id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-962 Thomas Shepard (minister) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1166 130 64 Thomas Shepard (5 November 1605 – 25 August 1649) was an English, afterwards American Puritan minister and a significant figure in early colonial New England. Following the death of his eldest son, he left England in 1635 with wife and younger son on a difficult voyage for Massachusetts in colonial America where he became minister of one of the leading churches in the colonies, the First Church in Cambridge (Congregational, currently UCC), Massachusetts and also of Harvard University, then a very new school charged with training men for the Christian ministry in the Puritan colonies of New England. Adams (ed.), The Autobiography of Thomas Shepard, the celebrated minister of Cambridge, N.E., with additional notes of his life and character (Pierce and Parker, Boston 1832). Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-962.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-962.txt