Rev. Thomas Shepard1,2,3,4,5

#3030, b. 5 April 1635, d. 22 December 1677
FatherRev. Thomas Shepard b. 5 Nov 1605, d. 28 Aug 1649
MotherMargaret Touteville d. Feb 1635/36

Spouse

Anna/Hannah Tyng b. c 1640, d. 1709

BMDB

     Rev. Thomas Shepard was born on 5 April 1635 at England. He married Anna/Hannah Tyng, daughter of William Tyng and Elizabeth Coytmore, on 3 November 1656 at Charlestown, Middlesex, Mass.6 Rev. Thomas Shepard died on 22 December 1677 at Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass, at age 42.7

Other Events

     In 3 October 1635 Rev. Thomas Shepard and his parents emigrated from England to Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass in the Defence.8 He graduated from Harvard with Rev. Joshua Moody, Rev. John Whiting, and Samuel Hooker, all class of 1653.9 Rev. Thomas Shepard delivered the election sermon for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts in 1663.10

Time Line

Birth1635, England
Emigration1635, Cambridge, Middlesex, MassRev. Thomas Shepard8
Graduation1653, Harvard, Cambridge, Middlesex, MassRev. Joshua Moody9
Marriage1656, Charlestown, Middlesex, MassAnna/Hannah Tyng6
Milit-Beg166310
Death1677, Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass7
ChartsDescendants of Thomas Shepard
Descendants of FatherTyng

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Citations

  1. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 4:076.
  2. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 2:1364.
  3. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 7 vols., (Boston: NEHGS, 1999-2011), 6:273-81.
  4. Gerald Faulkner Shepard and Donald Lines Jacobus, The Shepard Families of New England, 3 vols., (New Haven, Conn: The New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1973), 3:296.
  5. George L. Shepard, A Genealogical History of William Shepard of Fossecut, Northamptonshire, England (Salem, Mass: Observer Book and Job Print, 1886), 25-31.
  6. Roger D. Joslyn, Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1984, 1995), 1:20.
  7. Joslyn, Charlestown VR's, 1:100.
  8. Anderson, GM2, 6:273.
  9. John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, 3 vols. (Cambridge: University Press: Welsh, Bigelow & Co., 1873-1885), 1:343, 367.
  10. Oliver Ayer Roberts, History of . . . the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888, 4 vols. (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1895), 1:200.