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Author: Thomas Hobert Chilton, Jr.
George Chilton, the son of Thomas and Katherine Chilton, was born in about 1748 in White Chapel, Lancaster County, Virginia, Thomas and Katherine had at least eight children, including George. George's third great-grandfather, John Chilton, migrated to this county in about 1660. The Chilton family lived in Christ's Church, Lancaster County, Virginia, and it was thought that George lived in Lancaster County as well. In 1781, George Chilton served two tours of duty in the Virginia Militia, one in Capt. Richard Yancy's Company at Cheraw Hills, and the other in Capt. White's Company at Yorktown. In his pension application he states that he was with a company of militia that guarded General Cornwallis as he was marched back to New York. I like to fantasize that George was one of those soldiers that whistled "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as they marched him back to New York. George married Mary before 1775, and they had at least eight children. Mary died before 1809, and he married Sally Archer on May 2, 1809, in Chesterfield County, Virginia. There were no children from this marriage. After the war, George Chilton and his family moved to Culpeper County, Virginia, and before 1810 he and his son, George Chilton, Jr., and their families, moved to Woodford County, Kentucky. They probably traveled through the Cumberland Gap carrying most of their possessions on their backs, and the back's of their pack animals. George Chilton and his son settled near the communities of Mortonsville and Nonesuch south of Versailles in Woodford, Kentucky. At one time Mortonsville was considered as the site for the capitol of Kentucky. Today both of these villages are little more than cross roads. In May, 1833, George Chilton applied for, and was granted, a pension for his Revolutionary War service (Pension #S.1188). George Chilton was a farmer who grew corn, raised pigs, cows, and horses, and kept honey bees, as recorded in his last will and testament. George died about July 5, 1839. Sally Chilton died about December 10, 1840. George Chilton, Jr., in a codicil to his will, refers to the "family burying grounds". We found his grave in a family plot just west of Nonesuch, and I think it fair to assume that George Chilton, Sr. was buried there as well. The Chiltons spelled their name several different ways from the mid 1700s to the late 1800s, including Chilton, Chilten, Chelton, Shelton, and Shelten, and probably others. Family lore has it that George Chilton, Sr.'s grandson and great-grandson rode by horseback to Virginia to learn the correct spelling of their name. This was shortly after the Civil War, and it is said that they were met with some hostility, as Kentucky was a border state and Virginia was a slave state. After 1870 the name has been spelled Chilton. DNA tests show that many of the Sheltons living in Woodford, Anderson, and Mercer Counties in Kentucky are actually Chiltons.
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