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Alexander Shapleigh

Male 1561 - Bef 1650  (89 years)


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  • Name Alexander Shapleigh  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Born 17 Mar 1561  Totnes, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 17 Mar 1561  Totnes, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Property 1620 
    Family Arms granted by Sir William Segar, Garter King of Arms to Robert Shapleigh of Dartmouth and recorded at the Herald's Visitation of Devon 
    Emigration 1635  Sailed from Dartmouth to America with Captain Francis Champernoon aboard their ship "Benediction" Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Immigration 1635  Settled in Kittery, York County, Maine, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation Merchant-ship builder and owner 
    Residence 1639  Sturgeon Creek, a part of Kittery previously known as Piscataqua, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 26 May 1642 
    Made over his entire estate to his son-in-law James Treworgye at Kittery 
    Occupation 20 Jul 1642 
    Presented a deed to Captain Thomas Cammock (from Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason) at the General Court held at Saco 
    Property Son of Robert Shapleigh (of Dartmouth in the County of Devon) by Marie Bladon 
    Died Bef 6 Jul 1650  Kittery, York County, Maine, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5170  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Family 1 Marguerite Bloedel,   b. Abt 1575, St-Omer, Artois, Pas-de-Calais (Nord), France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Aug 1602, St-Omer, Artois, Pas-de-Calais (Nord), France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 27 years) 
    Married 1597  Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Catherine Shapleigh,   b. Abt 1598, Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 May 1676, Exeter, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2649  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Jane Egbere,   d. 1 Jan 1618, Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 12 Dec 1602  St. Savour's, Dartmouth, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Nicholas Shapleigh,   b. 1 Jan 1618, Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Apr 1682, Kittery, York County, Maine, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F3463  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 5 (1851), pp. 345-346; Vol. 28 (1874), p. 80 & Vol. 32 (1878), pp. 52-54.
      Also: Volume 100 (1946), pp. 169 & 176.

    2. [S95] Alexander Shapleigh of Kittery, Maine, and some of his descendants, Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, (New England Historical and Genealogical Register), Volume 95 (April 1941), pp. 180-182, 220, 264-270, 324 & 329.

    3. [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 110 & 167.

    4. [S180] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, 2000), 947.