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Abigail (Smith) Adams

First Lady of President John Adams

Thomas Shepard

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Abigail (Smith) Adams — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 52 
  • Father:
  • William Shepard 
  • Mother:
  • ----- Bland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Nov 1604 
  • Birth Location:
  • Towcester, Northamptonshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Aug 1649 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  • 28 Aug 1649 
  • Burial Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Touteville
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jul 1632 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Buttercrambe, Yorkshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Shepard

  Thomas Shepard Jr. (Ahnentafel No:26 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources give Thomas Shepard's birth year as 1605.

• Additional marriages for Thomas Shepard

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  • Spouse:
  • Joanna Hooker
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1638

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaret Borodell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Sep 1647

• Sources for Thomas Shepard

  • ¹ Services at the Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Organization of the First Church in Cambridge Feb 7-14, 1886, Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, (1886), 145.
  • ² Albro, John A., The Life of Thomas Shepard, Boston: (1870), 141, 295.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 984.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 303.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 128.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 273-281.
  • ⁷ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 109.
  • ⁸ Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 60.
  • ⁹ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), 223-224.
  • ¹⁰ Shepard, Thomas and Nehemiah Adams, The Autobiography of Thomas Shepard, The Celebrated Minister of Cambridge, N. E. with Additional Notices of His Life, Boston: Pierce and Parker (1832), 15.
  • ¹¹ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 11.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Thomas Shepard (minister), (accessed 02/27/2010).