1Frank E. Shedd, Daniel Shed Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920, pp. 45-47 (1921).
"To summarize in brief our knowledge of the life of our first ancestor as conveyed by records and by inference we may say that he was born probably between 1620 and 1625 in England whence he came as a youth or a young man perhaps just of age to make a home for himself in America. He landed about 1643, probably at Boston, being then unmarried, but about 1646 acquired a wife at Braintree where they had seven children. She died in 1658-9, and a few months later he married a second wife and settled in Billerica, Mass., where he had four more children and died 27 July 1708, probably aged about eighty-eight years. He married first, about 1646, Mary *; she had seven children and died either late in 1658 or early in 1659.
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He married secondly, in 1659, Elizabeth , whose parentage is unknown; she had four children and died in Billerica, 17 Jan. 1699/1700.
Children by first wife, born in Braintree, Mass.:
i. Mary, b. 1 Oct. 1647; d. at Billerica 17 Aug. 1688; m. there 10 Oct. 1667, John Rogers, b. in Watertown, Mass., 11 Sept. 1641, son of John and Priscilla (Dawes) Rogers, and grandson of Thomas and Mary ( ) Rogers, great-grandson of John and Mary ( - ) Rogers, and great-great-grandson of John and Mary ( ) Rogers, all of Moulsham in Chelmsford, co. Essex, England.
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2. ii. Daniel, b. 30 Aug. 1649.
iii. Hannah, b. 7 Sept. 1651; d. at Billerica 19 Dec. 1672 without issue; m. there 30 Sept. 1672, Thomas Rogers, b. about 1646, son of John and Priscilla (Dawes) Rogers, and a younger brother of John Rogers who married her eldest sister Mary Shed, as previously related.
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3. iv. John, b. 1 Apr. 1654.
v. Elizabeth, b. 17 June 1656; m. at Billerica, 11 Apr. 1677, Samuel Farley, b. there the last week in March 1653/4. son of George and Christian (Births) Farley, and the first white child born in Billerica.
4. vi. Zechariah, b. 17 June 1656.
vii. Sarah, b. 30 Oct. 1658; m. at Billerica, 20 Sept. 1681, John Dutton, b. in Reading, Mass., 2 Mar. 1655/6, son of Thomas and Susanna ( ) Dutton.
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Children by second wife, born in Billerica, Mass.
5. viii. Samuel, b. 13 Aug. 1660.
ix. Susan, b. 28 Dec. 1662; no further record of her has been found.
x. Eunice, b. 19 Mar. 1664/5; m. as his second wife, at Charlestown, Mass., 29 Nov. 1705, John Levistone, a Scotchman, of Chelmsford, Mass., formerly of Billerica.
6. xi. Nathan, b. 5 Feb. 1668/9.".
1Vital Records of Billerica Massachusetts to the Year 1850, pp. 161-165 (1908).
"Billerica Births
ROGERS, . . .
Abigail [dup. Abigall], d. John and Abigail, May 17, 1712.
John, s. John and Abigail, Dec. 18, 1710.
Josiah, s. John and Abigail, May 17, 1716.
Samuel, s. John and Abigail, Feb. 2, 1722-3.
Thomas, s. John and Abigail, Jan. 8, 1713-14.
Timothy, s. John and Abigail, Nov. 30, 1717.
Zebediah, [dup. Zebadiah], s. John and Abigail, Feb. 23, 1720-1.".