Person:Daniel Shedd (5)

Daniel Shedd Genealogy Ancestry and Descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts By Frank E. Shedd Published for the Shedd Family Association Boston, 1921 Page 33

  In 1916 the Shedd Family Association secured a small plot of land on the crest of the Neck and erected thereon a memorial to Daniel Shed in the form of a lighthouse, consisting of a column of Quincy granite about twenty feet high surmounted by a substantial glass and copper lantern enclosing a powerful incandescent electric light. A bronze tablet on the base of the column bears the following inscription:

A Memorial to Danie Shed An Original settler and resident here in old Braintree 1642 - 1658 His descendants to the tenth generation erect this shaft to commemorate his life. They dedicate it to the City of Quincy and as a beacon to the Sailors Snug Harbor which for over 60 years has occupied the land once tilled by their ancestor for whom it was for the first century called Shedds Neck a name that it is hoped may now be restored. Erected August 1916 by The Shedd Family Association