The primary information sources for the SHATTUCK family are Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, by Dr. Henry Bond (1860), and Memorial of the Descendants of William Shattuck, by Lemuel Shattuck (1855). Additional details have been added from a variety of other sources.
Generation No. 1 Notes
NOTES: William SHATTUCK - b. about 1622; d. Aug. 14, 1672, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA. Buried at Arlington Street Cemetery, with gravesite having a memorial tablet erected in 1853 by Lemuel SHATTUCK, a descendant. William, a weaver by trade, was at Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA by 1639, but his origins and arrival in America are based on speculation. Attempts to identify his mother as the widow Damaris SHATTUCK and his younger brother as Samuel SHATTUCK of Salem, MA are not supported by available evidence. William held several public offices in Watertown between 1652 and 1665. His will was dated Aug. 3, 1672 and proved Aug. 29, 1672, with his estate appraised on Aug. 23, 1672 at over £434, including over £103 in cash, £180 for his house and land, and £20 for a farm at Stoney Brook. Married about 1642.
Susanna - d. Dec. 11, 1686, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA. Susanna was married second on Nov. 18, 1673 at Watertown, MA to Richard NORCROSS (b. 1621; d. about 1709), as his second wife. Richard was schoolmaster at Watertown.
By his sagacity, industry, and economy, through dying in the full vigor of manhood, he acquired, for the times in which he lived, a large property. He appears, so far as can be ascertained from contemporary records, to have sustained the character of a sagacious, energetic and successful business man. He was an honest, upright and worthy citizen.
He was interred in the ancient burying ground situated on the old road leading from Cambridge to Watertown, a short distance westerly of Mount Auburn.
The Children of William and Susanna SHATTUCK were:
1.Susanna, - b. 1643, Watertown, MA. Married first Apr. 12, 1661 Joseph MORSE (b. Apr. 30, 1637; d. 1677), son of Joseph MORSE and Hester PIERCE; and second Jul. 5, 1678, Watertown, MA John FAY. Children: Susanna; Hester married Nathaniel JOSSELYN; Joseph married Grace WARREN; Samuel married Grace; Mary married John BARNARD, Jr.; Hannah married John NEWTON; and Jonathan married first Mary HOW, and second Mary CHURCH.
2.Mary, - b. Aug. 25, 1645, Watertown, MA; d. Oct. 23, 1732, Watertown, MA. Married Jonathan BROWNE.
3.John, - b. Feb. 11, 1647, Watertown, MA; drowned Sep. 14, 1675, crossing Charlestown ferry. Sergeant in King Philip's War. Estate inventoried Oct. 5, 1675 at $42.2.0. Married Jun. 20, 1664 Ruth WHITNEY (b. Apr. 15, 1645, Watertown, MA), daughter of John WHITNEY and Ruth REYNOLDS. Ruth married second Enoch LAWRENCE. With her second husband and her children, Ruth moved to Groton, MA in 1678. Children: John married Mary BLOOD; Ruth married Jonathan FARNSWORTH; William married Hannah UNDERWOOD; and Samuel married Elizabeth BLOOD (ancestors of genealogist John FARMER).
4.Philip, - b. about 1648, Watertown, MA; d. Jun. 26, 1722, Watertown, MA. Held positions of selectman, treasurer, and assessor at Watertown, MA. Married first Nov. 9, 1670 Deborah BARSTOW (d. Nov. 24, 1679), daughter of William and Anna; and second Feb. 11, 1679/80 Rebecca CHAMBERLAIN (b. 1665; d. 1728), daughter of Richard CHAMBERLAIN and Sarah BUGBY. Children of first marriage: Deborah died in infancy; Philip died young; Susanna; and Anne married William SANDERSON. Children of second marriage: Joseph died in infancy; Rebecca married John UNDERWOOD (ancestors of Clara BARTON); Rev. Benjamin married Martha SHERMAN; Dr. Joseph married Mary LADD; Nathaniel married Hepzibah HASTINGS; Amos; Sarah married Samuel PARKHURST; Theophilus; and Philip.
5.Joanna, - b. Watertown, MA; d. Apr. 4, 1673, Watertown, MA. Did not marry.
6.William, - b. 1653, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA; d. Oct. 19, 1732, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA. A weaver, the will of his father left him a "loom and its appurtenances." Married Susanna RANDALL (d. May 8, 1723), daughter of Stephen RANDALL and Susanna BARRON. Children: Elizabeth married first Robert GODDARD, second Ephraim ANGIER, and third John HOLLAND; William married Hepzibah HAMMOND; Benjamin married first Deliverance HAYS, and second Rachel CLARK; Samuel; Mary married William GREENLEAF; Abigail married Joseph HOLDEN; Joseph died in infancy; Jonathan married Elizabeth STEARNS; Susanna married Samuel HOLDEN; Robert married Mary PRATT; and Moses died young.
7.Rebecca, - b. about 1656, Watertown, MA. Married Feb. 7, 1671/2 Samuel CHURCH (b. Jun. 10, 1640), son of Garret and Sarah CHURCH. Children: Rebecca.
8.Abigail, - b. about 1658, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA; d. 1694, Groton, MA. Married first on Oct. 17, 1678 at Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA to Jonathan MORSE (b. Oct. 7, 1643; d. Jul. 31, 1686, Groton, MA), son of John MORSE and Abigail STEARNS. Abigail was married second on Sep. 22, 1690 to Joshua PARKER (b. Mar. 13, 1658; d. May 5, 1691, Groton, MA). Children: Abigail married James MORSE; Hannah married John WELLINGTON; Ruth married Jonathan ROBINSON; and Jonathan.
9.Benjamin, - Died at age 20. Mentioned in father's will.
10.Samuel, - b. Feb. 28, 1665/6, Watertown, MA. Married Abigail. Children: Abigail perhaps married cousin William SHATTUCK (son of William and Hannah (UNDERWOOD) SHATTUCK; Samuel; and Martha.
NOTES concerning William Shattuck of Boston, MA. Another William SHATTUCK lived at Boston, MA from 1650 to 1658, with information detailed on pages 366 and 367 of Memorial of the Descendants of William Shattuck, by Lemuel Shattuck (1855). William of Boston was a shoemaker, and suffered persecution for his Quakerism. He was banished in 1658, moved to RI, then to NJ, settling at Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co. This William SHATTUCK had two daughters (no male issue), namely:
1.Hannah, - b. Jul. 8, 1654, Boston, MA; d. 1741, NJ. Married Sep. 6, 1674, Shrewsbury, NJ Restore LIPPINCOTT (b. Jul. 3, 1652, England; d. Jul. 22, 1741, Mount Holly, NJ), son of Richard LIPPINCOTT (d. 1683, NJ) and Abigail GOODY (d. 1697). A daughter: Rebecca married Josiah GASKILL (they became ancestors of Pres. Richard M. NIXON).
2.Exercise, - b. Nov. 12, 1656, Boston MA.
William Shattuck lived in Watertown, Massachusetts. He lived in that part of Watertown that is now Belmont on Common Hill near "King's Common," so called. This location is south of the Fitchburg Railroad, east of Common Street, on the hill north and near Washington Street, and was in view of Fresh Pont. The town of Watertown was frequently given permission to make prickss "at the clay pitts near William Shattuck's." Washington Street was an ancient highway leading from Common Street to Fresh Pond. A spring nearby was called "Shattuck's Spring." Mr. Shattuck was a farmer and a weaver. (From Shattuck Memorials II, Beatrix Marie Larson.)
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"1. WILLIAM SHATTUCK was the most remote ancestor with whom we have been enabled to connect ourselves, in our history, upon satisfactory evidence; and we begin with his, in our classification, as the first, or earliest known generation. From him as their common progenitor, have descended nearly all, if not every one, of those who now bear his name in America. He was born in England in 1621 or 2, and died in Watertown, Massachusetts, August 14, 1672, aged 50 years. His exact origin and early history are involved in obscurity. Neither the place of his birth, nor the year in which he came to this country, nor the names of his parents, are certainly known. There is no doubt, however. that his immediate ancestors and connections were residents of England; and they were probably among those already mentioned in our introductory observations, either of Lancastershire, Somersetshire, or Berkshire, but we are unable to specify the particular persons or locality. He must have emigrated when in or near his minority. It has been conjectured that his father might have died on his passage or soon after his arrival and also that he might have been the son of widow Damaris Shattuck, who was admitted to the church in Salem, in 1641, and a brother of Samuel Shattuck, noticed in the Appendix to these Memorials - and their ages, the prevalence of similar names in their respective families, and other circumstances, give some Probability to these conjectures. But of such a connection, if indeed one existed, we have as yet obtained no conclusive proof. If not a brother he was probably a near relative of Samuel Shattuck.
FIRST GENERATION AND CHILDREN.
"Massachusetts was first colonized by the English Puritan emigrants, in Boston and its vicinity, in 1630. Watertown was settled in the same year,--ten years later than the founding of Plymouth. This town is in Middlesex County, from four to seven miles westerly of Boston, and has Cambridge, easterly, intervening between the two places. It originally included the present town of Waltham, incorporated separately in 1737. It is thus one of the most ancient, and it was early one of the most important, towns in the Province. The General Court and the Provincial Congress held several sessions in this town. Mr. Shattuck's name appears in an old list of the proprietors of Watertown, made about 1642, twelve years after its first settlement, although he was then only twenty years of age. The first lot of land granted to him is described upon the records as follows
William Chattuck.
"1. An Homstall of one acre, by estimation, bounded souwest with Common-land, ye, east wth John Clough and ye west wth William Perry in his possession.
"2. Three acres of upland, by estimation, bounded the north wth Joseph Morse, the south wth William Perry, the east wth John Clough & ye west wth Commonland in his possession."
"To this estate he made large additions by subsequent grants and purchases. Among other parcels of land the records state that on the 4th July, 1654, he bought of his neighbor John Clough, his house, garden, and thirty acres of land, situated on Common Hill, near his own estate, bounded east by William Payne and E. Goffe, west by the highway, north by Joseph Morse and "south by the highway to the pond;" probably lying in the corner easterly and northerly of the intersection of the two roads, now called Common street and Washington street. Also twenty-five acres of upland; three acres of swamp land and one third part of twelve acres of meadow land. He also bought a farm at Stony Brook, near the present bounds of Weston, and four acres of meadow in Pond Meadow, which he bequeathed at his death, in equal shares, to his sons, Philip and William. He also bought a dwelling-house and a large farm of Edward Sanderson; but a question having arisen as to his title to some parts of it, the town voted, December 27, 1664, that "William Shattuck shall enjoy the land he bought of Sanders, provided he pay to Sanders twenty bushels of good merchantable Indian corn to spend in his house."
