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Facts and Events
| Name[3] |
Roger Shaw |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2] |
Abt 1600 |
Gawsworth, Cheshire, England"of Gawsworth" |
| Marriage |
Abt 1625 |
of Gawsworth, Cheshire, Englandno marriage record found
to Anne Unknown |
| Emigration[2] |
Bef 1638 |
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| Marriage |
Aft May 1653 |
Hampton, Norfolk, Massachusettsto Susanna _____ |
| Will[1][2] |
25 Aug 1660 |
Hampton, Norfolk Island, New Hampshire, United States |
| Death[2] |
29 May 1661 |
Hampton, Rockingham, NH, USA |
| Probate[1] |
10 Oct 1661 |
Will proved, estate valued at over 369 pounds |
Excerpted from NEHGR 158:309 (2004), "The English Origin of Roger and Ann Shaw of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Hampton, New Hampshire," by Edgar Joseph Shaw
- Early works on this Shaw family are misleading or simply erroneous. In 1904 Harriette Farwell asseted that Roger(1) Shaw was likely baptized at St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, on 1 September 1594, son of Ralph Shaw, vintner,[2] but this claim can be dismissed.[3].
- [2]Harriette F. Farwell, Shaw Records: A Memorial of Roger Shaw, 1594-1661 (Bethel, Maine: E.. Blowler, 1904), 1. As well as repeating previosuly published mistakes, this book included several invented dates of birth for Roger's children.
- [3] There is no supporting evidence for this identification. No further record of any kind pertaining to this son of Ralph Shaw was ever found.
- Banks' Topographical Dictionary assigns Roger Shaw an origin in Willoughby in the Wolds, Nottinghmashire, evidently because a laborer named Roger Shaw from that parish married Ann Leeson by license in December 1637.[4] This identification is chronologically unlikely, since the immigrant's fifth child was born in New England only six months later.
- [4]Charles Edward Banks, Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, ed. (Philadelphia: Bertram Press, 1937; repr. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1963), 133 (Roger Shaw of Cambridge and Hampton from Willoughby, Nottimnghamshire). The marriage license, dated 16 December 1637 [sic], was for "Roger Shaw of Willo.... labourer and Ann Leeson, late of Plumtree, and nowe p. St. Nicholas, Nottm, spr." (Debrett's report to the author, dated January 1985). The marriage of Roger Shaw and Anna Leeson was on 6 December 1637 at St. Nicholas, Nottingham (W.P.W. Phillimore, Nottingham Parish Registers. Marriages, 4 vols. [London: Phillimore & Co., 1900-02], 4:17).
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- By considering all the available records about Roger Shaw in New England, it was possible to determine that Roger had arrived in Cambridge sometime before June 1638 when his daughter Esther was born.[6]
- [6]David Pulsifer, "Early Records of Boston [Cambridge]," Register 4 (1850):182; Thomas W. Baldwin, ed., Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1914-15), 1:635.
- The widely-published claim that he was before the General Court in 1636 could not be substantiated.[7]
- [7]Perhaps the records of "one Shaw at Watertown" complained of by John Winthrop in his History, are the source of this misidentification. This Shaw, whose house was burned down in October 1636 and he "concealed his estate, and made show as if he had been poor," was Abraham Shaw, later of Dedham (Winthrop, History of New England [note 5], 1:200).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Essex County, MA, Probate File.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The English Origin of Roger and Ann Shaw of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Hampton, New Hampshire, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
158:309-216, 2004.
- ↑ Lane Memorial Library, Hampton, New Hampshire. Hampton Genealogy Database. (https://gw.geneanet.org/hamptongenealogy).
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