Shepard, Gideon

Notes:

BIRTH: Westfield Vital Records, A:200 (FHL #185474).
CHR: "The Publick Records of the Church of Christ at Westfield" (typescript, n.d.), 74 (FHL #185469).
MAR: Westfield Vital Records, B:117 (FHL #185474).
DEATH: Inez Stevens Lederer, ed, "Tombstone Inscriptions of the Older Cemeteries of Westfield" (typescript, 1946), 74 (FHL #974.426/W2 V22d).
BUR: Ibid.

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Gideon married Noble, Silence on 13 Nov 1766 in Westfield,Hampden,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: Westfield Vital Records, A:27 (FHL #185474).
CHR: "The Publick Records of the Church of Christ at Westfield" (typescript, n.d.), 23 (FHL #185469).
MAR: Westfield Vital Records, A:200 (FHL #185474).
DEATH: Ibid.
BUR: Inez Stevens Lederer, ed, "Tombstone Inscriptions of the Older Cemeteries of Westfield" (typescript, 1946), 74 (FHL #974.426/W2 V22d).
OCC: Deacon in Westfield Church; also called "Seargt" on some recs.

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John married Noble, Elizabeth on 20 May 1731 in Westfield,Hampden,MA. Elizabeth (daughter of Noble, Thomas and Dewey, Elizabeth) was born on 3 Jan 1705/1706 in Westfield,Hampden,MA; was christened on 6 Jan 1705/1706 in 1st Cong'l Church,Westfield,Hampden,MA; died on 12 Nov 1793 in Westfield,Hampden,MA; was buried in Mechanic St. Cemetery,Westfield,Hampden,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: Westfield Vital Records, A:55 (FHL #185474).
CHR: "The Publick Records of the Church of Christ at Westfield" (typescript, n.d.), 22 (FHL #185469).
MAR: Westfield Vital Records, A:200 (FHL #185474).
DEATH: Inez Stevens Lederer, ed, "Tombstone Inscriptions of the Older Cemeteries of Westfield" (typescript, 1946), 74 (FHL #974.426/W2 V22d).
BUR: Ibid.

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Notes:

BIRTH: No birth rec found. Date of birth is calculated from age 84 on gravestone, below. Evidence that he was born in New England and the identification of his parents is cited in Gerald Faulkner Shepard, comp, THE SHEPARD FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND, ed Donald Lines Jacobus, 3 vols. (New Havem, 1973), 3:93-96 (FHL #929.273 Sh47j). Also see land grants in Westfield laid out to John Shepard to satisfy grants made to his "grandfather Hart" and to his father ("Land Grants and Highways From the Early Records of Westfield," typescr, 1896, vol 1, pt. 2, p. 59 [FHL #1508828]). Estate recs of Edmund Hart (John's grandfather) mention debt owed to his estate by William Shepard (Hampshire Co. Probate, 1:148 [FHL #879184]). John may have been born in Conn., as his parents were divorced there when John was about 5 years of age (J. H. Trumbull and Charles J. Hoadly, eds, THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT, 15 vols. [Hartford, 1850-90], 2:327 [FHL #974.6 N2c]). Also see Clifford L. Stott, "William Shepard, Father of John Shepard of Westfield, Massachusetts," TAG, 70(1995):82-83 (FHL #974 D25aga).
MAR #1: Westfield Vital Records, A:27 (FHL #185474).
MAR #2: Ibid. Wife is called "widow Abigail King." Shepard, THE SHEPARD FAMILIES, 3:96, indicates her maiden name was Sackett and the widow of David King. No evidence has been found.
DEATH: Inez Stevens Lederer, ed, "Tombstone Inscriptions of the Older Cemeteries of Westfield" (typescript, 1946), 74 (FHL #974.426/W2 V22d).
BUR: Ibid
OCC: Planter, cooper, Deacon in Westfield Church.

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John married Woodruff, Elizabeth on 21 Dec 1703 in Westfield,Hampden,MA. Elizabeth (daughter of Woodruff, Matthew and Plumbe, Mary) was born about 1679 in of Farmington,Hartford,CT; died on 14 Oct 1731 in Westfield,Hampden,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: No birth rec found. Elizabeth is identified as a 12-year-old dau in the inv of estate of her father, Matthew Woodruff of Farmington, 18 Nov 1691, Hartford District Probate, abstracted in Charles W. Manwaring, ed, DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, 3 vols. (Hartford, 1904-1906), 1:526-27 (FHL #974.6 P2m). Elizabeth's place of birth is unclear. The family was in Milford as late as 1673, when son John was born. Matthew and wife joined the Congregational Church at Farmington on 1 Mar 1678/80. See Farmington 1st Congregational Church recs, 1:101 (FHL #004241).
MAR: Westfield Vital Records, A:27 (FHL #185474).
DEATH: Ibid.

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Notes:

BIRTH: Springfield Vital Records, 1:12 (FHL #185414).
MAR: Westfield Vital Records, A:55 (FHL #185474).
DEATH: Ibid.
OCC: Deacon in Westfield 1st Church.

