Mehitable Shaw

Mehitable married Zachariah Weston on 20 Jun 1717 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Zachariah was born on 16 Dec 1690 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died on 27 Sep 1763 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jonathan Weston was born on 5 Feb 1718 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
2. James Weston was born on 31 Oct 1723 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
3. Mehitbale Weston was born on 26 Sep 1726 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
4. Zachariah Weston was born on 21 Dec 1728 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died on 9 Apr 1794 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
5. Rebecca Weston was born on 25 Nov 1730 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Jonathan married Mehitable Pratt on 29 Dec 1687 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Mehitable (daughter of Benajah Pratt and Persis Dunham) was born in 1668 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died on 19 Oct 1712 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Benajah Pratt was admitted a freeman at Plymouth on June 6, 1654. He was a surveyor in 1658, served on jury duty 1665-6 and was a tax collector in 1667 and 1668. His widow married August 1683, as his 2nd wife, Jonathan Shaw, son of John and Alice Shaw. Her daughter Mehitable had previously married Jonathan Shaw's son. Jayne [Pratt] Lovelace states that "some of the lands of Benajah 'he being deceased', were divided 2 June 1682, naming his sons in this order: eldest son Joshua, John, Benajah, Jr., Eleazer, Daniel, Joseph (from Boston Transcript)." In her Pratt Directory she names Mehitable and Hannah as probable daughters.

*Reference: Plymouth Church Records, vol I, part 5, p1; NEHGR 9:313; MD 17:72; Mrs Richard Jones, Belfast, Maine; Lovelace, "The Pratt Directory"; personal letter from Jayne (Pratt) Lovelace; Davis, 209; Plymouth Colony Records, 8:17; "Snow-Estes Genealogy," 165; PCSM, 22:249.

Benajah married Persis Dunham on 29 Nov 1655. Persis (daughter of John Dunham, VI Deacon and Abigail (Barlow) Bailllioy) was born in 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died on 30 Jul 1701 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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*Reference: Plymouth Church Records, vol I, part 5, p1; NEHGR 9:313;
MD 17:72; Mrs Richard Jones, Belfast, Maine; Lovelace, "The Pratt
Directory"; personal letter from Jayne (Pratt) Lovelace; Davis, 209;
Plymouth Colony Records, 8:17; "Snow-Estes Genealogy," 165; PCSM,
22:249.

Joshua married Bathsheba Fay in 1630. Bathsheba (daughter of William Kingham and Catherine Bates) was born on 1 Jan 1593 in Marlbord, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom; died in 1673 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married second John DOGGET.

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Shortly after the FORTUNE arrived at Plymouth in 1621, a shallop from the ship SPARROW, which Had arrive in Damaris Cove. In this little vessel were ten men, who came to select a site for another plantation; Phineas Pratt was one of them, Joshua Pratt, probably the brother of Phineas, and like him, unmarried, arrived at Plymouth in the ANNE in the summer of 1623. Most of those who came in thes ship and in the LITTLE JAMES were friends and relatives of the Plymouth settlers. During the year 1623 there was a division of the land at Plymouth, under three groups: those who came in the MAY FLOWER, those who came in the FORTUNE, and those who came in the ANNE. As part of the last group, Phineas and Joshua received two acres. Since Phineas did not come by any of those vessels, the probability is that he was the brother of Joshua and put with that group to make the division complete. In 1624 the settlers of Plymouth were divided into twelve companies of thirteen persons each. Joshua and Phineas were assigned to Francis Cooke.

He was appointed a surveyor on January 3, 1627, along with William Bradford, Edward Winslow, John Howland, Francis Cooke and Edward Bangs. He was mentioned in the cattle division of June 1, 1627, when he was a member of Francis Cooke's company which received "the least of the four black heifers came in the JACOB." He was a freeman at the time of the incorporation of Plymouth in 1633, and in April of that year he was foreman of the jury, as well as Constable in 1633, 1636, 1637. On December 4, 1638 he was again sworn in as Constable and the Court gave him the duties of measuring lands and the sealing of weights and measures.

*Reference: Clemens, 176; NEHGR 9:314; Plymouith Colony Records, 1:3, 12, 105; Pratt, Simon Newcomb, "Founders of Early American Families", pamphlet, 1917, reprint 1938; MD 14:113, 18:56; Peirce's Colonial Lists; Goodwin, John, "The Pilgrim Republic",292-3; Rev. Sherwood Anderson Davis, "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth", 209; Plymouth Colony Records, 8:17, "Ancestors and Descendants of Minnie Hale Gorton" by Carolyn C. Volpe, p. 108-110.