"We have found it difficult to ascertain the exact place where Mr. Shattuck resided. It was, however, undoubtedly on Common Hill, near "King's Common" so called-the Common land reserved and owned by the town. This locality was northerly of the celebrated residence of J. P. Cushing, Esq.; southerly of the Wellington Hill Station on the Fitchburg Railroad and easterly of Common street, leading from that station southerly to Watertown village. Permission was frequently given by the town to make bricks "at the clay pitts near William Shattucks." This bed of clay was then considered a rarity; and it was reserved by the town as a public place for brick making. It was on the hill northerly and near Washington street, then an ancient highway leading from Common street to Fresh Pond, and in the vicinity westerly of the residences of Mr. Chenery and Mr. Stone, as laid down on Shield's Map of Boston and Vicinity, published in l852. And Mr. Shattuck's dwelling-house was on the hill, somewhere on the north side of this highway. The Watertown records, in describing a piece of common land sold by the town, in 1743, to Ebenezer Chenery, "lying above the clay pitts," say the bounds run "on a line to a rock at said Chenery's fence. above or west of a spring (commonly called Shattuck's Spring.)'; The residences on this hill command a fine view of Fresh Pond, near by, and of Boston and its vicinity in the distance - and are among the most delightful in Watertown. Successors bearing the name of Shattuck occupied the estate for about one hundred years, but for the last hundred years it has been in the possession of others.
"Mr. Shattuck is sometimes denominated a weaver; an humble but honorable handicraft of considerable importance in his day, when all articles of clothing were the product of household manufacture. And it is not improbable that he combined his mechanical with other occupations, and wrought in his loom as well as on his farm; for at his death he actually bequeathed his "loom and its appurtenances" to his son William. Agriculture seems, however, to have been his principal employment, as it has been that of the larger part of his posterity. His example of uniting the labors of the farmer and mechanic in one person has been followed by many of his descendants. He resided in Watertown about thirty years; and by his sagacity, industry and economy though dying in the full vigor of manhood, he acquired, for the times in which he lived, a large property, the inventory of which amounted at his death to £434 19s 11½d. sterling, of which £200 was in real estate, and £234 19s. 11½d. in personal estate, including £103 17s. 7½d. in money. He appears, so far as can be ascertained from Contemporary records, to have sustained the character of a sagacious, energetic, and successful business man; of an honest, upright, and worthy citizen; and of a good and peaceable neighbor. He held a respectable social position among his fellow townsmen; and his family and the families lo whom they were allied by marriage were highly respected, and among the most wealthy and influential in Watertown.
"He was interred in the ancient burying-ground situated on the old road leading from Cambridge to Watertown, a short distance westerly of Mount Auburn. A simple but substantial marble tablet, resting in a granite base, has recently been erected near the northwesterly corner of this ground, at the turn of the road to Brighton, bearing the following inscription:-
To perpetuate the memory of
WILLIAM SHATTUCK, who died in Watertown,
Aug. 14, 1672, aged 50;
The progenitor of
the families that have borne his name
in America.
And of his son,
JOHN SHATTUCK,
who was drowned
in Charlestown Ferry,
Sept. 14, 1.675, aged 28.
This simple memorial
was erected in 1853, by
Lemuel Shattuck,
who holds in grateful veneration
the character of
the Puritan Fathers of
New England."
"William Shattuck was married about 1642, when he was twenty years of age. The Christian name of his wife was SUSANNA; but neither her surname, nor her parentage, nor exact date or place of her birth or marriage, has been ascertained.
"She remained a widow about fifteen months after his death, and married, Nov. 18, 1673, Mr. Richard Norcross , who survived her. She died in Watertown, Dec. 11, 1686, fourteen years after the death of her first husband.
"In his will Mr. Shattuck mentions "his ten younger children," as if he had others, but it does not appear that he had more than that number. The births of the second, third and tenth only are entered upon the Watertown records. The remainders are ascertained from other authentic evidence.
HIS CHILDREN, BY SUSANNA -, BORN IN WATERTOWN.
- Susanna, b. 1643; m. 1. J. Morse; 2, J. Fay
- Mary, b. Aug. 252, 1645; m. Jonathan Brown
- John b. Feb. 11, 1647; m. Ruth Whitney
- Philip, b. 1648; m. 1. d. Barstow; 2. R. Chamberlain
- Joanna, b. d. April 4, 1673, unmarried
- William, b. 1653; m. Susanna Randall
- Rebecca b. 1655; m. Samuel Church
- Abigail, b. 1657; m. 1, J. Morse; 2. J. Parker
- Benjamin b. d. in his 20th year
- Samuel, b. Feb. 28, 1666, m. Abigail
"A petition, dated June 19, 1683, purporting to be from Philip Shattuck, is on the court files of Middlesex County, in which it is said,-"Our two youngest brothers, Benjamin and Samuel, were left to the care and government of our honored mother, unto whom our honored father did bequeath the most considerable part of his estate ; but after our mother did marry againe, she thought it would be beneficial for our youngest brothers to have trades; and she accordingly put them out,-Benjamin to my brother William, and Samuel to myself. But before Benjamin came of age, God was pleased to visit him with a long and lingering sickness, of which he died, being in his 20th year; and by reason of the long time of his sickness, the charges of the doctor, his attendance, and the funeral charges, were considerable." And he prays that they may be paid out of the estate that was bequeathed to him, which was probably done.
"The will of Wm. Shattuck, executed while he was on a sick bed, is dated August 3d, eleven days before his death, and was proved in court August 29th, fifteen days afterwards. This will and the inventory of his estate were deposited in the office of the Middlesex Probate Court, and still exist in its files. Copies were entered upon its records, (Vol. IV., pp. 24 and 26.) These documents will undoubtedly interest the family, and faithful copies of the original are given below.
Watertown, The Last Will and Testament
Aug: 3d: 1672. of William Shathock, aged 50 years.
"I, William Shathock, being under the afflicting hand of God, sick and weak but in perfect memory, not knowing how soone I may end the days of my weary pilgrimage, do constitute this my last will and testament, for ye, disposal of what I shall leave behind me, as followeth:
"Item. I give my ten younger children thirty pound in money to be equally divided amongst them; to them that are married, I will their parts should be payd a month after my disease; that which belongs to the unmarried my will is it shall be in their mothers hand to be kept for them till they come to age capable.
"Item. I give to my son Sam: Church six pound in money, to be payd a month after my disease.
"Item. I give to my son, Philip Shathock, the one half of my farm and two acres of meadow in pond meadow, to him and his heyers forever.
"Item. I give to my sonne, William Shathock, the other half of the sd and two acres of meadow in pond meadow, to him & his heyers for ever; as also a young horse with all his trooping furniture; also the loome and its appurtenances.
"Item. I give to my four small children my mare with all her increase.
"All the rest of my moveable goods I give to my dear wife, Susanna, for her owne maintenance & bringing up my younger children; and also the use of my house and land which I now dwell upon with that I bought of Edward Sanderson, till my two younger sons, Benjamin and Samuel, arrive to twenty one years of age. If my sd wife marry, my will is that she receive four pound pr out of my house & lands; if she marry not, I give them to her during her life.
"Item. I give to my sd Beniamin & Samuel my house and land I now dwell upon, with that I bought of Ed: Sanderson, and my half dividend, to them their heyers forever.
"Item. I give to my sonne John twenty pound, to be payd after my wifes decease by my sons, Beniman and Samuel, or their heyers, five pound per year; the whole to be paid in the space of four years.
"Item. I give to my grand children living at my disease forty pound, to equally divided and payd after ye death of my wife by my sd sons, Beniman Samuel, within the space of ten years, four pound pr year, beginning with children of my eldest children; always provided, that if any my legitees dy before marriage my will is that what I have given be divided amongst ye rest.
"I do farther constitute my deare wife, Susanna Shathock, sole exectutor of this my will; requesting my loving friends, John Coolidge, iouner, and Sam: Livermore, assistant my sd wife, and to be payd for their pains.
Signed, sealed, & delivered, Witness my hand,
in presence of us, William Shattuck.
John Coolidge,
John Livermore."
"From the following document it seems that the appraisers of his estate did not understand orthography quite as well, or were not quite as careful in the use of it, as the writers of his will and other documents relating to the settlement of his estate. We prefer, however, to give it as written, with the exception of punctuation, which has been added. No description of ours could give a better idea of the domestic arrangements, the household economy, and the interior life, of our ancestor, than is afforded by a careful examination of this inventory. It will aid us in paying an imaginary visit to his "parler," his "ceichen," his "shope," his "dairy," and his farm generally, to ascertain their extent and the various implements in use in his daily life.
"An Inventory of the estate of Wilyam Shathauk, late of Watertowne, who deceased August the 14tb, in ye yeare 1672, made and taken by us whose names are under written, August the 23.
