Mehitable Shaw

1756 - 1835  (78 years)

• Name	Mehitable Shaw  [1]
  Birth	10 Nov 1756	Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	15 Apr 1835	Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [2]
  Burial	West Hill Cemetery, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I6094	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Ebenezer Shaw,   b. 13 Jul 1706, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 24 May 1776, East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Mary Reed,   b. 16 Mar 1715, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Marriage	1733  [4, 5]
  Family ID	F266	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ebenezer Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 29 Apr 1755, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 12 Jan 1837, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	12 Mar 1778	Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. James Bisbee,   b. 11 Aug 1783, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 27 Dec 1861, Pharsalia, Chenango, New York (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F2490	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Note that if all the sources cited are correct, she was born when her mother was fifty years old. These dates should be revisited. We note also that the 1876 Family Records of Some of the Descendents of Thomas Besbedge, (Bisbee,) of Scituate, Mass., in 1634 by William B. Lapham claims that the Ebenezer Bisbee who married Bathsheba Whitmarsh married, second, "Mehitable, daughter of John Shaw." It does not mention a second Ebenezer Bisbee. The Lapham volume is far from infallible, starting from the fact that nobody in it is actually a descendent of Thomas Besbedge of Scitiate, but clearly this line needs another look.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5174] Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, on ancestry.com. [S232] Findagrave.com page for Mehitable Shaw. [S3720] Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1916. [S41] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, on ancestry.com. [S3722] History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts by Nahum Mitchell. Boston: Kidder & Wright, 1840.