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John Dunham was the son of Thomas and Janet (Bromley) Dunham. He
married (1) on 17 October 1619 at Leyden, Susanna Keeney, by whom he
had three children, John, Humility, and Thomas.
At the time of his marriage to Abigail Bailliou he was a widower
living at Zevenhuyser, Holland. The Baillious were probably Huguenot
refugees from England. The exact time of John's arrival in Plymouth
is not known. His name first appears on the Plymouth records in
1630, and he was taxed nine shillings in 1633. He was later a Deputy
to the General Court. He died at age 80 years.
DEACON JOHN DUNHAM
American Immigrant Ancestor
1589 - 1668
DEACON JOHN DUNHAM, son of Thomas, was born in Scrooby,
Nottinghamshire, England, in 1589. He was a member of the First
Pilgrim Church in Scrooby. He left his country at the age of
eighteen when his church moved to Holland in 1607, on account of
religious persecution. At the age of fourteen years he received his
religious instruction under the guidance of William Brewster, born in
1560 in Scrooby, England. (John's land in Plymouth is said to adjoin
Elder Brewster's.)
In the winter of 1607/8 the members of the Pilgrim Church held
its meetings in the manor house at Scrooby. In their escape from
Scrooby, the center of the Separatist movement, the exiles first went
to Amsterdam, Holland. A stay in England was especially dangerous.
After nine months in Amsterdam, they removed to Leyden, Holland,
where John was a member of the First Pilgrim Church in Leyden,
Holland.
His relatives were bitter against his religious beliefs. It is
said that he came with the Pilgrims from Holland. It is not known
just when he came. It is said that he adopted the name John Goodman
in his escape from Holland. There is the name John Goodman on the
original voyage and it is said that he died in the first year. The
Mayflower Society will not accept that they are the same person.
Isaac W. Dunham has him living in Plymouth, with several grants of
land and living next to Elder Brewster after arriving.
In the book, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, 1633 is the first
time the name John Dunham appears. At that time all land owners had
to be recorded. At the same time, 1633, he was chosen Deacon of the
First Church of Plymouth by Elder Brewster. He was a weaver by
trade.
He married Abigail Wood Barlow, a distant relative, in Holland,
Oct. 22,1622. She was his second wife, the first was Susanna Kenney,
who had died. He had three children by his first wife Susanna.
John; Humility; Thomas
Isaac Dunham's Genealogy states that "It is said that John came
over on the Mayflower under the name of John Goodman, and his family
came later."
Passengers and Ships by Charles E. Banks states, "The Mayflower
(not the original voyage) Master William Pierce, left Groversend, in
March with thirty-five passengers mostly from Leydon, Holland,
destined for Plymouth, arrived May 15, 1629, no list of names."
All his children but John, 1620, are said to be born in
Plymouth.
Dr. Dexter's The England and Holland Pilgrims is the following
appendix. Pg. 612, Dunham-Denham. John, widow of Sussana Kenney,
betrothed to Abigail Barlow, Oct. 7, 1622, the witness, her father
Thomas and sister Ann of Langerbrugge, Holland. John was living in
Zevenhuysen in 1626. He had eleven children, according to the
History of Norway and Paris by Whitman: John, Benaiah, Jonathan,
Daniel, Persis, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, Hannah, Abigail, and Daniel
(Isaac Dunham names Thomas instead of Daniel twice.)
Deacon John Dunham died March 1, 1668 at the age of 80 years.
He was a servant of God and a useful man in his place, being deacon
of the Plymouth Church. He made his will Jan. 5, 1668. In his will
he mentions his oldest son John, two younger sons Ben and Daniel and
daughters Abigail and Persis. He was Deacon of the Church for thirty-
four years and twenty-one years deputy of Plymouth Colony. Plymouth
First Church Records, Part 2, page 1.
His residence after leaving the village was north of Watson's
Hill and southwest of the Village of Plymouth. To the west was a
swamp having an outlet to Town Brook, called "Dunham's Brook." By
means of a dam it became a pond and was separated by a narrow strip
of land known as "Dunham's Neck." This strip was a portion of Deacon
John's land, the highway leading to Carver. In 1907 some of the
offspring lived in the vicinity. John owned other land in Plymouth.
Dunham Coat of Arms was adopted by Sir John Dunham, 1498, as the
family shield.
Taken from Pilgrim Republic, Goodwin, Page 13:"The Pilgrims were
Separatists having openly withdrawn from the National Church. The
Puritans were Nationalist, believing that a Christian Nation is a
Christian Church."
Page 15: Henry Barrows 1593/4, a lawyer, one of Elizabeth's
former Courtiers, with John Greenwood and John Penry were hanged for
teaching Separatist Doctrines, and lived in the vicinity of Scrooby,
also.
*Reference: "Boston Transcript", issue of 27 December 1940; MD
15:214; Weston, 41; Dunham, Isaac W., 13;"The Ancestors and
Descendants of Asa Freeman Ellingwood and Florilla (Dunham)
Ellingwood" compiled by Florence Evelyn O'Connor - West Paris, Maine -
1979.; NEHGR114:115. He was a deputy of the Plymouth General
Court1639-54; a member of the Council of War, and Deacon of the
church.
Marriage to Abigail at Plymouth from Reference Book 1, Genealogy Research in
Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts: Miscellaneous Marriages before 1699

John married Abigail (Barlow) Bailllioy on 22 Oct 1622 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Abigail (daughter of Thomas Bailliou and Ann) was born about 1600 in Leyden, Netherlands; died after 1699 in Martha's Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Abigail ( Wood )BAROLW (BALLIOU which means wood) in Holland. She was
his second wife.

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