George Shaw, Sr.

George Shaw, the son of Jonathan Shaw and Phebe Watson, was born in 1667 in Lakenham, now North Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [1] George married Constance Doan on 8 January 1690 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [2]George and Constant had six children:

Elkanah Shaw Rebecca Shaw George Shaw Hannah Shaw John Shaw Jonathan Shaw

George Shaw died 2 May 1720 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts and was buried in Cove Burying Ground. [3]

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George Shaw (1667 - 1720)

George Shaw

Born 1667 in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Son of Jonathan Shaw and Phebe (Watson) Shaw

Brother of Phebe (Shaw) Morton, Hannah (Shaw) Paine, Jonathan Shaw Jr., Mary (Shaw) Ring, Lydia (Shaw) Snow, Benjamin Shaw and Benoni Shaw

Husband of Constance (Doane) Shaw — married 8 Jan 1691 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Father of Elkanah Shaw, Rebecca (Shaw) Young, George Shaw, Hannah (Shaw) Sparrow, John Shaw Sr. and Jonathan Shaw

Died 2 May 1720 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Profile last modified 7 Jul 2020 | Created 3 Jan 2011

Research Notes

References to unsourced Ancestry links and to secondary sources brought in via a GEDcom, like West, AGBI, and U.S. International Marriage Records have been removed.
Note correction, in Sources (below), to the FamilySearch transcript of son Jonathan Shaw's date of birth (correct date is 17 February 1703). Sources

↑ New England Historic and Genealogical Society Register, Volume 151, page 282. ↑ Massachusetts Town and Vital Records Marriages ↑ Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave. Created by: Becky Doan. Record added: Apr 24, 2010. Find A Grave Memorial# 51540195. Accessed 18 March 2018 [Link] Image of original record of marriage and death, and births of children Elkanah, Rebecca, George, and Hannah; [farther down page] John and Jonathan: image #114; "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-9XXH?cc=2061550&w... : 20 May 2014), Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths, land grants 1649-1722 > image 110 of 157; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston. NOTE: the FamilySearch transcript of the birth record for son Jonathan is _in error_ -- see "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDD-D8P : 15 January 2020), Jonathan Shaw, 1702. -- ; the indexed record shows _17 July 1702_, but in the actual handwritten date, "Februarie" has been inserted; the correct (Gregorian calendar) date is thus 17 February 1703. Shaw, Jonathan A., John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser and Canal Builder, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1997) Vol. 151, Page 427-30.

ancestry.com:

'George Shaw

Born in Massachusetts, USA on 1680

to Jonathan Shaw and Phebe Watson.

George married Constant Doane and had 6 children.

He passed away on 1720 in Eastham, Barnstable, Barnstable.

Family Members

Parents

Jonathan Shaw 1630-1701

Phebe Watson 1636-1672

Spouse(s)

Constant Doane 1712-1719

Children

James Shaw

Elkanah Shaw 1691-Unknown

Rebecca Shaw 1693-1754

George Shaw 1704-1771

Hannah Shaw 1700-1782

John Shaw 1709-1745

GEDCOM Note

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!NAME:Cape Cod Genealogy on Line, Cape C

!NAME:Cape Cod Genealogy on Line, Cape Cod Genealogy on Line !BIRTH:John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser & Canal Buil der, John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser & Canal Builde r, Shaw, Jonathan A., New England Historical & Genealogica l Register, vol. 115, pp. 259-85, 1997 !DEATH:John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser & Canal Buil der, John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser & Canal Builde r, Shaw, Jonathan A., New England Historical & Genealogica l Register, vol. 115, pp. 259-85, 1997

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will:2-28-1719,proved;5-21-1720

will:2-28-1719,proved;5-21-1720

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!BIRTH: John Shaw of Plymouth Mass, The

!BIRTH: John Shaw of Plymouth Mass, The Descendants of John Shaw of Plymouth and his wife Alice - who died in 1654, by Margaret Johnson Drake. (NEHGS); The Doane Book by A.A. Doane, Vol.I pg 30, Boston 1902. States George is son of Jonathan Shaw. MARRIAGE: Dawes-Gates and Allied Families, 2:308, by Ferris. DEATH: Eastham VR

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!Initial source: A family group sheet i

