When Mary Shaw was born on 15 September 1797, in Benton, Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Ammi Shaw, was 27 and her mother, Hannah Dean, was 27. She married Daniel Allen Neal on 26 October 1814, in Wakefield, York, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Washington, Knox, Maine, United States in 1850 and Jackson Brook, North Washington Territory, Washington, Maine, United States in 1860. She died on 6 June 1866, in Danforth, Washington, Maine, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Eaton Cemetery, Washington, Maine, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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