In the US Census of 1850, Peter Shumway (72) is listed as living on the Shumway homestead
in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. On the farm with Peter lives his second wife,
Mary Newhall (52) and a 21 year old farm laborer named James Webale fron Ireland.
On the farm adjoining Peters lives Thomas D Shumway (44) and Mary Blackstone (45) his wife.
Mary's mother Eliza Blackstone(69) and James Blackstone (37), a brother, also lives on the
farm in Oxford.
MARRIAGE SOURCE: Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Town History to 1878
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Steve Shumway - shumways@@petershumway.org
Oxford South Congregational Church Cemetery, Church St., Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts
Stone # 377, lot 263, Peter Shumway, born at Oxford, Mass., Dec. 6, 1777, died at Groton, Mass., Oct. 25, 1878
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ma/worcester/towns/oxford/cemeteries/Oxfordsouth.txt
Steve Shumway - shumways@@petershumway.org