In a message dated 3/23/01 9:36:57 AM, gomez9399@charter.net writes: << One other thing I feel as though Margaret Shaw was his mother. In a record of 1755 she leaves all of her "goods and chattels" to John and states that he is her son. >> ============ Yes, it seems likely that she had remarried a Shaw and that John Davis was her son. However, I have seen several wills from that time period in which a son in law was simple called a son. Therefore, one should not rule out the possibility that the wife of John Davis was a daughter of Margaret Shaw.