... Robert Shanklin, who was a native of Virginia, where he was born on the South Branch of the Potomac river, in what is now West Virginia, in 1754. ... Robert Shanklin and his brother John were gallant soldiers in the Continental line in the war of the Revolution and in return for their services they were given land grants in what is now Kentucky. Robert married Mary M. Sea and together they made the arduous journey down the Ohio river to Kentucky as early as 1784. Robert's patent called for land on Bear Grass Creek, a region which is now within the city limits of Louisville, while his brother John's land was located in Jessamine county ; subsequently the brother's exchanged estates, Robert removing to Jessamine county, where his death occurred in the year 1818. [sic]