Benjamin Shed^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55]}

1696 - 1770  (74 years)

• Name	Benjamin Shed  [1, 2, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55]
  Birth	05 Aug 1696	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America   [1, 2, 19, 20, 22, 40, 41]
  Gender	Male
  Burial	1770	Old South Burying Ground, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America   [19, 20]
  Death	09 Oct 1770	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America   [17, 19, 20, 39]
  Person ID	I312684223848	Oswald Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Family	Abiel Manning,   b. 16 Dec 1698, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America d. Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
  Marriage	Abt. 1719	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  Family ID	F1701	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Abial/* Abial/* Elizabeth/Hill * Elizabeth/Hill * From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. probable error probable error !Billerica,Middlesex,Mass. Vital Records !Billerica,Middlesex,Mass. Vital Records to 1850 LV FHC#974.44/BI v22ffa !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

  
  

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