!Initial source: A family group sheet in the FGRA collection of the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, submitted by Elliott S. Doane, 2226 Quincy Ave., Ogden, Utah. His source: A5C10 p30 Doane Family. It has his birth 1665, of Eastham, and does not have the name of his mother. These and one or two other missing details were added by Dorothy D. Hall (now deceased), former Family Genealogist, from "Eastham and Orleans Vital Records" found in "Mayflower Descendant", vol 3 pg 229; "First Settlers of Eastham, Mass." found in "NEHGR", vol 7 pg 280. An article in NEHGR vol 151 (1997) says, on pg 427, that he was probably born at Lakenham, which was part of Plymouth Colony, now North Carver, Plymouth, Mass., and guesses the year as 1667. It says his marriage and death are from "Mayflower Desc." vol 3 pg 229, but a footnote says that Freeman's "History of Cape Cod", 1862, 2:596, states that his death occurred in Chatham. It says births of his children were all "recorded on one page in Eastham VRs, in a group of four and two, suggesting that some of the births may have occurred elsewhere." LDS proxy temple ordinances are in the IGI from temple records. The NEHGR article from vol. 151 says further: "On 27 Feb 1693/4 George Shaw and Benoni Shaw, described as yeomen of Lakenham, Township of Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts, sold for L36 'one Quarter of a whole Share of Upland & Meadow . . . formerly the lands and Meadows of our Grandfather John Shaw' in Dartmouth, Bristol County, to Captain Seth Pope, merchant of the town of Dartmouth. Three weeks earlier they had jointly bought from Captain Pope seven acres of meadow land in or near Lakenham - five acres in the Lower South Meadows and two acres in the New Meadow. The following month, on 16 Mar 1693/4, 'Jonathan Shaw Senr,' George's father, freely gave to his 'Son George All that my ten acres of Land which lyeth on the . . . Side of Lakenham pond' (now Muddy Pond). On 3 June 1696 George Shaw bought a share on behalf of 'Daniel Done' (his father-in-law) in the Eight Men's Purchse in nearby Middleboro - Doane's portion to be the Second Lot. George Shaw was appointed one of five men to lay out these lots. At a Plymouth town meeting on 4 Mar 1698/9 George Shaw was granted'12 acres of land adjoyning to the land he liveth on att the south end of lakenham pond.' By 5 Mar 1699/1700 he was serving on a grand jury for Plymouth, again on 18 June 1700, and then again on 26 Feb 1700/1. Despite his jury service in Feb 1701, George Shaw was described as an 'Inhabitant of Eastham' two months earlier, on 17 Dec 1700, when he sold to his brother Benoni for L5 the 'full half of Seven acres of meadow Ground that we bought of Seth Pope.' The deed was witnessed by Jonathan Shaw, Sr. and Daniel Pratt. At the Eastham town meeting on 26 July 1703 Nathaniel Mayo and George Shaw of Eastham were granted meadow land at Pocha (Pochet, then in Eastham, now in Orleans) high meadow, and the same town meeting granted George Shaw and Joshua Harding meadow land on 'Pocha flats or low Meadow between Pocha Island and Sampson Island being the 14th lot.' On 20 June 1705 "George Shaw & Constant his wife . . . of Eastham' signed deeds, recorded in Plymouth County and acknowledged in Barnstable County, conveying and quitclaiming property in Lakenham to Jonathan Shaw and Benoni Shaw. On 16 June 1712 'George Shaw of Eastham' accepted four acres in Eastham on the southwest side of Fresh Pond from Thomas Mayo, Jr., in return giving to Mayo five acres on the northerly side of Potanumacut River. The witneses were George's sister, Lydia Snow, who signed with a mark, and her husband Nicholas Snow. In the Eastham list of proprietors of 1715 George Shaw is recorded as owning lot 7 in the 'Wood Lots' and also lot 44 in the 'undivided Upland Medos and Swams' which was 'between his former tenement [dwelling] lot and the roadway that leads to Harwich.' One of these lots may have been the three or four acres of upland granted to him by the Eastham town meeting on 9 Mar 1708/9, 'opposite the house of Thomas Rich.' George Shaw had sold his Lakenham land at some time before 15 Nov 1715, when 'Jonathan Shaw of Plimton . . . Husbandman' gave to his own son Jonathan the 'Tract of Land which I bought of my Brother George Shaw.' On 4 June 1717 'Isaac Lawrence Junior Indian of Harwich . . . Labourer' sold for L12 to 'John Yates of Harwich . . . yeoman' a parcel of land on Cape Cod 'lying in a neck of land called Namacoick.' George Shaw witnessed the deed. In his will, dated 28 Feb 1718/9 and proved 21 May 1720, George Shaw of Eastham gave one half of his wood lot 'that Lyes Towards Billingsgate' to his son George and the other half to his daughter Hannah Shaw. He gave the remainder of his 'upland and meadow Land & housing unto my Three Sons: George Shaw John Shaw and Jonathan Shaw in Equal proportion alike.' He reserved for his wife Constant his dwelling house, barn, and lands, and also a second wood lot, as well as lands at Pochey [Pochet] Island, Pochey Beach, and Pochey Flats; after Constant's death L5 was to go to Hannah to make her portion equal to that given to his da ughter Rebecca Young, with lesser amounts to Rebecca's children Elkanah Young and Nathan Young. His son, the younger George Shaw, was to be executor. The will was signed and sealed by George Shaw and witnessed by Joseph Doane, Elisha Higgins (by mark), and Thomas Rich. By the will of her father, Daniel Doane, dated 18 Sep 1712 and administered 7 Oct 1712 in Barnstable County, 'Constant the Wife of George Shaw' received, together with her sisters, the remainder of his estate. On 22 Jan 1721/2 'Constant Doane widow woman Relict of George Shaw late of Eastham deceesed,' together with her sons George and John, conveyed by deed for L1 14s two parcels of upland in Eastham near Sheeps Pond to Joshua Higgins. No Barnstable County probate has been found for Constant Shaw."