Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 89

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874


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SHEPARD From the records of Manchester it appears that this name was among the early ones of the Colony and it has been identified with the history of Massachus- etts as a state and with New Hampshire and most of the states of the Union. It has been prominent in military and civil service, in the propagation of churches and schools and in many worthy lines of endeavor.


(I) Ralph Shepard came from Stepney, England, sailing from London in the ship "Abigail" in 1635, and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts. At that time he was twenty-nine years of age and his wife, Thanks, was twenty-three. They were also accompanied by their daughter Sarah aged two years. He lived in Rehoboth and at Weymouth, having children born in both places, and passed his hst years in Malden, Massachusetts, where he was buried September 11. 1603. at the age of ninety. The chil- dren whess hirths are above noted were Isaac, Trial, Abraham, Thanks and Jacob.


(II) John Shepard, who was probably the son of Rabh Shepard, was born about 1640. and died in 1600. 1Ir resided in Concord. and was married in 1661 to Sarah daughter of Thomas Goble, of Con- cord.


(III) Daniel, son of John and Sarah ( Goble) Shepard, was born about 1671. and resided in Con- cord where he was married May 1. 1701. to Mary Smedley, born February 28. 1679, daughter of John and Sarah ( Wheeler) Smedley. The births of their seven children are recorded in Concord, namely :


John (died young). Mary, Jchn, Daniel. James, Dorothy and Martha.


(IV) John (2), second son and third child of Daniel and Mary (Smedley ) Shepard. was born May 30. 1706. in Concord, Massachusetts, and was an early settler in what is now Amherst, New Hamp- shire, removing thither about 1741. The record of the land sales show him to have been an extensive dealer in real estate. He built mills on the Sou- hegan river, which were long known as Shepard's Mills, and resided on a tract of land given him by the proprietors of the town. He was a prominent and useful citizen, but was one of the four men who refused to sign the "Association Test" in March, 1776. He was married (first) to Lydia Hartwell, who was born May 2. 1709, in Concord. Massachu- setts. daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Stearns) Hartwell. No record appears of her death. Colonel Shepard is known to have had a second wife, Sarah (French) Shepard, who was born in 1722. There were ten children, and judging from the dates it is probable that the four youngest belonged to the second marriage, but that is not certainly known. The children were: John, born in 1730. Lydia, 1735, married - Howe, and died June 14. 1791. Abi- gail. April 6, 1738, married Stevenson, and died in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire. August 23, 1822. Benjamin, March IS. 1744, whose sketch follows. Samuel. 1746. died January 12. 1835. Mary. Sep- tember 21. 1740, married Jacob Hildreth. of Amherst, New Hampshire, and died there January 22, 1823. , Sarah. October 17. 1757. married Stephen, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Harris) Kendrick, of Am- herst, New Hampshire, and died there September 5, 1840. Jotham. June 22, 1761, died young. Rachel, April 5. 1762. married. July 4. 1781. Samuel Dodge, Jr., and died July 23. 1785. Daniel, September 25. 1764, married. May 25, 1792. and died September 22. 1794. The eldest children were born in Concord, Massa- chusetts, and the others in Amherst. New Hamp- shire. Colonel John Shepard died November 29, 1785. His widow survived him seven years, dying October 21. 1792.


(V) Benjamin, second son and fourth child of Colonel John and Lydia (Hartwell) Shepard, was born March 18, 1744. in Amherst, New Hampshire. He married Lucy Lund, and they settled in the south part of Amherst on what is known as the "Honey Pot" farm. They had four sons: James, born June 14, 1777. William. July 20. 1780. married Lund. and settled in Vermont. John. Sep- tember 22, 1783. whose sketch follows. Benjamin. March 24. 1786 .. Benjamin Shepard died March 26, 1810. His widew died twelve years later. Novem- ber 6. 1822.


