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 OMETIME in the year 1628-9, from what ship no record 
 remains to tell, Daniel Shepardson landed at Salem, 
 Mass., being one of a numerous company who sought 
 homes in America at that period of English history. A 
 tradition indicates that he was accompanied by his brother, 
 John, who was very soon killed in a dispute by a spade thrown 
 at him by an adversary. The location of "Old Naumkeag" 
 did not suit some of the immigrants, who moved to Charles- 
 town, where Daniel Shepardson is recorded as a citizen in 1632. 
 He was not one of the wealthy members of the Puritan body, 
 but was a craftsman, a blacksmith by trade. 
 
 "Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, 
 Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the jjeople." 
 
 He was not an educated man, but he had so much company 
 in that plight among the early Americans, that it is not spe- 
 cially to his discredit that his will is acknowledged by a cross, 
 with "the marke of Daniell Sheopardson" beneath it. Like 
 most of the Puritans he was intensely superstitious, a believer 
 in signs and omens, and when one day, as he was working at 
 his forge, a stone fell from it and crumbled into powder, he 
 recognized the evil portent and gave to his wife the nails which 
 he was just making, saying, "They will come in handy some 
 day." The nails were kept, and when he died, 26 July, 1644, 
 they were used in the making of his coffin. 
 
 He had a comfortable home with three acres of ground 
 around it, his blacksmith shop, and fifty acres of pasture and 
 meadow land, scattered here and there, so that his widow, 
 Joanna, who had the use of the property during her lifetime, 
 was quite well fixed for a woman of the day. His family com- 
 prised a son, Daniel, and two daughters, Lydia and Joanna. 
 
 When the children were ready to marry, Daniel married 
 Elizabeth Call ; his sister, Lydia, married Elizabeth's brother, 
 Thomas Call, Jr. ; and after the death of their father, their 
 mother, Joanna Shepardson, married the father of the Call 
 children, Thomas Call, Sr., so that the relationships became a 
 little mixed. 
 
 The second Daniel followed the trade of his father, making 
 his home at Maiden, Mass., perhaps moving later to Attle- 
 boro. He had three sons, the eldest of course being named 
 Daniel. John and Nathaniel lived to have families of their 
 own, but the third Daniel was a soldier, a lieutenant in the 
 Ninth Massachusetts Lnfantry, who went to Canada in 1690 
 and was never heard of again, a type of many who perished in i 
 

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 Shepardson. 
 
 the colonial wars of the English against the French. Daniel 
 the father lived to be quite old, and as "Old Goodman Daniel 
 Shepardson" figured to some extent in the courts. In some 
 way his property became involved, and was saved after consid- 
 erable outlay. 
 
 Nathaniel Shepardson, of Attleboro, Mass., represented the 
 third generation. His wife was named Mary, and his children 
 were at least five in number, recognized in the town records 
 as "Shepparson," "Shepperson" and "Sheppardson" in addition 
 to the family accepted "Shepardson." Two of the children 
 were Jonathan, and his brother John, four years younger. 
 Jonathan married Abigail Fuller, and moved away from Attle- 
 boro to Cumberland, R. I., and later to Templeton, Mass. 
 John married Abigail Richardson, and moved to Ash Swamp, 
 Conn. These two lines are indicated, because of a question 
 often asked in Granville, "What relation is 'Deacon' Shepard- 
 son to 'Doctor' Shepardson?" The genealogical history of 
 these families follows : 
 
 1. Daniel Shepardson, blacksmith of Charlestown, Mass., coming from 
 Salem. Admitted to the Church in Charlestown 8 June, 1633. Removed 
 
 to Maiden, where he died 26 July, 1644. His wife was Joanna , maiden 
 
 name and date of mai'riage unknown. She survived her husband and mar- 
 ried (2) Thomas Call, Sr. She died 30 January, 1661. Children : 
 
 i. Lydia Shepardson. bapt. 24 July, 16:!7 ; m. (1) Thomas Call, Jr.; (2) Thomas 
 Skiinier. Child, Joanna. 
 
