William Shaw was born February 5, 1758, in County Down Ireland to Patrick and Nancy Ashley Shaw. They emigrated to America in 1772 and settled in Guilford County, North Carolina. He married Sarah Jobe (the spelling of this name has also been seen as Job.) on May 24, 1787 in Guilford County, North Carolina. Children of William and Sarah were:
Elizabeth, born 25 May 1788; Joseph, Sr., born 12 Jan 1790, died 17 Feb 1876; Sarah, born 09 Nov 1791; Mary, born 19 Nov 1793; William, born 14 Nov 1795; Thomas, 27 Dec 1797; Nancy, 05 Jan 1800; Margaret E. "Peggy", 29 Dec 1802; Ann Jane, 17 Feb 1804; Hugh, 02 Feb 1806, died 12 Jun 1886; and John Jobe Shaw, 13 Feb 1808. William was a Revolutionary War Veteran. He died August 25, 1842, in Lincoln County, Tennessee and it is thought he was buried on his farm in or around Bradshaw Creek in southwest Lincoln County near a small community of Blanche, Tennessee. He has a memorial tombstone in the old Pioneer Cemetery in Moore County, Tennessee.
Glenda McWhirter Todd, descendant of William Shaw, ordered a tombstone for him and she and her husband placed it in the Pioneer Cemetery as a memorial marker since his place of burial was unknown. She was Historian of the General James Winchester Chapter National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and they organized a memorial service for William Shaw at the Pioneer Cemetery on May 28, 1994. It was attended by many of his descendants from all over the United States.
The following is his own account of his service in the Revolutionary War.
"I first entered service in Guilford County, State of North Carolina in the fall of 1775 under the command of Col. James Martin and Col. John Paisley. Captain Arthur Forbes, Lt. William Wiley and Ensign William Gilmer were my Company Officers. I also served a second tour under the above mentioned officers but have no distinct recollection of the exact time I served in either of the two tours.
My third tour was against the Cherokee Indians in 1776 under the command of Brigadier General Rutherford and under the Regimental and Company officers above mentioned and was in service between three and four months.
I again in the latter part of the year 1779, I think, served a tour of three months in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant in Captain Smith Moore's Company under the command of a Col. Isaac. One of my Subaltern officers name was Charley Barnes, the others are forgotten. During this tour we were principally engages in ranging thru Randolph County, Caraway Mountains, Padee (Pee Dee) Montgomery County and others against the Tories and others.
Again in 1780, a short time before General Gates defeat at Camden, I served a tour of duty under the command of Captain Whitsell to go to Suffolk in Virginia for arms and ammunition. We marched direct to Halifax from which place Col. Long, Quartermaster General, sent other wagons under the escort of our guard and we proceeded to other wagons under the escort of our guard and we proceeded to Suffolk where we obtained both and returned by the same route and were engaged therein between two and three months. I also served a tour of three months under Col. Paisley against the Tories on Padee (Pee Dee) River and the adjoining counties, but cannot distinctly state the exact period when it was.
In the latter part of the year 1780, I attached myself to a Company of Light Horse under the command of Captain John Gillespie, Lt. Daniel Gillespie and George Parks, Cornet. Daniel Gillespie subsequently became our Captain. George Parks, Lt. and William Kerr, Cornet. John Gillespie having been promoted to the command of a regiment. From this period until the conclusion of Peace, we were continually employed in scouting the country from Guilford County in North Carolina to Waxhaw Creek in South Carolina and were engaged in various skirmishes with the Tories and British. One at Charlotte, one at Wacham's Lane and sundry others of less note. We were in active service about two years and six months. Two years of which I served in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant. Our principal commander was Colonel William R. Davis both at Charlotte and Wacham's Lane.
To the different interrogatories propounded by the War Department I make the following reply:
Agreeably to record my birth, I was born on the 5th day of February 1758, in Killeleagh Parish, County Down, Ireland and in the year 1772, I emigrated to America and settled in Guilford County in the State of North Carolina where I continued to reside through the Revolutionary War and afterwards until the fall of the year 1817, when I removed to the State of Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County where I have continued ever since. On each tour of duty I was called on, I entered the same as a volunteer, with the exception of the tour against the Cherokee Indians when I was drafted. In addition to the officers already mentioned was Col. Alexander Martin who was the regular officer who commanded us on my first tour of duty in 1775, employed principally against Scotch Tories under McDonald, McLeod and others.
I received a discharge of each tour of duty I was engaged in, together with certificates of pay - all of which I lost by the burning of my home; and am therefore unable to say here precisely how long I was in service, but was in all between three and four years."
On the 24th day of May, 1787, William Shaw was "firmly bound unto Richard Caswell, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State of North Carolina in the just and full sum of five hundred pounds", for a marriage bond and on June 7, 1878, he was married to Sarah Jobe. This marriage produced eleven children whose descendants are scattered throughout the United States.
