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 115
Dea. Jacob Shed (18. Dea. Nathan 3, Nathan 2, Daniel 1), was born 2 Aug. 1726 in that part of Billerica which eight years later was set off as Tewksbury. On 29 Mar. 1752, about five months after his marriage, he joined the Tewksbury Church of which he later became a deacon, as his father had been before him. He was a thrifty and prosperous farmer, took and active part in town affairs and lived to a ripe old age, highly respected. When a young man he was enrolled a corporal in one of the town train-bands (or militia companies) commanded by Capt. Thomas Flint; and served in a detachment commanded by Ens. Abraham Stickney called out on 16 Aug. 1757 to join an army dispatched to the relief of Fort William Henry, N. Y., then besieged by a greatly superior force of French and Indians from Canada. The Tewksbury force marched as far as Worcester, Mass., and was then dismissed as intelligence arrived that the fort had surrendered. Jacob Shed is credited with seven and a half days service in this French and Indian War expedition. (Massachusetts Archives, vol. 95, pp. 501 and 503.) In the United States Census of 1790, Jacob Shed appears as head of a family in Tewksbury, Mass., comprising one male over sixteen years, two males under sixteen years and three females.
Dea. Jacob Shed died in Tewksbury 28 Feb. 1810, in his eighty-fourth year. In the oldest cemetery near Tewksbury village may still be seen the inscribed tombstones marking the last resting place of Dea. Shed and Rebecca his wife; these are the only stones there to the memory of any of the Shedds of his generation, but on either side are several mounds of graves of others of his kindred.
He married at Tewksbury 7 Nov. 1751, Rebecca Levistone, born Billerica 26 Nov. 1726, daughter of Seth and Hannah (Frost) Levistone; she died in Tewksbury 18 Jan. 1803, in her seventy-seventh year according to her gravestone.
