Person:Nathan Shedd (6)

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 59 Nathan Shed (Daniel 1), the youngest child of Daniel and Elizabeth Shed, was born in Billerica, Mass., 5 Feb. 1668/9. and became a freeman 18 May 1685. Of his brothers, Daniel the eldest had died and the others were established in homes of their own, so it was quite natural that this father should look upon him, the last at the fireside, with especial favor and as the one to receive the remainder of his property, and from whom he should ask care and support due to advancing age. About the time of Nathan's marriage in 1694 he agreed with his parents for their future maintenance, the written covenant thereto was recorded at Cambridge, and full copy of it has been previously given in the account of the father Daniel Shed. Thus we see that Nathan Shed was possessed at the start of his married life of a large and valuable estate, which he increased by later acquisitions and grants. In the general distribution of the common lands of the town in 1707 his share was in the proportion of a "four acre lot" (i.e. 4/10 of the unit right of 125 acres). The next year (1708) his apportionment was 39 acres from the commons west of the Concord River; his land was near Chelmsford line and within the later limits of that town. His house was doubtless the same that his father occupied and was situated near the centre of what is now Billerica village on the easterly side of the Concord or Bedford road, on the estate in recent years owned by Mrs. Martha (Hill) Sage. He died 18 June 1736 at the age of sixty-seven years, having given over his property, for the maintenance of himself and his wife, to his son William Shed on 25 May 1732, following the same course adopted by his own father about forty years previously. He married about 1694, Mary French, born in Billerica 4 Mar. 1669/70, daughter of John and Mary (Rogers) French; she died in Billerica 21 Aug. 1740.