Margaret Corwin

Margaret Shatswell

• Birth: c 1600 at Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire
• Death: after 31 August 1658 probably at Southold, New York

Origins

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37546647

Matthias Curwen married by 1627, Margaret Shatswell, daughter of ____ & Judith (___) Shatswell of Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire (scheduled to receive a distribution from her mother's estate in the year of her majority, 1628). They had 3 children: Johnh, Martha Case Hutchinson, & Theophilus. Margaret Shatswell was sister of JOHN SHATSWELL {1633, Ipswich}, of Theophilus Shatswell & of Mary (Shatswell) Webster, wife of JOHN WEBSTER {1634, Ipswich}.

Family links: Spouse: Matthias Curwen (1602 - 1658)* Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Linda Mac Record added: May 26, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 37546647

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shatswell-15

Matthew CURWIN married Margaret, daughter of Judith SHATSWELL, and in 1627 bought a suit in chancery concerning Judith's estate:[1] ...

"The ages given for the children and dates for distribution require that the distribution to John Shatswell took place around 1618, which would be consistent with the statement in the complaint that the distribution took place about nine years prior to the time of the action. Margaret, who was to receive her distribution the next year, would have been 20; Theophilus, 18 or 19; Sibyl, 17; and Mary,13. Although some uncertainties remain, it is possible to estimate that --SHATSWELL died probably about 1606, leaving a widow JUDITH, who died probably about 1612/13, and the approximate birth dates of five children are John ca. 1597/98; Margaret, ca. 1598/99; m. Matthew/Matthias Curwen; Theophilus, ca. 1599 (Note, however, that Davis in The Ancestry of Annis Spear (Portland, ME., 1945). p157, gave an estimated birth date of 1616 for Theophilus, based on a deposition, and that the distribution gives his age as "tenn" at the time, the scrivener may have been working from notes containing the number 18 which could easily be mistaken for 10 in the script of the day); Sibyl, ca. 1601; and Mary, ca. 1605, married John Webster."

David A. Macdonald used this case to establish that Judith Shatswell had at least five children and to establish their approximate birth years:[2]

• John ca. 1597/98
• Margaret, ca. 1598/99 (m. Matthew/Matthias Curwen)
• Theophilus, ca. 1599
• Sibyl, ca. 1601
• Mary, ca. 1605, married John Webster

1. Curwen, A History, 198-9 abstracted in Essex Institute Historical Collection, 40 (1904), 299): Curwen vs. Smith, Chancery Proceedings, Chas. I, cc. 15, n. 56

Disputed Origins

Found as daughter of Thomas Morton, Bishop, who never married or had children

Family

Margaret SHATSWELL was born about 1599. She married Matthias CURWEN before 1627 in England.

Children

• John Curwen b: ABT 1633 in England. Married Mary Glover.
• Martha Curwen b: ABT 1638 in Ipswich, Essex Co., MA. Married 1) Henry Case 2) Thomas Hutchinson
• Theophilus Curwen b: ABT 1640 in perhaps Southold, Suffolk Co., NY. Married Mary.

Sources:

• 1 - Title: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol II Author: Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr., Melinde Lutz Sanborn Publication: Great Migration Study Project New England Historic Genealogical Society Boston 2001 Repository: Call Number: Media: Book Page: p. 266
• 2 - An Inquiry Into the Origins of Matthias Corwin by Barbara Fricke. “ That Matthew Curwen, the immigrant, married Margaret Shatswell before 1627 is apparently no longer in doubt, as it once was. The marriage was confirmed by a chancery suit Matthew brought in 1627 on behalf of his wife and her younger siblings against the man who handled the estate of her mother, Judith, who had died eleven years previously in Sibbertoft, Northants. Also, in his will (1647), John Shatswell (Margaret’s older brother) left his second-best “stufe sute” to “my brother Curwin,” i.e., Matthew. (I understand in-laws were often termed brother and sister in those days.)”
• https://mccurdyfamilylineage.com/ancestry/p8542.htm