George Shaw

George married Mercy Rich in 1724. Mercy (daughter of Thomas Rich and Mercy Knowles) was born on 8 Aug 1704 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in Sep 1743 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. George Shaw was born in 1726 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jun 1809 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Rock Cemetery, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

George married Constant Doane on 8 Jan 1690. Constant (daughter of Dr. Daniel Doane and Constance Snow) died on 5 Mar 1741 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1629 and 1631, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Jonathan Shaw (1631-1701) = Phebe Watson (1638-1682)
Jonathan Shaw (1663-1730) = Mehitable Pratt (1667-1712)
Mehitable Shaw (1694-1764) = Zachariah Weston (1690-1762)
James Weston (1723-1786) = Abigail Dunham (1720-1798)
Abner Weston (1764-1844) = Sally Thurston (1772-1836)
John Wheeler Weston (1799-1847) = Asenath Howe (b. 1798)
Harding Weston (b. 1835) = Mary Wadsworth Parker (1838-1897)
Isabel Weston (1860-1948) = Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942)
Ezra Pound [Ezra Weston Loomis Pound] (1885-1972)

Jonathan married Phebe Watson on 22 Jan 1657 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Phebe (daughter of George Watson and Phoebe Hicks) was born about 1638; died about 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1636, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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He was the first physician at Eastham.

Daniel married Constance Snow before 1669. Constance (daughter of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins) died before 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Josiah Paine, town clerk and historian of Harwich, who was a Snow brother-in-law, wrote that Constance (Hopkins) Snow, daughter of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins and wife of Nicholas Snow, had a daughter named for her mother who was the first wife of Daniel Doane of Eastham. No official birth or marriage records have been found to prove this, so the Mayflower Society doesn't accept it as proven that descendants of Daniel Doane and his first wife were descendants of Stephen Hopkins. We think that Paine's testimony is as good as a lot of evidence cited in reasonably rigorous genealogy.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1596
• Alternate death: Between 22 Mar 1664 and 15 Feb 1669, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

It is unclear whether he was married once or twice, and who was the mother of his children.

Arrived at Plymouth between 1623 and 1626. With William Gilson and others, he built "The Cutt," connecting Green Harbor and Duxbury Bay, the earliest canal still in existence in America.

Notes:

George Watson (1602-1689) = Phoebe Hicks (1615-1653)
Phebe Watson (1638-1682) = Jonathan Shaw (1631-1701)
Jonathan Shaw (1663-1730) = Mehitable Pratt (1667-1712)
Mehitable Shaw (1694-1764) = Zachariah Weston (1690-1762)
James Weston (1723-1786) = Abigail Dunham (1720-1798)
Abner Weston (1764-1844) = Sally Thurston (1772-1836)
John Wheeler Weston (1799-1847) = Asenath Howe (b. 1798)
Harding Weston (b. 1835) = Mary Wadsworth Parker (1838-1897)
Isabel Weston (1860-1948) = Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942)
Ezra Pound [Ezra Weston Loomis Pound] (1885-1972)

George married Phoebe Hicks before 1636. Phoebe (daughter of Robert Hicks and Margaret) was born before 15 Mar 1615; was christened on 15 Mar 1615 in St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey, England; died on 22 May 1663 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 21 Feb 1685, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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Emigrated in 1630 with a wife and one daughter, Lydia. First at Plymouth, then Eastham in 1645. He was a yeoman and an innkeeper, and served in many public offices, almost always referred to in the records as "Mr." In 1636 he was chosen to be one of those assigned to revise the basic laws of the Plymouth Colony, i.e., the Mayflower Compact. In 1644 he and Myles Standish conducted the inventory of the recently-deceased Elder William Brewster. These two of many services indicate that he was held in high public trust.

He had a wife named Ann in 1648, who died in 1659, and on 1 Jul 1659 he married a Lydia, who died between 18 May 1678 and 23 Dec 1681. It is not established that Ann was the mother of any of his children.

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• Alternate death: Abt 1677

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Arrived 1623 on the Anne. First at Plymouth, then at Eastham. He was a carpenter.

In 2013, Caleb Johnson ("Nicholas Snow: Not from St. Leonard Shoreditch, London", The Mayflower Descendant 62:39) established that, contrary to the suggestions of several authorities included Robert Charles Anderson, this Nicholas Snow could not have been the Nicholas Snow baptized at St. Leonard's Shoreditch, London, 25 Jan 1600, son of another Nicholas Snow, because that Nicholas Snow was buried three days after being baptized. Some circumstantial evidence suggests that our Nicholas Snow may have been a descendant of the Snow family of Hursley, Hampshire, where his wife and the other children of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins were baptized, but nothing has been proven.

Nicholas married Constance Hopkins before 22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Constance (daughter of Stephen Hopkins and Mary Kent alias Back) was born before 11 May 1606; was christened on 11 May 1606 in Hursley, Hampshire, England; died in Oct 1677 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 with her family.

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• Alternate death: 24 Mar 1647

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He was a fellmonger. He came to Plymouth in 1621 on the Fortune, and his family followed on the Anne.

Robert married Margaret before 1603. Margaret died between 8 Jul 1665 and 6 Mar 1666 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 5 Mar 1666

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• Alternate birth: of Hursley, Hampshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 6 Jun 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated 1620, on the Mayflower, with his second wife Elizabeth Fisher and his children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles. He was a tanner, merchant, and tavern-keeper.

Notable as the only Mayflower passenger to have previously visited the New World, as it now appears that he was the same Stephen Hopkins that served as the minister's clerk on the 1609 voyage to Jamestown of the Sea Venture. This ship was caught in a storm and ran aground at Bermuda, marooning its passengers. Sir Thomas Gates, who had been travelling to Jamestown as its newly-appointed governor, organized the passengers to build new boats to complete the voyage. Hopkins vocally dissented against Gates's authority, and was charged with mutiny and sentenced to death, but ultimately pardoned after many other passengers pled for clemency toward him. The boat-building project was successful and the passengers of the Sea Venture ultimately made it to Jamestown, from whence Hopkins ultimately returned to England in 1614. A written narrative of the Sea Venture's story was in circulation in England by late 1610 and is known to have been read by Shakespeare, whose The Tempest, first performed in November 1611, concerns a group of passengers shipwrecked by a storm, and includes a comic-relief drunk named Stefano who attempts to take over as their leader.

Stephen Hopkins = Mary
Constance Hopkins = Nicholas Snow
Mark Snow = Jane Prence
Nicholas Snow = Lydia Shaw
Thankful Snow = Joseph Burgess
Lydia Burgess = Salmon Kingsley
Orin Kingsley = Hilda Coon
Orin Kingsley = Margaret Buchanan
Alanson Kingsley = Laura Ann Jackett
Barbara Marie Jane Kingsley = Willis Wilbus Thompson
Bernice Maude Thompson = Archie Dean Swift
Archie Dean Swift = Rose Baldi Douglas
Scott Kingsley Swift = Andrea G. Finlay
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Stephen married Mary Kent alias Back before 13 May 1604 in England. Mary (daughter of Robert Kent alias Back and Joan Machell) was born about 1583; died before 9 May 1613 in Hursley, Hampshire, England; was buried on 9 May 1613 in Hursley, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth Williams on 28 Jul 1579 in Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England. Elizabeth died after 1593. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Joan Machell about 1575. Joan (daughter of Robert Machell and Joan) was born about 1548; died before 25 Oct 1611; was buried on 25 Oct 1611 in Hursley, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]