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summon a respectable number of followers for
Colonel Isaac Shelby, a resident of Washington county in Virginia, until the settlement of the southern line of the State had left him in the district at present known as Sullivan county in Tennessee, had been an efficient auxiliary in Clarke's scheme, and was now ready to summon a respectable number of followers for the support of the war on the mountain border.
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

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