Saturday, October 6, 2012

Surname Saturday - SHEPARD (England > Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers, up to number 527: Sarah SHEPARD (1667-1746). [Note: The 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two American generations of this SHEPARD family is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

64. Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)
65. Martha Whitney (1764-1832)

130.  Samuel Whitney (1719-1782)
131.  Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783)


262.  John Fletcher (1692-1749)
263.  Mary Goble (1694-1734)



526.  Thomas Goble, born 21 May 1656 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 10 March 1723/24 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 1052. Thomas Goble and 1053. Ruth.  He married  04 July 1686 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
527.  Sarah Shepard, born about 1667 in probably Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 07 May 1746 in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  
Children of Thomas Goble and Sarah Shepard are:  Sarah Goble (1692-1728); Stephen Goble (1694-????); Mary Goble (1694-1734); John Goble (1696-????); Abigail goble (1697-1723); Thomas Goble (1714-1714).

1054.  John Shepard, born about 1633 in England; died 15 December 1699 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married before 1661 in probably Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1055.  Sarah Goble, born before 27 March 1638 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 30 November 1717 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 2110. Thomas Goble and 2111. Alice Brookman.
Children of John Shepard and Sarah Goble are:  John Shepard (1661-1690); Mary Shepard (1663-1727); Martha Shepard (1663-????); Rachel Shepard (1665-1724); Sarah Shepard (1667-1746); Dorothy Shepard (1669-1746); Daniel Shepard (1673-1734).

The biography and descendants of John Shepard of Concord was ably covered in:

Gerald Faulkner Shepard, edited by Donald L. Jacobus, The Shepard Families of New England, Volume III, Additional Family Groups (New Haven, Conn. : New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1973).

This book did not provide a set of parents or siblings for John Shepard.  There are many online family trees (e.g., at Rootsweb WorldConnect and Ancestry Member Trees) that assign John Shepard to Ralph and Thankslord (Perkins) Shepard who settled in Concord around 1660.  I don't know if these assertions are correct.  Does anyone have probate or land records that describe John Shepard as the son of Ralph Shepard?  Perhaps John is a nephew of Ralph.

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Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

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