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Thomas married Dewey, Elizabeth on 19 Dec 1695 in Westfield,Hampden,MA. Elizabeth (daughter of Dewey, Thomas and Hawes, Constant) was born on 10 Jan 1676 in Westfield,Hampden,MA; was christened on 11 Apr 1680 in 1st Cong'l Church,Westfield,Hampden,MA; died on 2 Oct 1757 in Westfield,Hampden,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: Westfield Vital Records, A:10 (FHL #185474).
CHR: Westfield 1st Congregational Church recs (FHL #185468).
MAR: Westfield Vital Records, A:55.
DEATH: Ibid. Also recorded in "An Account or Register of Deaths of those Deceased in Westfield, 1728-1836 (from the Records of the First Church)" (typescript, 1936), 2 (FHL #185469 item 3). Aged 82 yrs.

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MAR: Evidence of the mar of William Shepard and Experience Hart is cited in Gerald Faulkner Shepard, comp, THE SHEPARD FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND, ed Donald Lines Jacobus, 3 vols. (New Haven, 1973), 3:93-96 (FHL #929.273 Sh47j). Also see land grants laid out to John Shepard in Westfield to satisfy grants made to his father (not named) and his "grandfather Hart," apparently Edmund Hart, who died in Westfield in 1673. See "Land Grants and Highways From the Early Records of Westfield" (typescript, 1896), vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 59 (FHL #1502828). The estate recs of Edmund Hart indicate William Shepard owed a debt to the estate (Hampshire Co. Probate, 1:148 [FHL #879184]). Also see Clifford L. Stott, "William Shepard, Father of John Shepard of Westfield, Massachusetts," TAG, 70(1995):82-83 (FHL #974 D25aga).
DIV: J. H. Trumbull and Charles J. Hoadly, eds, THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT, 15 vols. (Hartford, 1850-90), 2:327 (FHL #974.6 N2c). Divorced 18 Oct 1677.
DEATH: Account of William Shepard's death is found in narrative of Enoch Shepard (b. 1742), cited in Shepard, THE SHEPARD FAMILIES, 3:94 (FHL #929.273 Sh47j). He was last known living on 18 Oct 1677, date of divorce.

William married Hart, Experience about 1671, and was divorced. Experience (daughter of Hart, Edmund and (unknown)) was born about 1648 in Weymouth,Norfolk,MA; died after 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: No birth rec found. See evidence in Gerald Faulkner Shepard, comp,THE SHEPARD FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND, ed Donald Lines Jacobus, 3 vols. (New Haven, 1973), 3:93-96 (FHL #929.273 Sh47j). Date and place of birth are conjecture. It is known that Edmund Hart lived in Weymouth from 1636-1664. See George W. Chamberlain, GENEALOGIES OF THE EARLY FAMILIES OF WEYMOUTH (Weymouth, MA, 1923; repr Baltimore, 1984), 256 (FHL #974.47/W1 D2c). Also see Clifford L. Stott, "William Shepard, Father of John Shepard of Westfield, Massachusetts," TAG, 70(1995):82-83 (FHL #974 D25aga).
MAR: Evidence of the mar of William Shepard and Experience Hart is cited in Shepard, SHEPARD FAMILIES, 3:93-96, and in Stott, "William Shepard," 82-83. Also see Westfield land grants of John Shepard to satisfy grants made to John's father (not named) and his "grandfather Hart," apparently Edmund Hart, who died in Westfield in 1673 ("Land Grants and Highways From the Early Records of Westfield" [typescript, 1896], vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 59 [FHL #1502828]). Also see estate recs of Edmund Hart, indicating William Shepard owed a debt to the estate, Hampshire Co. Probate 1:148 (FHL #879184).
DIV: J. H. Trumbull and Charles J. Hoadly, eds, THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT, 15 vols. (Hartford, 1850-90), 2:327 (FHL #974.6 N2c). Divorced 18 Oct 1677.
DEATH: Experience was last known living on 18 Oct 1677, her date of divorce.