| Imprimis. | £ | s. | d. |
| In the Parler, his wearinge cloathes, shirts, hate, boughs & shoes, | 005 | 00 | 00 |
| In money, | 103 | 17 | 07-1/2 |
| A bedstead, curtanes, a table, 2 chets, a greata char, and basket, and some small things, | 002 | 00 | 00 |
| Eight napkeens, 3 pilowbers, 2 table clothes, & 3 pair of sheets, | 003 | 00 | 00 |
| Forten yds of coaten and woolen clooth, | 002 | 00 | 00 |
| A cuple of tobacco boxes, and a pair of silver buttons | 000 | 04 | 00 |
| In the ceichen [kitchen] one great kettle, 2 old kettles, & 2 scillets, | 003 | 00 | 00 |
| Two iron potts, & a friing pane, tramell, firepane & tongs, rost iron, | 001 | 00 | 00 |
| Six puter platers, a bassoon, 2 puter poats, 3 poringers, seaven spoons, a chamber poat, | 001 | 02 | 00 |
| 3 pailes, 3 tubes, and a churne, 3 wooden dishes and boule, 2 botles, a duzen trenchers, and some earthen ware, & 2 pair of cards, | 001 | 10 | 00 |
| A table and forme, an other small table, 2 buffit stooles, 6 chairs, and other smalle things, | 001 | 05 | 00 |
| In the shope, a loome, warping bar and wheal, and all things belonging to it, | 001 | 10 | 00 |
| In the dairy, five tubes, 3 keelers, 2 seives, | 000 | 12 | 00 |
| 3 bush. Of moult, a bush. Of wheat meall, half a bushel of ry meall, halfe a duszen pound of hops, and other lumber, | 001 | 00 | 00 |
| 3 sackes, | 000 | 06 | 00 |
| In the ould seeler, a post of butter, some pork, 2 tubs, a form and earthen poat, | 001 | 00 | 00 |
| In the lodging roome, two bedsteads, 2 barrens, one forme, a beir bage and cheese, 2 wheels | 002 | 10 | 00 |
| In the new seller, 4 barils, a small vessell, & beer stool, | 000 | 10 | 11 |
| In the first chamber, 3 guns, 2 pistools, and a cutlash, | 004 | 00 | 00 |
| 2 sadles, and a paniel, 2 bridles, 3 halters | 001 | 10 | 00 |
| his geildinn- tools and horne | 000 | 06 | 00 |
| a mate, a fane, 3 pease seeps, a wheel, 3 cold sciths, | 000 | 10 | 11 |
| one crow of iron, a crose cut saw, one hand saw, 3 axis, 2 sikles, 3 ougers, a plan, chains, cap, ringle and sople, a bill hook, a sped, a shovel, weges and betle, and hammer, a pair storke cards, a pair of sheers | 002 | 00 | 00 |
| In the corn chamber, fifty bushels of indein corn, a bushell anda halts of ry | 006 | 09 | 04 |
| in sheeps wool | 001 | 00 | 00 |
| 2 fether beds, a boulster, 4 pillows | 005 | 00 | 00 |
| 2 ruges, 2 blankets | 002 | 15 | 00 |
| one flock bed and bedsted and bed corde, a pair of blankets, 2 boulsters, and 2 pillers, and a ruge | 003 | 00 | 00 |
| a carte, a yoake, an ould plow, a pair of haners, grind stone and sithe, and 400 herds | 002 | 10 | 00 |
| 2 pair of iron filers, and a pair of glaxes | 000 | 06 | 00 |
| a carte roupe, an ould tumberell, two horse coalers and traise, a dung fork, and 2 pitcbing forks, 2 rakes, & a hoe, | 000 | 15 | 00 |
| pease, wheat, harry, and ry | 006 | 00 | 00 |
| the hay in the barne and abrood an d in the meddow | 006 | 00 | 00 |
| five acres of indian corn | 006 | 00 | 00 |
| a farm near stony brooke | 020 | 00 | 00 |
| four acres of meddow, at pond meddow | 004 | 00 | 00 |
| a said mare, and an ould horse | 007 | 00 | 00 |
| an ould mare, and a young horse | 007 | 00 | 00 |
| a pair of oxen | 009 | 00 | 00 |
| four cows | 012 | 00 | 00 |
| a bull, and 2 calves | 004 | 00 | 00 |
| ten sheep and 9 lambs | 006 | 00 | 00 |
| 6 hoggs, 8 piges | 004 | 00 | 00 |
| one dwelling house and barne, and also the land belonging to it, homestall and meddow, with the land bought of Edward Sanderson, and halts a divident | 180 | 00 | 00 |
| in debts | 002 | 02 | 00 |
| John Coollege [Total not added in original.] John Livermore Thomas Hastings |
434 | 19 | 11-1/2 |
"Some questions rose as to the proper interpretation of the will of Mr. Shattuck, after the marriage of his widow; and the following bond or order, dated April 8, 1674, was passed by the court at Cambridge, and entered upon its records. This document is given in connection with another, relating to the final settlement of the dowry, to illustrate the manner in which these matters were managed at that early day. It does not appear to be the result of a law suit that had been commenced, but a mutual agreement to avoid any occasion of one.
"For the finishing of all controversy that has or may arise concerning the estate that William Shattuck's widow brought with her to her present husband, Richard Norcross, this court, with the mutual consent of all concerned therein, doe order that the said Richard Norcross shall have the use of the whole part of the estate that was left to her during the time of the younger children's minority, to wit, two boys twenty-one years', and the girl eighteen, or else at marriage, which of either shall first happen. And in case that he decease before his wife, that she shall have y, same fully made good to her again besides what he shall have out of his owne good will or the law will give unto him. And in case she decease before him, that then, unless by will she shall bequeath any part thereof to him, the said Richard Norcross, he shall then pay, or cause to be paid, forty-five pound, which is the sum ye inventory of her goods came to his hand, and the same he shall pay in full, value to the children of his new wife, which shall then be living as his said wife shall appoint, by her last will or otherwise. To the performance whereof the said Richard Norcross acknowledges himself, exectutors, administrators, to stand fully bound in a bond of ninety pound sterling, to be paid to the treasury of the county.
"And the court do further order that y, aforesaid Richard Norcross, performing according to the above said request, all other obligations by him made, in reference to person or estate, shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes in the law; and the said Richard is to bring up the three young children own until they come to age to chose guardians or be put to apprentices.
Sworn to in Court. Richard Norcross."
"This writing, bearing date this 29th March, 1687, testifieth, that we, Philip Shattuck, William Shattuck, Samuel Shattuck, Jonathan Brown, John Fay, and Abigail Morse, all children, natural or by marriage, of Mrs Norcross, late widow and relict of William Shattuck, deceased, do owns and ac I knowledge ourselves to be fully satisfied with what we have now received of our father-in-law, Mr. Richard Norcross, being the full of what he was to pay to us of what he received of our father Shattuck's estate, and agreed by bond, given into County Court, at Cambridge, the eighth of April, in the year of our Lord 1674. We say we have each and every of us received our proportion in full, according unto that bond. As witness our hands, the day and year above written.
Witnessed by us, William Shattuck,
Joseph Sherman, Philip Shattuck,
Nathaniel Bright. Samuel Shattuck,
Produced in Court, June 5, 1688, Jonathan Brown,
Recorded in Register of Deeds, John Fay,
Vol. X., P. 105. John Mors, in ye behalf of
Abigail Mors, late widow."
"It will be perceived that neither the heirs of John Shattuck, nor Rebecca (Shattuck) Church, were represented in this last agreement. It is probable that the latter were dead at the date of its execution, but the former were then living in Groton. Why they were omitted does not appear. Perhaps their portion of the estate bequeathed to their father, might have been paid to their mother, at another time, either before or after their removal to Groton."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 57-66, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
Notes for MARY SHATTUCK,
"Mary Shattuck, dau. of William, (p. 61,) was b. in Watertown, August 25, 1745; and d. in that part of the town now comprised in Waltham. A grave-stone erected to her memory is still standing in the Waltham burying-ground, bearing the following inscription:--"Here lyes buried ye Body of Mrs Mary Browne, Relict of Mr. Jonathan Browne, who Departed this life Oct. ye 23d A.D. 1732, in ye 89th year of her age. Pious in life: Resigned in Death."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 67, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
Generation No. 2 Notes
2. NOTES: SUSANNA2 SHATTUCK (WILLIAM1) was born 1643 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA, and died March 16, 1715/16 in Marlboro, Middlesex, MA. She married (1) JOSEPH MORSE April 12, 1661 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA, son of JOSEPH MORSE and HESTER PIERCE. He was born April 03, 1637 in Watertown, Middlesex, Co., MA, and died 1677. She married (2) JOHN FAY July 05, 1678 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA. He died Unknown. She married (3) THOMAS BRIGHAM July 30, 1695 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA. He was born Abt 1641, and died Unknown.
"Mr. Faye, after his marriage to widow Susanna (Shattuck) Morse, took her children by her first husband with him to Marlborough, and this was the cause of the Morses becoming permanent settlers in that town."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 67, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
3. NOTES: JOHN2 SHATTUCK (WILLIAM1) was born February 11, 1646/47 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA, and died September 14, 1675 in Charleston, Middlesex Ma. He married RUTH WHITNEY June 20, 1664 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA, daughter of JOHN WHITNEY and RUTH REYNOLDS. She was born April 15, 1645 in Watertown, MA, and died Unknown.
"He was drowned as he was passing over Charleston Ferry, the 14th Sept. 1675. He was a carpenter and resided principally in the Middle District--the present village of Watertown; where he was employed by the town, in 1669 and subsequently, to keep the town mill, then situated near the present bridge leading to Newton Corner.
"1675 was the beginning of the most disastrous war with the Indians that ever occurred in New England. It has been called Philip's war, from the name given to the notorious Metacom, the principal leader of the different tribes. It was undoubtedly the intention of King Philip to destroy all the white inhabitants; and at one time fears were entertained that he would carry his designs into execution. Among other places early attacked were the remote settlements on Connecticut River. A military company was organized under Capt. Richard Beers, a distinguished citizen of Watertown, of which young John Shattuck was appointed sergeant and proceeded to Hadley. Hearing that Squawkeague, now Northfield, had been attacked, they marched, on the 4th of September, 1675, to its relief; and while on their route a large force of Indians who lay concealed, suddenly rose and fell upon them with overpowering fury. Of thirty-six men of whom the company was composed, sixteen only escaped death. Capt. Beers was killed. Sergeant Shattuck, one of the sixteen whose lives were preserved, was immediately dispatched as a messenger to the Governor of the Colony to announce the result of the expedition. On the 14th of September, ten days after the battle, as he was crossing the ferry between Charlestown and Boston, he was drowned.
"He was heard to say "I hear the Marlborough Indians, in Boston, in prison, and upon trial for their lives, are likely to be cleared by the court; for my part,' he said, 'I have been lately abroad in the country's service, and have ventured my life for them, and escaped very narrowly; but if they clear these Indians, they shall hang me up by the neck before I ever serve them again." Within a quarter of an hour after these words were spoken, this man was passing the ferry between Charlestown and Boston; the ferry boat being loaded with horses and the wind high, the boat sunk; and though there were several men in the boat and several horses, yet all escaped with life, but this man only.
"It is proper to remark, in explanation of this narrative, that a painful suspicion was entertained at the time that some of the half christianized Indians in the settlement were privy to and partners in the conspiracy of Philip. Gookin did not share this suspicion, and he therefore opposed the war and those engaged in it. He had acted as counsel for the Indians then on trial; and he considered it criminal in any one to speak against them, notwithstanding some of them were convicted and were afterwards executed for murder. Whether Mr. Shattuck made the hearsay report, is uncertain; but Gookin seems to have considered his punishment for his honest but fearless expression of opinions on subjects which had just discussed with "divers persons of quality"! This judgment, however, if indeed it was one, did not occur alone; others happened to other persons for similar acts. Mr. Shattuck, as an honest, independent young man, having opinions of his own, and not afraid to express them on a proper occasion, would not be very likely to speak in the most mild and friendly terms of an enemy that had, only ten days before, betrayed and killed twenty out of thirty-six of his companions in arms; and he is to be commended for his conduct, and for his exhibition of a character trait of the family."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 69-71, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES: Ruth Married John Shattuck June 20, 1664, in his eighteenth year. On the 6th March, 1677, eighteen months after the death of Mr. Shattuck, she married Enoch Lawrence, and in 1678, they removed to Groton with several of his relatives, at the resettlement of that town, taking with him the four younger children by her first husband; and they probably occupied the land granted to Mr. Shattuck, in 1664. From this family the Shattucks in Groton and Pepperell originated.
