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SHAW, John, poet, born in Annapolis, Maryland, 4 May, 1778 ; died at sea, 10 January, 1809. He was graduated at St. John's college, Annapolis, in 1795, studied medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, and was appointed surgeon in the fleet that was sent to Algiers in December, 1798. He also served as secretary to General William W. Eaton in Tunis, but returned in 1800, and then went, in 1801, to continue his studies in Edinburgh. He went to Canada with the Earl of Selkirk in 1805, but removed to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1807. He died on a voyage from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Bahama islands. Dr. Shaw was a contributor to-" The Portfolio." His poems, with a memoir, and extracts from his foreign correspondence and journals, were published (Philadelphia, 1810).
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