Elkanah Shaw

Maleabout 1779–

Brief Life History of Elkanah

When Elkanah Shaw was born about 1779, in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Daniel Shaw, was 27 and his mother, Mary Barrows, was 25.

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Family Time Line

Daniel Shaw
1753–1844
Mary Barrows
1755–1804
Olive Shaw
1779–1861
Elkanah Shaw
1779–
Polly Shaw
1784–1854
Daniel Shaw Jr
1785–1854
Hazael Shaw
1790–
Elizabeth Shaw
1792–1865
Susannah Shaw
1794–1855
Shaw
1804–
Waitstill Shaw
1786–1860
Salmon M Shaw
1788–1861
Freeman Shaw
1796–1803
Ruel Shaw
1799–1883

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    World Events (3)

    1781 · The First Constitution

    Age 2

    Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.

    1783 · A Free America

    Age 4

    The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.

    1786 · Shays' Rebellion

    Age 7

    Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

    Name Meaning

    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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