(VI) John, third son of Benjamin and Lucy (Lund) Shepard, was born in Amherst, New Hamp- shire. September 22. 1783. He married. June 4, 1811. Lucy Blanchard Nichols, daughter of Benjamin and Elmira ( Blanchard) Nichols, who was born in Pedford, New Hampshire. April 18. 1791. They settled in the north part of Bedford in 1824. They had nine children: Rebecca, born September 20, 1812, died Max 20. 1840 unmarried. Lucy M., No- vember 25, 1814. died October 5. 1865, unmarried. John W., August 27. 1816, married ( first) Silvina Field. October 18. 1837: married (second) Mary Carleten. who died in 1903. Andrew A .. mentioned below. Stillman A., mentioned below. Clarissa D., July 13. 1823. died August 10, 1840. Benjamin A .. August 10. 1827. died September 3. 1851. Mary Ann, February 16, 1830. lived in Winchester, Mas-


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sachusetts, and died in 1902, unmarried. Orleanna J., July 12, 1833, died September 25, 1857, unmar- ried. John Shepard died in Bedford, New Hamp- shire, May 11, 1870. His widow died March 31, 1874.


(VII) Andrew A., second son and fourth child of John and Lucy Blanchard (Nichols) Shepard, was born at Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, July 22, 1818. He was a real estate broker and leather mer- chant. He lived in Winchester, Massachusetts, forty years, and in 1891 came from Nashua to Milford, New Hampshire. He was twice married. His first wife was Harriet E. Brown, to whom he was united on January 1. 1850. On March 29, 1893, he married Lucy A., widow of Edward P. Sawtelle, and daugh- ter of Wilder and Julia Ann (Clark) Reed, born in Merrimack New Hampshire, July 31, 1838. There were no children. He died January 1, 1899.


(VII) Stillman Addison, third son and fifth child of John and Lucy Blanchard (Nichols) Shep- ard, was born January 18, 1821. He lived in Bed- ford, New Hampshire. He was a farmer, and was also quite extensively engaged in the lumber busi- ness. He was a selectman in 1861. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church, and were always ready to assist in any good cause. Mr. Shepard was active in filling the town's quota when the second call for soldiers was made during the Civil war. In 1853 he married Betsey Jane Nichols. daughter of Captain Benjamin Nichols, of Ports- mouth. New Hampshire. They have one child. Harry Addison, whose sketch follows. Stillman A. Shepard died June 4. 1800. aged sixty-nine years, and his widow died in 1897, aged sixty-three.


(VIII) Harry Addison, only child of Stillman A. and Betsey Jane (Nichols) Shepard, was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, December 22. 1856. He was educated in the public schools of Bedford and Manchester. New Hampshire. He became a farmer and lived on the old homestead until 1900, when he moved to Milford, where he has since resided. While in Bedford he was elected a supervisor, and he was a member of the Presbyterian Church of that place. In August, 1807. he married Mina B., daughter of Samuel J. and Mercy W. (Perry) Snowe, of Bar- rington, Nova Scotia. They had one child, Lucy J., born September 10. 1903, died February II, 1906. ( Second Family.)


Several emigrants of this name ar- SHEPHERD rived in New England from the mother country at about the same time. The family now under consideration is no doubt descended from early settlers in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and its ancestral line herewith pre- sented has been traced as far back as existing rec- ords will permit. The orthography here used is, in all probability. the original spelling of the name, which in common with many English patronymics has been subjected to variations.


(I) Samuel Sheppard (or Shepherd) was a resi- dent of Haverhill and Salisbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1673. The records of Haverhill show that on July 14. of that year he married Mary Page, wid- ow of John Dow. daughter of John and Mary (Marsh) Page, and granddaughter of Robert Page, of Ormsby, one of the pioncer settlers of Hampton, New Hampshire. She was baptized May 3, 1646, in Hingham, Massachusetts, and married (first), Oc- tober 23, 1665, in Haverhill, John Dow. son of Thomas Dow, early settler of Newbury. Samuel Sheppard subscribed to the oath of allegiance at Haverhill, in 1677, and died in Salisbury, June 13,


1707. His widow survived him over ten years, pass- ing away February 2, 1718. His children were: Mary, Bethia. Samuel, John, Israel, Sarah, died young ; and Sarah.


