Shepard, Sarah

Sarah married Jeremiah Claypool (Claypole), son of Norton Claypool (Claypole) and Rachel Scott, on 10 Mar 1710 in Sussex County, Delaware.¹

  Marriage Notes:

Jeremiah Claypoole was born in Sussex
Co. Delaware in 1685 and was the son of Norton and Rachel
Claypoole. In 1710 he married Sarah Shepherd, the daughter of
Hercules Shepherd and Mary Avery. After Sarah's death in the
1730's, he ma rried Mary Davock Russell. Jeremiah Claypoole died
and left an extensive will in which he names his living
children: Comfort; Mary; Sarah; Rachel; Joseph; G eorge;
Elizabeth; and Jehu. The date of the will is 1745. Jeremiah
Claypoole was Justice of the Peace for Sussex Co. in 1726. The
Shepherds and Claypooles belonged to St.Peters church in Lewes,
Delaware. All of the above children of Jeremiah were born to his
first wife Sarah between 1713 and 1730. Sarah Shephe rd was the
grandaughter of Capt. John Avery of Lewes.
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