Thanklorde “thanks” Perkins Shepard -

Thanklorde “Thanks” Perkins Shepard

BIRTH	20 Jun 1612 Stepney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England
DEATH	11 Sep 1681 (aged 69) Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
BURIAL	Bell Rock Cemetery Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
MEMORIAL ID	70683819

Marriage to Ralph ShepardSt Bride´S, Fleet Street, London, England

Source: British FHL film #380154,
Marriage record reads Thankslorde Perkins,
listed as a spinster not a widow.

FHL US/CAN Book 974 D2thj pp. 275-282,
includes a copy of Thankslorde's signature.

Lord is part of her given name.

Sir Thomas Lord and Dorothy Bird were not her parents.
- Rhonda Anderson
Added: Jun. 14, 2012

Thankslord Perkins married Ralph Shepard in 1632 in London, England.

She emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635
as a pregnant mother and a toddler daughter, Sarah.

She died after 1675 but before 1681.

Ralph Shepard married Thankslord Perkins in 1632 in London.

They emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1635,
with their eldest child, Sarah.

They moved often between the early towns of the colony,
having children in Dedham, Weymouth, and Malden,
before buying the farm in 'Concord Village',
which became Littleton.

He was also one of the founders of Rehoboth, in Plymouth Colony,
but he never lived there, so he his land was taken back by the town.

Late in his life, he established a farm in what is now Littleton,
but was then part of Concord, bordering
on the Praying Indian town of Nashoba.

That is where the marker you included is located.

Thankslord Shepard was famous for having signed a petition
to the General Court in 1651,
along with other highly educated women of Malden,
supporting their minister.

Her signature on this petition can be found online.

Women rarely appeared in government records for that time,
certainly not in a petition that would seem to be critical
of the Court's actions, so those who signed it are still noted in history.

Unfortunately, in 1920 those who erected the marker
in Littleton were misinformed about the original families in the area.

Ralph and Thankslord Shepard did not have a daughter, Mary.

They did have two sons, Isaac and Jacob Shepard,
who were killed by attacking Natives in February, 1676.

They had placed a young girl on a rock nearby
, to keep watch, but the Natives were able to surprise her
before she was able to give an alarm,
taking her back to the Lancaster area after killing the Shepard men.

The teenaged girl is now thought to have been Mary Power,
daughter of Ralph and Thankslord Shepard's daughter,
Triall, who married Walter Power in 1661.

The Power farmstead was next to the Shepard farm in Littleton
(then called Concord Village).

The age of the girl on the marker is probably close to correct
- Mary Power was born in 1663,
and would have been about 12-13
at the time of the attack on her uncles, Isaac and Jacob Shepard.

Thankslord Perkins Shepard was born about 1612
and would have been too old to have had a daughter Mary
about 1663-64.

Her last child was born in 1653.

Mary Power was the second child born to Walter and Triall Shepard Power,
born about two years after their marriage.

Mary Power's adventure was surely traumatic to her.

When she escaped and returned home, she tended to 'run wild'
by Puritan standards.

Her parents were tried for at least one of her misdeeds
while she was young, but she did eventually marry
and settled down to lead a responsible life.

Mary Power married Joseph Wheeler in 1681,
but she was dead by the time their daughter,
Ruth, administered bloo her father's estate in 1705.

However, another family source said she died in 1740.

Either way, no burial places were noted.

As both of them were from Concord Village,
which became Littleton, t
hey may well have been buried in the Power Family Cemetery
on the Walter Power farm.

Several generations were buried here
before the farm went out of family hands
and was purchased by the Reed brothers.

To the horror of the community
, the Reeds plowed over the old burying ground in 1850,
using the surviving tombstones to build a fence
and leaving no trace of the graves.

There was no law at that time about descecrating graves
- there is now.

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Family Members
Spouse

• 
  Ralph Shepard
  
  1603–1693

Children

• 
  Thomas Shephard
  
  1632–1719
• 
  Sarah Shepard Tompson
  
  1633–1679
• 
  John Shepard
  
  1637–1699
• 
  Isaac Shepard
  
  1639–1676
• 
  Tryall Shepard Powers
  
  1641–1708
• 
  Abraham Shepard
  
  1642–1716
• 
  Thanks Shepard Dill
  
  1651 – unknown
• 
  Jacob Shepard
  
  1653–1676
• 
  Daniel Shepard
  
  1659–1697
  
  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70683819/Thanklorde-Shepard

 

Thankslord Shepard is your 9th great grandmother.

You - susan lynne schwenger


→

Lynda Mae Handy - Schwenger
your mother

→

James Edward Handy Jr.
Son of James Edward Handy Sr.
and Ida Eva Morton Russell - Handy
Husband of Viola Mae Drury - Handy
Father of Donald James Handy; Mervyn or Merv Handy;
Lynda Mae Handy - Schwenger; Meryl Joan Fletcher;
Janice Elaine Handy - Spring;
and Carol Handy - Moloney - Provost
Brother of Lorne William Handy;
Mae AKA May Elizabeth Handy - Furlong;
Russell Harold Handy;
Willis Louis Handy;
Florence aka Flo Marion Handy - Whates;
Ida Eva Handy - Drury;
Jean Lois Handy - Cameron
and Robert John Handy)
her father

→

Ida Eva Morton Russell - Handy
(Daughter of R.J. Russell or Robert J. Russell
or Robert James Russell
and Florence Melissa Wall - Russell
Wife of James Edward Handy Sr.)
his mother

→

Florence Melissa Wall - Russell
(Daughter of William H. Wall
and Elizabeth A. Lemon - Wall
Wife of R.J. Russell or Robert J. Russell or Robert James Russell)
her mother

→

William H. Wall
(Son of George Stone Wall
and Sarah Lukins - Wall
Husband of Elizabeth A. Lemon - Wall)
her father

→

George Stone Wall
Son of Jeremiah Wall
and Ann Stone aka STOENKO - Wall
Husband of Sarah Lukins - Wall)
his father

→

Ann Stone aka STOENKO - Wall
(Daughter of Johannes or John Stone aka STOENKO
and Hannah Barrow - Stone
Wife of Jeremiah Wall)
his mother

→

Johannes or John Stone aka STOENKO
(Son of John Stone
and Rachel Stone
Husband of Hannah Barrow - Stone)
her father

→

Rachel Stone
(Daughter of John Shepard
and Sarah Shepard
Wife of John Stone)
his mother

→

John Shepard
(Son of Dea. Ralph Shepard and Thankslord Shepard
Husband of 1st wife: Sarah Shepard (related to this posting)
2nd wife Wife of John Shepard (Craig))

→

Thankslord Shepard
(Daughter of unknown Perkins
and wife of unknown Perkins
Wife of Dea. Ralph Shepard)
his mother



Thankslord Shepard (Perkins) MP

Gender:	Female
Birth:	circa June 30, 1609 Towchester, Stepney Parish, Northamptonshire, England
Death:	September 20, 1693 (80-88) Malden, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
Place of Burial:	Old Rock Cemetery, Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:	Daughter of unknown Perkins and wife of unknown Perkins Wife of Dea. Ralph Shepard Mother of Sarah Shepard; Thomas Shepard; John Shepard; Isaac Shepard; Trial Power; Abraham Shepard, of Malden; Walter Shepard; Thankful Dill; Jacob Shepard; Mary Harris; Ralph Shepard and Daniel Shepard « less
Curated by:	Erica Howton https://www.geni.com/people/Thankslord-Shepard/6000000003693265457

 

more info on geni at https://www.geni.com/people/Thankslord-Shepard/6000000003693265457