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SHELBY, ISAAC (1750-1826)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 826 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHELBY, See also:ISAAC (1750-1826) , See also:American soldier and See also:pioneer, was See also:born at See also:North See also:Mountain, near See also:Hagerstown, See also:Maryland, on the r rth of See also:December 1750. With his See also:father, Evan Shelby (1720-1794), an emigrant from See also:Wales, he removed to what is now See also:Bristol, See also:Tennessee, in 1771, and in 1774 took a conspicuous See also:part in the See also:battle of Point Pleasant? He was a surveyor in See also:Kentucky for the Transylvania See also:Company in 1775; became a See also:captain of See also:Virginia See also:minute-men in 1776, and in 1777 became See also:commissary with supervision over transportation of supplies from See also:Staunton, Virginia, to the frontier. In 1779 he was elected to the Virginia See also:House of Delegates, but, by the See also:line established between Virginia and North Carolina at this See also:time, he becarhe a See also:resident of North Carolina and he was appointed See also:colonel of the See also:Sullivan See also:county See also:militia, which in 178o he commanded in guerilla fighting, and he led the See also:left centre of the American force at See also:King's Mountain (See also:October 7). He served under See also:General See also:Francis See also:Marion in 1781, and in 1782 was a member of the North Carolina House of See also:Commons. He was active in the See also:movement for the erection of the See also:state of Kentucky, was a member of the Kentucky Constitutional See also:Convention of 1792, and was See also:governor of the new state in 1792-1796 and in 1812-1816; in 1813 he commanded twelve Kentucky regiments at the battle of the See also:Thames, and for his services received the thanks of See also:Congress and a See also:gold See also:medal. In 1818 he was a See also:commissioner with See also:Andrew See also:Jackson to the See also:Chickasaws. He died on his See also:estate in See also:Lincoln county, Kentucky, on the 18th of See also:July 1826.

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