William Shaw I (1690 - bef. 1767)

Born 7 Nov 1690 in Little Compton, Bristol, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Content (Wood) Shaw — married 28 Sep 1710 in Little Compton, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died before 1767 before age 76 in Little Compton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

William was born May 7th, 1690 to Israel Shaw and Mercy Ruth Tallman, in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island [Little Compton, Bristol, Plymouth Colony], USA^[1]

James Arnold in the Vital Record of RI almost certainly listed the wrong woman as the wife of William SHAW I. Other records show that Content IRISH married Joseph LAWTON 4 Jan 1714/15, with whom she had 5 children, the first, Elizabeth, born on the 19th of December 1715.

John IRISH, father of Content IRISH, made a will containing a legacy of 20 pounds for his daughter Content. He died before 20 Mar 1714. The executors' reckoning recorded the payment of that legacy to his daughter and son-in-law Content and Joseph Lawton in 1717.

Content, the wife of William Shaw, on the other hand, gave birth to her third known child, Israel on 9 April 1715.

After Joseph LAWTON died, Content married William WILBOR 16 Sep 1728 and with him had 3 more children.

Content WILBOR, widow, made her will 20 May 1751, which was proved on 10 Jun 1751. She mentions her sons John LAWTON, Benjamin WILBOR, and Jonathan WILBOR, deceased. Daughters Rebecca Hile, Elizabeth Tayler, and Content WILBOR. Granddaughter Prissilla Shearman. She does not mention ANY of her supposed SHAW children or grandchildren.

A circumstantial case can be made for the maiden name of William SHAW's wife Content:

At least two of William SHAW I's siblings married two of Thomas WOOD and Content THURSTON's children: Anthony SHAW, b. 1694, married Rebekah WOOD and Hannah SHAW, b. 1699, married William WOOD. It is possible that Content WOOD, b. 1694, who also married a SHAW joined her siblings by marrying into the same SHAW family and was the Content who became the wife of William SHAW I.

Children

Elizabeth Shaw Jan . 9, 1712.

William Shaw Jan . 1, 1714.

Israel Shaw April 9, 1715.

His will is dated 7 February 1763 and recorded in Little Compton, Rhode Island on 3 February 1767.^[2] His inventory was taken on 2 September 1766 and recorded on 9 February 1767.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE104699 Page 158
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649137_00281). Rhode Island, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line], image 280-282, Newport, Little Compton, Book 2 page 81-84. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

• Vital Record of RI Vol IV - Little Compton marriages
• Descendants of John Irish book 1964

• Marriage1: Arnold, James N., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850: First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1893), Family History Library, Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, Vol. 4, Part I, 29. "1-172 LAWTON Joseph, of Daniel and Rebekah, of Portsmouth, and Content Irish, of John, of L. Compton, Jan. 4, 1714-15." Rhode Island Friends Records.
• Marriage2: Arnold, James N., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850: First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1893), Family History Library, Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, Vol. 4, Part I, pp. 80 and 47. "1-172 LAWTON, Content (widow), and William Wilbur, Sept. 16, 1728;" "1-172 WILBUR, William, and Content Lawton (widow), of Joseph ; m. by George Cornell, Asst., Sept. 16, 1728".
• Death: Beamon, Alden Gamaliel, "Abstracts of Portsmouth Wills" (Rhode Island Genealogical Register on CD 215, Vital Records Rhode Island, 1500s - 1900s), RIGR, Vol. 12: 66).