His children were Evan, who married Mary and moved to southwestern Pennsylvania; Jonathan; Jacob; and Rees, who are known to have removed to southern Illinois; and also possibly Thomas, Isaac, and Eli. DAVID SHELBY David, son of Evan and Catherine Shelby, was a private in Colonel Henry Bouquet's punitive expedition in 1764 against the Indians on the Muskingum River in Ohio, (Pontiac's Conspiracy), enlisting in one of the Maryland companies which had volunteered for the campaign. In 1766 he obtained from his brother, Evan, Jr., a tract of land bordering on the provincial line just west of North Mountain, and across from the Little Cove in Pennsylvania, called "Green Spring," which was where he probably lived. He married first, Elizabeth, daughter of James Balla, a Welshman of Little Cove. In 1770 he and his wife sold Green Spring back to Evan and were later found living in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. From that state he secured in 1789 a grant of two farms of about three hundred acres each, called "Cross Keys" and "Validolid," located on Dunkard's Creek in Dunkard township, Green County, then Washington County, near the Monongahela River. David married second, Catherine Belle, (or Beall?), widow of James Farris. In 1795 he and Catherine sold the Greene County farms and removed to New Madrid County, Missouri, which was then under Spanish rule. He died there between 1799 and 1801. The first census of the United States, 1790 credits him with having at that time four sons and two daughters. The following children only are known with any certainty: David, Jr., who was born in 1765, married Mary, a daughter of Enoch Williams of the "Little Cove," settled Pickaway County, Ohio, and died there in 1845; Jonathan, who went to Missouri with his father; James, who was born in 1772, married Hannah Ross in 1796, remained in Green County and died there in 1845; and Elizabeth, who married James Burns. Rees, Eli, and Marie were some of the children of his second wife. JAMES SHELBY James may have been a seventh son of Evan and Catherine Shelby. This is suggested by the following, which was found among Governor Shelby's papers: "Received June 16, 1764, from Sam Postlethwaite, at Bedford, nineteen Deers, etc., which I promised to deliver to Capt. Evan Shelby near Fort Frederick in Maryland." Signed "James Shelby." MARY SHELBY Mary (some say Sarah), daughter of Evan and Catherine Shelby, is said by some descendants to have been born in Maryland in 1734 or 1735. She married Adam, son of John Alexander, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1728 and died November 13, 1798. Mary (Shelby) Alexan der died in November 1813. Their children were Adam Rankin, who was born in 1782, married Leah Reagon March 26, 1805, and died June 2, 1855; Evan Shelby, who was a graduate of Princeton in 1787, a lawyer and a member of congress from the Salisburg district, North Carolina; Isaac; Charles Taylor; Sarah; and Mary. RACHEL SHELBY Rachel, daughter of Evan and Catherine Shelby, married first, John McFarland, second, Captain Philip Pindell by whom she had Jacob P., who married Hannah Roberta Chips; Edward P.; Thomas P., who married Elizabeth Harrison; and Rachel P. Rachel either remained in Maryland or moved to West Virginia. ELEANOR SHELBY Eleanor was probably a daughter of Evan and Catherine Shelby. She may have been the Eleanor Shelby who married John Polk in North Carolina in 1758. MCDOWELL War Cry:-"Buaidh no Bas" ("Victory or Death"). Clan Pipe Music:-March-"Moladh Moraig" ("The Praise of Marion"). Salutes "Failte lain Cheir" ("John Ciar's Salute") and "Failte Chloinn Dughaill" ("MacDougal's Salute”). Laments "Cumha Iain Cheir" ("John Cair's Lament") and “Cumha dubh Shomhairle" ("Sad Lament for Samuel"). Badge:-Fraoch dearg (Bell Heath); also Cypress. Arms:-McDowall (Edinburgh). Az. a lion ramp. ar ducally crowned or on a canton of the second three piles gu. ar royally crowned or. Motto-Vincere vel mori. die.]-[Burke's General Armoury.] Crest—a demi lion [To conquer or tc The most notable of all the common charges or bearings which are placed upon the shield, is the lion, or leopard, which appears again and again in the arms of monarchs and nobles of high estate, as in the royal arms of England and of Scotland. The Scotch records in the British Museum trace the McDowells back to the 12th Century. From Dugall, the eldest of the three sons of the "great and famous" Somerled, under-King of Argyll and Lord of the Isles, whose "mysterious" death occurred in 1164, is descended the Celtic Clan of MacDougal. [According to Green, Dugall was a son of Ronald and grandson of Somerled]. Dugall's mother was Raghnild, sister of Godfred of Man and the Isles. About the year 1156, Somerled claimed the kingdom of the Isles for Dugall. "When the morning broke over that singular national system known as the Clans of Scotland there emerges from its midst a bold individual named Dougall. By and by he wins his way to the leadership of a warlike clan, which as centuries pile up, attains historical prominence, and his name after a number of orthographical gymnastics, whether Gaelic, or Celtic, or Norwegian nobody can tell, appears as McDougal. "In very early times this tribe owned an estate so large and rich as that it became the entire portion of one son, who after a while grew into such strength and fame as to create out of his branch of the family a new clan, called the MacDougals of Lorn, deriving the name from his handsome patrimony... We wonder as we see the little kingdom turned around by poetry and romance, at the secret power that kept it firm within the grasp of the original owner during all those mighty convulsions and changes in the minds and affairs of men which had transformed the wild Highland clansman into the earnest-minded Presbyterian followers of John Knox. Whatever it was, however, it was beguiled into surrender |