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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Shelby family papers, 1738-1916 (bulk 1757-1829)</title>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, legal and financial records, military records, genealogical data, and other papers relating primarily to Evan Shelby, soldier and frontiersman, and to his son, Isaac Shelby, soldier and political leader, providing a record of frontier life and political and economic developments in Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.  The papers of Isaac Shelby document his activities during the Indian wars, Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812; his terms as governor of Kentucky, national affairs, frontier defense, and land claims.  Family correspondence over several generations includes letters of John Warren Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby Grigsby, Nathaniel Hart, Susan Hart McDowell Irvine, Susan Hart Shelby Shannon, Alfred Shelby, Evan Shelby, Isaac Shelby, Thomas Hart Shelby, Virginia Hart Shelby, Charles Stewart Todd, and Letitia Shelby Todd.  Other correspondents include John Brown, Arthur Campbell, Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden, Christopher Greenup, Martin D. Hardin, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Sevier.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 17,372.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978.</note>
  <note>Members of the Shelby (Selby) family.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013008">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013008</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1757-1837</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Campbell, Arthur</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1742-1811</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clay, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1852</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1787-1863</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greenup, Christopher</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1750-1818</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grigsby, John Warren</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1877</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1891</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hardin, Martin D</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1780-1823</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harrison, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">approximately 1726-1791</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hart, Nathaniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1770-1844</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Irvine, Susan Hart McDowell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1834</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jefferson, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1743-1826</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sevier, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1745-1815</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shannon, Susan Hart Shelby</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1868</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shelby, Alfred</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1832</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shelby, Thomas Hart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1869</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shelby, Virginia Hart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1859</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Todd, Charles Stewart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1871</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Todd, Letitia Shelby</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1868</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Selby family</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shelby family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Continental Army.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Frontier and pioneer life</topic>
    <geographic>Kentucky</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Frontier and pioneer life</topic>
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Frontier and pioneer life</topic>
    <geographic>North Carolina</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Frontier and pioneer life</topic>
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Frontier and pioneer life</topic>
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Frontier and pioneer life</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Wars</topic>
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    <topic>Land tenure</topic>
    <geographic>Kentucky</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Kentucky</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Kentucky</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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    <geographic>North Carolina</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>North Carolina</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>War of 1812</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
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    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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    <geographic>West (U.S.)</geographic>
    <topic>History, Military</topic>
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    <occupation>Frontiersmen</occupation>
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    <occupation>Governors</occupation>
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    <occupation>Politicians</occupation>
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    <occupation>Soldiers</occupation>
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      <title>Evan Shelby papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shelby, Evan,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1719-1794</namePart>
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      <title>Isaac Shelby papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shelby, Isaac,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1750-1826</namePart>
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