Hannah Melton

• Name	Hannah Melton
  Gender	Female
  Residence	John Sheffield Sr./Hannah Melton Homeplace, Moore County, NC
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Robert Melton   d. 1759, Orange County, NC   (Father)
  Notes	1794, Dec 6 -- Will Book A, Moore County, NC Pages 186-187 Will of John Sheffield, Dec'd. Heirs: wife Hannah Sheffield [100 acre plantation where I now live], son Mark Sheffield, son John Sheffield, son Adam Sheffield [100 acres on Rattlesnake Branch], son Isham Sheffield [100 acres where he now lives], son Averit Sheffield [100 acre plantation where I now live after his mother's death], daughter Sarah Dennis, daughter Mary Dun, daughter Lucretia Dun, daughter Rebekah Awtry, daughter Hannah Mainyard, daughter Elizabeth Awtry and two youngest daughters Lydda and Milly Sheffield. Executors: wife Hannah Sheffield and Averet Smith. Witnesses: Averet Smith, Isam Sheffield and Windsor Pearce. Proven Feb 1796.
  Person ID	I03437	Moore County Wallaces
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2020

  
  

  DNA Tests	1 DNA test is associated with Hannah Melton
  	Test Type	Taken by	Haplogroup	Test Information
  	mtDNA	M.B. Brown	J1c8a1	Most distant ancestor: Hannah Melton

  
  

  Father	Robert Melton   d. 1759, Orange County, NC
  Histories		Melton Family of Moore County, NC - Miscellaneous Records The enclosed is a timeline and accounting of Melton references in Moore County, Cumberland County and earlier references from Orange and Chatham County.
  Family ID	F0974	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Sheffield, Sr.,   b. Bef 1740   d. Bef Feb 1796 (Age ~ 56 years)  [1]
  Children	1. Lydia Sheffield     2. Mark Sheffield,   b. Bef 1753 +   3. Mary Sheffield,   b. 17 Dec 1759   d. 11 May 1862 (Age 102 years) ▻ Isaac Dunn  (Age 82 years) +   4. John Sheffield, Jr.,   b. 1750-1760   d. Bef 14 Sep 1837 (Age 77 years)     5. Lucretia "Creasy" Sheffield,   b. 1760-1765 ▻ Dunn +   6. Hannah Sheffield,   b. 1760-1770 ▻ Thomas Minyard  (Age 78 years) +   7. Elizabeth Sheffield,   b. 1765-1775   d. 22 Aug 1826, Wilcox County, AL (Age 51 years) ▻ Frederick Autry     8. Sarah Sheffield,   b. 1768   d. 1850, Grainger County, TN (Age 82 years) ▻ John Dennis  (Age 71 years) +   9. Rebecca Sheffield,   b. 1770-1774 ▻ Elijah Autry   10. Isham Sheffield,   b. c1774   d. Bef 15 Dec 1820 (Age ~ 46 years) ▻ Sally   11. Everet Sheffield,   b. Between 1770-1775 + 12. Adam Sheffield,   b. 1770-1780   d. 1844, Calhoun County, AL (Age 64 years) ▻ Priscilla Smith;    ▻ Elender "Elly" Gibson  m. 9 Mar 1841 + 13. Milly Sheffield,   b. 1775-1778   d. 1881 (Age 103 years) ▻ Adam Carpenter
  Documents		Map of John Sheffield's Neighborhood in Moore County, NC on Bear and Wolf Creeks Highlighted tracts include grants to John Sheffield, Sr.[BLUE], John Sheffield, Jr. and III[GREEN] and Isham Sheffield[YELLOW].
  Histories		Sheffield Family of Moore County, NC - Miscellaneous Records The enclosed is a timeline and accounting of early Sheffield references in Moore County and Cumberland County. Given the numerous John, Isham, Adam and Everet Sheffields I have tried to denote which one that I believe the reference is referring to.
  Family ID	F6475	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 May 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Residence - - John Sheffield Sr./Hannah Melton Homeplace, Moore County, NC  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		1796 Will Book A Page 186/187, Moore County, NC - Will of John Sheffield; Will of Nicholas Newton
  		1798 Land Grant, Moore County, NC #1946 - Solomon Barrett
  		1798 Land Grant, Moore County, NC #1399 - Isham Sheffield

