Catherine "Cate" Bigelow

15337.t   Noah, b 9 Sep 1742 Westborough; d 2 Mar 1833 Andes township, Delaware co, NY; m (1) 22
Jan 1766 Catherine SHAY; (2)17 Mar 1778 (Worcester, MA) Elizibeth GOULDING;
(3) 1795 Elizabeth _____ . Served throughout Rev War; res MA, VT, and NY.
Many children.

is lineage is not yet proven.

He was married (1) on 22 Jan 1766 to Catherine SHAY of Hopkinton, MA. The intention-of-marriage spells her name as "Cate Psha," as if the clerk were trying to spell it in similar fashion to the expletive "pshaw." Noah and Kate had two sons born in Westborough, after which they appear to have moved from the town. 

However note from Daniel Shays' Biography: http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/shaysapp/person.do?shortName=daniel_...

Daniel Shays' parents emigrated from Ireland to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1730s. Patrick and Margaret (Dempsey) Shays married in 1744 and set up housekeeping in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. In 1747, Margaret gave birth to Daniel, the second of what would be a family of six children. (1)

As war with England seemed ever more likely, the old militia exercises assumed a more serious character. Daniel seems never to have faltered in his commitment to the American Whig, or Patriot, cause. He did not remain a member of the Brookfield militia, however. At some point between 1774 and 1775, Daniel and Abigail moved west to Shutesbury, where Shays joined militia from Shutesbury, Amherst and Leverett. His experience in drilling may explain why he appeared on the company roll as Sergeant Daniel Shays. When Captain Reuben Dickinson's company marched to Cambridge in 1775 following the fighting at Lexington and Concord, Shays received 18 shillings, 10 pence for 11 days of service. (4)

And Noah Bigelow's Biography: http://bigelowsociety.com/rod/noa55337.htm

was born 09 September 1742 on the Julian calendar, adjusted to 20 September on the Gregorian calendar adopted in 1752, in Westborough, Worcester county, MA. He was married (1) on 22 Jan 1766 to Catherine SHAY of Hopkinton, MA. The intention-of-marriage spells her name as "Cate Psha," as if the clerk were trying to spell it in similar fashion to the expletive "pshaw." Noah and Kate had two sons born in Westborough, after which they appear to have moved from the town.

     Noah Bigelow served in the militia, and was a volunteer from Westborough at the Battle of Lexington and Concord on 19 Apr 1775. In 1777 he enlisted from Amherst for three years, and served as a sergeant from 03 Mar 1777 to 03 Mar 1780. He was in Capt. Daniel Shay's company, under Col. Rufus Putnam, and was at the battles of Princeton and Trenton, and saw the surrender of General Burgoyne. According to his pension application, he was mustered out in New York state. 

     What becarne of his wife Catherine is not known, as Amherst records prior to 1820 were destroyed, but on 18 March 1778 in Worcester, Noah married (2) Elizabeth Goulding. He was then "of Shutesbury," MA. 

For more research on Daniel Shays: Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Kaminski, John P., Saladino, Gaspare J., Leffler, Richard, Schoenleber, Charles H. and Margaret A. Hogan eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Ratification of the States: Massachusetts vol. 4, pg. 904.

Parmenter, Charles O. The History of Pelham, from 1738 to 1898 including the Early History of Prescott. Amherst, Mass., 1898.

Richards, Leonard. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Szatmary, David P., Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1980.

Starkey, Marion L. A Little Rebellion. New York, Knopf, 1955.