Display Patriot - P-288744 - Zephaniah SHEPARDSON Jr

Zephaniah SHEPARDSON Jr

SAR Patriot #: P-288744

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.

State of Service: NH Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service

DAR #: A103179

Birth: 21 Mar 1755 Attleboro / / MA
Death: 19 Aug 1837 Guilford / Windham / VT

Qualifying Service Description:

Enlisted Jan 1776, served at Ticoneroga, Crown Point, Ft. St. Johns and Ft. Ann in NY
Was in the battle of Quebec
Captain CARLISLE, Colonel BEDEL
PRISONER OF WAR NH LINE

Additional References:

Grave Registry form. National Society Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Pension # S23415

Spouse: (1) XX XX; (2) Lettice Barney
Children: Ruth; James; Lewis; Ira;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child	View Application Detail
1997-09-05	VA	203030	Myron Edwin Lyman Sr (147556)	Martin
1999-08-23	VA	4292	Kenneth Ralph Tracy Jr (152344)	Martin

Burial:

Wilkens Hill Cemetery_(C-0064969)

Location:

Guilford / Windham / VT / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

104332

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

78276107

Marker Type:

Headstone

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

12 Oct 2011

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Author: DeCody Brad Marble

Zephaniah Shepardson Jr, a son of Zephaniah Shepardson Sr. (1733-1804) and Ruth Hills (1733-1782).

Zephaniah Junior was born 21 Mar 1755 at Attleborough, Bristol County, Massachusetts and died 19 Aug 1837 at Guilford, Windham County, Vermont.

Residences: Guiford, Cumberland County, New York and Guiford, Windham County, Vermont.

Spouses:

1) Rachel Wilkins (1755-1787) Children: Rachel, Leonard, Darius, Ruth and Susannah.

2) Lettice Barney Children: Ira, Sally, Zephaniah III, Martin, James, Lewis, Sophrona, Lurinda, Clark and John Barney Shepardson.

3) Sarah Babcock Stedman No children.

DAR Ancestor #: A103179

Service: New Hampshire Rank(s): Patriotic Service, Private

Service Source: Pension #S23415

Service Description: 1) Captain Daniel Carlisle’s Company, under Colonel Timothy Bedel’s Regiment, NH Line formed in New Hampshire. A prisoner of war, Cedars, Canada.

Fold3.com US Revolutionary War – Militia Memorial:

https://www.fold3.com/page/641399402-zepheniah-shepardson

Gallery: Pension #S23415, 20 pages (document images)

Stories:

(1) Zephaniah Shepardson: Story of a Guilford Soldier (who wrote a journal about his NH unit)

(2) Zephaniah Shepardson (1755 - 1837) of Guilford, Windham Co., Vermont (The Family)

(3) Zephaniah Shepardson's Revolutionary War journal

Excerpt from Journal:

Recounts his ten months' service. He enlisted January, 1776, at Guilford, for one year, in Capt. Carlisle's company, Col. Bedell's Regt. of the New Hampshire Line, and soon after marched to Chesterfield, N. H.; to Charlestown, N. H.; to Ticonderoga, N. Y.; on the ice to Crown Point; waited until ice was broken up, then by water to Port St. Johns; to Lawrence; by water to South Lawrence; ten miles across South River to Fort Ann; then three miles to the Cedar Falls, where they fortified and scouted under Butterfield (Major Isaac Butterfield) until May, 1776.

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