| Given our sister Grissell in a hard time 5s. | 0. | 5. | 0 | |
| Sent our sister Maning a leg of mutton 13d. | 0. | 1. | 1 | |
| Sent our sister Banbrick being sick a brest of mutton | 0. | 0. | 10 | |
| Sent our sister Albone the 27 of the 9 month 1641 7l of venison | 0. | 1. | 2 | |
| [1643.] | Payd our brother Manninge for a belrope1 | 0. | 1. | 6 |
| Item payd Elder Frost for a years allowance wch was due at midsomer in the yeare 1643, I say pd him by 10l. | 10. | 0. | 0 | |
| Payd on for looking to goody Alborne 4 weeks (she found herself) | 0. | 12. | 0 | |
| Sent our sister Albone 1 bottell sack 11d. | 0. | 0. | 11 | |
| [ “Elder Frost,” “brother Banbrick,” “brother Syll,” “sister Maninge” and “sister Stephenson,” each received a similar benefaction during this year.] | ||||
| [1644.] | Payd Mr. Palsgrave for physic for our sister Albone | 0. | 2. | 6 |
| For 4 years rent for our sister Albone (besides 5 months time allowed her for about 7s. charge in repayer wch she did) I say 4 years | 4. | 0. | 0 | |
| [1645.] | For cloth for Ben. Eaton for 2 shirts 3s. 4d. | 0. | 3. | 4 |
| 1 pr shoes for Ben Eaton cost 22d. 1 pr cost 14d. | 0. | 3. | 0 | |
| Payd our brother Briggam for something for clothinge for his sone | 0. | 7. | 6 | |
| Payd brother Chesholme for nessessaryes he layd out for Ben. Eatons clothes | 0. | 6. | 6 | |
| Payd for a goat for goody Albone to goodman Prentiss | 0. | 11. | 0 |
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The close of Mr. Shepard's ministry is described by Mather,2 after his usual quaint manner: “Returning home from a council at Rowly, he fell into a quinsie, with a symptomatical fever, which suddenly stopped a silver trumpet, from whence the people of God had often heard the joyful sound.
Among other passages uttered by him, when he lay a dying, he addressed those that were about him with these words: ‘Oh love the Lord Jesus very dearly; that little part that I have in him is no small comfort to me now.’
He died August 25, 1649, when he was forty-three years and nine months old, and left behind him, of three wives, which he successively married, three sons who have since been the shepherds of three several churches in this country.”
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1 A similar purchase was made in 1640.
2 Magnalia, Book III., ch. v., § 13.
3 His first wife was Margaret Touteville, who was mother of Thomas (H. C. 1653), minister at Charlestown; the second was Joanna, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker, and mother of Samuel (H. C. 1658), minister at Rowley; the third was Margaret Boradell, who survived him and was mother of Jeremiah (H. C. 1669), minister at Lynn and elsewhere. Besides these, John, a son of the second wife, survived the father, but died young.
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