Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Shaw, James
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   JAMES SHAW farmer, P.O. Carversville, was born in 
Plumstead township, August 13, 1821, and is a son of John 
and Grace (Carr) Shaw.  His grandparents were James and 
Rachel (Bancroft) Shaw, and great-grandparents James and 
Mary (Fenton) Shaw, pioneers of Plumstead township. John 
Shaw's family consisted of five children:  Eleazer C., 
Elizabeth S. (Mrs. Henry E. Carver), Hannah, Comley and 
James.  The latter was reared in Plumstead township, and has 
always followed farming.  He located in Carversville in 
1883.  In 1845 he married Charlotte T., daughter of Samuel 
and Susan (Pittenger) Smalley.  They are the parents of the 
following:  Grace Emma, Clementine G., John S., Henry C. and 
Albert P.   Grace Emma married William Henry Palmer, and had 
two children:  M. Alice and Lottie E.   John S. married 
Tarilla Reading, and Henry C. married Sarah R. Watson.   
Albert P. married Anna L. Reading, and has two children:  
Frank and Bertha.  Mr. Shaw's maternal grandfather was David 
Carr, a farmer of Plumstead township, and a son of Jonathan 
and Deborah (Robinson) Carr.