Bethiah Shaw

Notes:

She is named in her father's will.

Bethiah married Seth Washburn on 16 Jan 1781 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. Seth (son of Israel Washburn and Leah Fobes) was born on 29 Sep 1761 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 8 Feb 1837; was buried in Pleasant Street Cemetery, Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Julia Washburn was born on 5 Nov 1792 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 6 Oct 1851; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Tremont, Tazewell, Illinois.

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The gravestone inscription for him and his wife reads: "Jonathan Shaw died of apoplexy Nov. 26, 1796 in his 65th year. His wife died before him 15 years with the same disorder."

Col. married Bethiah Hall on 17 Nov 1757 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. Bethiah (daughter of Nehemiah Hall and Bethia Williams) was born on 19 Apr 1735; was christened on 4 Mar 1740; died on 17 Apr 1781; was buried on 19 Apr 1781 in Hall and Dean Cemetery, Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts

Jonathan married Mercy Mason. Mercy (daughter of Lt. John Mason and Mercy Merrick) was born in 1705; died on 8 Jan 1749; was buried in Shaw Cemetery, Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1704

Nehemiah married Bethia Williams. Bethia (daughter of Daniel Williams) was born on 28 Oct 1711 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 18 Feb 1739. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Hannah Bicknell. Hannah (daughter of John Bicknell and Mary Porter) was born on 15 Nov 1675 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 26 May 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 4 Feb 1735

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"Just where and how he received his titles of Ensign and Lieutenant is not clear, but in 1700 he was a member of the first military company of Taunton and resided at the west end of the town. He was one of the selectmen there in 1718, 1719, 1723 to 1726, 1729 to 1731, 1733 and 1734. The History of Taunton states that he was ordered to impress soldiers into Queen Ann's War." [Josephine C. Frost, citation details below]

Lt. married Mercy Merrick. Mercy (daughter of Stephen Merrick and Mercy Bangs) was born in Oct 1674 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 16 Nov 1754 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Plain Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a tailor, and a shareholder in his father's ironworks.

Joseph married Mary Bell on 19 Jul 1693 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of James Bell and Esther Lugg) was born on 7 Jul 1669; died after 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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"He served in King Philip's War, 1675, a lieutenant in Upham's Company." [Bassett-Preston Ancestors, citation details below]

John married Alice Phillips in 1655. Alice (daughter of Deacon Nicholas Phillips and Elizabeth) was born about 1636; died after 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1670

John married Mary Porter on 2 Dec 1658 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Richard Porter and (Unknown wife of Richard Porter)) was born about 1637. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary Holman on 29 May 1662 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of John Holman and Anne) was born about 1639 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died after 5 Aug 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

They were married by Governor John Endicott.

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From Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts 1636-1902:

Within a year after his marriage Stephen joined the company which left Plymouth Colony and settled at New London and Norwich, Connecticut. Caulkin's History of Norwich says of him: "[...] Stephen Merrick came to Norwich in 1672, where he bought a plantation. He was constable in 1681, and county sheriff in 1685." The annals of Norwich Town record that a gate was maintained at Town charge at Stephen Merrick's, on Bean Hill. Mercy (Bangs) Merrick died, and Stephen married, 2nd., Anna Wilbore, at Taunton. Mass., to which place he had removed, at just what date is not known. He became one of the leading men of that town, and died there in 1705 leaving a large property, for that time. His will was made in 1696, as he was "about to go forth and fight the Indians." In his will he gives his wife his "plantation, with all the buildings, stock, etc., situated in Norwich, Connecticut." To a daughter, "200 acres of land in Norwich." To his only son, Isaac, his "plantation etc., in New Jersey." It would appear that he survived his Indian campaign, and died at home in Taunton in 1705.

[Quoted to show how a man born in Eastham, Massachusetts and who died in Taunton, Massachusetts could plausibly have a daughter born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1674.]

Stephen married Mercy Bangs on 28 Dec 1670 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Mercy (daughter of Edward Bangs and Rebecca) was born on 15 Oct 1651 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 15 Oct 1651, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Twin sister of Apphia Bangs.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1609

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He arrived in 1637; first at Plymouth, then Taunton.

"He was one of the forty-six original proprietors of the first purchase from the Indian Sachem, Massasoit, which included a tract of eight miles of what is now Taunton, Berkley and Raynham. He was one of the founders of Taunton in 1639, and constable there in 1645; member of the Board of the Supervising Council in 1657; chairman of the Board of Selectmen from 1666 to 1669; one of the founders of the Pilgrim Congregational Church at Taunton and also one of the stock proprietors of the first iron 'bloomery' established in this region upon the site of the present 'old forge' now in Raynham (1883). He was the first clerk in Taunton 1656, and one of the largest land owners of that place." [Josephine C. Frost, citation details below]

George married Mary. Mary died after 1669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was killed by native Americans during King Philip's War while working in a field in what became Raynham.

