 Abt 1631 - Bef 1701 (< 70 years)
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| Name |
Jonathan SHAW |
| Prefix |
Deacon |
| Birth |
Abt 1631 |
Plymouth Colony  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
111034 |
| Reference Number |
60 |
| Reference Number |
98545 |
| WWW |
https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Shaw-82 |
| Death |
Bef 30 Jul 1701 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Person ID |
I250 |
Gummer |
| Last Modified |
1 Aug 2024 |
| Family 2 |
Persis DUNHAM, b. 1635 d. 1 Oct 1702 (Age 67 years) |
| Marriage |
Aug 1683 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Family ID |
F275 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
1 Aug 2024 |
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Shaw-2611 and Shaw-695 are not ready to be merged because: Probably the same person, but additional work needs to be done on relationships by people familiar with the family group, given the common name. |
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| Notes |
- == Biography ==
===Birth===Jonathan Shaw was born between 1627 (his father's arrival at Plymouth) and 1631 (based upon the age requirement to witness a deed) to [[Shaw-162|John Shaw]] and an unknown mother.[Shaw, Jonathan A. "John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser and Canal Builder." New England Genealogical and Historical Register, Volume 151. July 1977. ''By Subscription'' (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11639/276/0 Page 276.]] His father, John Sr., was married to Alice (birth surname unknown) at Plymouth but she was probably not Jonathan's mother.[Shaw, 1977. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11639/270/0 Page 270.]]
===Plymouth===* 29 Nov 1652 Jonathan first appeared in Colony records as witness to a deed between the "Purchasers" and the Indians for land which was later renamed Dartmouth Township.[Documents Printed by Order of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, MA: Self-Published, 1864. [https://books.google.com/books?id=T64h_pCdtK4C&pg=RA2-PA5&dq=29+Nov+1652+purchasers+bradford+shaw&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE_u6O4-PrAhWyl60KHRlRBAEQ6AEwAnoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=29%20Nov%201652%20purchasers%20bradford%20shaw&f=false Page 5.]] * 1653 Jonathan co-signed an agreement for his father John and his wife Alice Shaw to raise Benjamin Savory, son of Thomas and Annis Savory. If they died before Benjamin reached twenty-one, Jonathan Shaw, John's son, is to do it, and is also to teach Benjamin reading and writing.[ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vols. I-III. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. ''By Subscription '' [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1660/23896019 Page 1660.]]* Dec 1656 John Shaw began the process of deeding land to his children. Jonathan received the house and land at Plain Dealing in Plymouth in return for providing his father "a comfortable habitation" during his life.[Bowman, George Ernest. "John Shaws Deeds to His Sons and to His Son-in-Law Stephen Bryant." The Mayflower Descendant, Volume X. Boston, MA: The Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1908. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BQLosquR29AC&pg=PA33&dq=john+shaw+plymouth+deeds+to+Jonathan&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiejZypxN_rAhWHZM0KHQUmAN4Q6AEwAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=John%20Shaw%2057&f=false Page 33.]]* 3 Jun 1657 Jonathan is made a freeman of the Plymouth Colony.[Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth of New England, Court Orders Vol. III 1651-1661. Boston, MA: Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1855. [https://archive.org/stream/recordsofcolonyo0304newp#page/n129/mode/2up/search/shaw Page 117.]]
