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Captain Shepard may have been was one of the Gaspee Raiders that attacked the English Navy ship Gaspee in 1772.Williams, Catherine in her Biography of Revolutionary Heroes: Containing the Life of Brigadier Gen. William Barton and also of Captain Stephen Olney. Providence (Self published 1839) p21. lists "he names of those brave and resolute citizens, as far as they have come to our knowledge, are as follows:
We do not know were she got this information, but speculate it was from people alive in 1839 whose parents were active in Providence in 1772. The fact that she did not give the first names of either Captain Harris or of Captain Shepard probably indicates that Williams did not know their first names. Page and Smith were not ship captains in 1772. However, as the years went by, they became ship captains. We do not know whether Shepard was a ship captain at the time of the raid, was a military captain, or became a captain only later during the Revolutionary War. That leaves only Bucklin and Jenckes without titles in the list of Williams. Joseph Bucklin 5th was never a ship or military captain.
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