Galden

In 1757, a man named John Sheart was appointed as the guardian of the orphaned children of Alexander Gaulding. Alexander Gaulding lived in New Kent and Prince Edward counties before his death in 1752. The appointment of a guardian was typically given to a close relative, often a maternal uncle or a brother-in-law, which suggests that a marriage likely occurred between a Gaulding and a Sheart, or that Alexander’s wife, often identified in genealogies as Mary, may have been a Sheart by birth.