4. NOTES: PHILIP2 SHATTUCK (WILLIAM1) was born 1648 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA, and died June 26, 1722 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA. He married (1) DEBORAH BARSTOW November 09, 1670, daughter of WILLIAM BARSTOW and ANNA. She died November 24, 1679. He married (2) REBECCA CHAMBERLAIN February 11, 1679/80, daughter of RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN and SARAH BUGBY. She was born 1665, and died 1728.
"Dr. Philip Shattuck, son of William, was born in Watertown, and died within the present limits of Waltham, June 26, 1722. His place of residence was in the vicinity of the Waverly Station on the Fitchburg Railroad, easterly of Beaver Brook; and his estate extended northerly into Cambridge. He was a physician of eminence, and for a long period a leading man in the public affairs of the town. He was often chosen moderator of town meetings, and held the offices of assessor, town treasurer, chairman of the selectmen, and very many other important stations of public trust and responsibility. The gravestone erected to his memory was standing in the Waltham burying-ground, in 1852, bearing the following inscription:--
"Here lyes Buried
ye Body of Doctr
PHILIP SHATTUCK,
who deced June
ye 26th, 1722, in ye 74th
year of his Age.
Blessed are the Dead
that Die in the Lord."
"A new marble tablet has recently been erected, to which the above inscription was transferred, with the following appended: 'The above record was transferred from a moss-grown crumbling head-stone of slate, to one of more enduring marble, by a descendant of the 5th Generation, A.D. 1853.'
"His will, dated Jan. 29th, and proved Aug. 30th, 1722, is recorded in the Middlesex Records, Vol. XVI., p. 436. He had two sons by the name of Philip living at the same time, one by each wife; and they were distinguished from each other in his will as 'Philip Shattuck of Saybrook,' and 'Philip Shattuck, the younger', or as 'the youngest son of my present beloved wife.' Accounts of two living children of the same name in one family sometimes occur in the early history of this country and in England, but this is the only instance that we have discovered in our family. "
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 71, 72, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for NATHANIEL SHATTUCK, 1688/89-1717/18, child of PHILIP SHATTUCK and REBECCA CHAMBERLAIN
"...A grave-stone is still standing in the Waltham burying-ground, hear his father's, having the following inscription:--'Here lyes ye Body of Nathaniel Shattuck, aged 29 years, who Deceased Jan. 13, 1717-18."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 86, 87, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for PHILIP SHATTUCK, 1699-1754:
He was published in Boston, June 4, 1734, to Jane McClenning, [McLelland?] but we have found no record of marriage, nor of any family, if he had one. Samuel Gale was appointed administrator on his estate, July 29, 1754; and he probably died in Waltham that year.
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 73, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
5. NOTES: WILLIAM2 SHATTUCK (WILLIAM1) was born 1653 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA, and died October 19, 1732 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA. He married SUSANNA RANDALL 1678, daughter of STEPHEN RANDALL and SUSANNA BARRON. She died May 08, 1723.
"...He lived in the easterly parish upon the old homestead on Common Hill, 'on the highway to the pond,' where he died October 19, 1732, aged 79. He inherited from his father his 'loom and its appurtenances,' and like him was called a weaver; but he followed farming, brickmaking, and other employments. In an entry on the Watertown records, Feb. 10, 1685, it is said--'William Shattuck had liberty to dig clay this summer to make bricks at the clay pits near his house, provided that he damify not the highway, and that he pay to the town youse four pens per thousand for all the ricks that he selleth out of town; he having promised to give true account of what he selleth.' Subsequently this contract was several times renewed.
"In Watertown, as in many other places in former years, the selection of a site for the meeting-house occasioned a long and exciting controversy. It was finally referred for settlement to a committee of the General Court, and in 1694, 'Mr. William Shattuck' was chosen with four others to lay the subject before this committee. In a pauper case in litigation in 1695, a committee was instructed by a vote of the town to procure 'Mr. William Shattuck to assist them if possible in the town's behalf.' He was often chosen 'a commissioner' to take the invoice or valuation; and in 1694 was one of a committee 'to go down to Boston & pleade the town's cause, the town being overrated in the county rates; and they are desired to prosecute the case to the upmost in the towns behalf.' These and many other similar evidences of the respect and confidence reposed in him by the inhabitants, and of his high social position and influence, are to be found upon the records. He held at different times the most important public town offices, and was one of the most eminent, wealthy, and useful citizens. In a general subscription raised for repairs on the meeting-house in 1694, he gave 10 shillings, the highest but one on the list of forth persons. In 1712 another subscription was raised by the 'piously disposed persons, inhabitants of Watertown,' to purchase a parsonage 'for the accommodation of Rev. Mr. Gibbs, who is their present minister, and such as shall succeed him in the work of the ministry;' and William Bond, William Shattuck and Nathaniel Bright were chosen by the subscribers the trustees for the management of the fund. (Middlesex Deeds, Vol. XV., p. 599.) As late as 1723 Mr. Shattuck was chosen by the town, with Col. Jonas Bond and Noble Bright, a committee to obtain from the Province 3,500 acres of land granted to Watertown and Weston, and not then taken up. His grave-stone, still standing, in a good state of preservation, near the northwesterly corner of the ancient burying-ground, by the side of the new tablet recently erected, has the following inscription:--
"Here lyes Buried
ye Body of Mr.
WILLIAM SHATTUCK
who Departed this
Life October ye 19th
Anno Dom. 1732 in ye
80th year of his age."
"His will, dated Jan. 11, 1727, and proved Dec. 4, 1732, is entered upon the Middlesex Records, Vol. XIX., pp. 446, 447, and 448."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 74, 75, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
Generation No. 3 Notes
11. NOTES: JOHN3 SHATTUCK (JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born June 04, 1666 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA, and died May 08, 1709 in Groton, Middlesex, MA. He married MARY BLOOD, daughter of JAMES BLOOD and ELIZABETH LONGLEY. She was born September 01, 1672, and died March 04, 1756.
"...Killed by the Indians, in Groton, May 8, 1709 at 42 y,. 11 m. 4 d. He was a farmer, and occupied the homestead, which had before belonged to his father-in-law, James Blood, and which, after his death, was set off to the widow as her portion of the real estate, and by her sold to Mr. Shattuck. It was situated on the "Nod Road," so called, which runs northeasterly from the Stony-Ford-Way at Hollingsworth's paper-mills. The Shattucks and Bloods owned large tracts of land on both sides of Nashua River, in the vicinity of these mills. At the time of Mr. Shattuck's death he was one of the selectmen of Groton--an evidence of the respectability of his social standing.
"Few persons, now-a-days, can have an accurate conception of the toil, suffering, and danger endured by the early settlers of our frontier New England towns. The workmen as they went forth to their labors were not sure of returning again in safety to their homes, or, if they did, that they should find the loved ones they left there alive. The tomahawk, scalping-knife, and other deadly weapons, were in the hands of foes whose approach was often invisible, and when they were least expected. Groton, a town in Middlesex County, about forty miles northwesterly from Boston--which has ever been the residence of some of our family or their connections--was particularly unfortunate in this respect. It was first settled in 1660, but on the 13th March, 1676, was burnt by the Indians; and such of its inhabitants as escaped death or captivity were compelled to abandon their estates, and seek protection in Concord, Watertown, and other older and more secure towns nearer Boston. In 1678, after the cessation of hostilities, Groton was resettled, and the Indian neighbors remained peaceable for several years. But about 1690 they again began to be troublesome, and for the subsequent fifteen or twenty years continued their depredations, by occasionally murdering the inhabitants, burning their houses, destroying their crops, or killing their cattle. In 1691, as a means of protection and safety, eight houses, in different parts of the town, were fortified and established as garrisons. Into these houses the neighboring inhabitants gathered at night; and they were guarded by armed men, as soldiers, ever wakeful as sentinels to warn the inmates of any approach of danger. One of these houses, situated in what is now the fifth School District, (the precise locality is not known) was occupied by Mr. Shattuck and his relatives and neighbors; and they seemed to have experienced with most crushing for the calamities of the times.
"Oct. 13, 1692, James Blood, father-in-law of Mr. Shattuck, was the first victim. 'He was killed,' says the record, 'by the French and Indian enemy.'
"July 27, 1694, William Longley,--an uncle of Mrs. Shattuck,--his wife and several of his children, were killed, and three others of the family were carried into captivity. At the same time James Parker, Jr., a distant relative, and his wife and children, were killed or captured.
"Enoch Lawrence, the step-father of Mr. Shattuck, in an engagement with the Indians, was wounded in the hand, and disabled for life. In consequence of which, in 1702, a pension of 3 pounds per annum was granted him by the Province.
"About 1706, three of the children of Thomas Tarbell--John, Zachariah, and Sarah, cousins of Mrs. Shattuck,--were stolen and carried to Canada, where they lived, it is said, the remainder of their lives. Their father, in his will, executed in 1715, makes them the residuary leatees of his estate, 'upon their return from captivity.'
"The period of 1690 to 1710, might well be called the Reign of Terror, and the Dark Age of New England. The inhabitants of Groton became so much wearied out and impoverished, that they petitioned the government several times for relief. In one of these petitions, dated in 1703, the people say: 'we spend so much time in watching and warding that we can do little else; and truly we have lived almost two years more like soldiers than otherwise.' In another, dated July 9, 1707, the selectmen name several families that had been obliged to leave the town, and others 'that are considering of going,' being 'unable to subsist any longer,' on account of the Indian troubles. Among the latter were the three brothers,--John, William, and Samuel Shattuck,--and twenty others of their connections and neighbors, some of whom did actually remove, either for a temporary period or permanently. John Shattuck, however, remained. But on the 8th of May, 1709, two years afterwards, he and his eldest son, then in his 19th year, were both murdered by the Indians. Tradition says that this massacre occurred while they were crossing the Nashua River, in the vicinity of the Stoney-Ford-Way, near Hollingsworth's mills, on the return of Mr. Shattuck from his lands on the west side of the river.
