Dr. Phlip Shattuck, s. of William, was b. in Watertown and d. within the present limits of Waltham, June 26, 1722 ae. 73. His place of residence was in the vicinity of the Waverley Station on the Fitchburg Railroad, easterly of Beaver Brook/ and his estate extended northerly into Cambridge. He was a physician of eminence, and for a long period a leading man in the public affairs of the town. He was often chosen moderator of town meetings, and held the offices of assessor, town treasurer, chairman of the selectmen, and very many other important stations of public trust and responsibility. The gravestone erected to his memory was standing in the Waltham burying-ground, in 1852, bearing the following inscription:--"Here Lyes Buried y Body of Doct Philip Shattuck who dece June 6 26th, 1722, in y 74th year of his Age. Blessed are the Dead that Die in the Lord." A new marble tablet has recently been erected, to which the inscription was transferred, with the following appended: "The above record was transferred from a moss-grown crumbling head-stone of slate, to one of more enduring marble, by a descendant of the 5th Generation, A.D. 1853."

His will, dated Jan. 29th and proved Aug. 30th, 1722, is recorded in the Middlesex Records, Vol. XVI, p. 436. He had two sons by the name of Philip living at the same time, one by each wife; and they were distinguished from each other in his will, as "Philip Shattuck of Saybrook," and "Philip Shattuck, the younger," or as "the youngest son of my present beloved wife." Accounts of two living children of the same name in one family sometimes occur in the early history of this country and in England, but his is the only instance that we have discovered in our family.