Hannah (Bacon) Shove (1643 - abt. 1685)

Born 4 Sep 1643 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Walley Jr. — married 1660 (to before 7 Jun 1672) in Barnstable, Massachusetts

Wife of George Shove — married 17 Feb 1675 (to 22 Sep 1685) in Taunton, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, New England

Descendants

Died about 22 Sep 1685 at about age 42 in Taunton, Bristol, Plymouth

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Biography

Birth

Hannah Bacon was born on September 4th, 1643, in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony.

Marriage

Hannah Bacon first married Thomas Walley, Jr. about 1660. Before her husband died on June 7th, 1672, he wrote his will, saying "my wife and my said Children; all my English bookes, that are usefull and profitable bookes to be Devided between them, by theire two Grandfathers Mr Thomas Walley and Mr Nathaniel: Bacon, according to theire Wisdome and Discretion;" and "all the Rest of my goods and estate, to my wife Hannah Walley; and make her sole .... exequitrix". "Mistris Hannah Walley : viz : the relicte" made oath to the inventory, 27 June, 1672, before Thomas Hinckley, Assistant.^[1]

Widow Hannah Walley second married Rev. George Shove on February 17th, 1675 in Taunton, Bristol County, Plymouth Colony.

Children

Children of Hannah Bacon and Thomas Walley, Jr.:

1. Thomas Walley
2. Hannah (Walley) (Stone) Leonard (abt. 1666 - 1725)
3. Elizabeth (Walley) Adams (1671 - 1722)

Children of Hannah Bacon and George Shove, all born in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay:

1. Mary Shove, born Aug. 11, 1676. She, age 11, became an orphan after the death of her father on Apr. 21, 1687. Her stepmother, Widow Sarah Shove evidently did not long survive her late husband, George Shove, so she was taken together with her younger siblings in the home of Gen. John Walley, whose brother was Thomas Walley who was the first husband of her mother, Hannah (Bacon) Shove. The residence of Gen. John Walley was in fair proximity to the residence of Josiah Howland and his father, Jabez Howland’s family. She married Josiah Howland sometime before 1695, and they had four probable children together. She died before either May 14, 1706, or 1709. Her widower, Josiah Howland married second, her youngest sister, Yet Mercy Shove in Barnstable in 1709.
2. Joanna Shove, born Sept. 28, 1678. She, age 9, became an orphan after the death of her father on Apr. 21, 1687. Her stepmother, Widow Sarah Shove evidently did not long survive her late husband, George Shove, so she was taken together with her siblings in the home of Gen. John Walley, whose brother was Thomas Walley who was the first husband of her mother, Hannah (Bacon) Shove. However, after Gen. John Walley with his painful disease was forced to seek a more comfortable home in Boston sometime before 1703, Johanna had to find a way to stay with her maternal relatives at Barnstable. She met there John³, (John², Pilgrim John¹) Howland, and she married him.
3. Edward Shove, b. Oct. 3, 1680. He, age 7, became an orphan after the death of his father on Apr. 21, 1687. Her stepmother, Widow Sarah Shove evidently did not long survive her late husband, George Shove, so he was taken together with his sisters in the home of Gen. John Walley, whose brother was Thomas Walley who was the first husband of Edward's mother, Hannah (Bacon) Shove. He married July 6, 1704, Lydia Witherill, the daughter of Serg. Theopolis and Mary (Parker) Witherill and the granddaughter of the Rev. William Witherill who earned his M. A. at Corpus Christy, Cambridge in 1619 and who was Pastor of the Second Church of Scituate, Massachusetts. His wife, Lydia died at Dighton, Massachusetts on June 22, 1739. Edward and Lydia eventually established their home on his inherited estate on Assonet Neck, formerly in Taunton, and then in Dighton. He was a well-educated man and an able and popular lawyer. As a member of the General Court he took an advanced position for America on the issues that later brought on our War of Independence. The inventory of his estate shows that he had many religious books inherited from his father. They had four sons and five daughters who have descendants. Edward Shove died Oct. 12, 1746.
4. Yet Mercy Shove, b. Nov. 7, 1682. She, age 5, became an orphan after the death of his father on Apr. 21, 1687. Her stepmother, Widow Sarah Shove evidently did not long survive her late husband, George Shove, so he was taken together with his sisters in the home of Gen. John Walley, whose brother was Thomas Walley who was the first husband of her mother, Hannah (Bacon) Shove, as he had so kindly done with the children of Hannah by her first husband, Thomas Walley, Jr. The residence of Gen. John Walley was in fair proximity to the residence of Josiah Howland and his father, Jabez Howland’s family. She married Josiah Howland in Barnstable in 1709. Although her death was not recorded, she died sometime before 1760.

Death

Widow Hannah Shove died on September 22nd, 1685 in Taunton, Bristol County, Plymouth Colony.

Sources

1. ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, ed. The Mayflower Descendant: A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Volume XIX. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1917, p. 164.

See also:

• Emery, Samuel Hopkins, The Ministry of Taunton: With Incidental Notices of Other Professions, Volume 1, Bristol, Massachusetts: J. P. Jewett & Company, 1853, page 171.
• Sears, Richard D., Ancestors of Dr. Louise (Gilman) Hutchins, Volume 6 of Founders and Presidents of Berea College, lulu.com, 2008, page 44.
• Early New Families Study Project.
• The First Settlers of Barnstable, MS., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1848) Vol. 2, Page 65.
• Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families (F.B. & F.P. Goss, Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, Mass., 1888) Vol. 1, Page 25.