Confessions to Rev Thomas Shepard

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Contents 1 WikiTree Pages of Interest 2 Bibliographic Notes 3 The 51 Sketches and Confessions 4 Research Notes 5 Sources and Notes

WikiTree Pages of Interest

• Thomas Shepard (1605-1649)

Bibliographic Notes

George Selement and Bruce C. Woolley, eds., "Thomas Shepard's Confessions" in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 72 vols. (Boston : The Society, 1895-___), 58 (1981):29-212; web version, The Society.

Each entry includes a 1980s era editors' biographical sketch, with a list of authorities.

The 51 Sketches and Confessions

	Confession	Sketch	WikiTree ID
[1]	1   Edward Hall	Edward Hall	No ID	[1]
[2]	2   Francis Moore	Francis Moore	Moore-582
[3]	3   Goodman Luxford his Wife	Elizabeth Olbon	Albone-14	*
[5]	4   George Willows	George Willows	Willis-1012
[6]	[5]  John Sill	John Sill	Sill-216
	[6]  John Sill his Wife	Joanna Sill	Unknown-465617
[14]	[7] Mr. Eaton	Nathaniel Eaton	Eaton-1428
[18]	[8] Christopher Cane	Christopher Cane	Cane-121
[19]	[9] Goodman Daniel	Robert Daniel	Daniel-180
[21]	[10] Mr. Sparrowhawk	Nathaniel Sparrowhawk	Sparhawk-53
[25]	[11] Mrs. Sparrowhawk	Mary Angier	Angier-3
[31]	[12] Mr. Sanders	Mr. Sanders	No ID
[33]	[13] John Stedman	John Stedman	Stedman-304
[35]	[14] Goodwife Holmes	Jane Holmes	No ID
[41]	[15] Mr. Collins	Edward Collins	Collins-319
[44]	[16] John Stansby	John Stansby	No ID	[2]
[48]	[17] Barbary Cutter	Barbary Cutter	Cutter-596
[51]	[18] Goodman Manning	William Manning	Manning-1166
[58]	[19] Katherine, Mrs. Russel's maid	Katherine	No ID	[3]
[61]	[20] John Stedman his wife	Alice Stedman	Unknown-455865	*
[66]	[21] John Trundle	John Trumbull	Trumble-51
[70]	[22] Mr. Andrews	William Andrews	Andrews-749
[73]	[23] ... Richard Eagle	Richard Eccles	Eccles-4	[4]
[75]	[24] Mrs. Greene	Mrs. Greene	Unknown-155347	[5]
	[25] Brother Jackson’s Maid	Brother Jackson’s Maid	No ID
[78]	[26] Golding Moore	Golden Moore	Moore-4352
[80]	[27] William Hamlet	William Hamlet	Hamlet-7	*
[84]	[28] Brother Collins his Wife	Martha Collins	Baylie-2
[86]	[29] Brother Moore his Wife	Brother Moore’s Wife	Unknown-126105
[88]	[30] Brother Parish's Wife	Mary Parish	Danforth-143
[90]	[31] Brother Crackbone's Wife	Brother Crackbone’s Wife	Eastwood-911	*
[92]	[32] Hannah Brewer	Hannah Brewer	Skinner-700	*
[93]	[33] Robert Holmes	Robert Holmes	No ID
[94]	[34] Old Goodwife Cutter	Elizabeth Cutter	No ID	[6]
[96]	[35] Brother Winship's Wife	Jane Wilkinson Winship	Wilkinson-346	*
[98]	[36] Goodwife Willows	Jane Palfrey	Unknown-393421
[101]	[37] Brother Greene his Wife	Brother Greene’s Wife	Bainbridge-71	*
[102]	[38] Mr. Dunster	Henry Dunster	Dunster-36
[110]	[39] Mr. Haynes	Mr. Haynes	Haynes-1105	**
[113]	[40] Goodman Shepard's Relation	Goodman Shepard	Shepard-106
[114]	[41] Goodman Fessington	John Fessenden	Fessenden-328	*
[116]	[42] Richard Cutter	Richard Cutter	Cutter-60
[118]	[43] Goodwife Usher	Frances Usher	Unknown-89553	*
[119]	[44] Widow Arrington	Ann Errington	Liddell-157
	[45] Goodwife Grizzell	Mary Griswald	Unknown-173019	*
	[46] Goodwife Champney	Goodwife Champney	Unknown-137266	*
	[47] Goodman With	Nicholas Wyeth	Wyeth-5	*
	[48] Sr Jones	Sr Jones	No ID
	[49] Goodman Funnell	John Furnell	Fownell-1
[129]	[50] _____	Anonymous	No ID
[130]	[51] Wil Ames	William Ames	Ames-2090	a

  *--PGM Candidate as of 11 May 2023.
**--Not PGM.
   a--PGM Candidate/PGM Child

Research Notes

Miscellaneous. See GM Newsletter 17:20-21. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1567/i/21161/20/45664141

Also https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1567/i/53625/92/1423762914

Sources and Notes

1. ↑ Editors' sketch indicates this entry is about Edward Hall, 1607-1680, who arrived aboard the Hercules, sometime in 1636. His first wife was Margaret (died 1666). Edward married (2) June 1667, Mary Rayner. Edward was made a freeman, 2 May 1638; he was town constable in 1663. Separately, he is presumably the man profiled as Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640: A Concise Compendium (Boston, Massachusetts : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), ___ (Edward Hall) as from Heddon, Northumberland; 1637; Cambridge, reporting works consulted as "MBCR 1:374; Shepard 31-34; CaBOP 63; CaChR 21; SPR 1:6; MPR Case #10111," courtesy of M. Cole.
2. ↑ Editors note this is one of the only records about John Stansby in New England. He was sent there by his uncle, "Robert Stansby, rector of Westthorpe, Suffolk," a friend of John Winthrop. In a letter, the Rector identified John as "his eldest's brother's second son." See the sketch.
3. ↑ Editors report she was "undoubtably the maid of John and Elizabeth [sic] Russell." Anderson properly identifies Mrs. Russell as Phebe Collins. and he places the date of Katherine's confession as "late 1639 or early 1640." See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009), 134-139 (John Russell); digital images by subscription, AmericanAnderson.
4. ↑ The confession is by "Our Brother Jackson's man Richard Eagle." Eccles arrived in Cambridge as a servant of Richard Jackson, "a prominent Cambridge citizen.: Sketch reports that Eccles married Mary, who was a relative of Jackson. (WikiTree reports Eccles first wife was Mary Gawkroger (Platts) Eckles (abt.1607-1675); no relationship to Jackson is apparent on her profile.
5. ↑ Editors' sketch remarks that she was more likely Ellen, then the wife of Percival Green. Albeit less so, it is also possible this was Elizabeth, the wife of Bartholomew Green. See the editors' sketch.
6. ↑ "Old Goodwife Cutter" was possibly the wife of William Cutter (abt.1608-1675). See the editors' sketch.