Ancestry of
Gilbert Clifford Noble

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Ezekiel Shepard Jr.

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Gilbert Clifford Noble — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • Ezekiel Shepard 
  • Mother:
  • Thankful Woodruff   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Dec 1743 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 4 Oct 1775 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Dec 1766 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Jared Shepard (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  • Notes: 

  • Ezekiel Shepard's birth is recorded in the vital records for both Westfield, Massachusetts, and Litchfield, Connecticut. His father was from Westfield and his mother from Litchfield. His father died four months before his birth, so it's possible that his mother went home to her parent's in Litchfield to give birth to Ezekiel. He also joined a Connecticut regiment during the French and Indian Wars which may support him being born and raised in Connecticut.

• Sources for Ezekiel Shepard Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for Ezekiel Shepard and Sarah Porter.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for son Jared Shepard.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Ezekiel Shepard.
  • ⁴ Boltwood, Lucius M., History and Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Massachusetts: With Genealogical Notes of Other . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1878), 408.
  • ⁵ Shepard, Gerald Faulkner and Donald Lines Jacobus, The Shepard Families of New England, Vol. 3: Additional Family Groups, North Haven, Connecticut: The New Haven Colony Historical Society (1973), 98, 107.
  • ⁶ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vols. 1-55, Litchfield, Birth record for Ezekiel Woodruff.
  • ⁷ Woodruff, George C., A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants of the Town of Litchfield, Conn . . ., Hartford: Hartford Press, The Case, Lockwood and Brainerd Company (1900), 196.