David Shattuck was the son of Timothy Shattuck.
In he married Orra Merwin, the daughter of Ebenezer Merwin and Jemima Plumb.
[a][b] Faulty transcriptions of both the bride's and groom's names hide the record from Shattuck and Merwin researchers for many years. The Lenox town records record the actual marriage of David Shattuck of New Ashford and Orra Merwin of Lenox on 4 November 1800 by Mr. Samuel Shepard of Lenox. [c]
David Shattuck was born sometime before 1776, as he must be the senior male, aged 45 or older, in his household as enumerated in the 1820 census. [1] He almost certainly was born in Massachusetts, as son Stephen indicated in the 1880 census and son Martin did in the 1900 census (Martin's 1880 census record indicates his father was born in New York; this was most likely an error. [2] David and Orra were still living in Massachusetts when their son Stephen was born there c. 1803. [10]
David Shattuck first appears in the 1820 census in Granby, Oswego Co. NY. The oldest male, no doubt David himself, was 45 or older, suggesting a birth year of 1775 or before. (The census showed his household to include a woman aged 25 to 45, likely his wife. It also contained five young males, one under the age of 10, who would be son Martin L. Shattuck, one between the age of 10 and sixteen, another between the age of sixteen and eighteen, and two more age 16-26. The household also included three girls under the age of ten. Four individuals were engaged in agriculture, presumably the oldest males. [1] Information on his place of birth is conflicting: his son Stephen indicated on the 1880 census that his father was born in Massachusetts. [2] Younger brother Martin's 1880 census record, however, states that his father was born in New York, as does his death certificate. [3] His 1900 census record, however, repeats the assertion that his father was born in Massachusetts. [4] Given Stephen Shattuck's birth in Massachusetts, it is likely that his father was born there as well.Orra was born in Connecticut c. 1782. David died sometime well before 1860, when his wife, who had apparently remarried to a man named Parsons and been subsequently widowed, was living with son Martin in Sterling, Cayuga Co. [6] Clues to David and Orra's origens are scanty: the 1910 obituary of son Martin Shattuck stated that he was of Welsh descent, but did not indicate on which side. [7] Another article noted that his grandfather had served in the Revolutionary War and that his grandmother had frozen to death at the age of 99, again, without indication of whether these were paternal or maternal grandparents. [8] Orra died sometime after 1860. [9]
David Shattuck and Orra Merwin had the following children:
| + | i. | Stephen Shattuck was born in Massachusetts c. 1803. [10] Stephen Shattuck is likely the "Stephen Chadwick" found in the 1830 census in Hannibal, Oswego Co. NY. [11] He appeared again in Hannibal as Stephen Shattuck in 1840. [12] The 1850 census found him working as a shoemaker, still in Hannibal. He was married to Sarah, born c. 1800 in New York. Their children, Mary, aged 17, and Rodney, aged 16 lived with them, and Rodney, too, was employed as a shoemaker. [13] By 1860 Stephen and his wife had moved to Yankee Springs, Barry Co. MI, where they continued to reside in 1880. Stephen was no longer listed as a shoemaker, but a farmer. [14]S tephen is assumed to be one of the males aged 16-26 in the 1820 Shattuck household in Granby, largely because he continued to live in the same area until at least 1850, and because in 1840 he was listed on the line directly preceding Timothy Shattuck. | |
| + | ii. | Timothy Shattuck was born between 1805-1810. [15] | |
| + | iii. | Martin L. Shattuck was born in Granby, Oswego Co. NY on 8 May 1818. [16] |