Re: Re. Shepards

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.org>]

>I would be thrilled if we are descended from Thomas Shepard, founding
>pastor of First Church of Cambridge Mass. When my daughter was a student
>at Harvard Law School we used to walk by it all of the time. The church
>was on one side of Cambridge Commons and my daughter's apartment was on
>the other side of the commons. We walked by it every time we went to
>Harvard Square.

Yes, a very familiar area to me, as well.

> I have found Shepards in Dorchester Mass.

Orcutt in his book Good Old Dorchester mentions two Shepards,
but they're both late nineteenth century.

> and Windsor
>Connecticut but I haven't been able to find any of them that went South.
>I guess I have some work to do in South Carolina (if the records exist).

Which they largely don't, due to the British burning the records in Charleston
to keep warm.

>Hugh

-jsq
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