HUSBAND

Solomon Shepherd

CHILDREN

1. John Shepherd
    b. Abt. April 1734
    m. Bef. 1761 to Mary Mickle

2. Sarah Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1735
    m. 20 Dec 1758 to William Braselton
    d. Aug 1826 Jefferson, TN

3. Solomon Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1738
    m. 19 Oct 1763 to Margaret Blackburn
    d. Aft. 1816 probably Fayette Co., PA

4. Elizabeth Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1741
    m. 15 Jan 1768 to Stephanus Haworth
    d. d. 4 Feb 1807 Guilford, NC

Jane Wilson
by Susan Brooke
Nov 2020

Some have assumed that Jane Wilson was the daughter of Benjamin Wilson & Judah Docton. However Thomas Docton, father of Judah, only refers to two grandsons in his will, with no mention of Jane. Jane Wilson married Solomon Shepherd in 1733 at the New Garden Meeting. Judah Docton Wilson was still alive, yet not a witness at the wedding.  There were several witnesses at the marriage, but the only person there with the last name of Wilson was "Jesper Wilson" (1) This Jesper Wilson may be connected to Jane in some way. (2) However, he never appears connected with her again in any Quaker record.  He was a witness to the marriage of Alexander Mode to Rebecca Allen, daughter of John Allen of Londongrove on 18 4th month, 1741.  However, when Jane's brother-in-law, William Shepherd, married in the Menallen Meeting, no one named Shepherd or Wilson was a witness.  Jane was still at New Garden. Her husband's will was probated in Lancaster County, PA in 1749.
Another interesting note is through John Blackburn.  His daughter, Margaret Blackburn, married Jane's son Solomon Sherpherd.  John Blackburn's sister, Abigail Blackburn, married James Wilson, possibly son of Michael Wilson, and James Wilson and Abigail Blackburn named one of their sons Jasper Wilson. James and Abigail Wilson moved to Guilford NC about the same time as Jane Wilson Shepherd.  James Wilson signed a petition there about 1773 and Abigail is listed in the 1790 census of Guilford, NC.
By 1751 Jane Wilson Shepherd had moved to Menallen Meeting.  Among the witnesses at the marriage of Samuel Pope to Elizabeth Stevenson were Jane (Shepherd) and her two oldest children, John and Sarah.  Williams Shepherd and his wife Richmundy were also witnesses. Also worth noting are John and Michael Wilson. (3) They may be relatives.
Jane and her daughter Elizabeth moved to the New Garden Meeting of Guilford, NC in 1767. (4) Elizabeth Shepherd married Stephanus Haworth there on the 15 of 1st month 1768.  (5)  Jane Shepherd was a witness as was William Brasselton who had married Elizabeth's sister Sarah Shepherd in 1758.  There are no people named Wilson as witnesses.

Sources

(1) No parents are listed with the marriage record, 15 Nov 1733  .   Michael Lightgood Simon Hadly Benjamin Fred James Miller Franklin Hobson Robert Smith James Miller, Junr John Sharp William Farquor William Rowin William Miller John Morrow John Jackson James Love James Caine James McGee Joseph Hutton Jesper Willson Samuel Miller ---------- Elenor Jones Mary Sharp Alice Smith Jane Smith Margaret Smith Ruth Hadly Susanna Edmundson Mary Lightfoot Rachel Caine Ruth Lindly Deborah Fred Elenor Lightfood Ruth Seaton Ann Targon Katherine Jackson Mary Garnott Rachel Miller Mary Hutton Deborah Halleday

New Garden Monthly Meeting 15th day of ye 9th month 1733 (click to enlarge)

(2) Will of Jasper Wilson Jasper Wilson of Tyrone, York, PA.  wishes Plantation and Tract of Land  he now lives one to be sold within 6 months.  Wife unnamed to receive 1/3rd. Daughter "Lowes, wife of William Ford" £5 with the rest being distributed to the children of his daughter.  Execuitors, "Friends John Wilson, Sr and Lenard Hattan." Written 23 July 17770, Signed (made his mark) in the presence of John Wilson, Jun., James Wilson and William Delap.  John Wilson and James Wilson sign their named.  Will probated 27 Nov 1770.

Lancaster Will BK 3C pg. 7

Lancaster Will BK 3C pg. 8-9

 (3) Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania pg 174

  (4) Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1730 with their early history in Ireland.pg 359
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Immigration_of_the_Irish_Quakers_Into_Pe/7ZedLPs2fj0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=shepherd

Jane Shepherd served for several years as overseer of Menallen Meeting.  In 1767 she and daughter Elizabeth received a certificate to remove within the limits of New Garden
Monthly Meeting, North Carolina.

(5) Stephanus Haworth, son of Stephanus Haworth and Elizabeth Shepherd, both of Boone, NC married 15 1st month 1768 Witnesses: Mary Haworth Charity Mondenhall Jane Shepherd Ruth Hoggard Hannah Keney Hannah Mondenhalls Richard Beeson Mordicai Mendenhall George Haworth William Brasselton Thomas Kendal John Wall

New Garden Monthly Meeting Guilford, NC 15 of 1st Month 1768

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania pg 176

In its early years Menallen meeting was distinctively an Irish meeting, the majority of its members being from Ireland.  Among them were John Blackburn, judge of the York County court in 1764, county treasurer in 1759 and 1766, and member of the Assembly; etc.,---George Wilson, Solomon Sheppherd and Jacob Himshaw, from Grange, near Charlemont; Robert Mickle, from Dublin; etc.

From: "Tom Wilson" < [email protected]>
Subject: RE: [PAADAMS] Wilson and Wemyss/Weems
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:05:41 -0500
In-Reply-To: <004a01c4fac6$91e79b40$046056d1@yourd137mzmhow>

 Jesper operated a mill and a tavern . Jesper, along with sons
John Sr. and James were vestrymen and wardens in the Huntingdon Church
of SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Lands
(London based). The Huntingdon Church (not to be confused with
Huntingdon County) is located in what is now York Springs, Adams County,
PA. Jesper's wife is Ann (LNU) WILSON. Jesper died in 1770.

Jesper, John Sr. and Jr. and James Wilson had been
Vestrymen and wardens in the Huntingdon Church, and may have signed the
petition to form the church in 1749.

Jesper Wilson died in
November 1770. He left money from his plantation and the place where he
lived to his wife, who he does not mention by name, and his daughter's
children. No trace of his property listed in his will can be found in
deeds or land records. His wife, Ann, left money to the heirs of John
Wilson, Jr., but none has been found for James Wilson or his heirs. Her
record of the gift to John Wilson, Jr's heirs is found in the land
records and not in a will.