Elizabeth Shepard

Not a proven child of Nicholas Hathaway, of Kingscote & Taunton

Who was the wife of William Shepard? We have only a theory and it is very speculative:

John Hathaway, designated by William Shepherd as my loving brother, bom in 1629, resided in Taunton (founded following the 1637 Tetiquit land purchase encompassing the town from the Nemasket Indians and populated early on mostly by settlers coming from England) and married twice. His first wife was Martha, the mother of his children, who joined with him in the execution of deeds dated Jan. 20, 1678, and Mar. 1, 1683. And his second wife was Ruth, who joined with him in the execution of several deeds between the years 1693 and 1704. " Early Hathaways of Taunton, in Old Colony Hist. Society collections, no. 6, (1899) p. 80. He is not known to have had a sister, and if he did not have a sister who married William Shepherd and if his first wife Martha was not a sister of William Shepherd's wife, then Martha herself was a sister of William Shepherd, either by the whole or half blood, and her maiden name was probably Shepherd. So there was a theory (now dis proven) that Martha was the sister of William Shepard. But William's father's will does not mention a daughter Martha. So this theory has fallen out of favor. John Hathaway's second wife, Ruth, was the widow Ruth Dyer, of Braintree, whom he married Oct. 10, 1692, according to the manuscript records of Rev. Jonathan Marsh in the library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Ruth, the widow of John Hathaway, died Sep. 11, 1705, aged sixty five years according to her gravestone. So now a new theory is that John Hathaway had a sister Elizabeth Hathaway and she married William Shepard. That would make John Hathaway and William Shepard brothers-in-law.

http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Ancestry_of_Kathari...

http://rtreeoflife.com/Biographies/Nicholas_Hathaway_1596-16xx.pdf

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