Daniel Shed genealogy - ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920 (1921) (14762065904)

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Title: Daniel Shed genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Shedd, Frank Edson, 1856-1916 Bartlett, J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner), 1872-1927 Shedd Family Association
Subjects: Shedd family
Publisher: Boston : The Shedd Family Association
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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eables, goods within howsse andwithout howsse whatsoever, I give and bequeath unto DanyellSheed my sonne, to be ordered and Dispossed at the Discrissionof my executor. And I Doe ordayne and apoynt my sonne DanyellShead my sole Executor of this my Last will and testement, pray-inge and desieringe hime to Deale truly as I hoope he will. Mem-aru\ I doe give unto Suzan Kent my grayndchilde the Beed andbeddinge she lye on, and a whele and rele. Sealed, delivered,acknowledged, and published this to be the Last will of me thesaid Thomas in the presence of us, Robert Cracknell, FrancisMascall, William Mascall, John Mascall. (Signed) The mark ofH Thomas Shead. Proved 15 Oct. 1640. (Archdeaconry Courtof Middlesex, Essex and Herts, Bundle Brown, No. 52.) Thespelling in this will seems strange, but spelling was not standard-ized before 1700, even among the educated; witness the Historyof Plymouth by Gov. Bradford, of college education. Thomas10 Shed married about 1596, Katharine who survived him.
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-a W. X .2 el H wo § B O <u d^ ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF DANIEL SHED 21 Children mentioned in his will: i. Daniel11, b. about 1596. (See below.) ii. Thomas, b. about 1599; is mentioned in his fathers will asliving in 1637, but there is no mention of him in the registersof Finchingfield, nor does he appear in any parish about it inthe whole of Hinckford Hundred in the Protestation Roll ofFeb. 1641/2, naming all males over eighteen years of age in eachparish. He settled about fifteen miles to the east, in Stanway,County Essex, where he d. in December 1639. The will of Thomas Shede of Stanway, County Essex, yeo-man, dated 15 Dec. 1639, names sons Nathaniel, Joseph andThomas, daughter Sarah, and step-son Robert Kingsbury, andrefers to an expected unborn child. Wife Elizabeth residuarylegatee and executrix. Witnesses: Stephen Brocke, AbrahamSmith, Robert Kingsbury. Proved by the executrix 16 Jan.1639/40. (Commissary Court of Bishop of London for Essexand Herts,