Notes for Oliver Shumway

Notes for Oliver Shumway

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.)

164. John Mckennbt. "12. Aldrich " on map. 12 Feb., 1740, Peter Shumway to his son Oliver, 60 a., "being the sixth draught" ; Oliver
settled here; 30 Nov., 1773, Oliver Shumway to his son Ebenezer, with buildings; 1813, Ebenezer Shumway to William Dana;
4 March, 1815, William Dana to Reuben Walling of Burrillville, R. I.; 26 Feb., 1819, Reuben Walling to Abner Walling; 2 Oct., 1819,
Abner Walling to Joel Eddy, who built the present house ; 27 Sept., 1834, Joel Eddy to Royal Aldrich of Mendon, who settled and d. here;
5 May, 1859, Mary, his widow, to Ruth G. Rich, whose husband d. and she m. (2) John Colton ; 13 Feb., 1865, Ruth G. Colton to
Henry A. and Charles W. Stone of Worcester ; 2 Feb., 1867, they to Perley Dean; 17 April, 1876, Perley Dean to Frederick Rudolph;
8 May, 1880, Lebbeus T. Converse to A. B. F. Kinney; 18 May, 1880, A. B. F. Kinney to John McKenney.

SOURCE: History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts: with genealogies and ..., Volume 1 By George Fisher Daniels
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