SHAW, John (c.1617-90), of Colchester, Essex.

Family and Education

b. c. 1617, 1st s. of John Shaw of Colchester by Mary, da.of Thomas Lufkyn of Ardleigh, Essex. educ. St. Catharine’s, Camb. 1639; L. Inn 1640, called 1647. m. by 1648, Thamar (d. 13 Jan. 1682), da. and h. of Samuel Lewis of Roydon, Suff., 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 6da. suc. fa. 1661; Kntd. 24 Sept. 1661.Morant, Essex, Colchester, 118, app. 20; PCC 77 Barrington; Vis. Essex ed. Howard, 82; Colchester corp. assembly bk. 1, p. 224v.

Offices Held

Commr. for new model ordinance, Essex 1645, assessment, Essex 1645 – 49, 1657, Jan. 1660–80, 1689, Colchester 1663 – 80, 1689 – 90, Suff. 1677 – 79; recorder, Colchester 1655, 1658 – 77, May-Sept. 1688, commr. for militia, Essex 1659, Mar. 1660, j.p. Mar. 1660 – d., commr. for corporations 1662 – 63; conservator, Bedford level 1665 – 70, 1675 – 76; commr. for recusants, Essex 1675.CSP Dom. 1655, pp. 202–3; Colchester Charters ed. Benham, 116, 152; assembly bk. 2, ff. 173, 297v; Essex Rev. vii, 59–60; S. Wells, Drainage of the Bedford Level, i. 457–61; CJ, ix. 52.

Serjeant-at-law 1677, King’s serjeant 1685–9.

Parlimentarian

SHAW, John (c.1617-90), of Colchester, Essex.

Main residence: Colchester, Essex.

Author

M.W.H.

G.H.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

SHAW, John (c.1617-90)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

Image