Dorcas (Drake) Shotwell (1802 - 1873)

Born 1 Sep 1802 in Washington Valley, Warren Township, Somerset Co., New Jersey

Ancestors

Wife of Jacob Shotwell — married 29 Dec 1825 in Essex County, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 26 Nov 1873 at age 71 in Tazewell, Illinois, United States

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Dorcas (Drake) Shotwell was born on 01 September 1802, at the Old Drake Homestead (253 Valley Road), Washington Valley (Watchung), Somerset Co., New Jersey, named for her maternal grandmother. She was married on 29 December 1825, Westfield?, New Jersey, to Jacob Shotwell. She was pregnant with daughter Mary Ann during two major events, the appearance of Halley's Comet in the fall 1835 and when the Shotwell farmhouse burned down in January 1836.

She died on 26 November 1873 at the home of her son-in-law (Enoch Runyon), Green Valley, Tazewell County, Illinois. Julia C. Drake's diary says that she "passed away so quietly and suddenly like going to sleep that no one thought her near death and thought she was only quietly sleeping."

Sources

• First Settlers of Passaic Valley (page 146): https://www.digifind-it.com/njhistoricalportal/data/ringwood//First%20Settlers%20of%20Passaic%20Valley.pdf

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6MR-PLC : 9 November 2014), Sarah Shotwell in household of Jacob Shotwell, Warren, Somerset, New Jersey, United States; citing family 279, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ5M-648 : 10 February 2018), Jacob Shotwell and Dorcas Drake, 29 Dec 1825; citing 914,211

• Julia C. Drake's diary.

• Other research by Kenneth Kinman

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14604751

• Timothy Alton Perrin, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #4887, Date of Import: May 29, 1999. (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: Jun 2, 1999.