Thomas Shepard I was born in Northamptonshire, the son of a grocer's apprentice and a grocer's daughter, and entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a pensioner, or scholarship student, in 1620. He re...
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Thomas Shepard II, whom Samuel Eliot Morison called the "beloved son of a beloved father," in many ways fulfills the popular ideal of the second-generation New England Puritan minister. Pious, learned...
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