Poem of Henry Timrod
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep martyrs of a noble cause:
Through yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!
Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.
Elizabeth, born 25 May 1788; Joseph, Sr., born 12 Jan 1790, died 17 Feb 1876; Sarah, born 09 Nov 1791; Mary, born 19 Nov 1793; William, born 14 Nov 1795; Thomas, 27 Dec 1797; Nancy, 05 Jan 1800; Margaret E. "Peggy", 29 Dec 1802; Ann Jane, 17 Feb 1804; Hugh, 02 Feb 1806, died 12 Jun 1886; and John Jobe Shaw, 13 Feb 1808. William was a Revolutionary War Veteran. He died August 25, 1842, in Lincoln County, Tennessee and it is thought he was buried on his farm in or around Bradshaw Creek in southwest Lincoln County near a small community of Blanche, Tennessee. He has a memorial tombstone in the old Pioneer Cemetery in Moore County, Tennessee.
Glenda McWhirter Todd, descendant of William Shaw, ordered a tombstone for him and she and her husband placed it in the Pioneer Cemetery as a memorial marker since his place of burial was unknown. She was Historian of the General James Winchester Chapter National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and they organized a memorial service for William Shaw at the Pioneer Cemetery on May 28, 1994. It was attended by many of his descendants from all over the United States.
The following is his own account of his service in the Revolutionary War.
"I first entered service in Guilford County, State of North Carolina in the fall of 1775 under the command of Col. James Martin and Col. John Paisley. Captain Arthur Forbes, Lt. William Wiley and Ensign William Gilmer were my Company Officers. I also served a second tour under the above mentioned officers but have no distinct recollection of the exact time I served in either of the two tours.
My third tour was against the Cherokee Indians in 1776 under the command of Brigadier General Rutherford and under the Regimental and Company officers above mentioned and was in service between three and four months.
I again in the latter part of the year 1779, I think, served a tour of three months in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant in Captain Smith Moore's Company under the command of a Col. Isaac. One of my Subaltern officers name was Charley Barnes, the others are forgotten. During this tour we were principally engages in ranging thru Randolph County, Caraway Mountains, Padee (Pee Dee) Montgomery County and others against the Tories and others.
Again in 1780, a short time before General Gates defeat at Camden, I served a tour of duty under the command of Captain Whitsell to go to Suffolk in Virginia for arms and ammunition. We marched direct to Halifax from which place Col. Long, Quartermaster General, sent other wagons under the escort of our guard and we proceeded to other wagons under the escort of our guard and we proceeded to Suffolk where we obtained both and returned by the same route and were engaged therein between two and three months. I also served a tour of three months under Col. Paisley against the Tories on Padee (Pee Dee) River and the adjoining counties, but cannot distinctly state the exact period when it was.
In the latter part of the year 1780, I attached myself to a Company of Light Horse under the command of Captain John Gillespie, Lt. Daniel Gillespie and George Parks, Cornet. Daniel Gillespie subsequently became our Captain. George Parks, Lt. and William Kerr, Cornet. John Gillespie having been promoted to the command of a regiment. From this period until the conclusion of Peace, we were continually employed in scouting the country from Guilford County in North Carolina to Waxhaw Creek in South Carolina and were engaged in various skirmishes with the Tories and British. One at Charlotte, one at Wacham's Lane and sundry others of less note. We were in active service about two years and six months. Two years of which I served in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant. Our principal commander was Colonel William R. Davis both at Charlotte and Wacham's Lane.
To the different interrogatories propounded by the War Department I make the following reply:
Agreeably to record my birth, I was born on the 5th day of February 1758, in Killeleagh Parish, County Down, Ireland and in the year 1772, I emigrated to America and settled in Guilford County in the State of North Carolina where I continued to reside through the Revolutionary War and afterwards until the fall of the year 1817, when I removed to the State of Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County where I have continued ever since. On each tour of duty I was called on, I entered the same as a volunteer, with the exception of the tour against the Cherokee Indians when I was drafted. In addition to the officers already mentioned was Col. Alexander Martin who was the regular officer who commanded us on my first tour of duty in 1775, employed principally against Scotch Tories under McDonald, McLeod and others.
I received a discharge of each tour of duty I was engaged in, together with certificates of pay - all of which I lost by the burning of my home; and am therefore unable to say here precisely how long I was in service, but was in all between three and four years."
On the 24th day of May, 1787, William Shaw was "firmly bound unto Richard Caswell, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State of North Carolina in the just and full sum of five hundred pounds", for a marriage bond and on June 7, 1878, he was married to Sarah Jobe. This marriage produced eleven children whose descendants are scattered throughout the United States.
Poem of Henry Timrod
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep martyrs of a noble cause:
Through yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!
Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.
