Shelton Coat of Arms & Family Crest - Symbols, Bearers, History

Shelton “Family Crest” or Coat of Arms - Shelton Family History & Surname
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1) Shelton of Norfolk - John de Shelton (fl. 1316) - Argent a fess sable between three martlets (mullets?) gules.
2) John de Shelton (fl. 1325) - On a fess between three pierced mullets, three fleur-de-lys.
3) Shelton of Norfolk - Sir Ralph Shelton (1560-1602) - Azure, on a chief indented or, two mullets of the first.
4) Sir Ralf Shelton, Knt, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1487, married Margaret Clere, a descendant of Sir Ralph Shelton (d. 1424), who went into Scotland with King Richard II and also served in Spain, a descendant of John de Shelton (fl. 1306), son of Sir Robert de Shelton (d. 1306), grandson of Sir John or Nicholas de Shelton, son of John de Shelton of Norfolk - Sable three escallops argent.
5) Azure a cross Or.
Shelton of Norfolk - Sir Ralph Shelton (d. 1420) and Sir John Shelton, High Sheriff in 1504
Shelton of Worcestershire - unable to obtain additional information
6) Sir John Shelton (d. 1539), High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1504, made a Knight of the Bath, son of Ralf Shelton - Azure a cross or, Crest: A Moor’s head proper.
7) Shelton of Dublin, Ireland - John Shelton, mayor of Dublin, Ireland in 1537, came from Norfolk, had two sons: John Shelton (d. 1608), alderman and mayor of Dublin and Henry Shelton (d.c. 1605), elected sheriff of Dublin - Azure a cross or, in the first quarter an escallop argent.
8) Shelton of Dublin, Ireland - second son of Henry Shelton (d.c. 1605), elected sheriff of Dublin - was this John Shelton, elected mayor in 1604, but denied because he was Catholic - Azure a cross or, in the first quarter an escallop argent, a crescent of the first for difference.
9) Shelton or Sheldon - John Sheldon of Rhode Island (1630-1708), son of William Sheldon (1611-1691) who was born in Scarborough Yorkshire, son of Arthur Sheldon - Azure a cross or, an annulet gules.
10) Shelton of Nottingham, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire - granted in 1690 to Theophilus Shelton of Wakefield & Darrington, co. Yorkshire, Farley, co. Staffordshire, and Mansfield, co. Nottinghamshire (1645-1717), “Yorkshire Estate Steward, Attorney, and Architect” - Or, a cross azure in the dexter quarter a lion passant gules. Crest: A lion passant gules gorged with a chaplet of laurel vert.
11) Ralf Shelton, shield found in heraldic document dated c. 1380 - Argent on a bend sable three fleurs-de-lis or. Crest: A Saracen’s head proper.
12) Azure a fess between three fleurs-de-lis or.
13) Rev. Philo Shelton, M.A. (1754-1825) of Huntington and Fairfield, Connecticut, graduated from Yale, for Rector of St. John's Church Bridgeport & of Trinity Church Fairfield for 40 years, son of Samuel Shelton (1705-1772), son of Lieutenant Daniel Shelton (1668-1728) who was born in Deptford, co. Kent, England and came to Connecticut where he established a large shipping and mercantile business - Or a griffin passant to sinister [tincture not indicated], on a chief Azure a star of six points [tincture not indicated].