Edward was impressed into the
British service and came to America about the time of the Revolutionary
War. Disliking his impressment and sympathizing with the colonists,
he deserted and went to Fryeburg Maine. He moved to Dunbarton,
Merrimack Co New Hampshire about 1772 and after living there
several years returned to Fryeburg, Maine.
married 1) Sally Hutchins.
married 2) Abigail Kelley about
1787. She was born July 18, 1765 Plaistow,
New Hampshire and died July 11, 1815 Fryeburg, Maine. She was
the daughter of Joshua and Deborah Page Kelley.
children:
2(i). Jonathon
SHIRLEY 
Feb 3, 1773 Dunbarton, Merrimack Co New
Hampshire; lived with son David in 1850 Oxford Co ME census;
died March 11, 1854. He served in the War of 1812. Shirleys of Merrimack
NH and Oxford ME
married Mehitable Pattee Feb
25, 1796.
children:
3(i). Salley SHIRLEY Aug 18, 1797, died 1841. She married
Mason Wiley Grover
3(ii). Moses SHIRLEY Mar 21, 1798
3(iii). Edward SHIRLEY Nov 17, 1799
married Hannah B. Andrews
children (1850
Oxford Co ME census)
4(i). Susan SHIRLEY 1831 Maine
4(ii). Franklin SHIRLEY 1833 Maine
3(iv). Barbary SHIRLEY May 6, 1802 died Oct 25, 1802
3(v). David SHIRLEY Feb 14, 1803;
married Catherine ______
children (1850
Oxford Co ME census)
4(i). Dorothy SHIRLEY
1834 Maine
4(ii). Georgianna SHIRLEY
1836 Maine
4(iii). M. (female) SHIRLEY
1837 Maine
4(iv). Jonathon SHIRLEY
1841 Maine
4(v). Moses SHIRLEY 1846
Maine
4(vi). Elden SHIRLEY
1850 Maine
3(vi). Mason SHIRLEY Jan 1, 1805
3(vii). Porter SHIRLEY July 21, 1806
3(viii). Ephraim SHIRLEY Nov
26, 1808; In 1850, he is enumerated in both Cumberland ME and
St Louis MO; It is clear from Maine census list of the childrens'
birthplaces that the family only temorarily returned to ME, but
then resided in St Louis afterwards; The same family is in 1860
1870 and 1880 St Louis MO census; occ: plasterer; He died Sept
13, 1891.
married Charlotte Tanner; she
was born on 24 Dec 1818; died at on 17 Nov 1864
children
4(i). William E SHIRLEY
(source: DAR lineage) born on 19 Jan 1849 died on 5 Aug 1893
married Nellie Estelle Lockwood
on 27 Apr 1882; she was born on 6 Mar 1854
4(i). Charlotte SHERLEY born about 1842 in MO; living in family's
ME and MO households in 1850 census
4(ii). Eliza SHERLEY born about 1844 in MO; living in family's
ME and MO households in 1850 census; living with widowed father
in 1880 MO census, unmarried
4(iii). William C. SHERLEY born about 1846 in MO; living in family's
ME and MO households in 1850 census
4(iv). Charles SHERLEY born about 1848 in MO; living in family's
ME and MO households in 1850 census
4(v). Mary SHERLEY born about 1854 in MO; living with widowed
father in 1880 MO census, unmarried; occ: teacher
3(ix). Arthur SHIRLEY Nov 6, 1809, died Feb 11, 1810
3(x). Mehitable SHIRLEY Dec 31, 1810
3(xi). Dolley SHIRLEY Sept 4, 1812
3(xii). Jonathan SHIRLEY Nov 5, 1814
3(xiii). Pamelia SHIRLEY Mar 26, 1816
3(xiv). Betsy SHIRLEY Dec 30, 1817
2(ii). William SHIRLEY born July 6, 1775 Dunbarton New Hampshire,
died Dec 18, 1845.
married 1) Dorothy Walker Dec
23, 1803, died Mar 19, 1811.
married 2) Betsey S. Chase
March 9, 1817, she died Jan 5, 1860.
children:
3(i). Hanna SHIRLEY June 18, 1803, died Aug 29, 1879
Bethel Maine. She married Enoch Folsom Chandler
3(ii). Nathaniel Walker SHIRLEY Mar 11, 1805; lived Carroll Co NH in
1850; died Jan 27, 1875. Shirleys
of Carroll Co NH
married Betsy Gordon
children (1850 Carroll Co NH census)
4(i). George SHIRLEY 1832 Maine
4(ii). Orin SHIRLEY 1834 NH
4(iii). Betsey SHIRLEY 1836 NH
4(iv). William SHIRLEY 1843 NH
4(v). Josiah SHIRLEY1845 NH
3(iii). Abigail W SHIRLEY.
