Name origin: From the Scotch, a plain surrounded by trees or an open space between woods.
b.ca.1518 England; parents ukn
d.1583 Halifax, England
m.ukn
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b.abt.1542 Halifax, York, England; s/o Christopher Shaw
d.March 1575 Halifax, York, England
m.Oct. 4, 1562 Halifax, York, England; Sybil Mason
b.Feb. 1540 Halifax, York, England; d/o Thomas Mason and Jenet ______
d.aft.1589 Halifax, York, England
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b.bef.Jan. 30, 1563 England; s/o Thomas Shaw and Sybil Mason
d.Jan. 1599
m.Dec. 16, 1589 Elizabeth Longbotham
b.bef.Oct. 13, 1560; d/o Brian Longbotham and Alice Mawd
d.aft.1591
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b.abt.Aug. 26, 1564 St. Peters, Cornhill, London, England; parents ukn
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b.Aug. 26, 1584 London, England; s/o Ralph Shaw
d.May 29, 1661 Hampton, NH
m.(1)Anne ______ b.1610 Cambridge, MA d.Jan. 28, 1661 Hampton, NH
m.(2)Susanna Tilton
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NOTE: from Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, page 186--SHAW, Roger, husbandman, yeoman, Cambridge, proprietor, 1636; frm.March 14, 1638-9; town officer. Removed to Hampton. Bought house and land 15 Nov. 1647; sold land in 1658; Deputy; juryman. He married first Anne ______; he m. second Susanna ______, widow of William Tilton of Lynn, MA; she d.28 (11)1654. Children: Joseph, Benjamin, Esther b.(4)1638, Mary d.29 (7)1645, Margaret, Ann. His "son-in-law" [step-son] Abraham Tilton was apprenticed 5 Dec. 1653 to John Hood, weaver, of Lynn; whose wife Elizabeth, acting under a power of attorney from her husband then is England, released the apprentice 10 Nov. 1656, although she had previously sent him to Peter Tilton, living in Connecticut. [Nor. Rec. I] Samuel Tilton, another of the children of "my late wife Susanna", received a tract of land from Mr. Shaw April 6, 1660, and receipted in full for his portion 12 June 1661, and for that of his brother Daniel Tilton 13, July 1663.
He died 29 (3) 1661. Will dated 25 Aug. 1660, codicil dated 20 March following, probated 10 (8) 1661, beq. to sons Joseph and Benjamin, daus. Margaret Ward, Ann Fogg, Hester, and Mary; sons Abraham and Daniel Tilton to have their protions when they come of age according to covenant.
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b.14 Nov. 1585 Northowram, Halifax, York, England; s/o Thomas Shaw and Elizabeth Longbotham
d.1639 Weymouth, Mass.
m.June 24, 1616; Bridget Best
b.Apr. 9, 1592 Ovenden, York, England; d/o Henry Best and Grace Boithes
d.1636
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NOTE: From The English Origins of New England Families, From the Historical and Genealogical Register selected by Gary Boyd Rogers, pages 152-154, Vol III, Published 1985, Re article "Abraham Shaw of Dedham" by H. Minot Pitman who cites The American Genealogist (TAG), Vol 57 (1981), pp. 85-87: For many years it was believed Abraham was the illegitimate son of Janet/Jenet Shaw and Abraham Dobson of Halifax, York Co., England as reported by Pitman. [NEHGR CVI (1952) 50-52] The recent discovery and translation of the will of Thomas Shaw of Halifax and his daughter Sarah Shaw by Bierbrier indicates they were father and sister of Abraham of Dedham. The wills proved Abraham Shaw, a legitimate son of Thomas and Elizabeth Shaw, resided in Northowrom, Halifax, York Co, England "two months before the marriage of Abraham Shaw the emigrant" to Bridget Best. R.F. Shaw in TG 10 says these wills explain the "mystery" of how Abraham "could have acquired property in Halifax [NEHGR 48 (1894) 346; 49 (1894); 105 (1952) 50-52]." After extensive research of land records in Halifax Parish by R.F. Shaw "definitive evidence" was found to link Abraham to Thomas and his grandfather Christopher through the tracing of a parcel of land. Also the given names of Abraham's siblings: Sarah, Susan, Joseph, Jonas, and Martha are very similar to the names of his own children: Joseph, Grace, Martha, Maria (Mary), John and Susannah. Another point in favor of Thomas Shaw as father of Abraham is the mentioning of a Henry Beste in Thomas' will as a friend and a supervisor. Henry Best was the father-in-law of Abraham.
From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700, by Holmes: ABRAHAM, b.Halifax, Yorkshire, Eng., settled at Watertown, Mass., 1636, removed to Dedham, Mass., 1638, two years later to Cambridge, Mass.
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b.abt.1600 about London, England; s/o Abraham Shaw and Bridget Best
d.Oct. 24, 1694 Middleborough, MA
m.abt.1619 England; Alice Phillips
b.abt.1604 England; d/o Nicolas Phillips b.1611 d.1671/2 and Elizabeth Jewson [or Janson]
d.March 6, 1654 Plymouth, MA
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b.March 2, 1629 Plymouth, MA; s/o John Shaw and Alice Philipps
d.July 30, 1701 Plymouth, MA
m.(1)Jan. 22, 1650 or 57 at Plymouth, MA; Phebe Watson
b.1637 Plymouth, MA; d/o George Watson and Phebe Hicks
d.1672 Plymouth, MA
m.(2)August 1683; Persis Dunham
b.1635 d/o John Dunham and Abigail Barlow
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