 2. ii. Daniel SiiEPAKDSON, bapt. 14 June, 1&41. 
 
 iii. Joanna Shkpardson. bapt. 13 March, 1012: m. November, 1G41, Roger Kenuicut 
 of Maiden, and later removed to Swanzey. Children, Joanna, Lydia and John. 
 
 2. Daniel SiiEi'ARDSON (BanieP) succeeded his father as blacksmith at 
 Maiden. He was a freeman of Middlesex County, INIass., 29 May, 1674, and 
 took the oath of fidelity 15 December, 1674. He married, 11 April, 1668, 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Call, Sr., and widow of Mr. Samuel Ting- 
 ley of Maiden. Toward the end of life he moved to Attleboro, where he 
 was known as "old goodman Daniel Shepardson." He died 11 March, 1691. 
 Children : 
 
 i. Daniel Shepardson. bapt. June, 1G09: lieutenant in 9th Mass. Regt. against 
 Canada in 1691 and never heard from afterwards. He may have married and 
 had son John, b. 22 July, 16S5, d. 15 October, 1685. 
 
 ii. John Shepardson, bapt. January, 1071. 
 
 o. Iii. Nathaniel Shepardson, bapt. 28 October, 16S0. 
 
 iv. Elizabeth Shepardson ; m. Robert Fuller, 10 January, 1699. 
 
 V. Mary Shepardson; m. Joseph Ingraham, 11 April, 1700. 
 
 vi. Joanna Shepardson ; m. John Fuller, 22 December, 1701. 
 
 ;■>. Nathaniel Shepardson (Daniel,^ DanieP) may have moved from 
 Attleboro, Mass., to Rehoboth, %vhere two of his children were baptized, 
 
 although all are recorded in Attleboro. His wife was Mary . From 
 
 similarity of names and some other circumstances, he may be the one 
 referred to on page 236 of " Hinman's Connecticut Settlers" as " Nathaniel 
 Shippason, widow Mary, of Hebron, estate £207. He died 1718. Children 
 were Jonathan, Nathaniel, John, Ehzabeth, Mary, Mercy, Joanna, and 
 others." Children recorded in Attleboro: 
 
 4. i. JoN.\.THAN Shepardson, b. 20 September, 170C. 
 
 ii. Nathaniel Shepardson, b. 26 March, 1708. 
 
 iii. Elizabeth Shepardson, ■) V no i\r„, ^-^n 
 iv. Mary Shepardson, j- 1). i^ May, i/io. 
 
 5. V. John Shepardson, b. 25 June, 1712. 
 
Shepardson. 
 
 4. Jonathan Shepardson (Nathaniel,^ Daniel,'^ DanieU) lived most of 
 his life in Attleboro, Mass., and may have spent some time in Cumberland, 
 R. I., before settling in Templeton, Mass., where he died in 1790. He mar- 
 ried in Attleboro, Abigail, daughter of John and Elizabeth Fuller, who was 
 born 22 April 1717. Joseph Shepardson, who gathered extensive notes 
 about the family, all of which were destroyed by fire before publication, 
 reports that Jonathan's wife, " Merriam, died in 1771 very aged," and says 
 children were Jonathan, born 3 January, 1735, Nathaniel and Joanna. The 
 Attleboro recoi'ds show no other Jonathan of this generation who might be 
 confused with this line, and show children : 
 
 i. Nathaniel Shepardson, b. 18 June, 1731 ; lived in Cumberland, R. I. 
 
 ii. Jonathan Shepardson, b. 21 May, 17.S2, d; early. 
 
 C. iii. Jonathan Shepardson, b. 19 Jiinuary, 17o4; perhaps d. early and name given 
 to son b. 3 January, 1735. 
 
 iv. Abigail Shepard.son. b. 17 April, 1736. 
 
 v. Mary Shepardson. b. 10 October, 1743, d. 30 March, 174&. 
 
 vi. Mary Shepardson, b. 1 May, 1746, d. 31 March, 1752. 
 
