Genealogy of Job Shaw by Jay (Shaw) Hadley a great grandson of Jobs son John. Thank you for visiting Jayih.com

ABOUT JOB SHAW: Though he was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Job later moved to Rochester in Plymouth County. That is where he was living late in 1787 when he first published his marriage intentions.

On Feb. 7/1788 in Middleboro, Massachusetts, Job married Lucy Sherman born Jan. 5 1768 in Middleboro, died 18 May 1813 in Victor, Ontario County, New York, daughter of Edward and Lucy Sherman. The "Publishment" of their intention to marry is dated 30 Dec. 1787 in the Middleboro Town Records, Book 4, Part 2, page 73, recorded by Jacob Bennett Jr., Middleboro Town Clerk, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Their "Intention of Marriage" was 12 Jan. 1788 in Rochester, Plymouth County. Their marriage is recorded in Middleboro Town Records, Book 4, Part 2, page 163. The Justice of the Peace who married them was Rev. Joseph Barker.

According to varying traditions of uncertain reliability, Job and Lucy had no less than five sons and three daughters, or as many as six sons and seven daughters. In her mimeographed family history of Manly Sherman Shaw's family, Eleanor (Shaw) Baylor said, "Job and Lucy had at least ten children." Job and Lucy are said to have had nine children. While he was living in western New York, their eldest child JOHN SHAW (1790-1880) joined the new Mormon religion, later moving with The Mormons to Illinois and ultimately joining in the great migration to Utah.

A few of Job and Lucy's children, as well as some of John's sons, migrated to Illinois and remained there, particularly in Lee County. By the time of the 1790 U.S. Census, Job and Lucy had left Massachusetts and moved "up country" to Bridgewater, Windsor County, Vermont. The census that year shows Job as the head of a household in Bridgewater consisting of one free white male over the age of 16 (i.e. Job himself), one free white male under the age of 16 (probably Job's eldest child John, born 30 June 1790 in Bridgewater), and two white females (Job's wife Lucy and another woman). Job and his family were still living in Bridgewater at the time of the 1800 U.S. Census, when his household had grown to include one white male under the age of 10 (probably Job's son WILLIAM E. SHAW, born 28 Aug. 1797), one white male aged 11-15 (probably Job's eldest son John), one white male aged 16-25, two white males aged 26-44 (including Job), three white females under the age of 10 (including LUCY SHAW, born 1792, and EXPERIENCE SHAW ("Spede"), born circa 1795), one white female aged 10-15, and two white females aged 26-44 (Lucy and another woman). Thus, by 1800 Job and Lucy had two sons and as many as four daughters (though we can't be sure, since one or two unrelated women may have been boarding with them as domestic servants).

Job and Lucy left Vermont sometime during the 1800s. They were still living in Vermont on 29 Dec. 1801, when they had a daughter, LAURA SHAW, but they were living in Savoy, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, on 22 Jan. 1806, when they had a daughter, KEZIAH SHAW. They had moved to Rutland County, Vermont, by 31 Jan. 1809, when they had a son named BENONI SHAW. However, by the time of the 1810 U.S. Census they had moved to Ontario County in western New York State. The census that year shows Job Shaw as a resident of Bloomfield, Ontario County, where he was the head of a household consisting of two white males under the age of 10 (including his son Benoni, and perhaps JOB SHAW JR.), one white male aged 10-15 (probably Job's son William, then about 12 years old), one white male aged 16-25 (perhaps Job's eldest son John, then about 20), one white male aged 45 or older (i.e. Job), three white females under the age of 10 (including Job's daughters Laura and Keziah), one white female aged 10-15 (probably Job's daughter Experience), one white female aged 16-25 (probably Job's daughter Lucy), one white female aged 26-44 (i.e. the mother Lucy). Thus, by 1810 Job and Lucy apparently had four sons and five daughters -- though it's possible the male aged 16-25 or the female aged 16-25 were domestic servants or farm hands rather than their eldest son and daughter (who may by then have been living or working in other households).

The census shows that the Utah Shaw family tradition is slightly in error regarding the time when Job and Lucy moved to Ontario County. Florence C. Youngberg's Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers (1999), vol. IV, page 2321, says Job's eldest son John "moved with his parents in 1811 to Ontario County, New York," but the census shows they had moved to Ontario County no later than 1810. Could 1811 in fact have been the year the family moved from Bloomfield to Victor? By May 1813, Job and Lucy had left Bloomfield and moved north to Victor, Ontario County, New York, in the vicinity of Rochester.

It was in Victor where Lucy died on 18 May 1813. After his wife's death, Job remained in Victor, where he was living at the time of the 1820 U.S. Census. The census that year shows Job as the head of a household consisting of one white male under the age of 10 (his son MANLY SHERMAN SHAW, born 1811), two white males aged 10-15 (including his son Benoni), one white male aged 45 or older (i.e. Job himself), one white female aged 10-15, and one white female aged 26-44. Thus, in 1820 Job apparently had three sons and two daughters living with him. Job does not appear in the 1830 U.S. Census, having died later in 1820 or perhaps a little later than that (perhaps 30 Oct. 1822 as mentioned above). According to Utah Shaw family tradition, Job was buried in Rochester, New York, though that might mean Victor, New York, in the vicinity of Rochester, where his wife Lucy died and where he was living in 1820.

At some point between 1810 and 1816, Job's daughter Lucy became the second wife of RALF STRONG, born 1780 in Massachusetts, died 10 Sept 1865 in Mendon, Monroe County, New York. When he was about 20 years old, Ralph settled in Mendon, in the Wadsworth Eleven Thousand Acre Tract on Lot 32. He erected the first distillery in that part of the town. Ralph and Lucy had at least three children, named Harrison (1816-1882), Milton S. (1821-1901), and Catherine, born circa 1826, all three born in New York State. Lucy's grave stone in Mendon Cemetery says she died 29 June 1824 at age 32. At the time of the 1850 U.S. Census, Ralph and his family were living in Victor, Ontario County, New York. Buried near Lucy's grave in Mendon Cemetery is her brother Benoni Shaw. Benoni Shaw had earlier lived in Brant, Erie County, New York, later moving to Mendon in Monroe County. Another brother of Lucy, Job Shaw Jr., married a woman named JOAN and is known to have had four sons and one daughter: Benona, Job III, James, William, and Julia. Job Jr., a farmer, his wife and children appear in the 1850 U.S. Census as residents of Brant, Erie County, New York. He died in Brant on 12 Sept. 1858. Now, as indicated above, the number and birth order of Job and Lucy's children is uncertain. One list of their children comes from old family records of Austin Herman Shaw (1884-1967) of Ogden, Utah, a descendant of Job and Lucy's eldest child John. Austin was the son of MYRTILLO SHAW JR. (1858-1942), son of MYRTILLO SHAW (1814-1896), eldest son of Job's son John.

Manley Sherman Shaw's house