Rees Shelby was born ca. 1721 in Tregaron, Cardiganshire, Wales to Evan and Catherine (Morgan) Shelby. By 1734 the family had immigrated to America, settled in Pennsylvania and was " ... living in the Cumberland Valley on the Conococheague Creek and Muddy Run at "Black Walnut Point" 1 1/2 miles west of present day Green Castle."--Page 43. Rees Shelby and his wife Mary were married in 1738 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and South Carolina. Rees died 1811/12 " ... on his plantation in Chesterfield County, South Carolina near the hamlet of Crowbark ..."--Page 85.

Descendants appear to be mostly located in Texas.

Reprint, with additional material, of the 1950 ed. published in 7 v. by the Waynesburg Republican, Waynesburg, Pa., and in this format in Knightstown, Ind., by Bookmark in 1977.

Evan Shelby was born in Wales and settled in Lancaster Co., Penn. and later Maryland. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee and elsewhere. Thomas Shelby (ca. 1750-1822) married Hannah Polk. They lived in Penn. and Tenn. Robert Bruce Pollock left Ireland in 1672 and settled in Maryland. Descendants lived in Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia and elsewhere. Alexander McLarty, born in 1747 left Scotland and settled in North Carolina. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Georgia and elsewhere. John Perkerson (1806-1862) lived in Georgia. His descendants lived in Georgia, Florida, and elsewhere. Tarpley family originated in Yorkshire England and settled in Virginia. Thomas Campe (1661-1711) settled in Virginia from Essex County, England. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama and elsewhere.

A genealogy of the descendants of Evan Shelby born in Wales. He married Catherine. They came to America with four small sons in 1735 and settled first in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania then in Prince George County, Maryland.