Mary (Washburn) Shepardson (abt. 1704)

Born about 1704 in Taunton, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Shepardson — married 13 Apr 1728 in Attleboro, Bristol, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Attleboro, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts

• From John Maltby:

Mary Washburn, probably youngest daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Vaughan) Washburn, born in Bridgewater or Taunton, MA, in say 1704,^[1] married Daniel Shepardson, son of John and Elizabeth (Fuller) Shepardson,^[2] of Attleborough, Bristol Co., MA, as his second wife, on 9 May 1728 in Norton.^[3] He was born on 16 Mar. 1699/1700 in Attleborough,^[4] a grandson of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Willmarth/Willmot) Fuller,^[5] of Attleborough, and had married first to Hannah Richardson, daughter of William and Rebekah Richardson, of Attleborough,^[6] on 9 Dec. 1725 in Attleborough,^[7] by whom he had a son Daniel Shepardson (Jr.), born on 5 Sept. 1726 in Attleborough,^[8] who married Mary Peck, of Attleborough, on 12 Nov. 1753 in Attleborough.^[9] Hannah, wife of Daniel Shepardson, died on 26 Sept. 1726 in Attleborough.^[10]

John Shepardson died in 1708, and “Elizebeth Sheperson,” his widow, presented his inventory on 3 Dec. 1708.^[11] A 1709 agreement between Elizabeth Fuller, widow of John Fuller, of Attleborough, and their children over the division of the estate of John Fuller, mentioned, among his heirs, daughter Elizabeth Shepherdson, widow of John Sheperson, late of Attleborough.^[12]

Daniel Shepardson died testate on 18 May 1770 in Attleborough, aged 70 years,^[13] his will dated 13 Apr. 1770, and probated on 11 June 1770, mentioned his wife Mary, eldest son Daniel Shepardson, sons John, Zephaniah and Stephen Shepardson, and only daughter Hannah Bolkcom, wife of Alexander Bolkcom, and he named his son Stephen Shepardson as executor of his estate.^[14] (See Appendix (C) for a full transcription of his will.) No death record was found for Mary Shepardson in Attleborough or Taunton.

Mary Washburn and Daniel Shepardson had children, order uncertain, including:

• Hannah Shepardson, born on 29 Dec. 1730? in Attleborough, married Alexander Balkcom (3rd), son of Alexander and Martha (Robinson) Balkcom/Bolkcom (Jr.), in 1750 in Attleborough. Hannah may have been the widow Balcom who died on 6 June 1815 in Attleborough.

• Major John Shepardson, born on 16 Feb. 1732? in Attleborough, married Anna Blanchard, of Norton, MA, on 17 Jan. 1754 in Attleborough. He supposedly died on 3 Jan. 1802 in Brattleboro, Windham Co., VT.

• Zephaniah Shepardson, born on 11 May 1733 in Attleborough, married Ruth Hills, of Attleborough, in 1754. Zephaniah Shepardson died on 16 Oct. 1804, presumably in Guilford, VT.

• Capt. Stephen Shepardson, born on 11 Aug. 1735 in Attleborough, married Luce Fisher, daughter of Nehemiah and Sarah (Morse) Fisher, of Norton, on 15 Mar. 1759 in Attleborough. He was still living in Guilford, VT, in 1791, but may have died by 1800.

Sources

1. ↑ Mary was not listed among the heirs of Ebenezer Washburn, in 1728, but she is thought to have been a daughter of Jonathan and Mary Washburn because of three reasons. First, she was called “of Taunton” at the time of her marriage to Daniel Shepardson in 1728. Secondly, Mary (Vaughan) Washburn, widow of Jonathan Washburn, was living in Taunton in 1727 when she was granted administration of the estate of her husband, Jonathan Washburn, of Taunton. She was the only Washburn parent living in Taunton at that time. Thirdly, Mary doesn’t fit into any of the other Washburn families for reasons discussed under the daughters of Joseph Washburn.
2. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987, p. 668, John Shepardson.
3. ↑ Taunton VRs, Vol. 2, p. 498, “in Norton;” Attleborough VRs, p. 596; Vital Records of Norton, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1906, p. 350.
4. ↑ Attleborough VRs, p. 232.
5. ↑ Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 288, married on 14 Dec. 1664 in Rehoboth.
6. ↑ The will of William Richardson, of Attleborough, dated 28 July 1749, mentioned, among others, wife Rebekah, daughter Hannah Shepardson, deceased, and grandson Daniel Shepardson Jr., son of daughter Hannah, deceased. (Bristol Co. Probate, Vol. 12, p. 69.)
7. ↑ Attleborough VRs, p. 551.
8. ↑ Attleborough VRs, p. 232.
9. ↑ Attleborough VRs, p. 551
10. ↑ Attleborough VRs, p. 716.
11. ↑ Bristol Co. Probate Records, Vol. 2, p. 229.
12. ↑ Bristol Co. Probate Records, Vol. 2, p. 259.
13. ↑ Attleborough VRs, p. 716, buried in the Old Kirk Yard Cemetery in Attleborough.
14. ↑ Bristol Co. Probate Records, Daniel Shepardson, Attleborough, 1770, from FHL microfilm #580783.

• John A. Maltby Genealogies - Mary Washburn

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• Steve Sanders family tree_2011-08-28.ged on Aug 30, 2011 by Steve Sanders.