Mar 30, 1808, died Jan
30, 1836
3(iv). Mary SHIRLEY Mar 6, 1810, died Mar 30, 1879
3(v). Thomas Chase SHIRLEY
Nov 3, 1821, died Jan
14, 1893.
married Abigail B. Bailey Feb
26, 1861 in Boston MA
3(vi). Josiah Chase SHIRLEY
Apr 10, 1825, died___.
married Charlotte K. Thomas
2(iii). Sally SHIRLEY May 21, 1778, died Jun 3, 1778
2(iv). Edward SHIRLEY Aug 15, 1780 Fryeburg Maine; lived Carroll
Co NH in 1850; died Oct 5, 1870. Shirleys of Carroll Co NH
married Martha Thompson.
children:
3(i). Barbara SHIRLEY July 22, 1806, died July 8, 1843. She
married Capt. Peter Hardy
3(ii). Solomon T. SHIRLEY May 11, 1808 in Conway, Carroll Co NH;
Was living in Westbrook, Cumberland Co ME in 1850; died 11 Feb
1878, age 69 in Maine Shirleys
of Cumberland Co ME
married Mary Jane Greenleaf Mar
12, 1835 at Conway, Carroll Co NH
children:
4(i). Abba SHIRLEY born abt 1839, age 11 in 1850 census
4(ii). Elizabeth L SHIRLEY born abt 1840, age 10 in 1850 census
4(iii). Marilla A SHIRLEY born abt 1842 in 1850 census
3(iii). Betsey SHIRLEY Sept 12, 1810/11
3(iv). Joseph T. SHIRLEY Aug 20, 1814; lived Carroll Co NH in
1850, died July 29, 1880.
married Harriet Wyman
children (1850 Carroll Co NH census)
4(i). Reuben W. SHIRLEY1843
NH
4(ii). Mary B. SHIRLEY
1845 NH
4(iii). Charles E. SHIRLEY
1847 NH
3(v). Charles SHIRLEY Aug 15, 1818
2(v). Arthur SHIRLEY Sept 9, 1782 Fryeburg Maine, died Jan
20, 1864 Portland Cumberland Co, Maine... (He was blind). Shirleys of Cumberland
Co ME
Three years after his purchase,
Mr. Adams admitted to partnership Arthur Shirley, who had been
an apprentice, and who now took sole charge of the printing office.
(Mr. Shirleys connection with the paper lasted till 1822). After
1811 it was wholly in his hands, except that a part of the time
his brother, J. Shirley, was associated with him. It was during
the administration of Adams and Shirley that the old Gazette
was illuminated by the brilliant essays of a cluster of young
men, whose articles, over the signatures Pilgrim, Prowler, Night
Hawk, and Torpedo, kept the town in good humor. William B. Sewell,
coming here to read law, found his college classmates, Savage,
and Payson (then preceptor of the new academy, afterwards the
distinguished preacher) already engaged upon these
weekly essays of wit and merriment. Two sons of Samuel
Freeman - Samuel Deane and William - were Harvard contemporaires
of Sewall, Savage, and Payson, and were also contributors to
the gazette. A little later came the Contributions of the Torpedo
club, of which Charles S. Davies, Nathaniel Deering, N. Carter,
and N. Wright were the brightest ornaments.
Arthur Shirley was a native of
Fryeburg Maine, and commenced his apprenticeship in 1798 in the
office of E. Russell, the proprietor of the first printing establishment
in that town. "He was a man (says a correspondent) very
decided in his views, deliberate, square, firm, - shown characteristically
in his hand writing, which you will remember was remarkably open,
- plainer than type script. He was blind the last few years of
his life; yet even during this period he was much at his office,
and would often work at the case; setting type by feeling the
l nick." - Ed.
