Ancestry of
Sam Walter Foss

American Poet

Abigail Shaw

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Sam Walter Foss — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 93 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Esther Richardson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Aug 1671 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1 Dec 1717 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Apr 1695 
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  • Child:

  Benjamin Smith (Ahnentafel No:46 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources give Abigail Shaw's birth date as 22 JUN 1669, however the vital records has it as 22: 6 mo. 1671 indicating the birth month was actually August and not June.

• Sources for Abigail Shaw

  • ¹ Hampton, NH: Vital Records to 1900, Vol. 1, p. 563, Birth record for Abigail Shaw.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2004, Vol. 158, p. 318.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1177.
  • ⁴ Dow, Joseph, History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire: From Its Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892, Vol. 2, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company (1893), 966.