scendants of Matthew and Abigail Gooding
possess credentials admitting them to the So-
ciety of Mayflower Descendants, to the Society
of Colonial Dames and to the Sons of Colonial
Wars, and the descendants of the four soldier-
sons, Joseph, Matthew, William and Job, to
the Sons and Daughters of the American
Eevolution.

The sisters of Matthew Gooding married
prominent men in Taunton, and their naines
are handed down in honor in the families of
Godfrey, Walker and Talbot. Johanna Good-
ing married John Godfrey, of Taunton, "2, 3,
1716," and they had a son George, born March
9, 1720-21, named for his grandfather George
Gooding. This George Godfrey was one of the
heroes of the Eevolutionary war, noted no less
for his piety than for his dashing bravery in
the field, being known as "the praying Col-
onel." He was retired from the Eevolutionary
army as brigadier general. Countless families
in Bristol county carry down the tradition oi
this brave officer, who, sitting erect on his
horse, always offered prayer before leading his
regiment into battle. John Godfrey, son of
John and Johanna (Gooding) Godfrey, was
born Nov. 25, 1728, and died Nov. 26, 1749.
They also had another son named John, who
was an officer in the Eevolutionary army at
the time of his discharge.

All the sons of Matthew Gooding married
and had numerous descendants, who settled
in the eastern counties of Massachusetts, and
thence were scattered over the country at
large. But it is ■with the branch which set-
tled in Ehode Island that we are chiefly con-
cerned. In passing be it said that the families



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of George, Matthew and Job scattered over
Bristol and Plymouth counties; William had
eight children, all of whom grew up and mar-
ried, settling in Vermont and New York, and
thence going to Illinois, Kentucky, and fur-
ther West. Many soldiers named Gooding, en-
listing from , the West, especially fought
bravely in the Civil war.

The children of Matthew and Abigail (Rich-
mond) Gooding, born at Dighton, were:
George, who married Sarah Eeed; Deborah,
who married Jacob Packard; Joseph, born
June 20 or July 1, 1730; Matthew, who mar-
ried Mercy Crane; William, who married Bath-
sheba Walker; Mary, who married William
Nicholls; and Job, who married Polly Claget
(or Clark).

(Ill) Joseph Gooding, son of Matthew,
born at Dighton July 1, 1730, was published
with (in June, 1769) and married (in Septem-
ber, 1769, in Taunton) Eebecca Macomber,
of Taunton, who was born in 1747, daughter
of Lieut. Josiah Macomber and his wife Euth
(Paull), and granddaughter of John Macomb-
er, Jr., and his wife Elizabeth (Williams), all
of Taunton. The same John and Elizabeth
(Williams) Macomber were ancestors of the
late John Hay, secretary of state. Elizabeth
(Williams) Macomber's grandmother, Frances
(Deighton) Williams, is admitted, as a claiip-
ant to a true and legitimate royal pedigree,
into the new and expurgated edition of
Browning's "Americans of Eoyal Descent."

Joseph Gooding's record is that of a sub-
stantial citizen of Dighton, who, by prudence
and energy, added to the estate left by his
father. He served the town as selectman,
without compensation, during the entire period
of the Eevolution, except when doing military
service. Two records of such enlistments are
preserved, one in 1776, the other in 1778. He
died at Dighton Dec. 23, 1815, aged eighty-
five years. On the same stone that marks his
resting place, in the old Gooding burying
ground at Dighton, one reads that "Eebecca,
the Widow of Joseph Gooding, died Aug. 7,
1835, in the eighty-eighth year of her age."
Their children, born at Dighton, were: Deb-
orah, born March 22, 1771, married David
Standish; Joseph, born March 6, 1773, married
Betsy Austin; Elizabeth, born May 26, 1775,
married Job Perry ; Josiah, born Nov. 8, 1777,
married Nancy Smith, daughter of James
Smith, of Bristol, E. I.; John, born July 27,
1780, married Deborah Barnes; Eebecca, born
Sept. 28, 1782, married John Eeed, of Taun-
ton; Henry, born June 12, 1785, married
(first) Elizabeth Brown and (second) Ehoda



Brown; Alanson, born March 4, 1789, mar-
ried (first) Elizabeth Kempton and (second)
Sophia Hammond; one died unnamed.