(II) John, second son and fourth child of Sam- 11el and Mary (Page) Sheppard (or Shepherd), was born April 21, 1682, in Haverhill. He removed to Salisbury, where he probably died in 1732. He was a soldier of the Salisbury Foot Company in 1702. He married. in Salisbury, 1711-12, Rachel Morrill, born August 24, 1692. in Salisbury, baptized Sep- tember 25, 1692, tenth and youngest child of Isaac and Phoebe (Gill) Morrill (see Morrill II). Their children were: Samuel, Eliphalet, John, Isaac and Abner.


(III) Isaac, third son of John and Rachel (Mor- rill) Shepherd, was born in Salisbury, July 23, 1721. His intention to marry Martha Brown, of Kensing- ton, New Hampshire, was entered November 19, 1747. Their children were: Samuel, Isaac, Oley, Betsey, Anna, Lucy and Sarah.


(IV) Captain Isaac, second son of Isaac and Martha (Brown) Shepherd, was born December 8, 1755. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war he was a resident of Deerfield, New Hampshire, and served in Captain Daniel Gordon's company of Colonel David Golman's regiment. He subsequenty served several terms upon the board of selectmen in Deerfield, was also chosen grand juror, constable, collector, town auditor, and representative to the legislature for the years 1808-09-10, and again in 1812. He married, October 19, 1778, Comfort Dam (afterwards spelled Dame), and the names of his nine children were: John, James, Patty, Mary, Isaac, Ezra, Joseph Hill, Polly and Sarah Perkins.


(V) James, second son and child of Captain Isaac and Comfort (Dame) Shepherd, was born in Deerfield, 1782, died September 29, 1822, aged forty years. Having completed his education he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Deerfield, and became a successful merchant. His citizenship was of a character well worthy of emulation, and his death was the cause of general regret. He married Polly Nealy, daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Shaw) Nealy, of Nottingham, New Hampshire, who were the parents of six children, namely: Polly, born July 29, 1786; Samuel, May 9, 1791 ; John. October 22, 1793: Henry, July 8, 1796; Daniel, October 19, 1799; Sallie, January 22. 1803. Joseph Nealy, one of seven children, born in 1762, served in the Rev- olutionary war; he married Rachel Shaw, of Epping, New Hampshire. James and Polly (Nealy) Shep- herd were the parents of seven children, four of whom attained years of maturity, as follows: Lucy Ann, Mary, Sarah and Betsey B. The mother of these children died at the age of eighty-five years.


(VI) Betsey Butler, only surviving child of James and Polly (Nealy) Shepherd, was born Oc- toher 20, 1818. She attended the common schools adjacent to her home, Dr. Hilliard's select school, South Newmarket Academy and New Hampton Academy. Provided with an excellent education and possessing the various other qualifications nec- essary for teaching, she acquired success in that field of usefulness. In 1843 she began teaching in Manchester, whither she had come from Newmar- ket in 1839, and for ten years was among the corps of instructors in the South grammar school. She then resigned and later went to Brooklyn, New York, where she taught for a period of two years, after which she returned to Manchester, where she has resided ever since, and where she enjoys the


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esteem and good will of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Miss Shepherd is a member of the First Congregational Church, and of Molly Stark Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo- lution.


There is well founded evidence that SHIPMAN Isaac H. Shipman was a lincal de- scendant from Edward or Edmund Shipman (as the name was later written), who came from England, according to best authority, and settled first in Saybrook, Connecticut. He soon removed to Westminster, Vermont, being one of the earliest settlers of that town. and where mem- bers of the family still live. In 1652 Edward Ship- man married (first) Elizabeth Comstock, who died in 1659. He married (second) Mary Andrews. His children by the first marriage were: Elizabeth, Ed- ward and William. By the second they were: John, Hannah, Samuel, Abigail and Jonathan.


