Zephaniah Shepardson b. 6 May 1733 d. 16 October 1804

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Lineage	Shepardson
Sex	Male
Full name (at birth)	Zephaniah Shepardson
Parents ♂ Daniel Shepardson [Shepardson] b. 1699 ♀ Mary Washburn [Washburn]

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6 May 1733 birth: Attleboro, Vermont

marriage: ♀ Ruth Hills [Hills] d. 16 October 1782, ♀ Damaris Billings (Church) [Billings] b. October 1742 d. 28 July 1797

1770 residence: Guilford (Vermont)

after 16 October 1782 marriage: Guilford (Vermont), ♀ Damaris Billings (Church) [Billings] b. October 1742 d. 28 July 1797

3 October 1783 child birth: Windham County (Vermont), ♀ Demaris Billings Shepardson [Shepardson] b. 3 October 1783 d. 25 June 1846

16 October 1804 death:

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Attleboro, Vermont

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nicknamed the Lt. He seems to not have been in the Revolutionairy War, although his son was. being in his 40s when it started.

↑ http://www.archive.org/stream/shepardsonfamily04shep/shepardsonfamily04shep_djvu.txt - 3tt thf Namr of (Soft, Amril. the 20th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand cisht hundrt-d and two, I, Zephaniah Shepardson of Guilford, in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, Gentlemen, being in a con- siderable state of health in body and mind and memory, thanks be given to God therefore. Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent and christian manner at the discretion of my executrix, nothing doubting of the word of God that at the general resurrection th(re sh.all be a reservation of all things and that when he who is our life shall appear I shall be like him, complete in body and soul preserved and raised by the mighty power of God. And as to touching such worldly estate where with it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, that I have not disposed of heretofore, I now give, demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form : Imprimis — I give and bequeath to Lucinda Shepardson, my lawful wife, all my cows and all my sheep and other meat stock, my horse and side-saddle, together with my cutter and the tackling thereto belonging, and the one-half of my wearing apparel, together with all my other movables. Items — I give to my son Zephaniah Shepardson, and to my daughter Ruth Barney, and to my son William Shepardson, and to my son Jared Shepardson, and to my daughter Demaris Billings Shepardson, and to my son David Church Shepardson, each of them twelve and one-half cents, together with the one-half of my wearing apparel, equally divided among them, having given each of them their pro- portion out of my estate heretofore. Item — I give to my beloved grandson, William Shepardson, my saddle on which I ride. My wife, Lucinda Shepard- son, likewise I constitute, make and ordain my sole executrix of this my last will and testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every other former wills, testaments, legacies, bequeaths and executors by me in any ways before named, willed or bequeathed, ratifying this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Zephaniah Shepardson. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Zephaniah Shepardson as his last will and testament in the presence of subscribers, John Slator, William Chaver, Hannah Palmer.
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http://www.archive.org/details/shepardsonfamily04shep - Zephamah Shepardsox ° (Daniel,* John,^ Daniel,^ Daniel^) lived in Attleboro until about 1770, when with his three brothers and their families he went to Guilford, Vt. He m. (1) Ruth Hills (b. 1 July, 1733; d. 16 October, 1782), dau. of Samuel and Mary Hills; (2) Da- maris, widow of David Church. She d. 28 July, 1797, aged 54 years 10 months; (3) Mrs. Lucinda Chase of Halifax, Vt., 1 June, 1798. She d. "at the Chinesee Country of a fever" 30 September, 1809. The town records at Guilford, Vt, show that in 1770 Sam'l Curtis deeded Lot 125 in Guilford Township, Windham County, Vt., consisting of 100 acres, to Zephaniah Shepardson, yeoman, of Attleborough, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay, for a consideration of £60. His brother, John Shepardson, was a witness to the above deed. At the first recorded town meeting of Guilford the record reads: "May ye 19th, 1772. Then the freeholers and other Inhabeits of the TratJt of Land called Guildford, in County of Cumberland and Province of New York, met together and by a majority of vots made choyce of : "1. Samuel Nichol, Esq., Moderator of said meeting. "2d. John Shepardson, Town Clerk.
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"13th. Zephaniah Shepardson, Hezekiah Stowell and John Barney, over- seers of poor." At the town meeting in 1773 he was appointed to the positions of constable, of overseer of highways and of overseer of poor, and in 1776 elected a surveyor of highways. His stock marking is thus recorded: "Be it remembered that all the cattle, sheep and swine in the town of Guilford that is marked with two square holes one above the other through the right ear, and a cross on the left ear, is Zephaniah Shepardson. Guil- ford, 25th , 1802. William Bigelow, Totv7i Clerk." Zephaniah Shepardson, with his brothers Daniel and John and their sons, took an active part in the controversy respecting the New Hamp- shire Grants from 1770 to 1786, Zephaniah and Daniel supporting the New York government, which attempted to retain jurisdiction over Cumberland County (now Windham Co., Vt.), v/hile