Person:John Shepard (1)

Savage’s: 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.