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Elkanah Shaw

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Dave Cowens — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 390 
  • Father:
  • George Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Rich   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Nov 1724 
  • Birth Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Dec 1805 
  • Death Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Atwood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Oct 1748 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lucy Shaw (Ahnentafel No:195 )

• Sources for Elkanah Shaw

  • ¹ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2017, Vol. 65, No. 1, p. 89.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 596.