On This Day: April 5

In 1635, my maternal 8^th great-grandfather Thomas Shepard, Jr., was born in London, England, the son of Thomas Shepard and Margaret Touteville. He died December 22, 1677, in Massachusetts. [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 Apr 2011), Thomas Shepard (Harvard, 1653).]

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