James married Esther Lugg before 1658. Esther (daughter of John Lugg and Jane Deighton) was born before 24 Feb 1633; was christened on 24 Feb 1633 in St. Mary de Grace, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 10 Oct 1638 and 25 Mar 1639, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: Aft Nov 1638, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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"Abraham Shaw, a clothier, came from Northowram, Halifax, Yorkshire, Eng., in the Anne, 1636, to Watertown, Mass. In Oct. 1636, his house and all his goods were burned and he removed to Dedham, where he had twelve acres and was called a planter. In Feb. 1637, he was granted 60 acres and the right to build a corn mill, and was one of the men appointed to govern the town. Freeman, 1637; constable, 1638. He married in Halifax, Eng., June 24, 1616, Bridget Best, who was bapt. Ovenden, Halifax, Eng., Apr. 9, 1592, daughter of Henry Best. Names of their children are from the church records of Halifax, Eng. He probably died in 1638, as his will was proved late in that year. It mentions his oldest son Joseph, dau. Mary, and calls John and Martha infants. His wife had died earlier." [Bassett-Preston Ancestors, citation details below]

H. Minot Pitman's article "Abraham Shaw of Dedham," in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 106:50, January 1952, set forth evidence that this Abraham Shaw was the Abraham Shaw born out of wedlock to Abraham Dobson and Jenet Shaw. But M. L. Bierbrier's "The Origin of Abraham Shaw of Dedham" in The American Genealogist 57:85, 1981, documents an entirely different and much more plausible Halifax origin for the husband of Bridget Best, a man who clearly owned land (and at least one coal mine!) in Halifax and elsewhere. It may be that the union discussed in Pitman's article produced the different Abraham Shaw who was alive in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1641.

Bierbrier's model is further proved in Russell Franklin Shaw's article "The English Ancestry of Abraham Shaw of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1590-1638", which appeared in The Genealogist 10:86, Spring 1989 (actually published 1994). Russell Franklin Shaw brings to bear a mass of evidence viewed in situ in Halifax, Yorkshire, much of it from registers and legal documents that have yet to be transcribed and made public.

Abraham married Bridget Best on 24 Jun 1616 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Bridget (daughter of Henry Best and Grace Boithes) was born before 9 Apr 1592; was christened on 9 Apr 1592 in Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died after 25 Sep 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1638

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Also known as Elizabeth Best.

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• Alternate death: Between 2 Jun 1672 and 2 Oct 1672, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: Sep 1672

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Emigrated 1636. At Dedham before 18 Aug 1636, where he signed the covenant; Weymouth before 1663. Not to be confused with Nicholas Phillips of Boston (d. 1670), husband of Hannah Salter.

Deacon married Elizabeth on 26 Jun 1631 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England. Elizabeth died after 11 Aug 1651. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The last mention of her in the record is in Weymouth, where on "the 11th day of the 6th month 1651 Elizabeth Phillips wife of Nicholas" gives her consent to her husband's sale of a house and several parcels of land to Francis Smith of Hingham.

She is called "Elizabeth Jewson" in several reasonably reputable sources, for instance the 1951 The American Genealogist article cited below, but we have been unable to find proof of this.

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• Alternate death: 1636

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Arrived in 1635 and settled at Weymouth. Robert Charles Anderson (citation details below) notes that "various secondary sources make claims about this family which are not supported by the evidence." He is said to have arrived with the Rev. Joseph Hull's company.

Zachary married Agnes before 1624. Agnes was born about 1608; died on 9 Jul 1643 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She married as her second husband, by 9 Mar 1637, Richard Rocket.

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• Alternate birth: of Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
• Alternate birth: Between 1605 and 1609
• Alternate death: Bef 9 May 1689, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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Arrived in 1635 on the Marygould as part of the "Hull Colony" emigration led by the Rev. Joseph Hull. One of the first settlers of Weymouth. Made freeman 18 May 1653.

Several sources, including Bassett-Preston Ancestors (citation details below) and Josephine C. Frost's Ancestors of Henry Rogers Winthrop and Alice Woodward Babcock (1927) give him a wife named Ruth, but as Donald Lines Jacobus points out (The Granberry Family, citation details below), no proof of this has been seen. Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration entry for Richard Porter gives no name for his wife.

Richard married (Unknown wife of Richard Porter) before 1635. (Unknown died before 25 Dec 1688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He arrived with his wife and children in 1635 on the Abigail. He was a joiner.

Ralph married Anne before 1630. Anne died after 22 Jul 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He arrived in 1630 on the Mary and John and settled at Dorchester. He was a woolen draper.

John married Anne before 1637. Anne died on 1 Dec 1639 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1600
• Alternate death: Between 3 Dec 1686 and 6 Mar 1689

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Also known as William Mirick, William Myrick.

Emigrated by October 1636.

One of the original 29 proprietors of Little Compton, Rhode Island, but it is unclear whether he ever lived there.

He was a private under Captain Standish in and probably before 1643, sergeant in 1649, and ensign for some period of time before 1663, when he was made lieutenant of the Eastham company. He retired the following year due to old age.

William married Rebecca Tracy before 1642. Rebecca (daughter of Stephen Tracy and Tryphosa Lee) was born about 1625 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died after 6 Mar 1689 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Came to New England in 1623 on the Anne. First at Plymouth, then at Eastham by 1645. He was an innkeeper.

Edward married Rebecca before 1635. Rebecca died after 15 Oct 1651. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his family emigrated to New England in 1637, settling in Boston. John Lugg returned to England sometime after 1644, for reasons unknown, and died there. His burial record, in the same parish from which he had emigrated almost a decade earlier, calls him "John Lugg of New England."

John married Jane Deighton on 3 Jan 1628 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. Jane (daughter of John Deighton and Jane Bassett) was born before 5 Apr 1609; was christened on 5 Apr 1609 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died between 28 Aug 1671 and 11 Apr 1682 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1671, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

She was a "gateway ancestor," one of LD's five.