 Perhaps also : 
 
 vii. Joann.v Shepardson; m. 6 December, 1781, John Christianmillar. 
 
 5. John Shepardson {Nathaniel,^ Daniel,'^ DanieU) married Abigail 
 Richardson and had children born in Ash Swamp, later called Adams, 
 Conn. No I'ecord of these children except — 
 
 7. i. William Shepardson. 
 
 6. Jonathan Shepardson {Jonathan,*^ Nathaniel,^ Daniel,'^ Daniel}) mar- 
 ried in Attleboro, Mass., Miriam, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Carpenter) 
 Follett, who was born 11 February, 1733-4. In 1768 the family moved to 
 Templeton, Mass., having possibly lived a while in Cumberland, R. I. They 
 removed in 1790 to Royalston, "Mass. They both died the same day, 3 
 December, 1804. Children : 
 
 i. Jonathan Shepardson, b. 23 April, 1758. 
 
 ii. Rebecca Shepardson, b- 30 November, 1759; m. Pratt. 
 
 iii. Miriam Shepardson, b. 1 September, 1761. 
 
 iv. Joanna Shepardson, b. 22 February, 1765. 
 
 V. Rachel Shepardson, b. 6 February, 1767. 
 
 vi. Beulah Shepardson, b. 28 May, 1769. 
 
 vii. Abigail Shep.a.rdson,\^ June 1 1771 Abio-ail m ■ - Hi<^o-ins 
 
 viii. Is.\AC Shepakdson, 3 d. juue i, i//i. ADie,aum. ±iio«ms. 
 
 ix. John Shepardson, b. 23 October, 1773. 
 
 8. X. Daniel Shepardson, b. 6 October, 1775. 
 
 8. William Shepardson (/o7m,* Nathaniel,^ Daniel,^ Daniel^) probably 
 
 lived in Ash Swamp (or Adams), Conn., before removing to Vermont. 
 
 Children : 
 
 i; William Shepardson. 9. vi. Ancel Shepardson, b. 14 Janu- 
 
 ii. Jonathan Shepardson. ary, 1759. 
 
 iii. Daniel Shepard.son, d. without vii. Abigail Shepardson. 
 
 issue. viii. Molly Shepardson. 
 
 iv. Isaac Shepardson. ix. Hepsibah Shepardson. 
 V. Otis Shepardson. 
 
 8. Daniel Shepardson (Jonathan,^ Jonathan,'^ Nathaniel,^ Daniel," Dan- 
 iel^) lived in Royalston, Mass. Farmer. Married, 9 September, ISOi, Pru- 
 dence, daughter of David and Elizabeth ( ) Cook. She died 24 June, 
 
 1858, aged 78. He died 5 May, 1856. Children : 
 
 i. Jonathan Shepardson, b. 23 November, 1802, d. 18 January, 1875. 
 ii. Prudence Shepardson, b. 12 August, 1804 ; m. ^Villiam Moore ; d. 26 June, 1877. 
 iii. LiTY Shepardson, b. 19 April, 1806, d. 5 June, 1820. 
 
 iv. Eliza Shepardson, b. 4 April, 1808 ; m. Charles Moore ; d. , 
 
 V. David Cook Shepardson. b. 31 May, ISIO, d- 7 September, 1813. 
 vi. Millie Shepardson, b. 25 March, 1812; m. George Moore, Athol, Mass.; d. 1893. 
 10. vii. Daniel Shepardson, b. 27 July, 1813. 
 
 viii. David Cook Shepardson, b. 2 October, 1815, d. 1893. 
 ix. John Shepardson, b. 12 April, 1820, d. 14 December, 1889. 
 X. Eei Shepardson, b. 10 September, 1821, d. 5 March, 1895. 
 
Shepanison. 
 
