Nehemiah Shumway
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Nehemiah Shumway (August 26, 1761 – July 1843) was an American composer of sacred music, teacher, and farmer.
Shumway was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, the youngest of seven children of Amos Shumway and Ruth Parker.[1] He graduated from the College of Rhode Island in 1790, and became principal of the Freehold Academy in New Jersey.
Shumway married Sarah/Sara Tice/Tyse[2] on December 10, 1795. She was baptised in Freehold on July 4, 1773, and died in Lyme, New York, in 1831. They had four children together, but no known grandchildren.[3]
Shumway moved to Albany, New York, where his first two sons were born in 1796 and 1798, relocated to Schenectady in around 1800, and returned to Albany in 1806.[3] In 1820 he settled in Lyme; after he lost his farm there through a title defect. A few years later he returned to Freehold, where he died in 1843.[3]
