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Godbout – Racicot / LeBeuf – LaHaye
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 1618 - 1682 (64 years)
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| Name |
Nicholas Shapleigh [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Born |
1 Jan 1618 |
Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Baptism |
1 Jan 1618 |
Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England |
| Emigration |
1635 |
Sailed to America aboard his father's ship "Benediction" |
| Immigration |
1635 |
Settled in Kittery, York County, Maine, New England |
| Property |
2 Apr 1641 |
| His father's Kittery properties were deeded to him by James Treworgye |
| Occupation |
1644 |
| Sailed to England |
| Occupation |
1645 |
| Member of the Maine Council (attended the meeting) |
| Occupation |
1646 |
| Member of the Maine Council (through 1648) |
| Occupation |
16 Jul 1648 |
| Elected Selectman (from Eliot) in Kittery |
| Occupation |
1649 |
| Treasurer of the Province of Maine |
| Residence |
7 Jun 1651 |
Kittery, York County, Maine, New England |
| Military |
1653 |
| Captain |
| Occupation |
18 May 1653 |
| Signed the acknowledgment of Maine's subjection to the Massachusetts Bay Government |
| Military |
1656 |
| Major |
| Occupation |
28 May 1659 |
| Appointed to lay out the bounds of Scarborough, Falmouth and Saco |
| Military |
1665 |
| Major |
| Property |
24 Sep 1667 |
| Anne Messant (widow of Edward Godfrey) gave to his wife, Alice Messant, her farm, land, houses, upland, marshes and woodlands at York |
| Property |
28 Nov 1668 |
| Purchased "Twenty miles Square Lying and Being Between the two Rivers of great osobe and Little ossobe)" (recorded 28 August 1773) |
| Occupation |
3 Jul 1676 |
| Signed a Treaty of Peace with Penacook sagamore Wannalancet and Squando (Saco tribe) at Cochecho (Dover, NH) |
| Occupation |
10 Sep 1676 |
| Sent a letter to Boston concerning the round-up of 200 Indians by Major Richard Waldron at Dover |
| Occupation |
12 Apr 1678 |
| Signed a peace treaty with Squando (on behalf of the Androscoggin and Kennebec sagamores) at Casco |
| Occupation |
29 Apr 1682 |
| Attended the launching of a vessel at the Kittery Foreside shipyard of John Diamond |
| Died |
29 Apr 1682 |
Kittery, York County, Maine, New England |
| Cause: Killed by a falling mast (a spar struck him on the head) |
| Person ID |
I6807 |
Godbout |
| Last Modified |
18 Apr 2017 |
| Father |
Alexander Shapleigh, b. 17 Mar 1561, Totnes, Devonshire, England , d. Bef 6 Jul 1650, Kittery, York County, Maine, New England (Age 89 years) |
| Mother |
Jane Egbere, d. 1 Jan 1618, Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England |
| Married |
12 Dec 1602 |
St. Savour's, Dartmouth, England |
| Family ID |
F3463 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 31 (1877), p. 182; Vol. 34 (1880), p. 99 & Vol. 37 (1883), p. 249.
June 7, 1651, Mr. Nicholas Shapleigh, of Kittery, leased to Mr. Hugh Gunison, for the term of twenty-one years from that date, 'all his Edifices Land & accommodations and Priveledges: Att the point wher mr William Hilton now Dwelleth containing ffive Hundred ackers.' (Page 16, office of Clerk of Courts, York Co., Me). Also Volume 42 (1888), p. 197: co-signer with Richard Waldron of the peace treaty at Dover on 3 July 1676. Vol. 42 (1888), pp. 286-288: Capture of 200 Indians at Dover by Major Richard Waldron and then sent to Boston. Also Volume 50 (1896), p. 219.
- [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. 181-183.
- [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 98 & 167.
- [S96] The History of the State of Maine; from its first discovery, A. D. 1602, to the separation, A. D. 1820, William D. Williamson, (Glazier, Masters & Smith, Hallowell, 1832), Volume 1, pp. 298, 303, 325, 344, 349, 389, 391, 397, 403-405, 438, 527 & 530.
Also pp. 552, 573 & 693.
- [S180] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, 2000), 780.
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