Jonathan Shaw III (1689 - 1760)

Born 1 Aug 1689 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Atwood) Shaw — married 3 Dec 1713 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 1760 at about age 70 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Biography

Jonathan Shaw III was born on August 1, 1689 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the son of Jonathan Shaw, Jr., and Mehitable Pratt. He married Elizabeth Atwood on December 3, 1713, at Plympton, Massachusetts Bay;^[1] he married second, also at Plympton, the widow Elizabeth Vaughan (her maiden surname thought to be Shurtleff), in early April of 1736.

Jonathan died in 1760 at Plympton, a few miles inland from his birthplace of Plymouth.

Disputed Marriage

This profile previously showed a second marriage of Jonathan Shaw III to Sarah Rich of Eastham, a Mayflower descendant through her mother's line; she was the daughter of Thomas Rich and Mercy (Knowles) Rich^[2]. However, Sarah Rich in fact married a different Jonathan Shaw -- a cousin of Jonathan Shaw III -- of her own town.

Jonathan Shaw III was born in 1689; Sarah Rich of Eastham not until 1712 -- a considerable difference in age. Jonathan Shaw of Eastham, however, was born in 1703... still leaving a gap in age, but a far less significant one. Plympton, where Jonathan Shaw III married twice -- first in 1713, to Elizabeth Atwood, and second in 1736, to the widow Elizabeth Vaughan -- is some eighty miles from Eastham, a tremendous geographical impediment in those times; and thus Eastham is where the hometown Jonathan wed Sarah Rich as the first of his two wives, in 1731.

Sarah Rich Shaw (currently two profiles - Rich-3666 and Rich-3174 which should be merged) is being disconnected from Jonathan Shaw III, because of the proof that she was not his wife.

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage (1) record with image of handwritten original (see bottom of righthand page)): "Jonathan Shaw was married to Elizabeth Attwood December ye 3rd 1713" -- "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCQ-KJ43 : 31 October 2019), Jonathan Shaw and Elizabeth Attwood, 3 Dec 1713; citing Marriage, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009754.
2. ↑ [link], citing "Eastham Mass., Vital Records, transcribed by George Ernest Bowman" and "The Knowles family of Eastham", Charles Thornton Libby

• Birth (post facto entry; NEHGS): "SHAW... ((Jonathan, Jr., h. Elizabeth (Atwood), s. Lt. Jonathan and Mehetabel, Aug. 1, 1689))" -- Plympton Births, Plympton Vol. 1; Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7780/184/142097401 (subscription)

• Marriage (1) (NEHGS): "SHAW... Jonathan and Elizabeth Attwood, Dec. 3, 1713.*" -- Plympton Marriages; Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7780/387/142101258 (subscription).

• Marriage (2) (NEHGS): "SHAW... Jonathan and Elezebeth Vaughn [int. Elezabeth, both of P.], Apr. 7, 1736." -- Plympton Marriages, Plympton Vol. 1; Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7780/387/142101316 (subscription)

See also:

• [NOTE: incorrectly claims a marriage of Jonathan Shaw III to Sarah Rich of Eastham; she was the first wife of Jonathan Shaw, also of Eastham, son of George and Martha Shaw; see "Disputed Marriage" above.] "Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs...", William Richard Cutter, 1908, Vol. 4, pp. 1779-80; https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/9jNHy0PBqlUC?hl=en&gbpv=1

• [NOTE: echoes Cutter (above) in showing erroneous second marriage to Sarah Rich of Eastham, who married a different Jonathan Shaw, of Eastham; see "Disputed Marriage" above] "Representative Men and Families of Southeastern Massachusetts", , Chicago : J.H. Beers, 1912, Vol. 3, p. 1598; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044048095350&view=1up&seq=646

• 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 423: Incorrectly(?) gives birth as 1 Apr 1689.