Person:John Shepard (1)

John Shepard

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m. 29 Apr 1630

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Name	John Shepard
Alt Name	John Sheppard
Gender	Male
Marriage	29 Apr 1630	Kingweston, Somerset, Englandto Margaret Squire
Immigration^[3]	Abt 1638	New England, United States
Death^[1]	Sep 1650	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

▼References

↑ Shepard, Gerald Faulkner, and Donald Lines Jacobus. The Shepard Families of New England. (New Haven [Connecticut]: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1971-1973)
3:50.

'John Shepard died at Braintree in Sept. 1650 ...'
Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).

JOHN, Braintree, br. of Edward [Edward’s family has since been found and he has no brother John], had Samuel, wh. d. 29 Aug. 1641; was freem. 10 May 1643, in 1645, was one of the 32 petitnrs. desiring to plant at Narraganset. Happi. that project, caus. some trouble by adverse claim of Plymouth, and more by the iniquit. pursuit of the poor Gortonists, to drive them from Warwick, was overthrown by the Charter. giv. to Roger Williams; and both the unjust pretensions were abandon. See Winthrop II. 252.
↑ Bartlett, J. Gardner, and Edward Dean Adams. Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Mass: his English ancestry and some of his descendants. (NY: Private Printing, 1927)
p. 55.

'Margaret [Squire], ... married in England John Shepherd and emigrated with him in 1638 to New England.'

Note: GMB (p. 1528) says John immigrated in 1639, but the first source cited is this one, the second one doesn't indicate the immigration year.