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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Shelby and Hart Family Papers, #659-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Some Shelby papers published in the Journal of Southern History IV (Aug 1938), p. 367-377.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Hart family.
• Hart, Nathaniel, 1734-1782.
• Kentucky--History--1792-1865.
• King's Mountain, Battle of, S.C., 1780.
• Shelby family.
• Shelby, Evan.
• Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826.
• South Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
• Southern States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives.

Shelby and Hart families resided in Kentucky. Prominent family members include Isaac Shelby (1750-1826), a Revolutionary officer and the first governor of Kentucky, 1792-1796 and 1812-1816.

The collection includes biographical sketches, reminiscences, letters, and business papers involving Evan Shelby, Isaac Shelby, Nathaniel Hart (1734-1782), and their kin and associates, and clippings 1899-1900. Many items concern lands claims and titles of members of the Hart family in Kentucky. Also included is a ten-page manuscript description by Isaac Shelby of the Battle of King's Mountain and other events of the Revolution in the South after 1780, and two related letters to him.