%eadnotat; ]> in-depth5188shfa Shaw Family Papers, 1737-1890 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 2001 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, May 2002. ENG Shaw Family Papers, 1737-1890 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 2001 Descriptive Summary Shaw Family Papers, 1737-1890 RG5/188 Shaw Family 1 box; 0.5 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Phone: (610) 328-8496 FAX: (610) 690-5728 For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog Accounts, correspondence, indentures, and family papers which relate to the descendents of Samuel Shaw (1710-1781), Quaker farmer of Richland, Pennsylvania, and related families including Hill, Heacock, Foulke, and Rawlings. Some of his descendents moved to Ohio and Indiana. Letters from family members in Ohio give details of daily life and customs of Quaker families and sense of the hardships endured on the frontier. BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL 1729-1738 Samuel Shaw (1710-1781) was a Quaker farmer of Richland, Pa. He emigrated from Ireland to New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pa., in 1729, and by 1741, he had settled in Richland. In 1737 he married Mary Nixon (1713-1794), who had been born in England. They became members of Richland Monthly Meeting at its inception and were active in the affairs of the meeting. They had seven children. Their first child, Hannah (born 1738) married William Hicks, and their granddaughter, Lavinia Penrose, married William Heacock. The first series in this collections contains primarily business papers of the Shaw and Rawlings family; Jesse Heacock, the father of William Heacock, was connected to the Rawlings family by marriage. 1756-1814The second to youngest child, Samuel (born 1756) married Susanna Rea. They had two children, John and Letitia. Letitia married Israel Griffith at Westland Monthly Meeting, Pa. John moved to Cincinnati and married Elizabeth Wright in 1814. Their daughter, Rebecca, married Jesse Hutton of Richmond, Indiana. Their son, Edward Shaw, married Peninnah Hill, daughter of Robert Hill. The Hill family moved from North Carolina to Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1802, and then onto Richmond, Indiana, about five years later. Edward and Peninnah were the parents of Susan Shaw, the donor of the second series of Shaw Manuscripts. This series contains genealogical papers on the Shaw and Hill family, business papers, correspondence, and reminiscences of crossing the Allegheny Mountains in 1805 and the life of John Hill in Ohio. 1750, 1777-1870The fifth child, William (born 1750) was married to Sarah Carr in 1777. Their son, Jonathan, married Mary Miller, and their grandson, Samuel, married Anna R. Penrose, the daughter of Enoch and Esther Penrose. Members of this branch of the family moved to Ohio, and the series contains primarily correspondence, 1737-1870, written from Pennsylvania and Ohio. The letters give an interesting account of the daily life and custom of Quaker families of that period and of the hardship endured by the pioneers. SCOPE AND CONTENT

Accounts, correspondence, indentures, and family papers which relate to Samuel Shaw (1710-1781) of Richland, Pennsylvania, his descendents, and members of the Heacock, Penrose, and Rawlings families. Letters from family members in Ohio give details of daily life and customs of Quaker families and sense of the hardships endured on the frontier.

 Arrangement

This collection is divided into three series:

Shaw Ms (Hannah Shaw and William Hicks) Susan and Samuel Shaw papers Shaw-Heacock papers (William and Sarah Shaw) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Accession information:

Donor: Mary Emma Shaw, ca. 1935

Donor: Mrs. W.W.Reller, 1944

The collection, concerning descendents of Samuel and Mary (Nixon) Shaw of Richland Monthly Meeting, unites papers from more than one source. In 1944, Mr. W. W. Reller of Richmond, Indiana, gave papers which had descended to Susan B. Shaw. Susan Shaw was a descendent of Samuel Shaw, born 1756, the son of Samuel and Mary (Nixon) Shaw. These papers included Shaw material from Susan Shaw's father, Edward, and her grandfather's family, the Hills. These were apparently added to papers already deposited in the Library, at least some of them from Mary Emma Shaw of Quakertown, Pa., circa 1935.

