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Title: Daniel Shed genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Shedd, Frank Edson, 1856-1916 Bartlett, J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner), 1872-1927 Shedd Family Association
Subjects: Shedd family
Publisher: Boston : The Shedd Family Association
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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resided as late as 1913. By reference to a map of those grants their relative location canbe easily seen, while for fixing them most definitely within modernbounds we are aided by one of the most prominent features of theearly towns topography and one that still lingers in all its quaint-ness of title, viz: Charnstaffe Lane, extending from the Bostonroad westerly to the river. Then it separated the large and earlierDudley Farm on the south of it from the township grant properon the north as set off to the Cambridge Church. Immediatelynorth of Charnstaffe Lane and bounding upon it was the lot ofRev. Samuel Whiting, the first minister of Billerica, who camethere in 1658. Adjoining him upon the north vas the land ofDaniel1 Shed extending westward to the Concord river, whileupon his arrival there in 1659 he established his dwelling upon theeastern portion near ye brooke in the valley between the presentBoston and Concord roads. The records of the early grants show 38 DANIEL SHED GENEALOGY
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FIRST GENERATION 39 that a highway was reserved along this brook, but given uplater on. We can learn very little from the records as to his coming or thedetails of his early abode there though many things can be gath-ered by inference. The year 1659 must have been the time of hisarrival, for in October of the preceding year he had a daughterSarah born by wiffe Mary in Braintree, while in the ancientrecords of Billerica we find a sone, Samuel, born to Daniel andElizabeth Shed on Aug. 13, 1660. Few indeed were the accommodations afforded by the newsettlement to which our ancestor brought his family of sevenchildren whose ages ranged from one to twelve years. The houseswere small and rude; there were no fences or enclosures. Theministers house was built but not yet finished, and the meetinghouse, that one rallying point in all early towns, was not begun.The force and peculiarity of their seclusion comes to us more fullyas we read of the meagre opportunities for travel to neighboringtowns

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