Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

Francis Shaw Jr.

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• • Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Francis Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Burt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Aug 1748 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Apr 1785 
  • Death Location:
  • Gouldsboro, Hancock, Maine 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Nickels
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  Robert Gould Shaw (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Francis Shaw Jr.

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1924, Vol. 78, p. 96.
  • ² Porter, Joseph W., ed., The Bangor Historical Magazine, Bangor, Maine: Benjamin A. Burr, Printer, JUL 1891 to JUN 1892, Vol. 7, pp. 89-91.
  • ³ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 3, Samuel Appleton and His Wife Judith Everard . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2007), 215.
  • ⁴ Whitmore, William H., The Graveyards of Boston: First Volume, Copp's Hill Epitaphs, Albany: Joel Munsell (1878), 28.