 9. Ancel Shepardsox {William,'" John,* Naihanie},^ Daniel,'^ Daniel^) 
 married, '25 July, 1782, Cbarlotte Colgrove, who was boni 20 February, 
 17G2, and died 23 February, 1850. He died 9 Fel>rnary, 1840. They lived 
 in Middletown, Rutland County, \'t., and in Fairfax, Franklin County. 
 Children : 
 
 i. Clarissa SiiEPAP.psoN, h. 27 January, 1783, d. .30 August, 1830, in Granville, Ohio, 
 ii. Asa Shepahdson," b. 12 December, 178-1, d. 1-1 August, 1812, in Delaware Co.. Ohio. 
 11. iii. Daniel Shepardson, b. 27 September, 1787. 
 
 iv. David Shepaedson, b. 25 October, 1790. d. 15 Deeember. 1791. 
 V. Ancel Shepardson, b. 10 July, 179.3, d. 21 March, 1875, in Fairfax, Vt. 
 vi. Joel Shepardson, b. 28 June, 1796, d. 25 December, 1850, in Vermont, 
 vii. LoRiNDA Shepardson, b. 23 April, ISOO. 
 viii. Calista Shepardson, b. 10 February, 180G, d. 13 August, 1801, in Alexandria, O. 
 
 10. Daniel Smepard.son (Daniel,^ Jonathan,'" Jonathan,* Nathaniel,^ Dan- 
 iel,- Daniel^), born in Royalston, Worcester County, ]Mass., was the first of 
 the family name in America to attend college, spending two years at Am- 
 herst College and two years at Brown University. Alpha Delta Phi. Did 
 not graduate, but received honorary degree of Master of Arts from Granville 
 College (now Denison University) in 1846 and same degree from Brown 
 University in 185:'., also the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the 
 University of Lewisburg (now Bucknell University) in 1872. 'Moved to 
 Ohio in 1841, traveling by fltage to Albany, thence by packet boat on the 
 Erie Canal tliirtccu days and nights to Buffalo, thence six more days by 
 lake and Ohio Canal to Newark, Licking County. Baptist minister in 
 Zanesville, Cincinnati, Cheviot and IMqua. Principal of Woodward High 
 School, Cincinnati, 1855-1862, and for sixteen years member of Board of 
 Examiners and Inspectors of Schools in that city. Principal of the Young 
 Ladies' Institute, Oranville, Ohio, 1868-1887, and founder of Shepardson 
 College, the women's department of Denison University. Member of Board 
 of Trustees of Denison University 1843-1860 and 1880-1899. He died in 
 Granville, 9 December, 1899. He' married, (1) 1840, in Sandistield, Mass., 
 Harriet S. Wilcox, who died, in Newark, Ohio, August, 1841 ; (2) 1 Decem- 
 ber, 1842, Harriet Bestor Beard of Zanesville. Ohio, who died in Cincinnati 
 9 June, 1853; (3) 18 June, 1854, Eliza Ann, daughter of James Rogers and 
 Hannah (Mulloy) Smart, who was born 21 March, 1835, in Orange, Meigs 
 County, Ohio. Children: 
 
 i. Infant .son, b. Augu.st, 1841, d. same month, 
 ii. Mary Shepardson, d. in infancy. 
 
 iii. Harriet Julia Siu^pardson, b. 29 April, 1852: m. 1 February, 187G, James Mur- 
 doch of Oneida, 111.; d. March, ls79. Two children. 
 
 iv. Hannah Shepardson, b. 28 January, 1855, d. 20 February, 1855. 
 V. Mary Ella Shepardson, b. 3 May, 185G ; m. 28 October, 1882, H. Sterling Pome- 
 of Sommers. Mass.; now resides in Boston, Mass. Six children. 
 
 vi. Eliza Davis Shepardson, b. 26 October, 18.58 : m. 26 October, 1881. diaries Allen 
 Marsh of Chicago, 111.; d 22 April, 1889. Four children. 
 
 vii, Jo Hannah Shepardson, b. 3 January, 1860 : m. 12 December, 1883, Francis AVil- 
 
