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Comfort Shaw

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Shanghai Pierce — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 31 
  • Father:
  • Israel Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Tallman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Aug 1709 
  • Birth Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • May 1785 
  • Death Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Simmons
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Apr 1728 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Deborah Simmons (Ahnentafel No:15 )

  Sarah Simmons

• Sources for Comfort Shaw

  • ¹ Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 174.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 103.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 602, 768.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S., comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: Richard Church and His Descendants for Four Generations, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1998), 48-49.
  • ⁵ 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), 191.