William Shaw was born February 5, 1758, in County Down Ireland to Patrick and Nancy Ashley Shaw. They emigrated to America in 1772 and settled in Guilford County, North Carolina. He married Sarah Jobe (the spelling of this name has also been seen as Job.) on May 24, 1787 in Guilford County, North Carolina. Children of William and Sarah were:
Elizabeth, born 25 May 1788; Joseph, Sr., born 12 Jan 1790, died 17 Feb 1876; Sarah, born 09 Nov 1791; Mary, born 19 Nov 1793; William, born 14 Nov 1795; Thomas, 27 Dec 1797; Nancy, 05 Jan 1800; Margaret E. "Peggy", 29 Dec 1802; Ann Jane, 17 Feb 1804; Hugh, 02 Feb 1806, died 12 Jun 1886; and John Jobe Shaw, 13 Feb 1808. William was a Revolutionary War Veteran. He died August 25, 1842, in Lincoln County, Tennessee and it is thought he was buried on his farm in or around Bradshaw Creek in southwest Lincoln County near a small community of Blanche, Tennessee. He has a memorial tombstone in the old Pioneer Cemetery in Moore County, Tennessee.
Glenda McWhirter Todd, descendant of William Shaw, ordered a tombstone for him and she and her husband placed it in the Pioneer Cemetery as a memorial marker since his place of burial was unknown. She was Historian of the General James Winchester Chapter National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and they organized a memorial service for William Shaw at the Pioneer Cemetery on May 28, 1994. It was attended by many of his descendants from all over the United States.
The following is his own account of his service in the Revolutionary War.
"I first entered service in Guilford County, State of North Carolina in the fall of 1775 under the command of Col. James Martin and Col. John Paisley. Captain Arthur Forbes, Lt. William Wiley and Ensign William Gilmer were my Company Officers. I also served a second tour under the above mentioned officers but have no distinct recollection of the exact time I served in either of the two tours.
My third tour was against the Cherokee Indians in 1776 under the command of Brigadier General Rutherford and under the Regimental and Company officers above mentioned and was in service between three and four months.
I again in the latter part of the year 1779, I think, served a tour of three months in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant in Captain Smith Moore's Company under the command of a Col. Isaac. One of my Subaltern officers name was Charley Barnes, the others are forgotten. During this tour we were principally engages in ranging thru Randolph County, Caraway Mountains, Padee (Pee Dee) Montgomery County and others against the Tories and others.
Again in 1780, a short time before General Gates defeat at Camden, I served a tour of duty under the command of Captain Whitsell to go to Suffolk in Virginia for arms and ammunition. We marched direct to Halifax from which place Col. Long, Quartermaster General, sent other wagons under the escort of our guard and we proceeded to other wagons under the escort of our guard and we proceeded to Suffolk where we obtained both and returned by the same route and were engaged therein between two and three months. I also served a tour of three months under Col. Paisley against the Tories on Padee (Pee Dee) River and the adjoining counties, but cannot distinctly state the exact period when it was.
In the latter part of the year 1780, I attached myself to a Company of Light Horse under the command of Captain John Gillespie, Lt. Daniel Gillespie and George Parks, Cornet. Daniel Gillespie subsequently became our Captain. George Parks, Lt. and William Kerr, Cornet. John Gillespie having been promoted to the command of a regiment. From this period until the conclusion of Peace, we were continually employed in scouting the country from Guilford County in North Carolina to Waxhaw Creek in South Carolina and were engaged in various skirmishes with the Tories and British. One at Charlotte, one at Wacham's Lane and sundry others of less note. We were in active service about two years and six months. Two years of which I served in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant. Our principal commander was Colonel William R. Davis both at Charlotte and Wacham's Lane.
To the different interrogatories propounded by the War Department I make the following reply:
Agreeably to record my birth, I was born on the 5th day of February 1758, in Killeleagh Parish, County Down, Ireland and in the year 1772, I emigrated to America and settled in Guilford County in the State of North Carolina where I continued to reside through the Revolutionary War and afterwards until the fall of the year 1817, when I removed to the State of Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County where I have continued ever since. On each tour of duty I was called on, I entered the same as a volunteer, with the exception of the tour against the Cherokee Indians when I was drafted. In addition to the officers already mentioned was Col. Alexander Martin who was the regular officer who commanded us on my first tour of duty in 1775, employed principally against Scotch Tories under McDonald, McLeod and others.
I received a discharge of each tour of duty I was engaged in, together with certificates of pay - all of which I lost by the burning of my home; and am therefore unable to say here precisely how long I was in service, but was in all between three and four years."
On the 24th day of May, 1787, William Shaw was "firmly bound unto Richard Caswell, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State of North Carolina in the just and full sum of five hundred pounds", for a marriage bond and on June 7, 1878, he was married to Sarah Jobe. This marriage produced eleven children whose descendants are scattered throughout the United States.
