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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

Sarah Shepard

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 69 
  • Father:
  • Edward Shepard 
  • Mother:
  • Violet Charnel   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1636 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Jan 1679 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Tompson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Apr 1656 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Edward Tompson (Ahnentafel No:34 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some online family trees state incorrectly that Sarah Shepard was the daughter of Ralph Shepard and Thankslord Perkins. Robert Charles Anderson states in his book The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 (Vol. VI, p. 266) that Sarah Shepard [daughter of Ralph Shepard] “sailed for New England with her parents in 1635; no further record.”

    This Sarah Shepard is confirmed as the daughter of Edward Shepard in the record of “Shepard's and Mitchell's Church” written by Rev. Mitchell in 1658. In it he mentions Edward and Violet Shepard and their daughter Sarah, “now dwelling at Braintree.” [NEHGR 1878, Vol. 32, p. 322]

• Sources for Sarah Shepard

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/18/2017).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1858, Vol. 12, p. 347, Marriage record for Samuel Tomson and Sarah Sheppard.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1861, Vol. 15, p. 113.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1878, Vol. 32, pp. 322, 324-325.
  • ⁵ Bates, Samuel A., ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Randolph, MA: Daniel H. Huxford (1886), p. 661, Birth records for children of Samuel Tompson and Sarah Shepard .
  • ⁶ Bates, Samuel A., ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Randolph, MA: Daniel H. Huxford (1886), p. 661, Marriage record for Samuel Tompson and Sarah Shepard .
  • ⁷ Manning, William Henry, The Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England and Descendants . . ., Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Company (1902), 146.
  • ⁸ Sibley, John Langdon, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Volume 3, 1659-1677, Cambridge: Charles William Sever (1885), 306.