Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameBenjamin SHEPPARD 26
Birth Dateabt 1772
Birth PlaceGoochland County, Virginia
Spouses
1Mary Judith "Polly" HURT 26
Birth Dateabt 1778
Birth PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Death DateMay 1850 Age: 72
FatherBenjamin HURT , 144 (1746-1796)
MotherJudith FORREST , 145 (1750-1803)
Family ID3186
Marr Date10 May 1798
Marr PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
ChildrenCrotia (~1799-)
 Frances D. (~1806-)
 Benjamin F. (~1816-)
 Mary (~1819-)
 Nancy (~1820-)
Notes for Benjamin SHEPPARD
!Marriage-"Marriage Bonds and Minister's Returns of Prince Edward County,VA
1754-1810" by Catherine Lindsay Knorr 1950 pg. 71

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!Source-1850 VA Census,Prince Edward County,17 Aug 1850,pg. 21,D159,F159 last
name spelled Shepherd

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!records from Varla Wright, Phoenix, Arizona - June 1996

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Notes for Mary Judith "Polly" (Spouse 1)
HURT: English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): variant of Hart. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’. Dutch: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press

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(1) Marriage-"Marriage Bonds and Minister's Returns of Prince Edward County,VA 1754-1810" by Catherine Lindsay Knorr 1950 pg. 71, her guardian was Massanello Womack, Surety was David Thackston, father Benjamin was deceased, name listed as Judith in Minister's Return

(2) records from Varla Wright, Phoenix, Arizona - June 1996
1. THE EARLY HURT FAMILY IN VA, Oscar H. Hurt, 1958, FHL# 854152-4, pgs. 8,53.
2. 1790 Census of Prince Edward Co., VA
3. Marriage bond, May 5 1798, md. 10 May 1798, Prince Edward Co., VA

(3) information received from Betty Lawrence in Oct 1997.

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"Polly" is a nickname for "Mary."

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