MSA SC 546-1-1
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1765
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Petition, Col. Evan Shelby to Governor Horatio Sharpe, 1765. Shelby petitioned the Governor for "recompense or reward" on behalf of himself and his officiers and men from a company of 54 volunteers under General Forbes. Shelby cites their service under the Governor's commission to build a road between Fort Ligioner and Fort Duquesne (now, Pittsburgh) in Pennsylvania during 1758.
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MSA SC 546-1-2
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1775-1785
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00/09/05/30
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Description
Handwritten letter, T. Marshall to Isaac Shelby, Esq. ca. 1780, regarding land.
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MSA SC 546-1-3
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1798/07/06
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paper
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00/09/05/30
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Description
letter, Isaac Shelby to Colonel Thomas Todd, regarding Genl. Adair's debt of 250 pounds owed to Shelby after a judgement, 6 July 1798
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MSA SC 546-1-4
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paper
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00/09/05/30
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Description
Printed materials relating to Isaac Shelby, First Governor of Kentucky, whose family had Maryland connections. Includes news article "Sketches in the first settlements in Kentucky (Louisville Journal), May 1841; engraving of Issac Shelby by A. B. Durand; news clippings; Engraving by C. H. Jeens "Death of Major Frederick at King's Mountain (Virtue & Co. publishers); a narrative on "The Battle of King's Mountain" (South Carolina); a poem "The Battle of King's Mountain" from Harper's New Monthly Magazine; an article "King's Mountain.-- A Ballad of the Carolinas" by W. Gilmore Simms; a pamphlet "King's Mountain and Its Heroes" by Lyman C. Draper (Cincinnati: Peter G. Thompson, 1881) and a portrait etching of Maj. Winston of King's Mountain by Jas. R. Stuart.
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