  
  

  Histories

  Moore County, NC DNA Project DNA Results and Analysis for Moore County families including Allen, Barrett, Bean, Brewer, Britt, Brown, Burns, Caddell, Cagle, Carpenter, Caviness, Chriscoe, Cockman, Cole, Comer, Davis, Deaton, Dunn, Furr, Garner, Hancock, Hardin, Hare, Horner, Hunsucker, Hussey, Jackson, Kennedy, Key, Kidd, Lawrence, Maness, McIntosh, McLendon, McNeill, Melton, Monroe, Moore, Morgan, Muse, Nall, Phillips, Richardson, Riddle, Ritter, Sanders, Seawell, Sheffield, Smith, Stewart, Stutts, Sullivan, Wallace, Welch, Williams, Williamson and Wright

  
  

• Sources

  [S1005] Jan Bodenheimer [jan_bodenheimer@yahoo.com], 26 Feb 2011. JOHN SHEFFIELD, SR. was born Abt. 1725 in VA, and died Feb 1796 in Moore Co., NC. He married HANNAH "JOHANNA" MELTON Abt. 1748 in Upper Moore Co., NC, daughter of ROBERT MELTON and MARY FARRAR. She was born 1734 in Brunswick Co., VA, and died 1840 in Moore Co., NC. Children of JOHN SHEFFIELD and HANNAH MELTON are: i. DAVID6 SHEFFIELD, b. 1747, Moore Co., NC; d. Bef. 1796. ii. MARK SHEFFIELD, b. 1748, Moore Co., NC; d. Bet. 26 Jun 1806 - 10 Jun 1807, Burke Co., GA; m. ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON. iii. JOHN SHEFFIELD, JR., b. Abt. 1750, Moore Co., NC; d. 1825, Moore Co., NC. iv. ISHAM "ISOM" SHEFFIELD, b. 1756, Moore Co., NC; d. Jan 1827, Wilcox Co., AL; m. SARAH "SALLY" WILLIAMSON. v. MARY ANN SHEFFIELD, b. 17 Dec 1759, Moore Co., NC; d. 11 May 1862, Anson Co., NC. vi. LUCRETIA " LUTECIA" SHEFFIELD, b. 1760, Moore Co., NC; m. JOHN DUNN. vii. REBEKAH "REBECCA" RACHEL SHEFFIELD, b. 1762, Moore Co., NC; m. (1) UNKNOWN (OWBY) OWENSBY; m. (2) ELIJAH AUTRY, Bef. 1774. viii. HANNAH SHEFFIELD, b. 1763, Moore Co., NC; d. Abt. 1796, Hall Co., GA. ix. ELIZABETH SHEFFIELD, b. 1764, Moore Co., NC; d. 22 Aug 1826, Wilcox Co., AL. x. LYDIA "LYDDA" SHEFFIELD, b. 1765, Moore Co., NC. xi. ADAM SHEFFIELD, SR., b. 09 Mar 1765, Moore Co., NC; d. 26 Jun 1844, St. Clair, Benton (Calhoun) Co., AL. xii. AMELIA MILDRED "MILLY" SHEFFIELD, b. 1766, Moore Co., NC; d. Dec 1881, Chesterfield, Edgefield Dist., SC. xiii. SARAH SHEFFIELD, b. Abt. 1768, Moore Co., NC; d. 08 Nov 1850, Posibly Grainger Co., TN. xiv. HENRY EVERETT "AVERETT " SHEFFIELD, b. Abt. 1769, Moore Co., NC; d. 1865, Lumpkin Co., GA.