 30 January 1750 and proved 21 years later ... 29 August 1771 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Ayers, p.40], mentions sons Ralph, Crispin, John, Benjamin, James and Daniel, daughter Elizabeth Davis, and grandchildren Reuben Shelton and Patience Catesby Blakey. The will was not witnessed; her son Daniel was executor [Ayers, p.42]."
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