Elizabeth Shepard

http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/shepard.html

Vol. I, pp. 284-287 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911).

(IV) Nathaniel, son of Rev. Jeremiah and Mary (Wainwright) Shepard, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, June 16, 1681, died in Boston, November 30, 1728. He was a saddler and made several changes of residence. He married, May 5, 1703, Elizabeth, born in Ipswich, August 7, 1681, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Wade, of Ipswich. Thomas Wade was one of the most prominent men of that town. He was town clerk, justice of the court of general sessions, captain of a military company, and colonel of the Middle Essex Regiment, with authority to call out his men against the French and Indians as occasion might require. Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Wade) Shepard were the parents of eight children