Edward Shepard (1687) / Abigail (Savage) Shepard

Name: Edward Shepard

Birth: July 31, 1662, Cambridge, Mass. (Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850)

Emigration: Born in Massachusetts Bay Colony; to Hartford, Conn. about 1666 (NEHGSR); to Middletown 1687 (HMC).

Death: September 9, 1711, Middletown, Conn. (BCVR)

Occupation & Public Service: Cooper (MAN)

Marriage: m. Abigail Savage, April 14, 1687, Middletown, Conn. (b. July 10, 1666, Middletown, Conn.; d. October 16, 1719, Middletown, Conn.) She was the daughter of John Savage and Elizabeth (Dubbin) Savage of Hartford and Middletown, Conn. (SMFSD n-Depth First Settler Profile: John Savage)

Children: 3 children between 1687-1692. (BCVR) (MLR) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).