Ancestry of
Kyra Sedgwick

TV and Movie Actress

Abigail Shaw

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Kyra Sedgwick — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 71 
  • Father:
  • William Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jan 1780 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Christening Date:
  • 8 Nov 1786 
  • Christening Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Death Date:
  • 10 Apr 1818 
  • Death Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Common Burying Ground, Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Ellery
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Sep 1798 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Second Congregational Church, Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth Dana Ellery (Ahnentafel No:35 )

• Sources for Abigail Shaw

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A037378.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/18/2014).
  • ³ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Vol. 8, p. 475, Marriage record for William Ellery and Abigail Shaw.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Vol. 10, p. 524, Birth and baptism for Abigail Shaw.
  • ⁵ The Newport Historical Magazine, Newport, Rhode Island: Newport Historical Publishing Co., 1883, Vol. 4, p. 182.
  • ⁶ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Vol. 2, 748.
  • ⁷ Pyne, Rev. Frederick Wallace, Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Vol. 1, The New England States, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1997), 256.

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