(I) Abraham Shipman, the first of this family from whom an unbroken line is traced, was born May 19, 1742, probably in Westminster, Vermont. He married Esther Hyatt. Their children were: Abraham, John, Ruth, Polly, Esther Butler, Alvin and Charles.


(II) John, second son of Abraham and Esther (Hyatt) Shipman, was born June 22, 1771, in West- minster, Vermont, and died June 18, 1871, in North Springfield, Vermont, having attained the great age of one hundred years lacking four days. He was a man of marked business ability. For many years he ran a four-horse team from Vermonttown to Boston, taking large quantities of coun- try produce to market and exchanging it for gen- eral merchandise. Mr. Shipman was also intrusted with the important commission of conveying specie to Canada banks. The country at this time being sparsely settled, the journey was a perilous one, and he always had a companion, both men heavily armed, and in addition to this precaution they were accompanied by two mounted horsemen, one riding ahead, and one in the rear of the team containing the money. On putting up for the night at a tavern, they barricaded the door of their room with the heavy coin. Mr. Shipman helped in the construction of the first bridge that was built across the Connecti- cut river at Westminster, laying the first stringer. Although he was a man of sterling integrity, he was not a member of any church until after seventy years of age, when he and his wife were converted and baptized under the lahors of their son, the sub- ject of this article. In politics he was a Whig, and later a Republican. John Shipman married Lucy Hatch, born May 27, 1774, and died March 13, 1857. They were the parents of twelve children: Polly, John, Louisa, Asher, Esther Hyatt, Orpha, Matilda, Louisa, Isaiah Hatch, Lydia, Asher Southard and Lucy.


(III) Isaiah Hatch, son of John and Lucy (Hatch) Shipman, was born October 15, 18to. in Westminster, Vermont, and died April 25, 1872, in Lisbon, New Hampshire. When he was six years of age his parents removed to Andover. Vermont. where he worked the home 011 farm and attended the common schools until he was eighteen years of age. He possessed a very active temperament, and it is said of him that he was "naturally imaginative, of a kindly na- ture, that he was impatient of stagnation, and this was characteristic of his whole life, even to the end." Ile loved life, and made the most of his opportun-


ities which were largely those of his own creation. Mr. Shipman went to Springfield, Vermont, in 1828, and entered the employ of Oliver Cook, whose daughter he later married. Here he remained seven years. The home of Mr. Cook was one in which re- ligious instruction was made emphatic, and this in- fluence became an important factor in shaping the future life of Isaiah Shipman. He began the study of theology, and in 1840 was ordained a minister of the Christian Baptist Church. Henceforth "the ministry and his home life became the two havens of his earthly journey." The first church of which he had charge was at North Springfield, Vermont. A lattle later he embraced the Second Advent doc- trine, under William Miller. In 1844 he removed to Sugar Hill, Lisbon, New Hampshire, and became the pastor of the Advent church in that place, and where he preached for about one quarter of a cen- tury with the exception of the years 1850-51, when he went to Worcester, Massachusetts, to preach for the Second Advent Society in that city, returning to Sugar Hill in the fall of 1851. From Sugar Hill he went to Waterbury, Vermont, and assumed a pas- torate there. His health failing, he went south to Culpeper. Virginia, and remained one year, return- ing to Lisbon much improved in health, and built a church which he occupied until he was obliged in consequence of illness to abandon the pastorate, and the church property was turned over to the Congregationalists, who have since occupied it. Dur- ing all his ministry, Mr. Shipman was a very suc- cessful revivalist, being called to hold meetings in Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts. New York, Connecticut, and also in Canada, and at one time he supplied the pulpit in Boston for Rev. J. V. Hines, a prominent Adventist and editor of the Advent Herald. In all his life he was ever a wise counselor and friend. He was said to have officiated at more funerals and married a greater number than all the other clergymen in the towns where he lived, and he was frequently called to set- tle controversies in other denominations. In the Congregational Church in Lisbon there is a tablet hearing the following inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Rev. Isaiah Shipman, who built this house of worship. Let not his good name perish among the people." And his monument bears the fitting tribute: "They that turn inany to righteous- ness shall shine as the stars forever and ever."


