The Database for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel

Shepard

Status (enslaved, free or both): unknown

Town: Wells

Known dates: 1779

Shelley (p. 280) includes "Shepard, Negro" in the list of "Revolutionary War Soldiers, Sailors and Patriots"

"Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War" has an entry for Shepard as a private in Capt. Samuel Sayer's company, serving two months in 1779 on the Penobscot expedition

Bibliography:

My Name is Wells - by Hope M. Shelley (2002)

Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War - Office of the Secretary of State (1896)

Shepard - Revolutionary War record

Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War

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