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From: "Dale H. Cook" <>
Subject: [GM-L] Re: Abraham Shaw look up "correction"
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 04:21:43 -0400
In-Reply-To: <66.37c28081.2cc4d0ed@aol.com>


At 01:47 AM 10/20/2003 -0400, wrote:

>"Additions and Corrections to Pope's
>"Pioneers of Massachusetts," second series, November 1904" it gives us
>a somewhat
>different story about this man. It says:
>
>SHAW
> Abraham, made will in 1640, Abraham Shawe (sic) mar. to Bridget
> Best
>at North Ouram (Halifax) Yorkshire, England, June 24, 1616. Their children
>baptized:
>Joseph, March 14, 1618; Grace, Aug. 15, 1621; Martha, Dec. 1, 1623; Maria
>(Mary), June 18, 1626; John, Feb. 16, 1628; John, May 23, 1630; Martha,
>Jan., 6,
>1632.
>;R.K. Shaw, in Reg. xlviii, 346.]

The reference to NEHGR 48:346 is only to the baptisms of the children in
Northrowam. Since Pope says that Abraham made his will in 1640 it would
seem that Pope did not examine the Suffolk probate books sufficiently,
since the will would >>>appear<<< to have been made about 1640, but those
transcripts are out of order - not uncommon in the earliest probate books
in an old Commonwealth county, and of course, the inventory is from 1638.

Note also that Pope doesn't get the spelling of "Northrowam" anywhere near
right - in the parish registers abstracted in the NEHGR note he cites it is
"Northrowm" with a superior "m."


Dale H. Cook
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