 Thorne of Granville, Ohio ; now resides Portsmouth, Va. Five children, 
 viii. Daniel Shepardson, b. 2 July, 1861, d. 15 August, 1861. 
 ix. Francis VVayland Shepardson, b. 15 October, 1862 ; m. 3 September, 1884, Cora 
 Lenore Whitcorab of Clinton, lud. ; Professor of American History in the 
 University of ("hicago. 
 X. George Defrees Shepardson, b- 20 November, 1864 ; m. 31 August, 1892, Harriet 
 Kingol King's Mills, Ohio; Professor of Electrical Engine'eriug in the Uni- 
 versity of Minnesota, 
 xi. Daniel Shepardson, b. 1 December, 1868; m. 27 August, 1895, Mary Belle Smith 
 
 of Newark, Ohio : d. 25 November, 19l5, in Honolulu, H. I. 
 xii. John Ernest Shepaedson, b. 26 October, 1877; Instructor in Science in Dixon 
 Academy, Covington, La. 
 
 11. Daniel Shepaedson (Avcel,^ William,^ John,'^ Nathaniel,'^ Daniel,^ 
 Daniel'^), born in Middletown, Rutland County, Vt. Millwright at Fairfax, 
 Vt. Removed with his family to Granville, Ohio, September, 1813, making 
 the journey in a wagon and being forty days on the road. Served as super- 
 intendent of construction on Ohio Canal, 1825-6; constituent member of 
 Granville Baptist Church, and deacon from its organization until his death, 
 
Shepardson. 
 
 November, 1866. Member of Board of Trustees of Denison University 1881- 
 18G6, and superintendent of construction of its first buildings. He married, 
 (1) 12 July, 1807, Prudence, daughter of Daniel Morse of Fairfax, A't. She 
 was born in Dublin, N. H., 19 September, 1784, and died in Granville, Ohio, 
 25 March, 1835. (2) 26 November, 1835, Mrs. Mary (Devenuey) Dillcv. 
 daughter of Cornelius Devenney. She was born 11 April, 1895, iii Berkeiev 
 Count}', Ya., and died in Granville, Ohio, 5 June, 1850. (3) 7 July, 1852, 
 Mrs. Pamelia Barlow, widow of Eev. Julius Barlow of Fredonia', Ohio. 
 Children, all by first wife : 
 
 i. LucETTA Shepardson, b. 28 September, 18C8; m. David Woods; lived in Wil- 
 liams Co., Ohio, 
 ii. Perrin Shepardson, b. 30 July, ISIO. 
 
 iii. Abigail Shepardson, b. 20 November, 1812; m. Gardner Woods ; lived in Jer- 
 sey, Ohio, 
 iv. Harriet Shepardson, b. 22 February, 1815; m. Hiram Prudeii; lived in Jersey, 
 
 Ohio. 
 V. Nancy A. Shepardson, b. 6 November, 1817 ; unm. ; d. in Granville, Ohio, 
 vi. Elvira Shepardson, b. 3 FeVjruary, 1820; m. Rev. D. D. Walden; d. S January. 
 
 1S65, in Hillsdale Co., Mich, 
 vii. Daniel Morse Shepardson, b. 11 July. 1.S22, d. 27 July, 1824. 
 12. viii. Daniel Morse Shepardson, b. 2 February, 1825. 
 
 12. Daniel Morse Shepardson {Daniel,'' Ancel,^ William,^ John,'^ Naihan- 
 iel,^ Daniel,' Daniel^), born in Granville, Ohio; was a farmer there until 
 lie retired from active labor. Succeeded his father as deacon of the Gran- 
 ville Baptist Church. Member of the Board of Trustees of Denison Univer- 
 sity since 1863. Has been one of the prominent citizens of Granville for 
 many years. He married, 8 November, 1848, Abby L., daughter of Jatham 
 W. and Lucy H. (Chilson) Durant. She was born in Vermont, 1 October, 
 1827, and died in Granville, 14 May, 1904. Children : 
 
 i. Es.mah C. Shepardson, b. 25 January, 1850 ; m. Rev. Alfred S. Orcutt. 
 ii. Lucy P. Shepardson, b. 8 October, 1866; m. Milan P. Ashbrook. 
 
