Rev. Thomas Shepard

1635 - 1677  (42 years)

• Name	Thomas Shepard  [1]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	5 Apr 1635	London, England   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Baptism	Abt 7 Feb 1636	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Dec 1677	Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 6]
  Person ID	I42986	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Rev. Thomas Shepard,   b. 5 Nov 1604, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England d. 25 Aug 1649, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 44 years)
  Mother	Margaret Touteville,   b. Bef 3 Aug 1606   d. Feb 1636, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 29 years)
  Marriage	23 Jul 1632	Buttercrambe in Bossal, Yorkshire, England   [1, 5]
  Family ID	F24120	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Tyng,   b. 6 Jan 1640, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 5 Aug 1709, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	3 Nov 1656	Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Anna Shepard,   b. 8 Sep 1663, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 24 Jul 1708, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F25127	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Harvard, 1653; pastor at Charlestown from 13 Apr 1659. Died of smallpox, which he contracted from a parishioner who had requested a pastoral visit.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S8478] The Life of Thomas Shepard by John A. Albro. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1847. [S8486] Find a Grave page for Rev Thomas Shepard Jr.. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S6426] John Insley Coddington, "A Royal Descent from King Edward III of England to Thomas1 Coytmore of Charlestown, Mass., Elizabeth Wife of William1 Tyng of Boston, Sarah Wife of Ralph1 Eddowes of Philadelphia Co., Pa., John Quincy Adams, Neville Chamberlain and Other." The American Genealogist 32:9, 1956. [S6426] John Insley Coddington, "A Royal Descent from King Edward III of England to Thomas1 Coytmore of Charlestown, Mass., Elizabeth Wife of William1 Tyng of Boston, Sarah Wife of Ralph1 Eddowes of Philadelphia Co., Pa., John Quincy Adams, Neville Chamberlain and Other." The American Genealogist 32:9, 1956., date only.