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BIRTH: No birth rec found. Year of birth is calculated from age 12 on chr rec, below. Place of birth is unknown, as it is uncertain where the family was residing in 1642. Matthew Woodruff was in the Conn. Colony by 1 Jun 1643, when he was a defendant in a law suit, but the town of residence is not stated (J. H. Trumbull and Charles J. Hoadly, eds, THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT, 15 vols. [Hartford, 1850-90], 1:87-88 [FHL #974.6 N2c]. The family was in Farmington by Feb 1653, when Matthew purchased his homestead (Susan Woodruff Abbott, WOODRUFF GENEALOGY [Milford, CT, 1963], 1 [FHL #929.273 W86a]).
CHR: Farmington 1st Congregational Church recs, 1:54 (FHL #004241).
MAR #1: "Milford Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1640-1850," Barbour Collection (typescript, 1925, Conn. State Library, Hartford), 177 (FHL #002974).
MAR #2: No mar rec found. Children Nathaniel and Joseph Woodruff are referred to in the inv of estate of Sarah Woodruff of Farmington, 2 Feb 1691/2, Hartford District Probate, abstracted in Charles W. Manwaring, ed, DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, 3 vols. (Hartford, 1904-1906), 1:527 (FHL #974.6 P2m). The same two children are identified as children of his 2nd wife in the distribution of the estate of Matthew Woodruff of Farmington, 3 Dec 1691, Hartford District Probate, abstracted in Manwaring, DIGEST, 1:526-27. Sarah Woodruff is identified in the inv of the estate of her father John North [of Farmington?], 12 Feb 1691/2; and distribution of estate, 3 Mar 1691/2, Hartford District Probate, abstracted in Manwaring, DIGEST, 1:491-92.
DEATH: No death rec found. See the inv of estate of Matthew Woodruff of Farmington, 18 Nov 1691, adm and distribution 3 Dec 1691 (Ibid, 1:526-27).

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Matthew married Plumbe, Mary on 16 Jun 1668 in Milford,New Haven,CT. Mary (daughter of Plumbe, Robert and Baldwin, Mary) was christened in Feb 1644/1645 in Milford,New Haven,CT; died before 1686. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

CHR: Milford 1st Congregational Church recs, 1:3 (FHL #004936).
MAR: "Milford Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1640-1850," Barbour Collection (typescript, 1925, Conn. State Library, Hartford), 177 (FHL #002974).
DEATH: No death rec found. Mary must have been dead by 1686, by which time Matthew Woodruff was married to Sarah North.

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Notes:

BIRTH: Date and place of birth are approximations.
MAR: Springfield Vital Records, 1:14 (FHL #185414).
DEATH: Westfield Vital Records, A:84 (FHL #185474). Also see the will of Thomas Noble of Westfield, 11 May 1697, proved 5 Sep 1704, inv 18 Feb 1703/4, division of real estate 8 Apr 1704, additional settlement 29 Mar 1721, Hampshire Co. Probate, 3:119-21; 4:45 (FHL #879184). Death date is recorded as "21" Jan 1703/4 in land division.

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Thomas married Warriner, Hannah on 1 Nov 1660 in Springfield,Hampden,MA. Hannah (daughter of Warriner, William and Searle, Johanna) was born on 17 Aug 1643 in Springfield,Hampden,MA; died before 29 Mar 1721 in Northampton,Hampshire,MA(?). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: Springfield Vital Records, 1:5 (FHL #185414).
MAR #1: Ibid, 1:14.
MAR #2: Northampton Vital Records, 1:104 (FHL #186161).
DEATH: No death rec found. Hannah was dead by 29 Mar 1721 when the estate of her first husband, Thomas Noble, was settled (Hampshire Co. Probate, 4:45 [FHL #879184]). She was then the wife of Medad Pomeroy of Northampton.

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Notes:

BIRTH: "Windsor Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1637-1850," Barbour Collection (typescript, 1929; Conn. State Library, Hartford), 70 (FHL #002983).
CHR: Ibid.
MAR: DORCHESTER BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, 21st Report Boston Record Commissioners (Boston, 1890), 21 (FHL #974.46/D1 V2r). Dorchester is now part of Boston.
DEATH: Westfield Vital Records, A:10 (FHL #185474). Aged 50 yrs. Also see the inv of estate of Thomas Dewey of Westfield, 30 Sep 1690, Hampshire Co. Probate, 2:62 (FHL #879184), and the guardianship of son Israel, 14 Sep 1703 (Ibid, 3:105).
BUR: Inez Stevens Lederer, ed, "Tombstone Inscriptions of the Older Cemeteries of Westfield" (typescript, 1946), 24 (FHL #974.426/W2 V22d). "In the 52 year of his age."
OCC: Called "Cornet" on probate recs.

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Thomas married Hawes, Constant on 1 Jun 1663 in Dorchester,Suffolk,MA. Constant (daughter of Hawes, Richard and Anne) was born on 17 Jul 1642 in Dorchester,Suffolk,MA; was christened on 22 Nov 1642 in 1st Church,Dorchester,Suffolk,MA; died on 26 Apr 1703 in Westfield,Hampden,MA; was buried in Mechanic St. Cemetery,Westfield,Hampden,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: DORCHESTER BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, 21st Report Boston Record Commissioners (Boston, 1890), 2 (FHL #974.46/D1 V2r). Dorchester is now part of Boston.
CHR: RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH AT DORCHESTER IN NEW ENGLAND (Boston, 1891), 155 (FHL #974.461 K2r).
MAR: DORCHESTER BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, 21.
DEATH: Westfield Vital Records, A:10 (FHL #185474).
BUR: Inez Stevens Lederer, ed, "Tombstone Inscriptions of the Older Cemeteries of Westfield" (typescript, 1946), 20 (FHL #974.426/W2 V22d). The inscription gives death date as "27" Apr 1702.
NOTE: She is called "Constance" on some recs.

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