SYLVESTEE. The name Sylvester or Sil-
vester appears to be of French origin, and in
the Frencli signifies "of or belonging to a wood
or forest," whence the coat of arms, repre-
senting an oak tree in the shield, being a
parlant or speaking coat, descriptive of the
name.

We find the family settled in England not
long after the Conquest, and the ancestor prob-
ably went over in the army of William, in
1066. Stephen Silvester is named by Fuller
among the gentry of Norfolk. Gabriel Sylves-
ter, D. D., was prebend of Wexford, Litchfield,
in 1506; and in 1538 Eobert was archdeacon
of Langtoft, York, prebend of York, 1541, and
archdeacon of Nottingham, 1549. The family-
is one of high respectability in the old country
and is now numerously represented in the
United States. The following record is given
in chronological order from the first of the
name to come to America.

(I) Eichard Sylvester, the first of the name
in New England, was of Weymouth, 1633, and
of Scituate, 1642, and settled on the "Two
Miles." The year in which he came over, and
the name of the vessel in which he embarked,
we have not been able to learn. Settlements
were made at Weymouth in 1619, 1624 and
1625. He probably came in company with
Eev. Eobert Lenthal, minister of Weymouth,
and the cause of his removal to Scituate waa
difficulty arising from his religious opinions.
About 1632 he married Naomi Torrey, and
died in Scituate in 1663. Children: (1>
Lydia, born in 1633, married Nathaniel Eaw-
lins, Sept. 4, 1652. (2) John, born in 1634,
married and had Sarah (born 1671), John
(born 1672), Joseph (born 1674, who was of
Marshfield and left children), Samuel (1676,
also of Marshfield and left children) and Lydia
(born 1679). (3) Peter, born in 1637, died
in 1642, being accidentally shot, on the Sab-
bath, by the discharge of a gun, in his father's
house. (4) Joseph, bom in 1638, is men-
tioned below. (5) Dinah, born in 1642, prob-
ably died unmarried. (6) Elizabeth, born in
1643, married John Lowell Jan. 24, 1658, and
died soon after. (7) Eichard, born in 1648,
was of Milton, 1678. He married Hannah,
daughter of "Old James Leonard, of Taun-
ton," and was probably ancestor of the Sylves-
ters of Norfolk county. (8) Naomi, born in
1649, married John Lowell in 1666. (9)
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gin of the "second Herring brook." In 1670 cross to son Joseph ; the three younger sons

he married, and he had Israel, born Sept. 23, (Amos, Benjamin and David) to be provided

1675, who left descendants; Silence, born in for by their mother (Mary) out of the re-

1677; Richard, born in 1679, who married and mainder of my estate."

left descendants; Lois, born in 1680; Martha, (III) Amos Sylvester, son of Capt. Joseph,

born in 1682 ; Mary, born in 1683 ; Elisha, was a blacksmith by trade, his shop standing

born in 1685; Peter, born in 1687, who mar- near his house, which stood on Washington

ried and left descendants, some of his posterity street, near where that of Robert Sylvester

now living in Leicester, Mass., and in New now stands; this was for many years a tavern

Hampshire; Zebulon, born in 1689, who mar- stand, kept by his widow after his decease. He

ried and left descendants; Barshua, born in was selectman in 1743. When the old mansion

1692; and Deborah, born in 1696. (10) Hes- was torn down two chairs were preserved, one

ter, born in 1653, probably died unmarried, of which is in the possession of Robert Syl-

(11) Benjamin, born in 1656, married Lydia vester and the other of Michael Sylvester.

Standlake in 1684. Amos Sylvester married Nov. 20, 1706, Eliza-

(II) Capt. Joseph Sylvester, son of Richard, beth Henchman, who died Feb. 11, 1762, aged
lived where Samuel Waterman's house stands, seventy-seven; he died Oct. 23, 1753. Chil-
in South Scituate, Mass., near Church Hill, dren: (1) Amos was born Sept. 14, 1707. (2)
and improved the farm which he purchased of William was born Feb. 22, 1709. (3) Joseph
John Whiston in 1664. His children by wife was born Jan. 9, 1711. (4) Hencliman, born.
Mary were: Joseph, bom Nov. 11, 1664; Mary, Dec. 20, 1713, died April 23, 1758. His house
Dec. 24, 1666 (married Benjamin Curtis) ; stood opposite his father's and is now occupied
Naomi, March 5, 1668; Anna, May 5, 1669; by B. F. Burgess. On Feb. 29, 1748, he mar-
Benjamin, Dec. 11, 1680; David, April 20, ried Sarah Stockbridge; they had no children.
1683; Amos, Nov. 15, 1685. She married William Norton before 1761. (5)

