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References
- ↑ WT 5. John2 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)
3:330-31.
"WT 5. John2 Shepard (William1) … married second, after March 1690, Hannah (Green) Acey, … daughter of Henry and Mary (_____) Green, widow of John Acey of Rowley. … John Shepard of Rowley, late of Salem Village, tailor, conveyed with his wife Hannah, 15 Feb. 1691. [Essex County Land.]"
- ↑ 175. John Shepard, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933)
342.
"John Shepard was of Rowley, Sept., 1692, when he assisted in conveying one Mary Green of Haverhill, a prisoner charged with witchcraft, out of Ipswich Jail, for which act he was bound over to court. He married Hannah, widow of John Acy."
- Roach, Marilynne K. The Salem Witch Trials : a day-by-day chronicle of a community under siege. (New York, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002).
"August 2, 1692 Tuesday … Ipswich. Meanwhile, John Shepard of Rowley, formerly of Salem Village, broke his sister-in-law Mary Green out of Ipswich jail and put Constable William Baker to a shilling's expense finding and catching her." (p. 223)
"August 23, 1692 Tuesday Ipswich. The almanacs predicted a clear, bright day and before it was over, Goody Mary Green escaped the Ipswich jail a second time, again aided by her brother-in-law John Shepard." (p. 247)
"September 27, 1692 Tuesday Ipswich. … The court fined John Shepard of Rowley a stiff £30 plus costs for helping his sister-in-law Mary Green escape Ipswich jail, where she was being held on a witchcraft charge. He requested a reduction of the sum, for fines were supposed to be scaled to the payer's finances, and the justices altered it to £5 plus costs." (p. 303)
These incidents,
- The incidents of the Mary Green jail escapes along with the land transaction of 1691 confirm that this marriage occurred long before the birth of this couple's only known child in 1698.
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