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See also:ISAAC See also:SHELBY (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
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With his See also:father, Evan See also: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
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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
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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: |
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