Lt. Shadrach Hopgood

1704 - 1782  (77 years)

• Name	Shadrach Hopgood  [1]
  Prefix	Lt.
  Birth	6 Nov 1704	Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	6 Nov 1704	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 3, 4]
  Death	6 Oct 1782	Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Alternate death	8 Oct 1782	Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I5321	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Deacon Nathaniel Hopgood,   b. 21 Oct 1665, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Aft 1732 (Age > 68 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Ward,   b. 21 Mar 1672, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 5 Nov 1748, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	6 Sep 1695	Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F5618	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Weatherbee,   b. 1714, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 30 Nov 1803 (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1732  [1, 3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Hopgood,   b. 16 Jun 1744, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F887	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Sep 2015

  
  

• Photos

  Lt. Shadrach Hopgood's commission From the royal governor of Massachusetts, William Shirley. From THE HAPGOOD FAMILY: DESCENDANTS OF SHADRACH, 1652-1898, by Warren Hapgood.

  
  

• Notes

  "Commissioned Lieutenant by Governor William Shirley, in 1742, but what military service he performed is not known." (Harvard History, quoted in The Hapgood Family.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S186] The Hapgood Family: Descendants of Shadrach, 1656-1898 by Warren Hapgood. Boston, 1898. [S595] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Frances Kempton 1817-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996. [S742] The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925 by Charles Martyn. New York: Artemas Ward of the Seventh Generation, 1925. [S744] John Wetherbee of Marlboro and Stow, Massachusetts, Volume 1 by Ethel Wetherbee Mazza. New Hampshire: 1991. [S739] Vital Records of Harvard, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 by Thomas Williams Baldwin. Boston: 1917.