Shaw Family in New Hampshire
No less than thirty-two men by the name of Shaw were among the pioneer settlers of New England during the seventeenth century. This genealogy traces three individual lines of descent centered in New Hampshire. The first starts with Roger Shaw of Hampton, New Hampshire, who was of Cambridge, Massachusetts as early as 1636 before removing to Hampton; the second is the line of Scotchman William Shaw, who first settled in Charleston, South Carolina in 1730, before removing to Concord, Massachusetts, his descendants would reside in Milford, New Hampshire; the final line is for Benjamin Shaw of Chichester, New Hampshire, who while having been born in Hampton in 1766, cannot positively be attached to any family there.