"The deaths by accident and violence in two successive generations in this branch of the family, prematurely removing two worthy and respectable men, fathers, and protecting guardians of their children, were great calamities and materially affected their condition, their fortunes, and their history."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 77-81, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for MARY BLOOD:
"...Mary remained a widow 47 years and died at the age of 83 y. 6 m. 3 d. Her husband died leaving her, as his own father had left his own mother, at a dark and perilous period, to rear and provide for a large family of young children, the youngest not then three months old. To her heroic virtues, and to her excellence as a woman and a mother, her posterity owe a large debt of gratitude."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 81, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
12. NOTES: WILLIAM3 SHATTUCK (JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born September 11, 1670 in Watertown, MA, and died 1744 in Groton. He married (1) HANNAH UNDERWOOD March 29, 1688. She died 1717. He married (2) DELIVERANCE PEASE March 24, 1718/19 in Groton. She died young
"Origin of the Groton Branches...William died in Groton in 1744, in his 74th year. His residence was a little southerly of the house built by his grandson Job Shattuck, near Wattle's Pond. The following facts concerning him are derived from authentic and positive evidence, partly from the records of Watertown and Groton, and partly from papers on file, but not recorded, in the Middlesex Probate Office. He lived in Groton with his mother and step-father, Enoch Lawrence, from 1678 until about the time of his marriage in 1688, when he returned to Watertown, where he resided the principal part of the subsequent fourteen years. In 1691 he was impressed into the public military service of the Colony; and on the 4th Dec., 1691, the selectmen of Watertown.
"'Agreed that Mr. William Shattuck should take care to provide for the reliefe of the wife and two children of his cousin [nephew] William Shattuck, during the time of his being out in the country service from the 18th November, 1691, till he come home or the town takes further order; and that William shall be paid for his pains with one part out of the county assessments, as by order of the General Court is allowable, and the other part out of the town rate.'
"This was undoubtedly the William Shattuck, the subject of this notice; and his two children then born, were William and Hannah hereafter mentioned. After his return from the military campaign, as a consideration for his services, the selectmen voted to give him a lot of land for a dwelling-house, near 'Patch Meadow;' and to allow him to cut timber owned by the town, to build it. He probably availed himself of this grant, in part at least; for we find the following entry upon the Watertown records, Nov. 16, 1702. At a public town meeting--
"'Voted that if William Shattuck, junior, doth deliver the house & lands & fences to Manings Swain, Town Treasurer, that he did hold of the town, within eight days next coming, then the Town Treasurer is to deliver the four pounds, that he acquired of John Green, to the William Shattuck, as a gratuity from the town to help him in his moving to Groton.'
"In 1702 he bought lands in and removed to Groton. In 1707 he was one of those already mentioned in our notice of his brother John, who 'were considering of removing' from Groton on account of the Indian troubles; and his wife, Hannah, and probably her children, did actually return to Watertown in 1707. They were afterwards, however, permanent inhabitants of Groton. On the 21st Sept. 1716, William Shattuck deeded to his son William Shattuck, junior,...that he may be settled for the support of his family, and that he and his heirs may be forever debarred of making any further claim or demand of any farther portion out of my estate that I shall die seized of, either personal or real, except what I may hereafter give him.' This deed is signed by Wm. Shattuck, the father, and Anna or Hannah Shattuck, the mother. (Midd. Deeds, Vol. XXXVIII., pp. 33, 34.) His son John Shattuck administered on his estate; and in the petition for his appointment the widow Deliverance Shattuck calls him 'her son-in-law,' step-son, or son of her husband by a former wife. William is called 'the eldest son of the diseased,' and the others, children and heirs. The inventory of his property was presented June 1, 1744' and Wm. Shattuck's portion of the real estate which he had received from his father, was apprised as land 'in his hands.' The remainder was divided by commissioners appointed for the purpose in 1747; and the different heirs, and the portions assigned to each, are described in the deed of partition on the files of the court. '1. To Deliverance, the widow of the diseased,' &c. '2. To John Shattuck, one of the diseased sons,' &c. '3. To Daniel Shattuck, another of the diseased sons,' &c. '4. To Hannah Blood, eldest daughter of the diseased, wife to Nathaniel Blood,' &c. '5. To Ruth Nutting, youngest daughter of the diseased, wife to Ebenezer Nutting," &c.
"William Shattuck m. 1, in Watertown, March 19, 1688, Hannah Underwood. He is described in the record as then of Groton, and she of Watertown. There was no other William Shattuck then in Groton, or Watertown, excepting his uncle. This wife was the mother of his children, and died about 1717.
"He m 2, in Groton, March 24, 1719, Deliverance Pease, who survived him. His wifes were members of the church, and his children were baptized. These facts, and others hereafter to be stated, unquestionably prove a genealogical succession and descent from the first William Shattuck of Watertown to the recent families of the name in Groton. Each consecutive link in the chain is unbroken, and without irregularity.
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 81-83, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
13. NOTES: SAMUEL3 SHATTUCK (JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born 1673 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA, and died July 22, 1758 in Groton, Middlesex, MA. He married ELIZABETH BLOOD September 13, 1692 in Groton, Middlesex, MA, daughter of JAMES BLOOD and ELIZABETH LONGLEY. She was born April 27, 1675 in Groton, Middlesex, MA, and died October 20, 1759 in Groton, Middlesex, MA.
Origin of the Younger Pepperell Branches.
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 83, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for ELIZABETH BLOOD:
"One year before her death her son John, at the request of the other heirs, was appointed her guardian, because she was 'of great age and under bodily and mental infirmity and not capable of caring for her own subsistence.' Her separate estate was then valued at pounds 182 16. 11, and consisted principally in lands, the title to most of which came to her by inheritance from the Bloods and Longleys. She united with the church in 1705, and her husband in 1709."
NOTES for SAMUEL SHATTUCK, 1696-1775, Child of SAMUEL SHATTUCK and ELIZABETH BLOOD
"Descendants of the Younger Pepperell Branches...He was a farmer, and settled on the west side of Nashua River, where Walter Spaulding now (1853) lives. His brothers and sisters all (with one exception, perhaps,) settled in that town and were extensive owners of real estate. He was one of the first assessors in Pepperell after its separate incorporation, and was otherwise distinguished in its public affairs. He and his first wife [Anna Williams] were members of the church in Groton; and from thence were dismissed at the organization of the church in Pepperell, and were amongst its original members. It is stated upon the records that his eldest son was the first white child born on the west side of Nashua River."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 99, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for JAMES SHATTUCK, b. February 09, 1699/00, Groton, Middlesex, MA; d. May 01, 1769, Pepperell; m. SARAH CHAMBERLAIN; b. August 04, 1709; d. August 03, 1781.
"...and it is said his house was burnt while the family were absent at church."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 100, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
15. NOTES: SUSANNA3 SHATTUCK (PHILIP2, WILLIAM1) was born August 06, 1675 in Watertown, and died Unknown. She married NATHANIEL NORCROSS 1693, son of RICHARD NORCROSS. He was born December 18, 1665, and died December 01, 1717.
"The most numerous branches of the Norcross posterity have descended from this Susanna Shattuck."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 84, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
Notes for PHILIP NORCROSS, Child of SUSANNA SHATTUCK and NATHANIEL NORCROSS
'Philip and Sarah lived at Newton Corner, where the Eliot Church stands. (Jackson's History of Newton, pp. 337, 372.)'
18. NOTE: JOSEPH3 SHATTUCK (PHILIP2, WILLIAM1) was born March 06, 1686/87 in Watertown, and died May 19, 1729. He married MARY LADD October 12, 1708 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. She was born in Boston, and died Unknown.
"...He was a physician, and resided in Boston from 1708 to 1715. He afterwards removed to Watertown, and assumed the medical practice of his father, where he died in the full vigor of life, May 19, 1729.
"...His first 3 or 4 children were born in Boston, and were baptized in the Brattle Street Church, of which the parents were members."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 86, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
22. NOTES: BENJAMIN3 SHATTUCK (WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born July 30, 1687 in Watertown, and died 1763. He married MARTHA SHERMAN. She was born August 1689, and died Unknown in Littleton.
"Origin of the Littleton Branches...On the 17th Jan., 1709, the year in which he was graduated at Harvard College, he engaged to keep the 'Grammar and English School,' at the rate of 30 pounds per year; and the town agreed to build a new school-house for his accommodation. He continued the teacher for six years, until 1715; and in the mean time studied divinity. He was ordained the first minister of Littleton, Dec. 25, 1717. On the 13th May, 1719, a committee of the proprietors of Littleton, consisting of Major Jonathan Prescott and Capt. Joseph Bulkley of Lancaster, and Ebenezer Lawrence of Groton, 'for divers good reasons and weighty considerations moving thereto,' conveyed to him the 'ministerial lot, so called,' consisting of about one hundred acres of upland and mowing, lying on both sides of 'King Street,' now running southerly from the centre of the town to the railroad station. His dwelling-house was the first on the right of that highway south of the burying-ground, where Hayward Hartwell, now (1853) lives. His connection with the town, as their minister, was dissolved Aug. 30, 1730, though his salary was continued until May, 1731. No reasons for the dissolution are given upon the records; but it appears to have been done in mutual good will. He continued to reside there until his death, much respected by his townsmen. In 1742, some pews were erected in the meeting-house, and the town 'voted that Mr. Shattuck and his wife set in the front seat.' A marble monument, erected to his memory in the Littleton burying-ground, bears the following inscription:--'Here sleeps until the resurrection morn, the Rev. Benjamin Shattuck, son of Dr. Philip Shattuck of Watertown, the first ordained minister of Littleton. Born May 15, 1685. Died A.D. 1763, aged 78.'
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 86, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
25. NOTES: ROBERT3 SHATTUCK (WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born January 01, 1697/98 in Watertown, and died December 13, 1723 in Watertown. He married MARY PRATT July 09, 1719 in Plymouth. She was born April 08, 1695, and died Unknown.
'...settled in Plymouth. He died at his father's in Watertown while on a visit."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p92, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
Generation No. 4 Notes
26. NOTES: JONATHAN4 SHATTUCK (JOHN3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born June 29, 1693 in Groton, Middlesex, MA, and died September 18, 1771 in Pepperell. He married ELIZABETH CHAMBERLAIN, daughter of THOMAS CHAMBERLAIN and ABIGAIL NUTTING. She was born May 26, 1700, and died Unknown.
Origin of the Elder Pepperell Branches.
"...after the massacre of his father and elder brother, already mentioned, he was left, at the early age of sixteen, an only son, to take the place of a parent in providing for his mother and his six younger sisters; and he seems to have performed the duty with fraternal faithfulness and affection. His father's estate was finally settled by him in court, March 26, 1719--ten years after his death.
