He appears to have arrived in the United States in 1725.[1][2]
Sources
↑ William Shepherd
in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1355415:7486?tid=7457685&pid=-998726413&queryId=9b0fbfd3fb69ee9b5681c4a817331bc3&_phsrc=HeN4&_phstart=successSource
Name: William Shepherd
Age: 20
Birth Year: abt 1705
Arrival Year: 1725
Arrival Place: Maryland
Primary Immigrant: Shepherd, William
Source Publication Code: 1219.6
Annotation: For the majority of entries, the date of transportation or apprenticeship order and the intended destination is provided. Date of transport order or of emigration with intended destination, some are date and place of first mention of residence in New Worl
Source Bibliography: COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. The Complete Book of Emigrants: A Comprehensive Listing Compiled from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for Political, Religious, and Economic Reasons; of Those Who Were Deported for Vagrancy, Roguery, or Non-Conformity; and of Those Who Were Sold to Labour in the New Colonies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1700-1750. 1992. 743
↑ William Shepherd
in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1355416:7486?tid=7457685&pid=-998726413&queryId=9b0fbfd3fb69ee9b5681c4a817331bc3&_phsrc=HeN5&_phstart=successSource
Name: William Shepherd
Age: 20
Birth Year: abt 1705
Arrival Year: 1725
Arrival Place: Maryland
Primary Immigrant: Shepherd, William
Source Publication Code: 3690.1
Annotation: Date of indenture and colony to which bound. An A has been inserted by indexer to indicate that page number appears as a roman numeral in the introductory material of the source indexed. Additionally, additions and corrections listed on page xxvii in the
Source Bibliography: KAMINKOW, JACK, and MARION KAMINKOW. A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1718-1759. Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co., 1984. Reprinted, with additional records originally incorporated in the "new edition" of 1981, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989. 292p.
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William Shepherd b 1707 Little Wenlock, Shropshire married Mary Fletcher 2 Jun 1729 at Little Wenlock and died there 15 Jun 1741. He was probably a miner since this area is near Coalbrookdale the seat of the Industrial revolution. He was the eldest son of Joseph Shepherd (or Danser) and Ann Evans