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DAVID SHELBY (1799-1872) LAND SALE TO WILLIAM STI

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DAVID SHELBY (1799-1872) LAND SALE TO WILLIAM STILES for $1,000.00, dated May 19th 1838. Early settler, born in Pennsylvania, April 19, 1799, moved to Texas in 1822, as one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred settlers, took part in a colony election in April, 1824, took oath of allegiance to the Mexican Constitution on May 1, and became a first lieutenant in the colonial militia in June. A post office, which became the community of Shelby in Austin County, had been named for David Shelby before March 29, 1845. Shelby died on March 1, 1872.

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