 It is a curious illustration of the movement of American 
 families that the descendants of two sons of an Attleboro, 
 Mass., family should meet in Granville, Ohio, after living, the 
 one in Connecticut and Vermont, and the other in Rhode 
 Island and Massachusetts. 
 
 Now, another feature of American life is admirably illus- 
 trated by this same family. Again and again, when looking 
 up family records, genealogists have come face to face with a 
 blank wall in the shape of an entry, "Went West," in the fam- 
 ily Bible. That closed the records, for in the days of poor and 
 expensive mail facilities, family ties were often rudely snapped 
 asunder. The first Daniel Shepardson did not like the looks 
 of things at Salem, so he went to Charlestown. His son pushed 
 on to Maiden, and then to Attleboro, then on the frontier 
 and a long way from Boston. In the fourth generation the 
 sons Jonathan and John had the moving spirit, the former 
 going to Cumberland, R. I., and then to Templeton, Mass., the 
 latter going far into the wilderness of Connecticut. Among 
 the children of John Shepardson, who lived at Ash Swamp, 
 now East Adams, Conn., was a son W^illiam, one of whose chil- 
 dren was Ancel. He did not like the aspect in Connecticut, 
 and so plunged into the woods, going to the very jumping-off 
 place, the region called Vermont in after days. In time a son 
 Ancel was born to him, who had a brother Daniel. The son 
 Ancel, "Deacon" Ancel Shepardson, of Fairfax, Vt., had a 
 conversation with a cousin of mine, some forty years ago, in 
 
6 Shepardso?i. 
 
 which he told how his father, when he himself was very young, 
 rode horseback from Vermont to Connecticut to see his rela- 
 tions there. About the time of this interview, my cousin met 
 a certain Sally Shepardson in Bosra, Conn. She told how an 
 uncle named Ancel had left the rest of the family and gone to 
 Vermont, or rather "up country," as she expressed it. She 
 had never heard of the second Ancel, neither had the second 
 Ancel heard of his first cousin Sally, and when Ancel's brother, 
 Daniel, moved West and became the first "Deacon" Shepard- 
 son of Granville, Ohio, the ties of relationship were still further 
 strained, so that in 1876, when a sketch of the Shepardson 
 family was published in the History of Licking County, it was 
 stated that little was known of William and his family. 
 
 Paul, in writing to Timothy, took occasion to speak against 
 "endless genealogies," but Paul never had any experience in 
 tracing an American family. In the years during which I have 
 paid more or less attention to details of family history, I have 
 been surprised at the side lights upon the history of my coun- 
 try which have been thrown from genealogical research. For 
 example, in the story just told, one notes the superstition of 
 the colonist which led witches to the gallows, and took cogni- 
 zance of every abnormal birth as a portent from on high. One 
 recalls the aristocracy of the day, which reserved the title 
 "Master," or "Mr." as we write it, for those of wealth or special 
 distinction, the commonality being known as "Goodman." One 
 sees the fearful and wonderful orthography of the early writers, 
 which marked public records and private communications with 
 "horrid false spells." One follows the restless, moving spirit 
 of the day, which drove the Indians back into the interior, 
 which opened Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont to 
 settlement, and which, after a time, pointed the way westward 
 across the wilderness and beyond the mountains, until Ohio 
 and Indiana and Illinois, and then Iowa and the far Western 
 States even to the Pacific, began to fill up with the children 
 and children's children of the men who came to Salem and 
 other towns of New England in the first twenty years of New 
 England settlement. 
 
 There are quite a number of people in Granville who are 
 interested in genealogical research ; there ought to be many 
 more. It makes no difference whether the first American of a 
 line had a coat of arms or not. He may not have had any 
 kind of a coat ; but if his descendants have helped to the 
 upbuilding of the land we love, there will be intense satisfac- 
 tion in following their wanderings from State to State, and 
 greater satisfaction, if at the close of the study one can say 
 with Cowper : 
 
 "My boast is not that I deduce my birth 
 From loins enthroned, or rulers of the earth, 
 But higher yet my proud pretensions rise ; 
 The child of parents passed into the skies." 
 
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