November 17. 1835. Isaiah Shipman married Char- lotte R. Cook, daughter of Oliver and Polly (Bruce) Cook, of North Springfield, Vermont. Mrs. Cook was the daughter of Benjamin Bruce, a revolutionary soldier. an aide or body servant to General Washing- ton. Mr. Bruce was a Scotchman, and dated his ancestry back to the lineage of Robert Bruce. Mrs. Shipman was a woman of rare loveliness of char- acter, and the home was an ideal one. There were six children in this family, and it was one of more than ordinary intelligence, viz .: 1. Christian C., born September 25, 1836, in North Springfield, Vermont. She was educated in the common schools in her home town, in the public and high schools of Sugar Ilill. New Hampshire, and at the academy in Ches- ter. Vermont. She married. November 4. 1856, James G. Moor. (See Moor). They resided for a few years at Franconia. New Hampshire, when they removed to Lisbon. Mrs. Moor is a woman who possesses executive ability in a marked degree. She was for many years very active in the social affairs of Lisbon. She raised the money for the public library, and was the treasurer of the build-


CHARLES E. SEWARD. LUCY C. SEWARD. ALFRED SEWARD.


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ing committee, and for twenty-one years a member of the book committee. She was also on the school board for several years. In consequence of the fail- ing health of her husband, Mrs. Moor has practical- ly the charge of the large business interests he so ably developed. She embraced the Christian faith in 1884, and was a pioneer in the movement in Lis- bon. Nearly all the members of her father's family finally became members of this denomination. 2. Emily R., born September 14, 1838, and died in Lisbon, October 19, 1891. She married, January IO, 1858, Arthur C. Wells. 3. Sylvia A. Shipman was born June 19, IS41, and died August 31, 1901; Au- gust 27. 1859, she married Moses N. Howland. 4. James F .. oldest son of this family, was born 1844. He is


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a business inan in Waterbury, Vermont. He married (first) Julia Sargent ; (second) Mary Fogg. 5. Mary Ellen, born November 7, 18446, married. December 25, 1874, William P. Dillingham, ex-governor of Vermont and at present serving a term in the United States Senate. Mrs. Dillingham is deceased. 6. Charles H., youngest child of Isaiah and Charlotte (Cook) Shipman, was born May 5, 1849. He married Ellen Keith, October 14, 1874. They reside in Mont- pelier, Vermont, where Mr. Shipman is engaged in the boot and shoe business.


SEWARD "A series of names," says Charles Wareing Bordsley, in "English sur- names." "some of them connected with the heroic and legendary lore of Northern Europe, were formed from the root 'sig'- conquest. Many of these maintained a position as personal names long after the Norman invasion of England, and now exist in our directories as surnames. Nev- ertheless, they are ali but invariably found in their simple and uncompounded form. Our 'Sewards' 'Seawards' and 'Sawards' represent the chief of these. It is found in England in the seventh cen- tury, and was a great Danish name."


(I) Thomas Seward came from England in the middle of the eighteenth century and settled in Pepperell, Massachusetts, where he died August 19, 1757, aged about twenty-eight. His wife was Han- nah, who died at Sullivan, March 23. 1787, at the house of her son, Deacon Josiah Seward, in her fifty-eighth year. He maiden name is supposed to have been Hannah Martin.


