Alice Shaw

Alice Phillips

• Gender: Female
• Birth: before February 24, 1631 Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England / about 1637, probably in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Death: after 1705 Weymouth, Plymouth , Massachusetts
• Place of Burial: North Weymouth Cemetery (GPS (lat/lon) 42.2333 -70.9469), Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
• Daughter of Dea. Nicholas Phillips, of Weymouth and Elizabeth Jewson

Biography

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Alice Phillips was born about 1637, probably in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[1] She is the daughter of Deacon Nicholas Phillips and Elizabeth Jewson.[2]. (No birth record has been found but her parents were in Dedham by August 18, 1636,)

Alice lived a few years in Dedham before moving to Weymouth around 1640. They lived next door to her uncle Martin in the "Old Spain" area. John King and Joseph Shaw were neighbors living in the same area.[3] Her family and uncles were involved in pioneer farming and town building and she grew up doing the same.

Alice married John Shaw around 1650 probably in Weymouth.[4] They had eleven children.

Her father died before October 3, 1672, when his will was proved in Weymouth. Alice inherited £10 plus a one-sixth share of her father's residual estate after specific bequeaths.[5]

Alice and John's youngest child, Ebenezer was born April 24, 1674 so Alice was still alive at that time and could not have died in 1672 as previously stated. There is some suggestion that she may have outlived her husband, John Shaw, who died September 16, 1704 at Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [6]

In fact, Alice died after 17 October 1704 when she was made an Administrator of her husband's estate: "Administration on the estate of John Shaw, late of Weymouth, husbandman, is granted to his widow Alice and his eldest son John Shaw, 17th October 1704. (Suffolk Probate, 15: 350.) Division of his estate mentions his eldest son John, his second son Nicholas, his third son Joseph, his fourth son Benjamin, his youngest son Ebenezer and his daughters, Mary King, widow, her four sons and daughter ____ King, Joseph Poole and his wife Elizabeth, Gideon Tirrell and his wife Hannah, Richard Davenport and his wife Abigail, and John Androse and his wife Alice, 11th March 1705-06." [7]

Family

She married John Shaw (1630-1704) in 1653 at Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts.

Children of John Shaw and Alice, all born Weymouth:

1. John b. ca 1653 m. Hannah Whitmarsh
2. Elizabeth b. Feb 26 1655/56 m. Joseph Poole of Weymouth
3. Abraham b. Oct 10 1657 d. before Mar 11 1705/6, no known wife or children
4. Mary b Mar 24 1659/60 m. Hezekiah King
5. Nicholas b Mar 23 1662 m. Deborah Whitmarsh
6. Joseph b. April 15 1664 m. Judith Whitmarsh
7. Alice b. July 6 1666 m. John Andrews
8. Hannah b. April 7 1668 m. Gideon Tirell
9. Benjamin b16 Jun 1670 m. Hannah Bicknell
10. Abigail b 15 Jul 1672 m. Richard Davenport
11. Ebenezer b 24 Apr 1674 m. 1) Susanna 2) Hannah Pratt

Notes

Nicholas was probably born about 1611 as he made his will June 2, 1671 "age about Sixty Yeares or theirabout".[1/7:248] He died prior to September 7, 1672 when the inventory of the estate was taken, which amounted to 257.11.6 and was presented by his son Richard on October 3, 1672.[1/7:250] 

In the will he mentioned his sons in order: 

• Richard, Joshua, and Benjamin. 
• He also mentioned his daughters Alice Shaw, Experience King, Hannah White, and Abigail Phillips and 
• "My loving brother Henry Phillips and my loving friends Thomas Dyer and Jonas Humphrey

He married, near 1650, Alice Phillips, the mother of all his children, who survived her husband. She is daughter of Nicholas Phillips of Weymouth. John Shawe & Alice Phillips settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, New England "His estate is divided in 1705 [CI:194:?1:CI]." Administration of Probate 15, 350.

Alice died after 17 October 1704 when she was made an Administrator of her husband's estate: "Administration on the estate of John Shaw, late of Weymouth, husbandman, is granted to his widow Alice and his eldest son John Shaw, 17th October 1704. (Suffolk Probate, 15: 350.) Division of his estate mentions his eldest son John, his second son Nicholas, his third son Joseph, his fourth son Benjamin, his youngest son Ebenezer and his daughters, Mary King, widow, her four sons and daughter ____ King, Joseph Poole and his wife Elizabeth, Gideon Tirrell and his wife Hannah, Richard Davenport and his wife Abigail, and John Androse and his wife Alice, 11th March 1705-06."

Comments

Conflict data from merge of 3 October 2010:
Death date of 3/6/1654 Death location of Plymouth, MA

References

• Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 10 2018, 1:26:29 UTC
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Phillips-205