When Joseph Shepard was born on 24 March 1781, in New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Thomas Shepard, was 37 and his mother, Mary Mollie Baldwin, was 22. He married Catherina Webster in 1805. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died on 5 February 1874, in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 92.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: variant of Shepherd .
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Berger .
Americanized form of French Chabot and Chaput .
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