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Saturday, February 9, 2013

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 561: Thanks SHEPARD (1651-????). [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)

34.  Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35.  Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)


70.  Thomas Dill (1755-1830)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

140.  Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
141.  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758)

280.  Thomas Dill (1682-1718)
281.  Mary Peirce (1682-1713)

560.  Peter Dill, born 1645; died 13 August 1692 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 13 October 1669 in Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
561.  Thanks Shepard, born 10 February 1650/51 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
Children of Peter Dill and Thanks Shepard are:  Peter Dill (1670-1695); Anna Dill (1673-????); Thanks Dill (1676-1722); Samuel Dill (1678-????); David Dill (1680-????); Mary Dill (1682-1720); Thomas Dill (1682-1718).

1122.  Ralph Shepard, born about 1606 in probably Dronfield, Derbyshire, England; died before 11 September 1693 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married  21 May 1632 in St. Bride Fleet Street, London, England.
1123.  Thankslord Perkins, born about 1612 in England; died after 28 March 1675 in Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
Children of Ralph Shepard and Thankslord Perkins are:  Sarah Shepard (1633-1719); Thomas Shepard (1635-1719); Isaac Shepard (1639-1677); Trial Shepard (1641-1704); Abraham Shepard (1647-1716); Thanks Shepard (1651-????); Jacob Shepard (1653-1676).

Resources used for the Ralph Shepard family include:

* John Brooks Threlfall, Twenty-six Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins, ( Madison, Wis. : the author, 1993), pages 275-282.

*  Robert Charles Anderson (editor), The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009), pages 262-269. 

Do any readers have this Shepard family, or the Dill line that is shown above?

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