"In the meantime he had built a new house near the Stony-Ford-Way, for the accommodation of his mother and her family; and he subsequently bought of the other heirs all their rights in their father's estate. This estate he held until 1751, when he sold it to Abel Parker, his son-in-law. In 1725 he bought a tract of land westerly of the present meeting-house in Pepperell, and built upon 'Windfall Plain,' where the late Capt. Abijah Shattuck, his great-grandson, lived. He afterwards made several additional purchases, until he possessed 400 to 500 acres, comprising the farm now owned by the town, and those owned by Jonathan Shattuck, Thomas C. Shattuck, Henry Jewett, and others. Here he acquired a considerable estate as a farmer. He was held in high estimation by his fellow-townsmen, and was often chosen into public office. He and his wife were both members of the church.
27. NOTES: DANIEL4 SHATTUCK (WILLIAM3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born 1692, and died March 17, 1760. He married (1) MARTHA SERJENT April 16, 1719, daughter of DIGORY SERJECT. She died 1722. He married (2) REBECCA BOLTWOOD May 07, 1724, daughter of SERGEANT BOLTWOOD and SARAH LEWIS. She was born August 01, 1691, and died March 16, 1757 in Hinsdale.
"...was born in Watertown in 1692, but spent the period of his minority chiefly in Groton. From 1719 to 1723 he lived in Worcester, but removed about the latter date to Northfield, and about 1736 to Hinsdale, within the present bounds of New Hampshire, where he died March 17, 1760, aged, as his grave-stone says, "about 67." He was a large landholder and a wealthy farmer. He had 215 acres in the division of the Northfield Commons,--a larger portion than a majority of the proprietors. His dwelling-house was in the southerly part of "Mary's Meadow," so called--about one hundred rods east of Connecticut River, one mile south of Fort Hinsdale, one mile southeast of Fort Howe on the west side of the river now within the limits of Vernon, and three times south of Fort Dummer within the limits of Brattleborough. He built two houses with hewn timbers on either side of a small brook. The upper part were posts for sentinels, and holes to fire through. These houses were enclosed with a strong palisade, built with timbers and thick plank, surmounted with pickets; and the enclosure was called "Shattuck's Fort." (Doolittle's Narrative.) During the wars in 1745, and subsequently, the whole people of the neighborhood came to this fort to live. When the men labored on their farms or went to church, they carried their guns with them, and were always guarded by sentinels. On the 15th Aug., 1746, during the absence of Capt. Shattuck at Fort Dummer, the Indians fired upon four men near the fort, but hurt none. March 30, 1747, about thirty or forty Indians came to the fort silently in the night, "with fagots of dried spruce with the ends dipped in brimstone, and set it on fire. That part of it which stood on one side of the brook was burnt; but owing to a strong wind the other part was saved." (Doolittle, pp. 8, 10). The English fired upon and disabled some of the Indians, but they made their escape.
"Capts. Shattuck, senior and junior, were large athletic men over six feet high, and of great commanding presence. Their children were also above the medium size. It is said the Indians regarded them with fear, love and veneration, as superhuman beings. They generally lived on friendly terms with the savages, and their influence over them was always very great. The Indians probably did not design to kill them in this attack, but to take them alive and make them chiefs and leaders.
"She [Rebecca Boltwood] was interred with her husband in the family burying-ground located on the old Shattuck farm, where have been buried several successive generations of the race; and where there are now existing several monuments erected to their memory."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 96-98, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
28. NOTES: JEREMIAH4 SHATTUCK (SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born June 11, 1703 in Groton, Middlesex, MA, and died August 02, 1798 in Pepperell. He married SARAH PARKER. She was born April 12, 1705, and died June 08, 1789.
"...and settled in the centre of Pepperell as a blacksmith...He was often chosen a selectman, and to other town offices; commanded a military company; and was otherwise distinguished as a leading public man, and as a valuable citizen.
"He m. 1. July 2, 1723, Sarah Parker....she d. June 8, 1789....He m. 2. Feb 28, 1792, Ruth Bixby. The Columbian Centinel newspaper of March 10th following, chronicles his second marriage thus:--'In Pepperell, Capt. Jeremiah Shattuck, aged 90, to Mrs. Ruth Bixby, aged 75.'
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 100, 101, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for SARAH PARKER:
"...her gravestone bears the following inscription:--'In memory of Mrs. SARAH SHATTUCK, wife of Capt. JEREMIAH SHATTUCK, who after a lengthy course of industry, prudence and sobriety died June the 8th 1780 in the 85th year of her age. From her descended 10 children, 60 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren. The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 100, 101, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
30. NOTES: JOSEPH4 SHATTUCK (SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born 1707 in Groton, Middlesex, MA, and died March 21, 1772 in Andover, Essex, MA. He married JOANNA CHANDLER June 03, 1728 in Andover, Essex, MA, daughter of ZEBEDIAH CHANDLER and SARAH BARKER. She was born 1710 in Andover, Essex, MA, and died August 1792 in Andover, Essex, MA.
Origin of the Andover Branches
"Joseph Shattuck settled upon a farm which he bought partly in 1728 of Stephen Barrett, and partly in 1731 of Zebadiah Chandler, in the west parish of Andover, near the Merrimac River, where he resided during the remainder of his life. His parentage is involved in some doubt. Some have conjectured that he might have been descended from Samuel Shattuck of Salem; but a more careful examination has showed that the name in that line became extinct, and that this conjectire is not well founded. The similarity of family names and other facts render it highly probable that he descended from William Shattuck, our own progenitor, though we have been unable from records to prove the exact relationship. He might have been the son of Samuel of Watertown, or more probably Samuel of Groton, though his birth in either case may not have been recorded. According to his age at death, if stated correctly upon the records, he must have been born about the beginning of the year 1707. There was an interval of four years from 1705 to 1709 between the births of Elizabeth and Ruth, daughters of Samuel Shattuck, during which this Joseph was born. Upon this probability we have placed his family and descendants in this connection, as part of these Memorials. He died March 21, 1772, in the 66th year of his age, leaving a will, dated June 6, 1761, and proved April 7, 1772. Estate appraised at 232 pounds 10. (Essex Records, Vol. XLVII, p. 1689)."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, pp. 104-105, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
31. RUTH4 SHATTUCK (SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born February 06, 1708/09 in Groton, Middlesex, MA, and died Unknown. She married JACOB AMES. He was born 1703, and died Unknown.
Notes for JACOB AMES:
"...Killed by the Indians about 1757."
"Mr. Butler, (History of Groton, p. 111,) says, 'An Indian had been seen, for several days, lurking about the town, it was conjectured, upon some evil design. Mr. Ames, who lived on the intervale, on the west side of Nashua River, now owned by John Boynton, Esq., went into his pasture to catch his horse. Discovering the Indian, he ran for his house; the Indian pursued and shot him as he entered his gate. The dead body prevented the gate's closing, as it would otherwise have done by itself, and the Indian pressed in to enter the house, where Ames had a son and daughter. The son seized his gun, and shot at him as he entered the gate. The ball, striking the latch of the door, split, and one part of it wounded the Indian, but not severely. As the son attempted to close the door against the enemy, after the shot, the Indian thrust his foot in, and prevented. The son called to his sister to bring his father's gun from the bedside, and at the same time striking the Indian's foot with the breach of his gun, compelled him to withdraw it, and closed the door. While the Indian was in the act of reloading his gun, the young man found means to shoot through a crevice and killed him. Two men, at work, about a mile distant in a mill, Ezra and Benjamin Farnsworth, hearing the reports of the guns, and suspecting the cause thereof, were soon at the place, and found the bodies of Ames and the Indian both weltering in their blood. This is the last man killed by an Indian in the neighborhood of Groton."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 102, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
33. NOTES: DAVID4 SHATTUCK (SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born August 04, 1713 in Groton, Middlesex, MA, and died April 29, 1774 in Pepperell, Middlesex, MA. He married (1) DOROTHY VARNUM. She was born 1715, and died December 23, 1756. He married (2) ESTHER WOODS January 10, 1758. She died Unknown.
"Ensign David Shattuck...and settled as a farmer about a mile north of the meeting-house in Pepperell, on the place now occupied by J. Hovey, where he d. of consumption, April 29, 1774, age 60 y. 8 m. 25 d.,,,He held a very reputable social position among his fellow-townsmen."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 103, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
Notes for DOROTHY VARNUM:
"...died at age 41 on the 20th day after childbirth. She united with the church in 1756."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 103, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
Notes for ESTHER WOODS:
"Widow of Moses Woods."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 103, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for DAVID SHATTUCK, child of DAVID SHATTUCK and DOROTHY VARNUM
"...died in the army, at Albany, N.Y., age 22."
NOTES for HANNAH SHATTUCK, , b. May 16, 1746, Pepperell; d. Unknown.
"Drowned at Pawtucket Falls, aged about 19."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 104, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
36. NOTES: JOSIAH4 SHATTUCK (BENJAMIN3, PHILIP2, WILLIAM1) was born February 20, 1714/15 in Watertown, and died Abt 1779 in West Cambridge. He married (1) ABAGAIL STONE. She was born September 26, 1716 in Lexington, and died Abt 1750. He married (2) MARY HASTINGS January 11, 1753. She died Unknown in Died suddenly; date unknown.
"...He was a farmer, and became possessed by inheritance or purchase of the real estate of his father northerly of the Waverly station on the Fitchburg Railroad, now occupied by Adolphus Brown, David Kendall, and others. He was also extensively engaged in the business of a butcher. In these different occupations he acquired a large estate in this neighborhood and elsewhere."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 105, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
37. NOTE: REBECCA4 SHATTUCK (JOSEPH3, PHILIP2, WILLIAM1) was born January 10, 1710/11 in Boston, and died Unknown. She married ALEXANDER SAMPSON October 06, 1724. He was born in England, and died Unknown.
"...married Oct. 6, 1724, at the early age of 13 y. 8 m. 26 d....Tradition represents her to have been of a precocious development and of remarkable beauty. 'Twice seven consenting years had shed Their utmost bounty on her head.'
"Mr. Sampson is said to have been a reputable gentleman from London, who had visited this country for the benefit of his health, with an intention of a speedy return; but meeting with the beautiful Miss Shattuck, her attractions were too irresistible to allow him to carry out his purpose. He married and remained here; but while upon a pleasure excursion in Boston harbor, his boat was attacked by a shark, and he was tipped overboard and devoured.