Capt. Joseph Sylvester, as a reward for his Michael was born Oct. 27, 1714. (6) Nath-

services in the Indian wars, had a grant of aniel was bom April 29, 1718. (7) Caleb,

land made to him and his company by the born Dec. 14, 1719, lived on what is now Main

General Court. It was intended to be in street, whence he moved to Tovmsend, Mass.

Maine, but when the line was dravra between He married Nov. 1, 1750, Desire Stetson, and

the provinces it proved to be in New Hamp- his children were: Desire, born in 1752 (died

shire; and on a representation of these facts 1754); Caleb, 1754 (married Abigail, daugh-

by Charles Turner and others, agents for the ter of Dr. Joseph Jacobs, and moved to

claimants, in 1765, a new grant was made in Maine); Desire, 1755; Henchman, 1758 (a

Maine, on condition that thirty families and soldier in the Revolution) ; Lillis T. and

a minister should be settled, and a meeting- Grace, 1763; Joseph, 1764. (8) Edmund, the

house built, within six years. This settlement next in the family, was born June 20, 1721.

is now Turner, Maine. (9) Mary, born Oct. 19, 1723, died Aug. 28,

The following is from the History of Han- 1724. (10) Thomas, born Oct. 19, 1723,

over: Within a half mile of the comers, north- married Sarah, daughter of Matthew Estes.

ward, dwelt the Sylvesters, descendants of She died June 20, 1794, and he died Oct. 1,

Richard, who was of Weymouth in 1633, and 1760, leaving one son, Matthew, baptized Sept.

of Scituate in 1642. Capt. Joseph, the father 19, 1760, who married a Josselyn and died in

of Amos and Benjamin, of Hanover, had, Pernbroke, leaving one daughter, Margaret,,

according to Deane, a farm north of the who married Isaac Magown, of Pembroke. The

Church Hill, which in part he purchased of father's house stood where now stands that of

John Whiston in 1664, and his house stood Dr. Garratt. (11) Elizabeth was born July

where that of Samuel Waterman stands, not 15, 1725.

far from the third Herring brook. He was (IV) Michael Sylvester, son of Amos, mar-
captain under Col. Benjamin Church, the fam- ried (first) Mary, daughter of Capt. Thomas
ous Indian warrior, in the eastern expedition Bardin, Nov. 12, 1741; she died Oct. 29, 1755,
in 1689, and in 1690 was captain with sixteen and he married (second) Ruth Turner Jan.
men from Scituate, many of whom never re- 17, 1760. She survived him, dying Nov.
turned, in Phipps' expedition to Canada, and 12, 1798, aged eighty-four, and she Oct. 3,
died in the service. His will, which was ver- 1806, aged seventy. Children: Bardin, who
bal, was proved in the court by three of his died Feb. 15, 1746; Mary, baptized March 12,
soldiers, Benjamin Stetson and John and Wil- 1745, who died March 18, 1746; Michal, bap-
liam Perry, and gives "all my land at Hugh's tized Nov. 9, 1755, who married Cornelius



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Turner Dec. 8, 1768, and moved to Maine;
Bardin (2), baptized Nov. 9, 1755; Michael,
baptized Nov.- 9, 1755; Mary, baptized Nov.
9, 1755, who married Charles Tolman May
19, 1774; (by second marriage) Bathshua,
baptized Feb. 13, 1761, who died June 4,
1768; Eobert, baptized Oct. 19, 1766, who died
June 4, 1768; Lucinda, baptized April 10,
1768, who married Benjamin Bass Dec. 4,
1794; Juliette, baptized April 8, 1770, who
died unmarried Dec. 27, 1842; Robert, bap-
tized Aug. 9, 1772.

