Ancestry of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Joseph Shaw

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of James Merrill — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 338 
  • Father:
  • John Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Phillips   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Apr 1664 
  • Birth Location:
  • Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Sep 1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Judith Whitmarsh
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1686 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Shaw

  Abigail Shaw (Ahnentafel No:169 )

  Ruth Shaw

  Martha Shaw

  Sarah Shaw

  Hannah Shaw

• Sources for Joseph Shaw

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1892, Vol. 46, p. 188.
  • ² Davis, William T., Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, Boston: Damrell & Upham (1887), 235, 236.
  • ³ Farnam, Charles H., History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers (1889), 52.
  • ⁴ Loud, John J., History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 613, [Birth].
  • ⁵ Loud, John J., History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 613, [Death].
  • ⁶ Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 50, October 1916 - June 1917, (Cambridge, MA: John Wilson and Son (1917)), 499, [Birth].
  • ⁷ Sherman, Robert Moody et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 15, James Chilton-Richard More, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 78.
  • ⁸ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 46.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 64, 66.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 337, 340, 355, 358.
  • ¹¹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 153, 254.

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