"Mr. Sampson of Cincinnati supposes himself to be one of the heirs to a large property in London, once called Sampson's Gardens. This estate was appropriated by Act of Parliament to the London Dock Company; and the payment therefor deposited in the Bank of England for the absent heirs. But it cannot be obtained unless they can legally trace their ancestry, and show an exact connection with the last possessors of the property. This evidence he attempted to obtain in London in 1843, but without success. 'Mr. Wm. Thompson, a merchant of London, formerly paying clerk of the London Dock Company, told me when I was in London,' says Mr. Sampson, 'that he had paid into the bank in installments the amount of the appraisement for the heirs of the property--that the amount was large; and, continued he, it is there now for you with forty years' interest attached to it." It is very probable that the descendants of the beautiful Rebecca will be none the richer for this estate. So far as they are concerned it may be a 'castle in the air,' like most other similar traditionary legacies. But if there be really any substance to it, and there seems to be a strong presumption in its favor, they had better be content as they are; for the longest life is hardly long enough, and the largest purse is hardly rich enough, to commence and to terminate a chancery suit at law in the English courts for its recovery. Every one should be assured that no estate can be obtained from England except in a legal way, and upon legal proof; and the difficulty of impossibility of obtaining such evidence should prevent such claims being made."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p, 106, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
38. NOTES: SAMUEL4 SHATTUCK (JOSEPH3, PHILIP2, WILLIAM1) was born May 29, 1716 in Watertown, and died December 29, 1760 in Montague. He married SARAH CLESSON December 04, 1740. She was born January 10, 1721/22, and died Unknown.
"...He was probably the Samuel Shattuck who was a proprietor of Petersham at its first incorporation (Wilson's Address, pp. 15, 88.) He afterwards settled in Deerfield. His eldest son served a campaign in the French war; and on his return brought home the small pox, and gave it to both his parents. The mother and son recovered, but the father died. So far as the information contained in this volume shows, the name of Shattuck, among the descendants of Dr. Philip, his grandfather, has been preserved only in the line of this Samuel. In the other branches it appears to have become extinct."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 107, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for JOHN SHATTUCK: Child of JOHN SHATTUCK and MARTHA HAMMOND, d. 1783, Martinique, W. Indies.
"He was a partner with his brother Wm. in a mercantile house in Martinique, W. Indies, where he died unmarried in 1783."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 108, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for STEPHEN SHATTUCK, child of STEPHEN SHATTUCK and ELIZABETH ROBBINS, b. May 14, 1736, Littleton; d. Unknown.
"...graduated at Harvard College in 1756; and died unmarried in Littleton, Sept. 20, 1799, age 63 y. 4 m. 6 d. He kept school occasionally, and studied divinity, but was never ordained."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 108, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
42. NOTES: BENJAMIN4 SHATTUCK (BENJAMIN3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born December 08, 1713 in Watertown, and died October 1790 in Groton. He met DIANA HUNT November 13, 1740. She was born in Littleton, and died January 17, 1791 in Littleton.
"...He was a physician in Littleton, but removed just before his death to his son's in Groton, N.H., where he died Oct. 1790, age 66 y. 10 m."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 109, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
43. NOTES: TIMOTHY4 SHATTUCK (BENJAMIN3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born Abt 1715 in Watertown, and died Abt 1775 in New Haven (now North Haven - in 1855). He married DESIRE HALL November 05, 1740. She was born June 19, 1719, and died Unknown.
'He first settled in Middletown, Ct., where he bought and sold real estate from 1740 to 1762. The last transaction recorded was at the later date, and his name does not subsequently appear upon the records of that town. The date and place of his death have not been ascertained. In the records of New Haven, now North Haven, his son, in 1773, is styled 'Timothy Shattuck, Jr.,' and in 1777, 'Timothy Shattuck, late Timothy Shattuck, Jr.,' from which it is inferred that Timothy, sen., died about 1775 or 6."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 110, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
47. ELIZABETH4 SHATTUCK (BENJAMIN3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born February 13, 1725/26, and died December 01, 1808. She married ELIAS TAYLOR. He was born February 23, 1721/22, and died November 22, 1797.
Notes for ELIAS TAYLOR:
"Brother of Caleb Taylor"... husband of Susanna Shattuck b. April 8, 1724. "He was much employed in public business, was a deacon of the church, and a very worthy citizen."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 113, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
48. NOTES: ROBERT4 SHATTUCK (ROBERT3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born June 03, 1721 in Plymouth, and died February 12, 1802 in Middletown. He married (1) HANNAH BLAKE, A WIDOW. She died Unknown. He married (2) RUHAMAH COOK September 09, 1744 in Plymouth. She died Unknown.
"He d. in Middletown, Feb. 12, 1802, age 80 y. 8 m. 9 d.; the records of Dr. Crane's church say, 'in the morning suddenly at Oliver Prout's,' probably while he was on a visit to that town. His numerous descendants have the satisfaction of tracing their ancestry through their father Shattuck to the founders of the Massachusetts Colony, and through their mother Cook, and their grandmother Pratt, to the founders of the still older Colony of Plymouth--the Pilgrims of the May Flower. The blood that once flowed through the good old Puritan stock of both Colonies, which were united in 1962 to form the Old Bay State, still courses through their veins. May they ever strive to maintain the principles of their forefathers, and render themselves worthy of their origin!"
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 114, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
Notes for RUHAMAH COOK:
"She was probably a descendant of Francis Cook who died in Plymouth, April 17, 1663. He was one of the original Company of Pilgrims who came over in the May Flower in 1620. He m. Hester, a French Lady--'a Wolloon'--as inhabitants of the southern part of Belgium, bordering on France, were called. Belonging to the protestants of that country she had united with the Puritan Church at Leyden, and emigrated with them to America. Francis Cook's children were John, Jacob, Jane, and Mary; of whom John m. in 1634, Sarah Warren, daughter of Nathaniel Warren, senior. Jacob m. in 1646, Demaris Hopkins, dau. of Stephen Hopkins. He d. in 1676, leaving a will, dated March 8, 1676, and had Jacob, Caleb, Francis, and several daughters. Jacob, Jr., b. March 21, 163, and by Lydia his wife eight children, b. in Plymouth. Caleb had by Jane his wife nine children, one of whom was probably the grandfather of Ruhamah (Cook) Shattuck."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p.114 , published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
NOTES for JONATHAN SHATTUCK, child of ROBERT SHATTUCK and HANNAH BLAKE, . July 12, 1776, Chatham; d. Unknown.:
"At the age of 18 he went to sea, but has not since been heard from by his relatives."
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 114, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
Generation No. 5 Notes
49. NOTES: ISAAC5 SHATTUCK (JOSEPH4, SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born March 24, 1732/33 in Andover, Essex, MA, and died April 27, 1822 in Frye Village, MA. He married MARY BARNARD March 24, 1757 in Andover, Essex, MA, daughter of NATHANIEL BARNARD and RUTH PRESTON. She was born December 04, 1739 in Andover, Essex, MA, and died June 02, 1804 in Andover, Essex, MA.
Descendant of the Andover Branches. Lived as a farmer near Frye Village. Died at 89 years, 1 month, 3 days.
Generation No. 6 Notes
50. NATHANIEL6 SHATTUCK I (ISAAC5, JOSEPH4, SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born August 03, 1760 in Andover, Essex, MA, and died July 15, 1835 in Andover, Essex, MA. He married POLLY BURNS November 28, 1782 in Andover, Essex, MA. She was born Abt 1759 in Dracut, Middlesex, MA, and died Aft. 1848 in Bennington, Vermont.
NOTES for NATHANIEL SHATTUCK I:
Nathaniel served in the Revolutionary War. He was a weaver. His Revolutionary War Records shows the following enlistments:
August 1, 1775 to October 6, 1776, from Groton
July 15, 1776 to December 1, 1776, from Andover
September 15, 1777 to November 6, 1777 (from not given)
June 26, 1780 to December 31, 1780, from Andover.
"He was about 5'6" tall and of ruddy complexion. When he first enlisted he was about 15 and last almost 20. His rank was "Private" in all enlistments.
"Page 28, Volume XIV, "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War".
"Four Nathaniel Shattucks are listed and are probably all the same one. Each time Nathaniel enlisted, he did so after the plowing, planting, and cultivating had been completed for the most part, then went home for the hardest part of the winter. That was general practice and why Washington's Army was continually varying strengths. On his last enlistment, he was allowed pay for travel time home after discharge. That was 220 miles. He must have been in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. During his first enlistment, Boston was under siege by Washington's Army, following the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775.
"He married Polly Barnes when he was 22 years old. He died June 10, 1835 at Andover. Meanwhile, son Simeon had moved to Vermont and married Martha Hull, had Simeon Nathaniel on December 1, 1810 and moved to Ohio. There Simeon Nathaniel married Judith DeWitt and had George Washington August 28, 1835.
"The 1810 U.S. Census Windham County, Vermont; Wisconsin Historical Library microfilm Call No. 45736, Londonderry Town, page 483 lists Nathaniel Shattuck. In the same township, and on the same census was recorded the family of Joseph Hull, father of Martha Hull."
Source: Shattuck Memorials II, by Beatrix Marie Larson, p. 157-159, published 1977, Richland County Publishers, Inc., Richland Center, Wisconsin.
Generation No. 7 Notes
53. NOTES: SIMEON7 SHATTUCK (NATHANIEL6, ISAAC5, JOSEPH4, SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born January 01, 1789 in Andover, Massachusetts, and died February 26, 1848 in Aid, Lawrence, OH. He married MARTHA HULL in Vermont, daughter of JOSEPH HULL. She was born September 21, 1788 in Londonderry, Windsor County, Vermont, and died March 25, 1864 in Aid , Lawrence, OH.
He had the first saw mill in Aid Township, Lawrence County, Ohio. He built it in 1837. The history of Lawrence County says "Simlow Shutor" but it should have been spelled Simeon Shattuck.
The Shattuck Memorials II shows his birth date as probably in April 1785.
Generation No. 8 Notes
55. NOTES: SIMEON NATHANIEL8 SHATTUCK (SIMEON7, NATHANIEL6, ISAAC5, JOSEPH4, SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born December 01, 1810 in Londonderry, Windham, VT, and died June 06, 1879 in Arlington, Phelps Co., MO. He married JUDITH LLOYD DEWITT November 04, 1834 in Switzerland, IN, daughter of WILLIAM DEWITT. She was born October 15, 1816 in Indiana, and died September 23, 1891 in Arlington, Phelps Co., MO.
