On This Day: September 13

1663: Anna Shepard, one of my maternal 7^th great-grandmothers, the daughter of Thomas Shepard, Jr., and Anna (Tyng) Shepard was born. She died 24 July 1708.

[Source: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, "Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence," database, American Ancestors (www.americanancestors.org : accessed 5 Sep 2011), entry for Thomas Shepard, Harvard, p. 219.]

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