(V) Robert Sylvester, baptized Aug. 9,
1772, died Aug. 17, 1807. He built the house
in which William Dawes now resides and occu-
pied it until his father's decease, when he tore
down the old family homestead, replacing it
with the house in which his son Robert lived.
On Nov. 8, 1796, he married Lucy Bailey,
daughter of George and Rebecca (Ellis)
Bailey, of Hanover, born in 1781, died Oct. 7,
1840. Children: Lucy, born Sept. 1, 1797,
married July 29, 1821, William Church; Re-
becca E., born Nov. 27, 1799, died Dec. 1,
1847 (she married Dec. 15, 1819, Benjamin C.
Pratt) ; Michael was bom May 5, 1802; Rob-
ert was born Oct. 19, 1805; Sarah E., born
March 21, 1808, married Dec. 14, 1828, Sam-
uel S. Church, and died Dec. 28, 1850.

(VI) Robert Sylvester (2), born Oct. 19,
1805, received his education in the district
schools of Hanover, leaving school at the age
of fifteen. He learned the trade of ship joiner
and carpenter, serving his apprenticeship on
the North river, in the town of Hanover, and
in the town of Hingham. After giving up
this kind of work he devoted all his time to
his fann, which comprised 160 acres of land,
all well cultivated. He carried on general
farming, but made a specialty of hay and
grain and garden truck. He was active in
local politics as a Republican and served the
community as road surveyor and member of
the school committee. He was an orthodo.x
church member. He died in March, 1899, in
Hanover.

On Nov. 28, 1828, Mr. Sylvester married
Sarah W. Burgess, who was born in August,
1807, daughter of Loammi Burgess, of Har-
vard, Mass., and died No- 9, 1855. To this
union came the following i-hildren, all born
in Hanover: (1) Loammi ;, born March 18,
1832, was injured in the batiie o' Cedar Moun-
tain and died shortly afterward. He marrieii
Emeline (Pratt) Bartlett, a widow, and had
one child, Sarah, who married William P.
Steams and now resides in Wayland, Mass.
(2) Susanna F., be n April 5, 1834, married



William T. Lapham, of Norwell, and had Wil-
liam and George, who reside in Ashmont,
Mass. (3) Belcher, born May 26, 1837, died
July 2, 1838. (4) Elizabeth B., born July
5, 1839, married Israel H. Macomber, of
Marshfield, and had Herbert I. and Walter S.,
the latter of whom died young. (5) Sarah
E., born Sept. 1, 1843, married Nov. 9, 1864,
George H. Allen, son of Zenas and Caroline
(Randall) Allen, of Boston, and they have
three children: Fannie, born Aug. 13, 1869;
Sadie, Sept. 17^ 1871 ; and Grace B., in June,
1874. (6) Juletta S., bom April 14, 1845,
married Frank A. Clapp, of Norwell, and had
Annie May and Carrie, who reside in Wake-
field, Mass. (7) Robert is the youngest of
the family.

(VII) Robert Sylvester (3), bom June
20, 1847, in Hanover, Mass., b&gan his educa-
tion there in the district schools, later attend-
ing Hanover Academy and the Assinippi Insti-
tute. For a few years he acted as depot mas-
ter for the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railway Company and then went into the
grain business in partnership with Mr. Church,
under the firm name of Sylvester & Church,
when he was twenty-two years old. He devoted
most of Ms energies to his and his father's
farms, engaging extensively in truck garden-
ing, and at the time of his father's death the
latter's farm, nearly 140 acres, was turned
over to him. His property is laid out as well
as any in this section and he is considered one
of the most intelligent farmers of the vicin-
ity, his work showing excellent results. Like
all of his familj', he is a good citizen as well as
an able business man. However, he has given
little time to public affairs.

On Nov. 22, 1868, Mr. Sylvester married
Mary Bailey Turner, daughter of Elijah B.
and Lucy (Standish) Turner, and they had
one child, Robert B., born April 10, 1871, who
died Jan. 30, 1896, in New York. Mr. Syl-
vester is a Republican in politics. He belongs
to the Masonic fraternity, being a member of
Phoenix Lodge at Hanover, and is an orthodox
church member.