===Plympton===* 1658 Jonathan appears to have briefly relocated from Plymouth to Duxburrow (now Bridgewater); he is listed as freeman in both locations.[Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth of New England, Volume 8 Miscellaneous Records 1633-1689. Boston, MA: Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1857. [https://archive.org/stream/recordsofcolonyo0708newp#page/n211/mode/2up/search/shaw Page 197-198]]* May 1662 Jonathan Shaw resides at Lakenham and "desires some Comon land about his house...'[Records of the Town of Plymouth Vol. 1, 1636 to 1705. Plymouth, MA: Town of Plymouth, 1889. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SvYPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241&dq=Records+of+the+Town+of+Plymouth+%22Jonathan+Shaw%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkucS_luTrAhUGRK0KHV2aD9EQ6AEwBHoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Jonathan%20Shaw%22%20Comon&f=false Page 47]] and 27 Oct 1662 A parcel of land was granted to Jonathan "neare his house att Lakenham" (now Carver.) [Plymouth, 1899. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SvYPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241&dq=Records+of+the+Town+of+Plymouth+%22Jonathan+Shaw%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkucS_luTrAhUGRK0KHV2aD9EQ6AEwBHoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Jonathan%20Shaw%22%2051&f=false Page 51.]] For many years Plymouth records continued to report requests and deeds for additional land.* 17 May 1673 Chosen as surveyor of the highways[Plymouth, 1899. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SvYPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241&dq=Records+of+the+Town+of+Plymouth+%22Jonathan+Shaw%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkucS_luTrAhUGRK0KHV2aD9EQ6AEwBHoECAYQAg#v=snippet&q=%22Jonathan%20Shaw%22%201673&f=false Page 132.]] and performed other civic roles such as tax assessor, jury member, fence viewer, etc.[Plymouth, 1899. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SvYPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241&dq=Records+of+the+Town+of+Plymouth+%22Jonathan+Shaw%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkucS_luTrAhUGRK0KHV2aD9EQ6AEwBHoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Jonathan%20Shaw%22%20&f=false Pages 47-333.]]* 24 Aug 1687 Jonathan's involvement on behalf of Plymouth Colony Church affairs is recorded. At the town meeting he was one of those assigned to determine the financial support available for Rev. John Cotton.[Plymouth, 1899. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SvYPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241&dq=Records+of+the+Town+of+Plymouth+%22Jonathan+Shaw%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkucS_luTrAhUGRK0KHV2aD9EQ6AEwBHoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=Lakenham%20Wenatuxet&f=false Page 191.]]* Nov 1692 Jonathan is chosen as a psalm reader for the Church.[Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume XXII Plymouth Church Records. Boston, MA: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1920. [https://archive.org/details/publicationsofcov22colo/page/279/mode/2up?q=%22Jonathan+Shaw%22 Page 279.]]* 27 Oct 1698 Jonathan, his wife Persis, and others were granted a dismissal from the Plymouth Church which agreed to "dismis those brethren and sister[s] and ...proceed to Enter into a church covenant amongst them selves."[Church Records, 1920. [https://archive.org/details/publicationsofcov22colo/page/185/mode/2up?q=%22breatheren+dismissed%22 Page 186.]]
===Marriage and Children===Jonathan married [[Watson-1916|Phebe Watson]], daughter of George Watson and Phebe Hicks, on 22 January 1656/7 at Plymouth.[Shurtleff, 1857. [https://archive.org/stream/recordsofcolonyo0708newp#page/n29/mode/2up/search/%22Phebe+Watson%22 Page 17.]] Phebe died ca 1682, likely in Lakenham.[Shaw, 1977.[https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11639/276/0 Page 276.]]
Issue:[Shaw, 1977. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11639/282/0 Page 282.]]
# [[Shaw-201|Phebe Shaw]] b Feb 1657/8; m John Morton
# [[Shaw-143|Hannah Shaw]] b ca 1662; m Thomas Paine Jr.# [[Shaw-1627|Jonathan Shaw]] b ca 1663; m (1) Mehitabel Pratt, (2) Mary (Richards) Darling
# [[Shaw-1598|Mary Shaw]]b ca 1665; m Eleazer Ring
# [[Shaw-1667|George Shaw]] b ca 1667; m Constant Doane
# [[Shaw-181|Lydia Shaw]] b ca 1670; m Nicholas Snow
# [[Shaw-696|Benoni Shaw]] b ca 1672; m Lydia Waterman
# [[Shaw-1672|Benjamin Shaw]] b ca 1672 (twin); prob d young
He married second, [[Dunham-101|Persis (Dunham) Shaw]], the widow of Benjamin Pratt in August of 1683.[Barclay, Mrs. John E. "Notes on the Dunham Family of Plymouth Mass." The American Genealogist, Vol. 30, 1954. ''By Subscription'' [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11829/145/0 Page 145.]] The couple signed a prenuptial agreement specifiying that Jonathan would treat her two youngest children "as if they were his owne Naturall Children," and giving her the right to occupy his house after his death.[Shaw, 1977. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11639/276/0 Page 276.]]["Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-6SX4: 23 March 2023), Probate records 1702-1710 vol 2 > image 23 of 106; State Archives, Boston.]
===Death===Jonathan Shaw died before 30 July 1701 likely in Lakenham, the date his estate was probated. His widow Persis and sons Jonathan and Benoni were mentioned.[Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881.Online database. ''By Subscription ''AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)[https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1558/i/20956/17961-co2/0 Page 17961:2]]["Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-J8BN : 22 March 2023), Probate records 1686-1702 and 1849-1867 vol 1-1F > image 186 of 490; State Archives, Boston.]
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