That Godfrey Sheldon was b. c. 1599 is calculated from the age given in his will. That he lived in Bakewell Parish, co. Derbyshire, England, is without question. This is the same county parish where J. Gardner Bartlett researched and found S-5 Isaac Sheldon of Windsor, Connecticutt, and Northampton, Massachusetts. Achievements
of Northgate, Canterbury, Kent, in 1986, extracted pre-1660 marriage records for the Christian names John, William, Godfrey and Geoffrey (a more modern, softer form of Godfrey), and for Isaac Sheldon. The Christian name, Godfrey, occurred only once during their extensive search, and that was in the registration of Godfrey's marriage
to Alice Frost in All Saint's Church, Bakewell on 11 March 1620, this being confirmation of the same record we have from Noyes, Libby & Davis' Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire. Further search in this county might yield the names of his parents and might reveal of which co. Derby town Godfrey Sheldon was a native.
(S-4 Godfrey Sheldon, Planter, of Bakewell Parish, co.Derby, England & Scarborough, York co., Maine, 1991, by S9309x322, Shirley Sheldon Rider. 11.14.2003.)