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SHAPLEIGH families in MA & CT, in the 1600s
Honoriah 1/21/07
From James Savage's Book:
SHAPLEIGH, spelled sometimes as sounded SHARPLEY, more often SHAPLEY,
ALEXANDER, Kittery 1642, had some years before been agent, probably of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and so may be thougth to have come from Devonshire, had Catharine, who married, perhaps in England, James Treworthy; Nicholas, and
other children; all, it may be, born in his native land. He soon went home, and died there before 1650.
NICHOLAS, Kittery, son of Alexander, born in England, a man of eminence was first of Portsmouth, sold his estate there in Dec. 1644, chosen Traesurer of the Province of Maine 1649, captain in 1653, major in 1656, superseded in 1663 by William Phillips, being in 1662 a magistrate next to the right worshipful Henry Josselyn. He had wife, Alice, no. children, went home probably seven years later, and lived long, yet came not again to our side of the
ocean, I presume, but died in England 1681 or 2. His name is not included with. those the royal commissionners honored in giving office, who might seem to prove his absence though special reason may be, his tenderness for Quakers.
*NICHOLAS, Charlestown, son of Nicholas the first, was a major, dismissed in July 1669, by the Country Court, from that office, as a Quaker, but his nearer neighbbors continued to trust his goodness, made him representative 1696, and he probably had son of the same name, and no little hesitation is felt in distinguish one from the other.
BENJAMIN, New London, mariner, son of Nicholas, married 10 Apr. 1672, Mary, eldest daughter of John Picket, had Ruth, born 24 December following; Benjamin, 20 Mar. 1675; Mary, 26 Mar. 1677; Joseph, 15 Aug. 1681, who died young; Ann, 31 Aug. 1685; Daniel, 14 Feb. 1690; Jane,1696; and Adam, 1698, d. young; and d. 3 Aug. 1706, in 56th yr. if
the credit of the gr.st. leads us to believe he was the sec. not first Benjamin
of his f. JOHN, Kittey, perhaps s. of Alexander, was serg. 1659;
k. by the Ind. 29 Apr. 1706, as Penhallow tells, when his s. was tak. by
them to Canada, and treat. very cruel. Niles relates the same matter
with slight differ. of date. See 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VI. 275.
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