GEORGE SHAW, father of Sarah Truman, was a Scotchman, born at Craigtoun, near Glasgow, parish of Down, Scotland. His father, Alexander Shaw, was a blacksmith, and is said to have worked in the shop where Watts' engine was built. George Shaw was a cabinet-maker and came to America about the beginning of the Revolution, and at the battle of Germantown so exposed himself in cooperating with the Americans as to impair his health and eventually cause his death from consumption. He was a strict Presbyterian,and while thinking Friends were a good moral people,did not hesitate to say their salvation was impossible; nevertheless, on his death bed was so far convinced as to consent to his widow going.among Friends if she so desired. After the Revolution he sent for his brothers and sisters, whose descendants are numerous in Western Pennsylvania. His wife, Mary Toplin, was the daughter of David Toplin, who with his family emigrated from Germany and settled in Virginia, and his mill bei! ng swept away by a freshet, they came to Philadelphia, where he and his wife died soon after, leaving very little means. Mary TopIin found a home in the family of Isaac and Sarah Parrish, and became very much attached to them. The health of the wife being somewhat impaired after the birth of her son Joseph (who became an eminent physician) he was placed with Mary Shaw to nurse, along with her own first-born.