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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Ralph Shepard |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Cal 1606 |
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| Marriage |
21 May 1632 |
London, EnglandSt. Bride Fleet Street
to Thankslord Perkins |
| Emigration[1] |
1635 |
On the Abigail. |
| Residence[1] |
1635 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[1] |
1637 |
Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[1] |
1639 |
Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[1] |
Bef 1650 |
Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[1] |
1 Apr 1651 |
Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[1] |
Bef 1666 |
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation[1] |
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Tailor |
| Death[1] |
20 Aug 1693 |
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Alt Death[1] |
11 Sep 1693 |
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| Burial[3] |
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Bell Rock Cemetery, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| The Abigail (1635)
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| The Abigail sailed in the summer of 1635.
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| Sailed: | summer 1635 from England under Master H. Hackwell
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| Arrived: | late summer? 1635 at New England
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| Founders of Dedham, Massachusetts
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| Winthrop's Journal states that a town was formed on the banks of the Charles on September 1, 1635--a town that must have been Dedham. Twelve men attended the first town meeting held on that day. In November 1636, those 12 and 7 others petitioned the General Court for an enlargement of their grant for a township. In July 1637, twelve more men arrived, bringing the total to 31, at which time the town admitted freeman and established a church. [1] [2]
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| 1636 Petitioners: Edward Allyne - Abraham Shaw - Samuel Morse - Phileman Dalton - Ezekiel Holliman - John Kingsbury - John Dwite - John Cooledge - Richard Ewed - John Howard - Lambert Genere - Nicholas Philips - Ralph Shepard - John Gay - Thomas Bartleet - Francis Austin - John Rogers - Joseph Shaw - William Bearstowe
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| Current Location: Norfolk County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: Newton, Cambridge Daughter Towns: Norwood, Westwood, Dover, Natick, Needham, Wellesley, Walpole, Medfield, Medway, Millis
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References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Ralph Shepard, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
6:262-69.
ORIGIN: Stepney, Middlesex [Shepard Fam 1:2].
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Abigail (on 30 June 1635, "Ralph Sheppard," age 29, and "wife & daughter," "Thankes Sheppard," aged 23, and "Sara Sheppard," aged 2, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the Abigail [Hotten 97]).
OCCUPATION: Tailor [ChBOP 122-23; MLR 3:105, 234, 6:338].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Malden church prior to 1 April 1651 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: On 1 April 1651, "Raph Shepard took the oath of a freeman" at Middlesex Court [MCR 1:11].
BIRTH: About 1606 (aged 29 on 30 June 1635 [Hotten 97].
DEATH: Charlestown 20 August 1693, "90" [ChVR 1:158]. (The tombstone at Malden has the following inscription: "Here lyeth the body of Ralph Shephard, Aged 90, died September 11, 1693" [NEHGR 4:66].)
- Ralph Shepard, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:75.
Ralph (Shepard), Dedham, came in the Abigail from London, 1635, aged 29, with w. Thanks, 23, and d. Sarah, 2; first sat down, prob. at Watertown, but by Farmer is call. of Weymouth, when he had there Isaac, b. 20 June 1639; and Trial, a d. 19 Dec. 1641; but had, also, Abraham; Thanks, 10 Feb. 1651; and Jacob, June 1653. Shattuck makes him live some time at Concord; but earlier he was of Rehoboth, perhaps in 1644; and yet more prob. to me appears his resid. at Malden, where one of the not freq. name was bur. 11 Sept. 1693, aged 90, with moderate allow. for usual exaggera. See Geneal. Reg. IV. 66. Trial m. 11 Mar. 1661, Walter Power.
- ↑ Ralph Shepard, in Find A Grave.
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