John, first favor- ing New York, was afterward equally active in supporting the Vermont government. B. H. Hall, in his "History of Eastern Vermont," gives a full account of the controversy. Zephaniah was one of about one hundred who received land granted to the "sufferers in opposing" the Government of Vermont by New York State. He received in 1786 a grant of 100 acres and his son Joseph 263 acres in Montgomery County (now Town of Bainbridge, Chenango Co., New York). An entire township was given to the "Vermont sufferers." He, however, did not leave Guilford. His homestead was the original lot 125 in Guilford and his house a frame structure standing high, with hip roof and without ells or additions, was burned in the sixties. The new house replacing it, now (1907) occupied by Charles Shepardson, was erected upon the old foundations. He was called "Lieutenant," and in a deed of Dec. 10, 1793, giving half of Lot 125 in Guilford to his son Jared of Guilford, yeoman, for £200, he is mentioned as "Zephaniah Shepardson, Gentleman." He died in Guilford, 16 October, 1804, "of a billions complaint on thirty-six hours after attacked." His will, presented for probate in District of Marlboro, Brattleboro, Vt., Nov. 3, 1804, by Lucinda Shepardson, his widow, is curious, though in a form commonly used at that time. It reads as follows: 4 SHEPARDSON. 3tt thf Namr of (Soft, Amril. the 20th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand cisht hundrt-d and two, I, Zephaniah Shepardson of Guilford, in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, Gentlemen, being in a con- siderable state of health in body and mind and memory, thanks be given to God therefore. Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent and christian manner at the discretion of my executrix, nothing doubting of the word of God that at the general resurrection th(re sh.all be a reservation of all things and that when he who is our life shall appear I shall be like him, complete in body and soul preserved and raised by the mighty power of God. And as to touching such worldly estate where with it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, that I have not disposed of heretofore, I now give, demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form : Imprimis — I give and bequeath to Lucinda Shepardson, my lawful wife, all my cows and all my sheep and other meat stock, my horse and side-saddle, together with my cutter and the tackling thereto belonging, and the one-half of my wearing apparel, together with all my other movables. Items — I give to my son Zephaniah Shepardson, and to my daughter Ruth Barney, and to my son William Shepardson, and to my son Jared Shepardson, and to my daughter Demaris Billings Shepardson, and to my son David Church Shepardson, each of them twelve and one-half cents, together with the one-half of my wearing apparel, equally divided among them, having given each of them their pro- portion out of my estate heretofore. Item — I give to my beloved grandson, William Shepardson, my saddle on which I ride. My wife, Lucinda Shepard- son, likewise I constitute, make and ordain my sole executrix of this my last will and testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every other former wills, testaments, legacies, bequeaths and executors by me in any ways before named, willed or bequeathed, ratifying this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Zephaniah Shepardson. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Zephaniah Shepardson as his last will and testament in the presence of subscribers, John Slator, William Chaver, Hannah Palmer. Children, the first five born in Attleboro, Mass.: Zephaniah Shepardson, b. 21 March, 1755. William Shepardson, b. 25 July, 1756. Ruth Shepardson, b. 16 September, 1758; m. John Barney of Gull- ford, Vt., and had one son William, who d. 6 December, 1S09, ago 21. Joseph Shepardson, b. 27 October, 1760. Jared Shepardson, b. 18 July, 1763. Demaris Billings Shepardson, m. at Guilford 30 January, 1806. James Alverson of Halifax, Vt. vli. David Church Shepardson, a blacksmith of Guilford, Vt. He owned land in Bainbridge, N. Y., in 1816, and may have moved there. 6. Zephaniah Shepardson" {Zephaniah,^ Daniel.* John,^ Daniel," DanieV) was a clock-maker and faimer in Guilford, Vt. He was in the Continental Army, and a journal written by him in 1800 at Guil- ford recounts his ten months' service. He enlisted January, 1776, at Guilford, for one year, in Capt. Carlisle's company, Col. Bedell's Regt. of the New Hampshire Line, and soon after marched to Chesterfield, N. H.; to Charlestown, N. H.; to Ticonderoga, N. Y.; on the ice to Crown Point; waited until ice was broken up, then by water to Port St. Johns; to Lawrence; by water to South Lawrence; ten miles across South River to Fort Ann; then three miles to the Cedar Falls, where they fortified and scouted under Butterfield until May, 1770. A two days' fight occurred here, and, out of provisions and ammunition, they surrendered 20th May to the British and their allies, the Indians. After ten days a prisoner, plundered of his property, stripped in part of his clothing and "on scanty allowance, two or throe ounces of meat and little or no bread but burnt crusts only," he was exchanged and returned to the army. He marched to Aderson; there ill for five weeks with smallpox, and soon after for a number of months with "Camp Ail," when his father hired a substitute in his place, came to camp (Lieut. Col. Wait's under Gen'l Gntes) and brought him home to Guilford ill and broken in health. He closed his journal thus:

