Wednesday, July 4

Capt. Abraham SHAW

Served in the Revolutionary War


First Generation

    1.    Cpt. Abraham SHAW 1  was born on 10 Aug 1757 in Middleborough, Massachusetts. He died on 8 Apr 1813 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. He was buried in Apr 1813 in Maple Cem., Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA.

Military Event: Enrolled in the "Second Minute Company", Revolutionary War, Middleborough, Massachusetts, on 19 Apr 1775. He resided in 1798 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA.

Abraham married Hannah MILLER 2  daughter of Lt. John MILLER and Zilpah TINKHAM on 16 Sep 1783 in Middleborough, Massachusetts. Hannah was born on 25 Mar 1765 in Middleborough, Massachusetts. She died on 1 Oct 1812 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. She was buried in Oct 1812 in Maple Cem., Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA.
CAPT. ABRAHAM SHAW was b. in Middleborough, Mass., Aug. 10, 1757, and settled in Winthrop, Me., about 1798. He enrolled in the "Second Minute Company" of Middleborough, Mass., and at the "Laxington Alarm" made on the 19th of April, 1775, he marched with his company to Marshfield under command of Capt. Isaac Wood; and June 17th was in Capt. Isaac Wood's company, in Col. Theophilus Cotton's regiment, in the battle of Bunker Hill. He served with rant of Seargeant in Capt. Amos Washburn's company, from Middlebo9rough, in Col. Ebenezer Sprout's regiment, in muster of Dec. 8, 1776, on occasion of the capture of Newport, R. I., by the enemy; and was sergeant in same company and regiment at the alarm at Dartmouth, Mass., Sept. 17, 1778; also Seargent in same company in Col. Ebenezer White's regiment that went to the defence of Rhode Island on the Alarm by order of the Council, July 22, 1780; and was captain in the seventh company from Middleborough and adjoining towns from July 1, 1781, to 1787. His name appears on the muster rolls as "Abraham Shaw, Jr." He was the son of Abraham Shaw who was born in Taunton, Mass., March 1, 1729-30, who died in Middleborough, July 8, 1808, and his wife, Sarah, dau. of Samuel Barrows, Jr., whom he married Nov. 1, 1753; grandson of Samuel Shaw, born in Weymouth, Mass., 1698, and died in Taunton, Mass.,, 1731, wife Elizabeth; great grandson of Benjamin Shaw, born in Weymouth, June 16, 1670, died in Taunton, June 16, 1728, and his wife Hannah (Rogers). There is strong evidence that Benjamin was the son of John and Alice (Phillips) Shaw of Weymouth, and that he shared the division of his father's estate in 1705. John was the son of Abraham, but was not of age when his father made his will in 1638. Joseph, John, Mary and Marther are therein named children of Abraham formerly of Halifax, York, England, one of the signers of the Covenant at Dedham, Mass., at the time of incorporation, 1636, who probably came to this country the previous year. Capt. Abraham Shaw married, Sept. 16, 1783, Miss Hannah Miller, born in Middleborough, Mass., March 25m 1765, dau. of John and Zilpah (Tinkham) Miller of Middleborough. Mrs. Shaw was a lineal descendant in both paternal and maternal lines from John Howland, on of the signers of the Compact on board the Mayflower "at Capt Cod ye 11 of November XX Ano. Dom. 1620." Her paternal grandmother Priscilla (Howland) Bennet and her maternal grandmother Hannah (Howland) Tinkham were daughters of Isaac and Elizabeth (Vaughan) Howland, and granddaughters of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, who were pilgrims of the Mayflower. John Tilley, father of Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, and Peter Brown, father of Mary (Brown) Tinkham, were also signers of the Compact on the Mayflower. Mrs. Shaw's father John Miller was a soldier in the French and Indian War in 1758, in Capt. Benjamin Pratt's company from Middleborough, in Col. Thomas Doty's regiment. Capt. Shaw, after his marriage with Hannah Miller, resided in Middleborough, Mass., for about fifteen years, and seven of their twelve children were born there, and five in Winthrop, Me. The name of Abraham Shaw does not appear on the tax list of Winthrop until 1798, and this with the children recorded in Middleborough, shows very conclusively that he came to Maine about 1798. Capt. Abraham Shaw never received a pension for his services in the war of the American Revolution, as he died in Winthrop, Me., April 8, 1813, at the age of 56 years, before the Act of pensioning officers and soldiers of the revolution was passed by Congress. She died in Winthrop, Oct., 1, 1813, in her 69th year


Appendix A  -  Sources


      1.    Sharon, World Connect Project pages of Sharon, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=royalancestors.
      2.    Sharon, World Connect Project pages of Sharon.