Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

Elizabeth Shaw

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Harry Chapin — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 739 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Partridge   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Oct 1664 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Aaron Sleeper
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 May 1682 
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  • Child:

  Abigail Sleeper (Ahnentafel No:369 )

  • Notes: 

  • Hampton vital records give Elizabeth Shaw's birth date as 23: 8 m 64 indicating her birth month was October and not August.

• Sources for Elizabeth Shaw

  • ¹ Hampton, NH: Vital Records to 1900, Vol. 1, p. 96, Birth record for Elizabeth Shaw.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2004, Vol. 158, p. 317.
  • ³ New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, Births S to 1901, p. 17642, Birth record for daughter Abigail Sleeper.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, Births S to 1901, p. 12244, Birth record for Elizabeth Shaw.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 749-750.
  • ⁶ Farwell, Harriette F., Shaw Records: A Memorial of Roger Shaw, 1594-1661, Bethel, Maine: E. C. Bowler (1904), 23-24.

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