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== 3 ==

♀ Ruth Hills

marriage: ♂ Zephaniah Shepardson , ♀ Damaris Billings (Church)
death: 16 October 1782

♀ Damaris Billings (Church)

birth: October 1742
marriage: ♂ Zephaniah Shepardson , ♀ Ruth Hills
marriage: ♂ Zephaniah Shepardson , Guilford (Vermont)
death: 28 July 1797

== 3 ==

Children

♂ James Reynolds Alverson

birth: 29 September 1777, Halifax (Vermont)
marriage: ♀ Demaris Billings Shepardson , Guilford (Vermont)
death: 7 October 1860, Perrysburg (New York)

Children

Grandchildren

♀ Mary Ann Strong

birth: 1 September 1809
marriage: ♂ Emory Alverson
death: 17 August 1858, Burlingame (Kansas), (near)

♀ Jane Winton (Bewley)

birth: 31 October 1814, Roane County (Tennessee)
marriage: ♂ Emory Alverson , Baldwin City (Kansas), Douglas County (Kansas)

Grandchildren

Alverson

Billings

Fuller

Hills

Shepardson

Strong

Washburn

Winton

[1] ttp://www.archive.org/stream/shepardsonfamily04shep/shepardsonfamily04shep_djvu.txt - 3tt thf Namr of (Soft, Amril. the 20th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand cisht hundrt-d and two, I, Zephaniah Shepardson of Guilford, in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, Gentlemen, being in a con- siderable state of health in body and mind and memory, thanks be given to God therefore. Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent and christian manner at the discretion of my executrix, nothing doubting of the word of God that at the general resurrection th(re sh.all be a reservation of all things and that when he who is our life shall appear I shall be like him, complete in body and soul preserved and raised by the mighty power of God. And as to touching such worldly estate where with it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, that I have not disposed of heretofore, I now give, demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form : Imprimis — I give and bequeath to Lucinda Shepardson, my lawful wife, all my cows and all my sheep and other meat stock, my horse and side-saddle, together with my cutter and the tackling thereto belonging, and the one-half of my wearing apparel, together with all my other movables. Items — I give to my son Zephaniah Shepardson, and to my daughter Ruth Barney, and to my son William Shepardson, and to my son Jared Shepardson, and to my daughter Demaris Billings Shepardson, and to my son David Church Shepardson, each of them twelve and one-half cents, together with the one-half of my wearing apparel, equally divided among them, having given each of them their pro- portion out of my estate heretofore. Item — I give to my beloved grandson, William Shepardson, my saddle on which I ride. My wife, Lucinda Shepard- son, likewise I constitute, make and ordain my sole executrix of this my last will and testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every other former wills, testaments, legacies, bequeaths and executors by me in any ways before named, willed or bequeathed, ratifying this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Zephaniah Shepardson. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Zephaniah Shepardson as his last will and testament in the presence of subscribers, John Slator, William Chaver, Hannah Palmer.

