Talk:Nathaniel Shaw

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Nathaniel Shaw served on the Committee of Safety and was agent of the colony for naval supplies and taking care of sick seamen. He sent out privateers at his own expense and furnished the militia with powder he brought from the West Indies. Washington spent the night April 9, 1776, at his home, discussing plans for the organization of a naval force. His home, when New London was burned, was saved by a Tory neighbor, and is still standing.

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The elder Nathaniel Shaw was not a native of New London, but born in Fairfiled, CT in 1706, to which place it is said, his father had removed from Boston and came to New London before 1730, and was fro many years a sea captain in the Irish trade, was then pursued to advantage. He had a brother who sailed with him in the early voyages, but died on a return passage from Ireland in 1732. Captain Shaw married in 1730, Temperance Harris, granddaughter of the first Gabriel Harris of New London, and had a family of six sons and two daughters. Three of the sons perished at sea, at different periods, aged twenty, twenty-one, and twenty-two; a degree of calamity beyond the common share of disaster, even in this community, where so many families have been bereaved by the sea. The other sons lived to middle age. Sarah, the oldest child, married David Allen, and died at the age of twenty-five. Mary the youngest, has already been mentioned as the wife as the Rev Ephraim Woodbridge; through dying at the age of twenty-four, she was the only one of Capt Shaw's family who left descendants. The parents lived to old age. Captain Shaw died in 1778; his wife in 1796.

Source: History of New London, Connecticut. By Francis Caulkins, page 512 Shipsview (talk) 21:47, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]