J. E. Shaw was T. S. Williams’ partner in Williams & Co. Dry Goods “at the Brick Store on Main Street, one door west of the Merchant’s and Farmer’s Bank, “New Store & New Goods”

Ithaca Journal & General Advertiser, May 26, 1841, 1, col. 1 https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=ijg18410526-01.1.1