Daniel Shed genealogy - ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920 (1921) (14762069724)

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Title: Daniel Shed genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Shedd, Frank Edson, 1856-1916 Bartlett, J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner), 1872-1927 Shedd Family Association
Subjects: Shedd family
Publisher: Boston : The Shedd Family Association
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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John Hull of Boston, as trustee, for £460 conveyed to Samuel Torrey,Ephraim Hunt and John Hunt, ail of Weymouth, the upland and meadow commonly called Sheds Neck, containing 120 acres.(Ibid., vol. 12, p. 22.) The property continued nearly half a century in possession of various members of the Torrey and Hunt families until 11 Dec. 1727, when Enoch Hunt sold 42 acres on Sheds Neck so called to Nicholas Phillips who on 29 Jan. 1734/5 conveyed it to Col. John Quincy of Braintree, grandson of Edmund Quincy previously mentioned; and on 1 May 1730 Col. Quincy also bought of John Hunt 72 acres in that part of Braintree commonly called Sheds Neck. (Ibid., vol. 41, p. 225; vol. 68, pp. 236-7.)These two purchases vested nearly the whole Neck in Col. Quincy who on 8 Aug. 1750 leased the property, at an annual rental of 10 shillings per acre, to a syndicate consisting of John Franklin(brother of the illustrious Benjamin Franklin), Norton Quincy,Peter Etter and Joseph Crellius. (Ibid., vol. 80, p. 169.) The
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Photo by Herman Shedd - MEMORIAL TO DANIEL SHED, SHEDS NECK, QUINCY, MASS. FIRST GENERATION 33 syndicate intended to develop the Neck for a colony of Germans,but the scheme failed, and on 24 Aug. 1752 the associates subleased to Gen. Joseph Palmer and Richard Cranch seventeen of the lotsas laid off at Sheds Neck called Germantown. (Ikid., vol. 81,p. 109.) Since that time the Neck has continued to be known by the latter name, Germantown, and after passing through various hands most of it was secured by The Sailors Snug Harbor, a corporation chartered 20 May 1852 to maintain a home for old and retired seamen. This beneficent institution still owns the property and has smoothed the last years of over five hundred old and disabled sailors. In 1916 the Shedd Family Association secured a small plot of land on the crest of the Neck and erected thereon a memorial toDaniel1 Shed in the form of a lighthouse, consisting of a column of Quincy granite about twenty feet high surmounted by a substantial glass