Whom Johnson calls " the holy heavenly, sweet-affecting, and soul-ravishing Minister, Pastor of the Church of Christ at
Cambridge," was the son of William Shepard, and was born in Towcester, Northhamptonshire, Eng., Nov. 5, 1605. He was
educated at Emanuel College, where he took his first degree in 1623, and his second in 1627. In July, 1635, he sailed for
New England, and arrived at Boston, October 3rd of the same year. After the removal of Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone to Connecticut,
he formed a church at Cambridge, and took charge of it Feb. 1, 1636, where he continued till 1649. " This year," says Morton, "
Aug. 25, that faithful and eminent servant of Christ Mr. Thomas Shepard died, who was a soul searching Minister of the Gospel,
and Pastor of the Church of Christ at Cambridge. By his death not only the Church and people, but also all New England sustained
a very great loss; he not only preached the Gospel profitably and very successfully, but also hath left behind him divers worthy
works of special use, in reference unto the clearing up the state of the soul to God and man. His body was honorably buried
at Cambridge in New England." Johnson, speaking of Shepard, says, " Thousands of souls have cause to blesse God for him, even
at this very day, who are the Seale of his Ministrey, and he a man of a thousand, indued with abundance of true saving knowledge
for himself and others, yet his naturall Parts were weake, but spent to the full."

He had three wives; 1st, Margaret Tonteville, who died in Cambridge (N.E.), in 1636; 2d, Joanna, daughter of Rev. Thomas
Hooker, who died April, 1646; and, 3d, Margaret Boradile, whom he married Sept. 8, 1647.

Appendix	Andrew Belcher Elijah Corlet Stephen Day Henry Dunster John Fessenden Nathaniel Gookin Samuel Green Roger Harlekenden Jonathan Mitchel Gregory Stone Vassal Rev. Joseph Willard
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