Person:Samuel Shepard (8)

Name^[1]	Samuel Shepard
Gender	Male
Christening^[1]^[2]	26 May 1728	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesFirst Church
Marriage	Bef 1751	Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Hannah). to Hannah Bronson
Will^[2]	11 Oct 1793
Death^[1]^[2]	20 Dec 1793	Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Probate^[2]	15 Feb 1794	Will proved.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Samuel Shepard, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
527.

"Samuel Shepard s of Samuel & Bethia (Steele) [or Eunice (Butler)] bp May 26, 1728 (1 Ch Rec) died Dec 20, 1793 mar Hannah Bronson born Oct 3, 1730 died Jan 1804 dau of Timothy Bronson and Dorcas Hopkins. Samuel Shepard and Hannah his wife owned cov 1 Ch Apl 21, 1751."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 E 49. Samuel⁵ Shepard, in Shepard, Gerald Faulkner, and Donald Lines Jacobus. The Shepard Families of New England. (New Haven [Connecticut]: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1971-1973)
34.

"E 49. Samuel⁵ Shepard (Samuel,⁴ John,³ John,² Edward¹), baptized at Hartford, Conn., 26 May 1728, died at Southington, Conn., 20 Dec. 1793, aged 65; … Eliakim Peck of Farmington sold 19 Feb. 1761 to Samuel Shepard of Hartford, 37 acres formerly laid out in right of Daniel Andrews. [Farmington Land.] Shortly thereafter he moved to Southington, then a parish in Farmington. The 1790 Census shows Samuel Shepard living at Southington with a family of three females. The will of Samuel Shepard of Southington, dated 11 Oct. 1793, proved 15 Feb. 1794, named his wife Hannah, daughter Mary Shepard, and sons Isaiah, Samuel, Nathaniel, and Lemuel. The same are named in the distribution filed 3 Sept. 1794, which calls Samuel the eldest son. [Farmington Probate.]"