Individual Details

Immigration

William SHATTOCK emigrated to Massachusetts in 1650, and while living at Boston, about 1658, embraced Quakerism and was mercilessly punished therefore by the civil authorities and compelled to leave their jurisdiction. The story of his persecution for conscience's sake "by the unjust rulers of Boston" is given in New England's Ensign, in Besse's Collections of the Sufferings of Quakers, and is noticed in Sewall's History of the Quakers.

After a short stay in Rhode Island, during which he was one of the original purchasers of land in Monmouth county, NJ, he settled at Shrewsbury, and was probably one of the founders of the Shrewsbury Meeting of Friends.

In 1675 he was elected a member of the East Jersey Assembly from Shrewsbury, but declined to swear or take the oath of office. He was living as late as 28 Sept 1693, when he witnessed a marriage at Friends' Meeting House in Shrewsbury.

Biographical Sketch

"William SHATTOCK was a native of Boston, who, about 1656, joined the Quakers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and for this offense was imprisoned, cruelly whipped and banished. He removed to Rhode Island and thence to New Jersey in or about 1665, settling on lands of the Monmouth patent. A few years afterwards he moved to Burlington. His daughter Hannah married Restore LIPPINCOTT, son of Richard LIPPINCOTT."