(II) Captain Samuel, son of Thomas and Han- nah (Martin) Seward, was born in Pepperell, Mas- sachusetts, April 12, 1757, and died suddenly at the . village of Stoddard. New Hampshire, while on busi- ness there, December 8. 1833. He was with his brother, Deacon Josiah, at the battle of Bunker Hill. They marched with and under the celebrated Colonel Prescott, of Pepperell. Josiah and Samuel Todd were residents of that part of Stoddard, New Hamp- shire, which is now a part of Sullivan, in 1786, and both signed the petition for the incorporation of Sullivan, August 22, 1786. Samuel was a captain in the old Sullivan militia. He was several times a representative from Sullivan to the general court, and held all the important town offices. He married. March 27. 1783, Olive Adams, of Pepperell, who was born in Chelmsford. Massachusetts, March 4, 1758, and died in Sullivan, July 8, 1852, the oldest inhabi- tant of the town, and the last survivor of the orig- inal covenanters of the first Congregational Church of that town. They had nine children :


(III) Abijah. son of Captain Samuel and Olive (Adams) Seward, was born in Sullivan, January 24,


1795. and died there September 2, 1877, aged eighty- two. He was a farmer. He married, March 20, 1820, Roxanna Fay, of Fitzwilliam, who was born in that town, April 24, 1798, and died in Sullivan, July 24, 1880, aged eighty-two. They had six chil- dren.


(IV) Alfred, son of Abijah and Roxanna (Fay) Seward, was born in Sullivan, September 8, 1825, and died in Walpole, New Hampshire, September 23, 1862. He was a farmer and lumberman, and owned a sawmill in Sullivan. In 1859 or later he removed to Walpole and devoted the remainder of his life to agriculture. In politics he was a Republican. He attended the Christian Church of which his wife was a member. He married, June 14, 1854, Louisa Phebe Ball, who was born in Walpole, December 13, 1834, and died in that town, February 18, 1897, aged sixty-two. She was the daughter of Levi A. and 'Caroline (Hooper) Ball. Two children were born of this union: Frank, who lives in Walpole and Charles E., whose sketch follows. She mar- ried second, William Hall. By the union of Mrs. Seward with William Hall there was one daughter born, Percy Louisa, May 26, 1870, and died April 21, 1892. William Hall died January 26, 1892, and Mrs. Hall died February 18, 1897. aged sixty-two years. (V) Charles Ellery, second son and child of Alfred and Louisa P. (Ball) Seward. was born in Walpole, New Hampshire, August 19, 1862, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. After his marriage he settled on his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres, formerly the property of William B. Hall, three and one-half miles south of Walpole village. For some years he kept a large flock of sheep and grew middle wool, and also bred Chester White hogs. In late years these industries have become unprofitable, and he has given them up and now has a dairy of twelve cows. In politics he is a Republican, and has been active in political and social circles. In 1903-04-05 he was selectman. He is a charter member of Kil- burn Lodge, No. 102, and Rebekah Lodge, No. 89. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is also a member of Walpole Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, No. 125, of which he has been overseer and steward, and in which he held the office of master in 1902 and 1906. He married, September 9, 1884, Lucy C. Hall, who born in Westmoreland, New Hamp- shire December 13. 1862, daughter of Charles B. and Sarah J. (Hancock) Hall, of Surry and Walpole. They have one child, Alfred, born October 1, 1888, now (1907) attending Oberlin Business College, Albany, New York. The records of the Hall family date back only to the settlement of the town of Walpole, New Hampshire, 1750. Among its early settlers was one Jonathan Hall, several children and his mother, Mrs. Philip Hall. who was born 1684 and died in Walpole, 1774. The first family, ac- cording to tradition, settled in Massachusetts and were of Scotch descent. Jonathan Hall settled on land two miles southeast of the present village of Walpole, where he resided up to the time of his death. He was born in 1711, and died in Walpole, New Hampshire, 1802. His son, Jonathan, Jr., lived on the homestead until about 1812. when he re- moved to Williston, Vermont, where he spent the remainder of his life. Jonathan Hall (3) was born 011 the homestead, May 15, 1782, where he re- mained till 1808, when he removed to Westmore- land, New Hampshire. He married Phebe Brit- ton, of Easton, Massachusetts, born October 1. 1786. married, April 10, 1806. Jonathan (3) died in




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