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SHELBY, ISAAC (1750-1826)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 826 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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