Turner. (I) Humphrey Turner, according
to Deane, arrived in Plymouth in 1628, and
had a house lot assigned him in 1629, upon
which he built a house in which he resided
some years. It is a family tradition that he
came from Essex in England. In 1633 he had
another house lot on Kent street. In 1636 he
had eighty acres at the place known in more
recent years as Union Bridge on the west side
of North river, which land for generations re-
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865



The farm, however, upon which he resided
was east of the Coleman hills. He was a use-
ful and enterprising man in the new settle-
ment, and often employed in public business.
He was decidedly a practical man, a tanner
by trade, erecting a tannery as early as 1636.
He married Lydia Gamer, who died before he
did. His death occurred in 1673. He left
children named in his will in the following
order, "John, Joseph, young son John, Daniel,
Nathaniel, Thomas, daughter Mary Barker,
daughter Lydia Doughty, grandchildren Hum-
phrey (son of Thomas), Mary Doughty, Jona-
than, Joseph and Ezekiel (sons of John, Sr.)
and Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel."

(II) John Turner, son of Humphrey, mar-
ried Nov. 12, 1645, Mary Brewster, daughter
of Jonathan, the eldest son of Elder William
Brewster, of the "Mayilower." He died in
Scituate in 1687. Mr. and Mrs. Turner were
the parents of thirteen children.

(III) Philip Turner, son of John, married
Elizabeth Nash, and their children were : Ann,
Elizabeth, Grace, Israel, Nathaniel and Philip.

(IV) Nathaniel Turner, son of Philip, mar-
ried Mary Bailey, and their children were:
Elijah, Nathaniel and Job.

(V) Elijah Turner, son of Nathaniel, mar-
ried Mary Foster, and their children were:
Temperance, who married Joshua Burr;
Lucinda, who married Abijah Goodrich; Lem-
uel, who married Rosana Ruggles; Mary (Pol-
lie), who married a Burr; Elijah Bailey, and
Fanny. The father, Elijah Turner, was a
prominent and well-known man in his day,
serving as selectman and representative.

(VI) Elijah Bailey Turner, born Sept. 22,
1794, in Norwell, died there .March 23, 1865.
He married Lucy Standish, and to them were
born two children: Miles Standish and Mary
Bailey, the latter now the wife of Robert Syl-
vester. Miles Standish Turner, born Aug. 26,
1852, married (first) Annie Mackay, who died
in June, 1888, the mother of one child, Lucy
M., and (second) Nannie Webb.

JOHN J. SHAW, M. D. The Shaw family
of Plymouth, Mass., whose representative head
is John Joseph Shaw, M. D., for years one of
the leading physicians of that community, is
a branch of the East Bridgewater family of
that name, and is of the earlier Weymouth
Shaw family, the progenitor of which was
Abraham Shaw. Various members of this
branch of the Shaw family have made a place
for themselves in the history of the learned
professions, among whom may be mentioned-
the Hon. Lemuel Shaw, LL. J)., of the legal

S5



profession, who was graduated from Harvard
college in 1800, and in 1830 became Chief Jus-
tice of the Supreme judicial court of Massa*
chusetts, holding that office for a period of
thirty years, until he resigned, Aug. 31, 1860.
Dr. John J. Shaw is also descended from
"Mayflower" ancestry, being a lineal descend-
ant of Mary Chilton and of Dr. Samuel Fuller,
and also of Elder William Brewster, through
the wife of Doctor Fuller, who was a grand-
daughter of Elder Brewster; and he is closely
connected by marriage with the descendants
of many of the pioneer settlers of New Eng-
land. Among Doctor Shaw's present wife's
kinsmen of more than ordinary note may be
mentioned Nehemiah R. Knight, governor of
Rhode Island, who was her great-grandfather;
the late Henry Howard and Albert C. Howard,
former governor and lieutenant governor, re-
spe<;tively, of Rhode Island ; and James Burrill
Angell, former president of Michigan Univer-
sity. Governtir Howard was a direct descend-
ant of Thomas Howard, of Lynn, Mass., and
later of Enfield, Conn., and President Angell
is a direct descendant of Thomas Angell, one
of the founders of Providence Plantations,
coming to New England in company with
Roger Williams in 1631, in the ship "Zjon."
Doctor Shaw's lineage with the Shaw family
history follows, in chronological order from
the first American ancestor.

