Notes

Edwin W. Bell, in "Israel Kinney, His Children and Their Families" (Fredericton, N.B.: privately published,
1944), p. 82, said: "Elisha Shaw, son of John and Mary (Burrell) Shaw, born at Maugerville, N.B., 7 May 1771;
died at Wakefield, N.B., 23 Dec 1844. He married at Fredericton, N.B., 6 Jul 1793, Susannah, daughter of Israel
and Susannah (Hood) Kenney, of Oromocto, N.B.

Elisha and Susan spent the first years of their married life at Oromocto, and their first children were born there.
They removed to a new home in Carleton County about 1801. When they left, Susan took with her Abigail, her
youngest sister, then about twelve years old. Abigail made her home with Susan until after her eighteenth birthday,
when she married Elisha's youngest brother, Henry Shaw.

In Carleton Co., Elisha was granted lots 5 and 6, in the Parish of Northampton, June 20, 1809, 500 acres, fronting
on the east bank of the Saint John, opposite and a little below the home of his father, and his brother Henry. [New
Brunswick, Dept. of Natural Resources, "Crown Land Grant Index" (Fredericton, 1988).

When Susan died, about 1816, she left a large family of children. The only definite dates of her life to be found,
aside from the dates of the births of her children, is that of her marriage at Fredericton. Her life must have been
a strenuous one even for those pioneer days to leave a family of twelve children in a married life of but twentythree
years. [Dr. Daniel Turner, "Shaw" (Cranston, R.I.: privately published, 1973].

The death date for Elisha, which is inscribed on his gravestone, is at variance with the death date given for him
in Bell's book, and the death date recorded in the New Brunswick Courier. Bell gives his death date as December
23, 1844, but he did not cite a source, and Claron H. Shaw gives the same date in his 1872 Book of Records, and
Claron's father, Darius Shaw, gives December 23, 1844 in his 1864 notebook. The date on his gravestone is 15 July
1841, age 70 years, which agrees with his obituary in the New Brunswick Courier of 24 Jul 1841, and it also agrees
with the death date recorded in Bert L. Shaw's 1900 Notebook. I have assumed that the date in the newspaper
obituary is the most accurate.

Daniel F. Johnson, "Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers", Vol. 9, #900: Died, Wakefield, Carleton
Co., 15th inst., age 70, Elisha Shaw, long resident of that parish. (New Brunswick Courier, Saint John, N.B., 24
July 1841)

Daniel F. Johnson, "Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers", Vol. 22, #1597: Died, Wakefield
(Carleton Co.) 6th inst., Annie relict of Elisha Shaw, age 84, left one daughter, two sons. She was the eldest d/o
Josiah and Elizabeth Snow. (Bangor papers please copy) (Religious Intelligencer, Saint John, N.B., 23 September
1864)

Josiah and Elizabeth (Shaw) Snow are said to have removed from Granville, N.S., to Carleton Co., N.B., about
1814. Elizabeth was a daughter of Moses and Ann (Phinney) Shaw, natives of Barnstable, Mass.

 

Christopher Shawe probably spent his entire life in Northowram, a township of scattered hamlets several miles
outside the market town of Halifax. He was described as a clothier by trade. On 31 Sep 1569 he gave his eldest son
Thomas, as a marriage settlement, his copyhold of Scolecote Brow land. It is probably for this reason that Thomas
is not mentioned in his will, dated 19 Feb 1583 and proved in the Prerogative Court of York 6 May 1584.

The following provisions in the will are significant:
... unto Alice my doughter twentie shillings.
... unto Isabell my doughter other twentie shillings yf she do observe and kepe my mind declared to the rest of my
children and frends concerning her marriage. And yf she do not then I will that she shall have none of the said xx
s, but yt shal be devided amongst my executores hereafter to be named.
... unto John Shawe my sone my bed where in I lie with all things thereto belonging.
And then the rest of all my goodes which I have that are not goven and unbequethed I frelie give unto John Shawe,
my said sone, and to Elisabethe Shawe and Margaret Shawe, my doughters, whom I do ordeyne and make my true
and lawful executores...
Witnesses: Edward Longbothome, John Sawnfurthe