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Shelby, Evan, active 1760, Captain
Epithet: Captain
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000193
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Shelby, Evan, 1719-1794
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6154nhz (person)
Evan Shelby, a native of Wales, immigrated to America with his family when he was fourteen or fifteen and settled in Pennsylvania. His family moved to Maryland a few years later. Shelby acquired nearly 24,000 acres of land in that state and engaged in the Indian fur trade as well. He entered the militia in Maryland and fought in the French and Indian War. Following the war, Shelby served as a justice of the peace for a number of years. In 1773, having lost most of his Maryland land to settle deb...