(I) Abraham Shaw and his wife, Bridget
Best, came from the village of Northowram,
Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, and
settled in Watertown, Mass., where he was made
a freeman March 9, 1636. He was one of the
first to subscribe to the Covenant. His house
was burned in October, 1636, and he soon after
sold his town lot and farm of eight and a half
acres and removed to Dedham, Mass., for the
incorporation of which he, with his eldest son
Joseph and twenty others, had signed a peti-
tion on "the 6th of the 7th month (Sept.)
1636." With his associates he built the old
dam across the Charles river for a gristmill,
about three quarters of a mile southwest of
the new bridge. He was made a freeman
March 9, 1637, and the same year was granted
a monopoly of one-half of the coal and iron to
be found in the Common Lands, but died the
next year, 163f^. His will bears no date, but
mentions his tor-i'lot in Dedham, also his two
sons and two diiughters, Joseph, Mary, John
and Martha, the latter two being infants, Jo-
seph and John to have his estate in Dedham.

(II) John Shaw, son of Abraham, born about
1630, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, came to
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Weymouth, and there in Weymouth he lived all
of his active lifetime. His children, all born
in Weymouth, were: John, born about 1655;
Elizabeth, Feb. 26, 1656; Abraham, Oct. 10,
1657; Mary, May 24, 1660; Nicholas, March
23, 1662; Joseph, April 15, 1664; Alice, July
6, 1666; Hannah, April 7, 1668; Benjamin,
born June 16, 1670; Abigail, July 15, 1672;
and Ebenezer, April 24, 1674.

(III) Joseph Shaw, son of John, bom April
15, 1664, married Judith, born in 1669,
daughter of John and Sarah Whitmarsh. Mr.
Shaw removed to ancient Bridgewater, now
the town of East Bridgewater, before 1698.
He died in 1718, and she passed away in 1760,
aged ninety-one years. Their children were:
Elizabeth, born in 1687 (married Noah Wash-
burn) ; Joseph, born in 1691; Judith, born' in
1693; Abigail, born in 1695 (married Daniel
Alden) (all these born in Weymouth) ; Huth,
born in 1698 (married James Snow) ; Martha,
born in 1700 (married Eleazer Alden) ; Sarah,
born in 1702 (married Deacon James Cary) ;
Hannah, born in 1704 (married Isaac Snow
and second John Whitman) ; Ebenezer, born
in 1706; John, born in 1708; and Zachariah,
born in 1711.

(IV) Deacon Zachariah Shaw, son of Joseph,
born in 1711, in East Bridgewater, married
in 1733 Sarah, daughter of Daniel Packard.
Deacon Shaw remained on the family estate in
East Bridgewater. He died in 1790, aged
seventy-nine years; she died in 1792, aged
seventy-seven years. Their children were :
Sarah, bom in 1734 (married Elijah Snow) ;
Euth, born in 1738 (married Joseph Snow) ;
Martha, born in 1740; Daniel, bom in 1742;
Elizabeth, born in 1744 (married Obadiah
Eeed) ; Judith, born in 1749 (married John
Edson) ; Zachariah, born in 1751 ; and Nehe-
miah, born in 1753 (married Molly Hill or
Beal).

(V) Zachariah Shaw, son of Deacon Zacha-
riah, born in 1751, married in 1770 Hannah,
daughter of Sajnuel Bisbee. He died in 1820,
and she in 183?, "aged eighty-two years. Their
children were : Joseph, Sarah and Alvan.

(VI) Joseph Shaw, son of Zachariah and
Hannah (Bisbee), bom in 1779, married in
1805 (first) Olive Dike, born in 1782, daughter
of Samuel Dike, Jr., and granddaughter of
Samuel Dike. Mr. Shaw died April 8, 1863,
m East Bridgewater. The only child of Joseph
and Olive was a son, Samuel Dike.

(VII) Samuel Dike Shaw, son of Joseph
and Olive (Dike), bom Nov. 25, 1813, on the
old Shaw homestead in East Bridgewater,
Mass., married in 1839 Wealthy Stickney



Estes, born June 5, 1818, in Unity, Maine,,
daughter of James and Joanna (Blithen)
Estes, of Brunswick, Maine, and a direct de-
scendant of Sir William Thompson, Knight,
and Baron of the city of London, England, and
also a direct descendant of Eichard Estes, of
Dover, England, who came to America in
1684, from whom his descent is through Ed-
ward Estes and Edward Estes (2). The two-
cliildren born to Mr. and Mrs. Shaw were:
Henry W. and John Joseph, the former of