Thanks (Shepard) Dill (1651 - 1693)

Born 10 Feb 1651 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Peter Leutwinus Dill — married 13 Oct 1669 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 1693 at about age 41 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Thanks was born to Ralph and Thankslord Perkins Shepard in Malden on December 10, 1650.^[1] At age 19 she married Peter Dill at Chelmsford^[2] and they had at least seven children. Thanks survived her husband who died in 1692, but her date and location of death is unknown.^[3]

Children

1. Peter b 29 Apr 1673
2. Anna b 21 Feb 1673/4
3. Thanks b 31 Jan 1675/6; m Dr. Philip Reed
4. Samuel
5. David
6. Mary b 27 Jan 1682
7. Thomas twin

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9L-M6R : 14 January 2020), Thanks Shepard or Shepherd, 1650.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-YP6F : 18 February 2020), Petter Dell and Thankes Sheperd, 13 Oct 1669; citing Marriage, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934228.
3. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Shepard Families of New England, Volume I. New Haven, CT: New Haven Colony Historical Society. 1971. Page 7. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/519424-the-shepard-families-of-new-england-vol-1?viewer=1&offset=0#page=22&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=

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