"Following is the Civil War Record of Simeon Nathaniel Shattuck, as sent to George P. Sieinmetz, Sr. from the Dept. of Archives and History at Charleston, West Virginia, by James L. Hupp, State Archivist and Historian:
Name: Shattuck, Simeon N., Col H. 1st Vol. Infantry
Resident or where enrolled: Guyandotte, West Virginia (near Huntington)
Age 42 (He perhaps understated his age about 10 years in order to get into
service.)
Date of muster: April 30, 1865
Memo Transferred from Co. H 9th West Virginia Infantry -- mustered out expiration of service.
Name: Shattuck, Simeon N., Co H 9th Reg. Infantry
Resident or where enrolled: Guyandotte, West Virginia
Age 44
Mustered into service where: Guyandotte, when, April 30, 1862
Date of muster out: (see above).
Memo: Farmer, born Windsor, Vermont, transferred to Co H. 1st West Virginia
Vol. Infantry by consolidation of 5th and 9th Reg'ts Infantry
(Consolidation was late in 1864 G.P.S.)"
"Date: From Department of Archives and History, Charleston, West Virginia to Lt. Col. George P. Steinmetz, Sept. 21, 1965).
"He was a tanner by trade; admitted to bar as a lawyer in New York, but not known that he practiced law.
"Simeon Nathaniel Shattuck and son DeWitt Clinton moved to Phelps County, Missouri in the fall of 1866 and the family came in 1867."
Source: Shattuck Memorials II, by Beatrix Marie Larson, p.160 , published 1977, Richland County Publishers, Inc., Richland Center, Wisconsin.
Notes for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHATTUCK, child of SIMEON SHATTUCK and JUDITH DEWITT, b. July 19, 1841, Marion, Lawrence County, Ohio; d. March 15, 1909, Montreal, Missouri; m. MARY NAOMI O'BRIEN, March 29, 1871, Lebanon, Missouri; b. 1851, Ireland; d. July 10, 1925, Crocker, Pulaski Co., Missouri.
Farmer; Civil War veteran; entered service on September 2, 1861
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 86, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
56. NOTES: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN8 SHATTUCK (SIMEON7, NATHANIEL6, ISAAC5, JOSEPH4, SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born August 20, 1813 in Windsor, Vermont, and died July 12, 1884 in Lake Charles, LA. He married ELEANOR BAETHOW MANSON August 13, 1846 in Miami County, OH, daughter of DAVID MANSON and SARAH CORNWALL. She was born 1822, and died Unknown.
Died at age 71. He was at one time a miller in Piqua, Ohio; moved to New Orleans and Lake Charles, LA; gardener.
(The following reprinted from the Aug. 14, 1880, Lake Charles Echo):
"In a conversation with Mr. B. F. Shattuck, who lives below town on the river about two miles, we learned some very important facts in regard to farming in this country.
"He says that no state that he has ever been in, and he has lived all the way from the extreme North to the South, presents so many natural advantages of soil and climate as this, and especially this section of it.
"The soil is very productive, yielding bountiful crops of rice, sugar cane, vegetables, and, in some portions, corn and cotton.
"But he thinks that owing to the cheapness of the lands and their peculiar adaptability for the production of rice, that its cultivation will ere long be the great business of the southern and western portions of this parish.
"He compares the rice crop with the great northwestern states. The average product of wheat there is twelve bushes per acre, worth about $1 per bushel, making $12.
"Putting an acre of rice at five barrels, the lowest rate of yield, and we have at $4.50 per barrel, $22.50 as the returns of an acre of rice, nearly twice that of wheat, while the average is ten or twelve barrels, nearly four times as much, while the expense of preparing the land and making the crop of rice is no more, if as great as that of wheat.
"He thinks this is decidedly the poor man's country, all he has to do is to use half the industry and energy exercised by the farmer of the northwest to make twice as much money.
"His growing crop looks very encouraging. He has in about twenty-four acres of rice, most of it looking fine, from which he thinks he will realize 200 barrels, making $900 in value.
"He has eight acres of excellent sugar cane, which he thinks will make ten or twelve hogsheads of sugar.
"He has a small mill in which he works up his cane and converts it into sugar and molasses. He also has a very good orange orchard just beginning to bear, but does not count much on it, on account of the ravages of the scale insect.
"According to his views rice lands, when properly managed, will produce on an average, at least, fifteen barrels per acre.
"Sugar cane, one and a half hogshead of sugar, Corn, forty or fifty bushes, and vegetables without limit.
"Surely, if such is the case, what hinders this from being at no distant day, the garden spot of these United States?
"Take in connection with this the vast lumbering interests of this section, and who can predict the future of his highly favored country?"
Reuben G. Shattuck:
Generation No. 9 Notes
57. NOTES: GEORGE WASHINGTON9 SHATTUCK (SIMEON NATHANIEL8, SIMEON7, NATHANIEL6, ISAAC5, JOSEPH4, SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born August 28, 1835 in Switzerland County, Indiana, and died April 26, 1913 in LaFarge, Wisconsin. He married ELIZA LITTLE November 03, 1861 in Lawrence County, Ohio, daughter of JOHN LITTLE and SARAH. She was born May 28, 1841 in Eniskillen, Northern Ireland, and died July 21, 1873 in LaFarge, Township of Stark, Vernon County, Wisconsin.
Lt. Col. George Washington Shattuck.
"He attended Ewington Academy in Ohio and taught school five winter terms before his service in the Civil War; he worked for the railroad in Center Station, Ohio, as a Depot agent; was a farmer; postmaster; moved his family from Decatur Township, Lawrence County, Ohio to Stark Township, Vernon County, Wisconsin in 1872, where he purchased a farm of 170 acres. There was no barn yet, but a log house had been built for them. The family moved to Wisconsin from southern Ohio by horses. The horses were tied to a tree and the next morning were found southeast of the farm about 20-25 miles near Richland Center, Wisconsin and were headed back to Ohio. Mason; Republican; Community Leader."
Civil War Record:
George W. Shattuck, Sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Co. H.
Mustered in from October 16 to December 30, 1861 at Ironton, Ohio
Mustered out August 7, 1865 at Petersburg, Virginia
ReuGeorge W. Shattuck, age 28, mustered as private, promoted to 2nd Lt., December 15, 1861; to 1st Lt. Co. B., May 9th, 1864; to Capt. Co. H., November 12, 1864; promoted to Major, April 8, 1865; to Lt. Col., July 30, 1865, but not mustered on either promotion. Mustered out with Company August 7, 1865.
"On July 4, 1861, he enlisted for three months as a member of a company known as the First Independent Cavalry, commanded by Capt. John S. George. At the expiration of his term, he received an honorable discharge after which he returned home (he was married to Eliza Little November 3, 1861) soon afterward he re-enlisted becoming a member of Company H. on November 6, 1861. He was for a time on the staff of General Seigel, and served under General Sheridan. He received a gunshot wound in the right foot at an engagement at Ladd's Farm, Virginia. In the Battle of Dinwiddle Courthouse, Virginia, March 31, 1865, he received a severe wound, which incapacitated him from further field service, as the war closed before he had recuperated."
Notes for ELIZA LITTLE:
Eliza died as the result of an accident. On the 4th of July, the family was going to a celebration, when a wind came up, blowing a limb from a tree and injuring her. After her death the grandmother Sarah Little helped care for the family for a time.
Source: Shattuck Memorials II, by Beatrix Marie Larson, p.161-162, published 1977, Richland County Publishers, Inc., Richland Center, Wisconsin.
59. NOTES: SIMEON OSCEOLA9 SHATTUCK (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN8, SIMEON7, NATHANIEL6, ISAAC5, JOSEPH4, SAMUEL3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born October 11, 1850 in Piqua, Miami Co, OH, and died January 22, 1933 in Lake Charles, LA. He married HULDAH RION September 24, 1872 in LeBlanc, Allen Parish, Louisiana, daughter of JOSEPH RION and WINIFRED. She was born September 23, 1851 in LeBlanc, Allen Parish, Louisiana, and died May 30, 1930 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
S. O. Shattuck received his education in New Orleans. He left school at age 16 and was engaged with his father (Benjamin Franklin Shattuck) and brothers in Calcasieu Parish, LA. From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of the parish school board. In 1884, he was elected to the Louisiana Legislature from Calcasieu Parish. He was a member of the Educational Committee, Committee on Fish & Fishery & Claims. He was also Chairman of the committee on Corporations. He served on five other committees including the Ways and Means committee. Mr. Shattuck's services in the legislature had given him a state reputation. He was a prominent Mason, being twice elected (1895, 1897) Worshipful Master of Lake Charles Lodge #166. He was a 32 degree Mason, York Rite Mason, Knight Templar. He was a Vice Commander in American Legion of Honor. He died January 22, 1933 and is buried in the Orange Grove Cemetery in Lake Charles, LA. He died in his 36th year as a State Legislator and was written up in the Lake Charles American Press on Monday, January 23, 1933 on the front page. (Information provided by J. H. de Cordova (great grandson).
He was a politician; legislator; speaker of the house; speaker in Baptist Church. Married to Huldah Rion Sept. 24, 1842, in Lake Charles, LA by Judge D. J. Reid.
Source: Shattuck Memorials, by Lemuel Shattuck, p. 392, published 1855, Boston: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family.
The following facts concerning the military service of some of our family in the Revolution are worthy of preservation. The Pension Rolls printed by Congress, in 1835, contain the names of the Pensioners subjoined:--
|
Name |
Residence |
Pension Began |
What service |
|
Jonas Shattuck |
Lincoln Co., Me |
March 4, 1790 |
Invalid Pens’ner |
|
Samuel Shattuck |
Niagara Co., NY |
Feb. 16, 1821 |
Mass. Line |
|
William Shattuck |
Litchfield Co., CT |
June 18, 1818 |
Continental Line |
|
David Shattuck |
New London Co., CT |
Mar. 31, 1818 |
Connecticut Line |
|
Stephen Shattuck |
Hillsboro’ Co., NH |
April 3, 1818 |
Mass. Line |
|
Eben. L. Shattuck |
Middlesex Co., Ms. |
April 9, 1818 |
Mass. Line |
|
Abraham Shattuck |
Sullivan Co., NH |
April 11, 1818 |
Mass. Line |
|
Joseph Shattuck |
Essex Co., Mass |
April 9, 1818 |
Mass. Line |
|
John Shattuck |
Worcester Ct. Mass |
June 25, 1815 |
4th Reg. U.S. In. |
|
Abiel Shattuck |
Washington Co., VT |
March 4, 1831 |
Mass. Line |
|
Nathaniel Shattuck |
Windham Co., Vt. |
March 4, 1831 |
Mass. Cont. Line |