Moses Shaw and Margaret Patterson

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Husband Moses Shaw ¹

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Wife Margaret Patterson ¹

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1 M David Shaw ¹

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2 F Sarah Shaw ¹

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3 F Margaret Shaw ¹

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4 M Alexander Shaw ¹

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5 M John Shaw ¹

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         Spouse: Sarah Shaw (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Moses Shaw

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The Shaw family is one of the oldest in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Moses Shaw's parents emigrated in 1762 from Dauphin County to what was then called the "back woods," where they settled within two miles of old Hannastown, which afterward became the county seat and an historic spot, though at that time comparatively unknown, containing even ten years later not more than a dozen log cabins roofed with clapboards, very few being more than one-story in height.

He was in the fort during the battle of Hannastown, and the remains of both him and his wife lie buried in the old graveyard at that place. Their two sons, Alexander and David, were among the bravest defenders of the place and escaped with their lives, though the destruction of Hannastown was complete. On the day this town was burned, July 13, 1782, Martha, grandmother of Samuel Shaw, Sr., was riding toward the fort for her life, when she met a neighbor who begged for her horse to go for help. The old lady gave him the animal, walked to the fort and escaped the tomahawk of the Indians; but the neighbor rode off to the Sewickley settlement out of danger and did not return for two weeks.

He was a pack-saddle maker, and made all the pack-saddles used by Gen. Anthony Wayne when he went west to fight the Indians.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 159.