Person:Edward Shepard (4)

Calls himself a mariner in two deeds. Harvard’s steward also recorded wheat from Edward Shepard’s vessel.[S2]

Will names wife Mary, children John, Elizabeth, Deborah, Daniel Pond in lieu of deceased dau Abigail and Sarah.

Connection to Violet researched by Lawrence Sheperd and ducumented in a series of articles in Heritage Quest in 1989. [S1]

• The baptisms for Violet and Elizabeth and the marriage to Edward are the only IGI events found with the name Violet connected to a Shepherd.
• Mistley and Erwarton are just across the river from each other - a river that leads to several major ports. Edward was a mariner, a master by 1648.
• An Edward Shepherd was master of the Samuell of Manningtree ~1624-1633, a small vessel used in coastal trade.
• Edward Shepherd was assessed on the tax rolls of 1636 in Lawford, Essex.
• Parish records for Lawford list Edward’s children with father William and mother Violet, but there is no William that this could be.
• A search of nearby parishes for Edward Shepards revealed a birth record and connected wills in Elmstead, a parish in far northeast Essex.

1. ↑ Shepherd, Lawrence. Search for the Origins of Edward Shepherd. Heritage Quest.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Shepard, James; Ann Elizabeth Bontecou Shepherd; and Naman Sheppard. Descendants of Edward Shepard, Cambridge, Mass. (1639). (Boston: David Clapp & son, 1878).