Poem of Henry Timrod
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep martyrs of a noble cause:
Through yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!
Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.
Elizabeth, born 25 May 1788; Joseph, Sr., born 12 Jan 1790, died 17 Feb 1876; Sarah, born 09 Nov 1791; Mary, born 19 Nov 1793; William, born 14 Nov 1795; Thomas, 27 Dec 1797; Nancy, 05 Jan 1800; Margaret E. "Peggy", 29 Dec 1802; Ann Jane, 17 Feb 1804; Hugh, 02 Feb 1806, died 12 Jun 1886; and John Jobe Shaw, 13 Feb 1808. William was a Revolutionary War Veteran. He died August 25, 1842, in Lincoln County, Tennessee and it is thought he was buried on his farm in or around Bradshaw Creek in southwest Lincoln County near a small community of Blanche, Tennessee. He has a memorial tombstone in the old Pioneer Cemetery in Moore County, Tennessee.
Glenda McWhirter Todd, descendant of William Shaw, ordered a tombstone for him and she and her husband placed it in the Pioneer Cemetery as a memorial marker since his place of burial was unknown. She was Historian of the General James Winchester Chapter National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and they organized a memorial service for William Shaw at the Pioneer Cemetery on May 28, 1994. It was attended by many of his descendants from all over the United States.
The following is his own account of his service in the Revolutionary War.
"I first entered service in Guilford County, State of North Carolina in the fall of 1775 under the command of Col. James Martin and Col. John Paisley. Captain Arthur Forbes, Lt. William Wiley and Ensign William Gilmer were my Company Officers. I also served a second tour under the above mentioned officers but have no distinct recollection of the exact time I served in either of the two tours.
My third tour was against the Cherokee Indians in 1776 under the command of Brigadier General Rutherford and under the Regimental and Company officers above mentioned and was in service between three and four months.
I again in the latter part of the year 1779, I think, served a tour of three months in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant in Captain Smith Moore's Company under the command of a Col. Isaac. One of my Subaltern officers name was Charley Barnes, the others are forgotten. During this tour we were principally engages in ranging thru Randolph County, Caraway Mountains, Padee (Pee Dee) Montgomery County and others against the Tories and others.
Again in 1780, a short time before General Gates defeat at Camden, I served a tour of duty under the command of Captain Whitsell to go to Suffolk in Virginia for arms and ammunition. We marched direct to Halifax from which place Col. Long, Quartermaster General, sent other wagons under the escort of our guard and we proceeded to other wagons under the escort of our guard and we proceeded to Suffolk where we obtained both and returned by the same route and were engaged therein between two and three months. I also served a tour of three months under Col. Paisley against the Tories on Padee (Pee Dee) River and the adjoining counties, but cannot distinctly state the exact period when it was.
In the latter part of the year 1780, I attached myself to a Company of Light Horse under the command of Captain John Gillespie, Lt. Daniel Gillespie and George Parks, Cornet. Daniel Gillespie subsequently became our Captain. George Parks, Lt. and William Kerr, Cornet. John Gillespie having been promoted to the command of a regiment. From this period until the conclusion of Peace, we were continually employed in scouting the country from Guilford County in North Carolina to Waxhaw Creek in South Carolina and were engaged in various skirmishes with the Tories and British. One at Charlotte, one at Wacham's Lane and sundry others of less note. We were in active service about two years and six months. Two years of which I served in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant. Our principal commander was Colonel William R. Davis both at Charlotte and Wacham's Lane.
To the different interrogatories propounded by the War Department I make the following reply:
Agreeably to record my birth, I was born on the 5th day of February 1758, in Killeleagh Parish, County Down, Ireland and in the year 1772, I emigrated to America and settled in Guilford County in the State of North Carolina where I continued to reside through the Revolutionary War and afterwards until the fall of the year 1817, when I removed to the State of Tennessee and settled in Lincoln County where I have continued ever since. On each tour of duty I was called on, I entered the same as a volunteer, with the exception of the tour against the Cherokee Indians when I was drafted. In addition to the officers already mentioned was Col. Alexander Martin who was the regular officer who commanded us on my first tour of duty in 1775, employed principally against Scotch Tories under McDonald, McLeod and others.
I received a discharge of each tour of duty I was engaged in, together with certificates of pay - all of which I lost by the burning of my home; and am therefore unable to say here precisely how long I was in service, but was in all between three and four years."
On the 24th day of May, 1787, William Shaw was "firmly bound unto Richard Caswell, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State of North Carolina in the just and full sum of five hundred pounds", for a marriage bond and on June 7, 1878, he was married to Sarah Jobe. This marriage produced eleven children whose descendants are scattered throughout the United States.
Poem of Henry Timrod
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep martyrs of a noble cause:
Through yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!
Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.
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