Ralph Sheppard came from Stepney Parish in London, in Essex, July1635, aged 29 years with his wife Thankes, aged 23 years and daughterSara, aged 2. First settled in Weymouth, later removed to Malden,where he took up his permanent residence and where he held the officeof deacon in the church. After a long and useful life, died Sept. 11,1693 aged 90 years. His gravestone still remained (1853)