Person:Thomas Shelby (4)

Information on Thomas Shelby

3. Thomas Shelby was born in 1752 at Hunts Cabin, Frederick County, Maryland and died in April of 1799 in Popular Springs, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. He was a private in Rutherford’s Indian Campaign in 1776. He married Sarah Helms. She died in 1805.

Thomas received the following mention in his father's will:

Item: I will and bequeath to my beloved son, Thomas Shelby, that plantation known by the name of the Poplar Springs place to be separated from the plantation I now live upon in the following manner. The line to begin near Oliver Wylie's run and to go betwixt two springs near the north of Shelby's branch, from thence to a large black oak well known by said Wylie. The profit or money earned in the public service by wagoning by Evan and Thomas Shelby to be divided equally. A Negro lad I will to my beloved son Thomas Shelby. Also, I will and bequeath to my beloved son, Thomas, the wagon and team he has abroad at this time, except one bay horse called dick. I will him one other black horse called Jack in his place.

In 1790 he was recorded on page 162 of the census report for Mecklenburg County as Capt. Thomas Shelby with one son under sixteen, two daughters, six slaves. Thomas Shelby and Sarah Helms had five children: Mary, Sarah Ellen, Moses Alexander, Elizabeth and Isabel.

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~beckenbachsimons/mosesshelby1.htm