 Access

Collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG5/188, Shaw Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

 Processing information

These papers were originally three groups: Shaw Manuscripts, Susan B. Shaw Papers, Shaw-Heacock Papers. Sometime before 1967, the three groups were combined into one collection, designating the groups as three series: 1. Shaw Ms (W); 2. Susan Shaw papers as Shaw Ms (S); and 3. Shaw-Heacock papers as Shaw Mss (H), the initials representing the Shaw progenitor of each group, all children of Samuel Shaw (1710-1781) and Mary Nixon Shaw (1713-1794) of Richland M.M., now Quakertown, Pa. In 1988, the collection, formerly known as Shaw Manuscripts, was transferred to Record Group 5 and renamed Shaw Family Papers. In 11/2001, a new finding aid was produced.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings: Researchers are advised to search by subject and author, when applicable.

Quakers--Pennsylvania Quakers--Ohio Quaker--Indiana Social life and customs--Pennsylvania Social life and customs--Ohio Social life and customs--Indiana Shaw Family Hill Family DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

 Ser. 1. Shaw Manupscripts (H): Hannah (Shaw) and William Hicks, 1819-1862

Hannah and William's descendents married into the Heacock and Rawlings families.

 Heacock Family, Business papers 1823-1862 1 Heacock Family, Miscellaneous Papers 1819-1859 1

Includes letter from inmate of Bucks Co. Jail arrested for nonpayment of military fine (1819)

 Rawlings Family, Business papers 1818-1827 1

Joel Heacock of Rockhill served as power of attorney for Margaret Rawlings

 Ser. 2. Shaw Manuscripts (S): Samuel and Susanna Shaw, 1813-1942

Samuel and Susanna's children moved to Ohio and Indiana and married into the Hills family.

 Shaw family record of births, death, marriages 1 Griffith family of York County, Pa. records 1 Account of a trip across the Allegheny Mountains in 1805 by Rebecca Hill, the aunt of Edward Shaw. 1858 1 Hill family records ?-1942 1 31 indentures, mostly to Robert Hill. 1813-1850 1 Letters, Rebecca Shaw Hutton to her father, John Shaw 1856 1 Correspondence of Edward and Penninah Shaw 1839-1840 1 Letters, Edward Shaw to Charles and Elizabeth Shute 1843-1845 1

Typescript copies of letters. Letters contain references to the Green Plain Anti-slavery separation and underground railroad movement.

 Letter, Benjamin Hill to Robert Hill, his father 1843 1 Account of life of John Hill by Edward Hill, his son 1876 1

Includes description of Separation in Ohio Quakers

 Ser. 3. Shaw Manuscripts (W): William and Sarah Shaw, 1737-1870

Primarily correspondence among Shaw, Foulke, Penrose families.

 Correspondence, Anonymous 1737-1856, n.d. 1 6 ALsS Sarah Bolton to Samuel Foulke 1750/-1751 1 ALS Jane Foulke to E. Foulke, Sarah Shaw and friends 1870 1 ALS John Foulke to lawmaker 1832 1 ALS

letter is "in the U.S., plea for justice and equality"

 Keziah Foulke to S.D. Roberts 1862 1 ALS Samuel Foulke to Thomas Foulke and to Jesse George 1771, 1758 1 ALS Samuel Foulke, received from Leenard Thompson 1870 1 ALS ? Foulke, re: their arrival in Ohio 1810 1 ALS Mehetabel Jenkins to David Bacon 1802 1 ALS Enoch Penrose, family letters received 1823-1829 1 10 ALsS John T. Penrose to Martha Penrose (sister) n.d. 1 ALS John T. Penrose, letter received 1840-1857 1 6 ALsS To Amos Richardson, from Jos. and Margaret Fisher 1831 1 ALS Abigail Shaw, letters received 1808-1837, n.d. 1 9 ALsS Letitia Shaw to Anonymous 1805 1 ALS Mary Shaw, letter from Levi Miller 1796-1809 1 2 ALsS Samuel Shaw, received 1771-1773 1 2 ALsS Sarah Shaw to Anonymous n.d. 1 ALS Sarah and/or William Shaw, family received letters 1797-1816 1 34 ALsS Shaw family miscellaneous papers 1787-1790 1