John
Shaw
Jr
Born about in England
Son of John Shaw Sr
and [mother unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died before
before about age 42
in Plymouth
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Biography
John Shaw Jr immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
John Shaw Jr. was born about 1622 in England; there's no evidence of his mother's identity and it's unlikely it was his father's wife Alice (birth surname unknown) who died at Plymouth in March of 1654/5.[1] The means and date of his arrival in the Plymouth Colony are unknown.
During the less than ten years he was known to be in Plymouth, John Jr. accumulated a lengthy list of transactions in Colony records, some of which include:
- 05 May 1643 John and brother-in-law Stephen Bryant bought land from Edward Doty.[2]
- Aug 1643 John Jr. was included on the Plymouth list of "Males that are able to beare Armes."[3]
- 08 Oct 1645 John Shaw and five others were set out against the Narragansetts; although the record is not explicit as to whether it was senior or junior, the other men's ages suggest it was junior.[2]
- 06 Jun 1649 he was sentenced to sit in the stocks for "profaining the Lords day by atending on the tar pits."[4]
- 07 May 1650 John and James were convicted of damage and ordered to pay Edward Doty 35 shillngs.[5]
- 07 Oct 1651 John and James (and others) were fined 30 shillings for "vaine, light, and lacivious carriage, at an unseasonable time of the night."[6]
There is no indication that John ever faced the punishment ordered in October of 1651. In July of that year he sold his only property and disappeared from the records.[7] John Sr., James, and Jonathan are listed as freeman in 1654, but John Jr. is missing from the list.[8] John senior seems to have hoped for junior's return by including him as a potential beneficiary of a land distribution he signed in 1658.[9]
No information has yet been found to resolve what became of John Shaw Jr. after July of 1651.
Sources
- ↑ 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.) Page 261.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shaw, 1977. Page 271.
- ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth of New England. Miscellaneous Records 1633-1689. Boston, MA: Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1857. Page 187.
- ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth of New England, Court Orders Vol. I 1633-1640. Boston, MA: Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1855. Page 140.
- ↑ Shurtleff, 1855. Page 149.
- ↑ Shurtleff, 1855. Page 172.
- ↑ Shaw, 1997. Page 272.
- ↑ Shurtleff, 1857. Page 197.
- ↑ Bowman, 1908. Page 34.
- The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).[1]
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