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"Mr. Shirley from the age
of 16 was connected with the public press; and, as a printer,
publisher, and writer, was successively identified, during his
long life, with many newspapers; among which were the Portland
Gazette (since merged into the Advertiser), and the Christian
Mirror, which, under its original title, still maintains its
place among the the principal religious weekly publications of
the State.
The first 'Directory of Portland'
issued from his press. The first book of sacred music printed
in the State had the same origin. The Daily Courier, the Family
Reader, the Portland Magazine, and the Maine Washingtonian Journal
all have his imprint, "and were to no inconsiderable extent
the product of his industry." - Extract from the Christian Mirror, Feb
9, 1864 [article submitted by Danell Aukerman]
married Ruth
Foster
children:
3(i). Helen
A SHIRLEY
1842 –
3(ii). Arthur
SHIRLEY 1845
– 1927
3(iii). Isabel
SHIRLEY 1848
–
3(iv). Mary
E SHIRLEY
1851 –
3(v). George
H SHIRLEY
born about 1855
1860 Cumberland
ME census
George H Shirley
44
Mary M Shirley 46
Helen A Shirley 18
Arthur Shirley 14
Isabel Shirley 12
Mary E Shirley 9
George H Shirley 5
George Mitts 26
Sarah E Mitts 28
2(vi). Barbara SHIRLEY Nov 11, 1784 Fryeburg Maine, died Jan
1787 Fryeburg, Maine
2(vii). Joshua SHIRLEY Sept 7, 1778 Fryeburg Maine, died April
13, 1819 Portland Maine, age about 41
2(viii). Edmond SHIRLEY Oct 12, 1790 Fryeburg Maine; lived Oxford
Co ME in 1850 census; died April 25, 1876 Conway New Hampshire.
Shirleys
of Carroll Co NH
married Abigail Bliss Walker
Jan 26, 1815.
children:
3(i). Dorothy (Dolly) SHIRLEY Dec 10, 1815, died June 13, 1885
unmarried
3(ii). James SHIRLEY Dec 31, 1817, died Oct 21, 1849
unmarried
3(iii). Hannah SHIRLEY Sept 3, 1820, died Dec 19, 1846
unmarried
3(iv). Maria SHIRLEY Aug 18, 1822, died Oct 6, 1908. She
married John Vernon Seavey Jan 22, 1852
3(v). Emily SHIRLEY Sept23, 1824, died July 3, 1891. She
married Chandler G. Heath Mar 21, 1850
3(vi). Joshua SHIRLEY Sept 7, 1827, died Mar 6, 1901
Conway, New Hampshire.
married Mary E. Woodward Jan
1, 1861
children:
4(i). Arthur Ray SHIRLEY Feb 25, 1864, died Feb 24, 1934.
married Bessie Jane Moody June
6, 1892
4(ii). Mary Abbie SHIRLEY April 10, 1866, died Dec 21,1866 (age
8 months old)
4(iii). Edward Newton SHIRLEY
Sept 10, 1867, died____.
married 1) Emma___
married 2) Jennie Townsend
4(iv). Marian Blanche SHIRLEY Jan 14, 1871, died Dec 25, 1947. She
married Charles Henry Irish July 23, 1894
3(vii). Mary W SHIRLEY. Oct 31, 1830, died Oct 4, 1924. She
married Thurston P. McKusieck Sept 24,1867
2(ix). Elizabeth SHIRLEY July
22, 1794 Fryeburg Maine, died Oct 31, 1843 Fryeburg, Maine. She
married Seth Spring Chase June 23, 1819.
2(x). John SHIRLEY Aug 17, 1796, died Nov 1, 1843, age
about 47
2(xi). Stephen SHIRLEY Sept 25, 1798, died Sept 10, 1818, about
age 20.
2(xii). David SHIRLEY Sept 30, 1800, died Dec 12, 1802,
about age 2
2(xiii). Charles SHIRLEY June 22, 1804, died Aug 19, 1865, about
age 61
may have lived Lowell Mass
Edward Shirley