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[3] ttp://www.archive.org/details/shepardsonfamily04shep - Zephamah Shepardsox ° (Daniel,* John,^ Daniel,^ Daniel^) lived in Attleboro until about 1770, when with his three brothers and their families he went to Guilford, Vt. He m. (1) Ruth Hills (b. 1 July, 1733; d. 16 October, 1782), dau. of Samuel and Mary Hills; (2) Da- maris, widow of David Church. She d. 28 July, 1797, aged 54 years 10 months; (3) Mrs. Lucinda Chase of Halifax, Vt., 1 June, 1798. She d. "at the Chinesee Country of a fever" 30 September, 1809. The town records at Guilford, Vt, show that in 1770 Sam'l Curtis deeded Lot 125 in Guilford Township, Windham County, Vt., consisting of 100 acres, to Zephaniah Shepardson, yeoman, of Attleborough, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay, for a consideration of £60. His brother, John Shepardson, was a witness to the above deed. At the first recorded town meeting of Guilford the record reads: "May ye 19th, 1772. Then the freeholers and other Inhabeits of the TratJt of Land called Guildford, in County of Cumberland and Province of New York, met together and by a majority of vots made choyce of : "1. Samuel Nichol, Esq., Moderator of said meeting. "2d. John Shepardson, Town Clerk.
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"13th. Zephaniah Shepardson, Hezekiah Stowell and John Barney, over- seers of poor." At the town meeting in 1773 he was appointed to the positions of constable, of overseer of highways and of overseer of poor, and in 1776 elected a surveyor of highways. His stock marking is thus recorded: "Be it remembered that all the cattle, sheep and swine in the town of Guilford that is marked with two square holes one above the other through the right ear, and a cross on the left ear, is Zephaniah Shepardson. Guil- ford, 25th , 1802. William Bigelow, Totv7i Clerk." Zephaniah Shepardson, with his brothers Daniel and John and their sons, took an active part in the controversy respecting the New Hamp- shire Grants from 1770 to 1786, Zephaniah and Daniel supporting the New York government, which attempted to retain jurisdiction over Cumberland County (now Windham Co., Vt.), v/hile John, first favor- ing New York, was afterward equally active in supporting the Vermont government. B. H. Hall, in his "History of Eastern Vermont," gives a full account of the controversy. Zephaniah was one of about one hundred who received land granted to the "sufferers in opposing" the Government of Vermont by New York State. He received in 1786 a grant of 100 acres and his son Joseph 263 acres in Montgomery County (now Town of Bainbridge, Chenango Co., New York). An entire township was given to the "Vermont sufferers." He, however, did not leave Guilford. His homestead was the original lot 125 in Guilford and his house a frame structure standing high, with hip roof and without ells or additions, was burned in the sixties. The new house replacing it, now (1907) occupied by Charles Shepardson, was erected upon the old foundations. He was called "Lieutenant," and in a deed of Dec. 10, 1793, giving half of Lot 125 in Guilford to his son Jared of Guilford, yeoman, for £200, he is mentioned as "Zephaniah Shepardson, Gentleman." He died in Guilford, 16 October, 1804, "of a billions complaint on thirty-six hours after attacked." His will, presented for probate in District of Marlboro, Brattleboro, Vt., Nov. 3, 1804, by Lucinda Shepardson, his widow, is curious, though in a form commonly used at that time. It reads as follows: 4 SHEPARDSON. 3tt thf Namr of (Soft, Amril. the 20th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand cisht hundrt-d and two, I, Zephaniah Shepardson of Guilford, in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, Gentlemen, being in a con- siderable state of health in body and mind and memory, thanks be given to God therefore. Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent and christian manner at the discretion of my executrix, nothing doubting of the word of God that at the general resurrection th(re sh.all be a reservation of all things and that when he who is our life shall appear I shall be like him, complete in body and soul preserved and raised by the mighty power of God. And as to touching such worldly estate where with it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, that I have not disposed of heretofore, I now give, demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form : Imprimis — I give and bequeath to Lucinda Shepardson, my lawful wife, all my cows and all my sheep and other meat stock, my horse and side-saddle, together with my cutter and the tackling thereto belonging, and the one-half of my wearing apparel, together with all my other movables. Items — I give to my son Zephaniah Shepardson, and to my daughter Ruth Barney, and to my son William Shepardson, and to my son Jared Shepardson, and to my daughter Demaris Billings Shepardson, and to my son David Church Shepardson, each of them twelve and one-half cents, together with the one-half of my wearing apparel, equally divided among them, having given each of them their pro- portion out of my estate heretofore. Item — I give to my beloved grandson, William Shepardson, my saddle on which I ride. My wife, Lucinda Shepard- son, likewise I constitute, make and ordain my sole executrix of this my last will and testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every other former wills, testaments, legacies, bequeaths and executors by me in any ways before named, willed or bequeathed, ratifying this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Zephaniah Shepardson. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Zephaniah Shepardson as his last will and testament in the presence of subscribers, John Slator, William Chaver, Hannah Palmer. Children, the first five born in Attleboro, Mass.: Zephaniah Shepardson, b. 21 March, 1755. William Shepardson, b. 25 July, 1756. Ruth Shepardson, b. 16 September, 1758; m. John Barney of Gull- ford, Vt., and had one son William, who d. 6 December, 1S09, ago 21. Joseph Shepardson, b. 27 October, 1760. Jared Shepardson, b. 18 July, 1763. Demaris Billings Shepardson, m. at Guilford 30 January, 1806. James Alverson of Halifax, Vt. vli. David Church Shepardson, a blacksmith of Guilford, Vt. He owned land in Bainbridge, N. Y., in 1816, and may have moved there. 6. Zephaniah Shepardson" {Zephaniah,^ Daniel.* John,^ Daniel," DanieV) was a clock-maker and faimer in Guilford, Vt. He was in the Continental Army, and a journal written by him in 1800 at Guil- ford recounts his ten months' service. He enlisted January, 1776, at Guilford, for one year, in Capt. Carlisle's company, Col. Bedell's Regt. of the New Hampshire Line, and soon after marched to Chesterfield, N. H.; to Charlestown, N. H.; to Ticonderoga, N. Y.; on the ice to Crown Point; waited until ice was broken up, then by water to Port St. Johns; to Lawrence; by water to South Lawrence; ten miles across South River to Fort Ann; then three miles to the Cedar Falls, where they fortified and scouted under Butterfield until May, 1770. A two days' fight occurred here, and, out of provisions and ammunition, they surrendered 20th May to the British and their allies, the Indians. After ten days a prisoner, plundered of his property, stripped in part of his clothing and "on scanty allowance, two or throe ounces of meat and little or no bread but burnt crusts only," he was exchanged and returned to the army. He marched to Aderson; there ill for five weeks with smallpox, and soon after for a number of months with "Camp Ail," when his father hired a substitute in his place, came to camp (Lieut. Col. Wait's under Gen'l Gntes) and brought him home to Guilford ill and broken in health. He closed his journal thus:

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