Basic information taken from the book "Genealogy of the Shumway Famil y in
the United States of America." Compiled by Asahel Adams Shumway. Volume 1.
Reprinted 1972 by Maple Press, George Shumway, Publisher, York, PA. Page
#12, Book identification #1. Page 38
"...the records yield little information regarding him; his children were all born
in Oxford, so that probably most of his life was spent there; his occupation was farming,
and he does not apprear to have ever held any public office..."
Born at Boxford, June 8, 1701, baptized at Topsfield, May 10, 1702
SOURCE: Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs - page 900
by William Richard Cutter - 1908 - Middlesex County (Mass.)