Samuel SHEPARD

Abt 1613 -

• Name	Samuel SHEPARD
  Birth	Abt 1613	England
  Gender	Male
  Notes	(1) Thomas Shepard's Memoir of His Own Life, annotated and printed in Young, Alexander, Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay from 1623 to 1636, Boston, MA: C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1846: Samuel Shepard came over with his brother, being at that time 22 years old, and settled at Cambridge. In 1639 he was one of the superintendents for erecting the first college-building at Cambridge. He returned to England after 1645, and in 1658 was a major, and living in Ireland. His wife's name was Hannah, and his daughter Jane remained here. See Newell, pp. 47, 54, 54; Farmer's Genealog. Reg.; Mass. Hist. Coll. xxviii. 268. (2) Ancestry.com, Cambridge, Massachusetts History, Supplement [database online], Orem, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1997: Shepard, Samuel, half brother to Rev. Thomas, 53; settler 1635, 35; res. S. side Harvard St. opp., his brother's house, XV, 7; chosen ensign, 43, 397; major in Cromwell's army, prob. in Col. Cook's reg't., lived in Ireland, prob. d. 1673, 397; grants of land to, 36, 42; representative 1639-40, 1644-5, 460; selectman 1638, 463; wife Hannah; managed College affairs; clerk of the writs, commissioner for small causes, app. Edward Collins his attorney, to whom administration granted 1673, 653, 654
  Person ID	I4851	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	William SHEPARD,   b. Abt 1570, Fossecut, near Towcester, Northamptonshire, England d. Abt 1615, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (Age ~ 45 years)
  Mother	--- (SHEPARD)
  Marriage	Aft 1608
  Family ID	F2680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart