For those of you on the Washburn Mail-List who are not subscribers of The Register, but who are interested in either John Shaw, of Plymouth, or Humphrey Turner, of Scituate, in addition to your Washburn interest, the July 1997 issue, just released, of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register has an excellent, thoroughly and exhaustively researched article on John Shaw of Plymouth, and his 4 children: John Shaw, Jr., who apparently returned to England unmarried; Lt. James Shaw, who married Mary Mitchell, half-sister of Elizabeth (Mitchell) Washburn; Abigail Shaw, who married Stephen Bryant, of Plymouth; and Deacon Jonathan Shaw, who married first Phebe Watson, and secondly Persis (Dunham) Pratt, widow of Joshua Pratt. The article will be continued in the following issue of The Register, to include the Shaw grandchildren of John Shaw, their marriages, and their children. Also in the July issue is a short article identifying the long-sought-after wife and English origin of Humphrey Turner, of Scituate, MA., Lydia Gaymer, and identifies her parents in County Essex, England, and locates their marriage in Sandon, Essex. Those of you who do not yet belong to the New England Historical and Genealogical Society are urged to join. The benefits are outstanding; in addition to The Register, with its highest quality articles, there is also the quarterly newsletter, The Nexus, and there are the frequent seminars held not just in New England, but throughout the United States, that enable members to meet with some of the best genealogical scholars from New England. They also have an excellent lending library, which I have used by mail for many years with excellent results for those of you who happen not to live on the east coast. For those of you that do live near Boston, their library there, as you probably already know, is one of the best in the United States for depth of subject and for knowledgeable and helpful staff. John A. Maltby Redwood City, CA [email protected]