Ruth (Wright) Shepard (abt. 1723)

Born about 1723 in Woburn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Seth Wyman — married 4 Jun 1744 (to 19 Nov 1749) in Woburn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

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Biography

Ruth Wright was born (probably in Woburn, Massachusetts) about 1723, the ninth child and fifth daughter of James Wright and Elizabeth Patten. She was 12 years old at the time of her father's death in 1735.^[1]

She married Seth Wyman, son of Seth of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in Woburn, on June 4, 1744. Her husband died in Arlington, Massachusetts, on November 19, 1749. She was made administrator of his estate December 11, 1749. Children, Arlington births:^[1][2][3][4]

1. Seth Wyman, born March 26, 1745; baptized May 5, 1745, at West Cambridge.^[2][5]
2. Ruth Wyman, born January 8, 1750 (after father's death); married Dr. William Hill.^[2][6]

She married second, Samuel Shepard a Haverhill, Massachusetts, Innholder, in Medford, Massachusetts, on May 20, 1752.^[2][7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Cutter, William R. Wright Family of Woburn, Mass. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. For The Year 1883. Volume XXXVII. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston: Published at the Society's House, 18 Somerset Street, Printed by David Clapp & Son, 1883. Citing: Child of #7 James Wright - Page 79.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Wyman, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown: Vol. 2: K-Z. Page 1057. Citing: "Wyman, Seth 9."
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHVV-NV9 : 13 July 2016), Seth Wyman and Ruth Wright, 04 Jun 1744; citing Marriage, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 859,998.
4. ↑ Vital Records of Arlington: Deaths. Page 159. Citing: "Wyman, Seth, [Nov.] 19, 1749. P.R."
5. ↑ Vital Records of Arlington: Births. Page 49. Citing: "Wyman, Seth, s. Seth, [Mar.] 26, 1745. P.R."
6. ↑ Vital Records of Arlington: Births. Page 49. Citing: "Wyman, Ruth, d. Wid. Wyman, Jan. 8, 1750. P.R."
7. ↑ Wyman, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown: Vol. 2: K-Z. Page 860. Citing: "Shepard, Samuel 18."

See also:

• Vital Records of Arlington, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1904).

• Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown (D. Clapp, Boston, 1879).