William Shaw and Elizabeth McCalmont

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Husband William Shaw ^{1 2}

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           Born: Cir 19 Nov 1783 - Centre Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Nov 1851 - ? Venango Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - U. P. Cemetery, Plumer, Cornplanter Twp, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: William Shaw (      -      ) 4
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Elizabeth McCalmont ^{1 2}

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           Born: 3 Feb or 13 Feb 1791 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 5 Jul 1865 5
         Buried: 

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         Father: John McCalmont (1750/1750-1832) 2 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Conard (1750/1752-1829/1829) 2 6 7

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - William Shaw

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He was the earliest settler on the Dempseytown road in Venango County, Pennsylvania. He was from Centre County, and, as evidenced by the assessment list of 1808, had acquired property prior to that date. The land that he settled was later known as the Deets farm. One of his sons was a pioneer of Cornplanter township.

William Shaw was the first settler and for many years the only resident in the southeastern part of the township. An Indian path led from the river at Henry's bend to the mouth of Oil creek, following a course almost identical with that of the later road from Plumer to President, and on the line of this path he secured several hundred acres of land. He was a native of Centre county, the son of William Shaw, an early settler on Sugar creek. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John McCalmont, Sr., and sister to Judge Alexander McCalmont, and reared a family of ten children. It was in May, 1821, that he settled in Cornplanter. [HVC 1890, 650]

There seems to be some confusion here of who settled where, when.

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 545.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 453, 587.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 654.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 367.

5 Earl M. Prather, McCalmont History in Venango County, Pennsylvania (Centerville, PA: Self-published, 1996), Pg 2.

6 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 545, 1042.

7 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 337.