| Family Trips Our family research began many years ago, by our sister Barbara, who is the inspiration of our first serious pursuit of our Shepherd roots, July 4th, 1992. The family traveled to Omaha, Georgia to attend the Wiley Family Reunion, in honor of our g-grandmother Lucy Wiley - Martin (born 1865). The reunion was held in Lumpkin, with a picnic at the Florence Arena Park, Florence Georgia. We spent a couple days in Atlanta, to view the burial site of Martin Luther King, Jr., and another day in Columbus, Georgia. Additionally, we went to the home of our only known living Shepherd ancestor, Patrick Brook Shepherd, Jr., and wife Annie, who lived in Lumpkin. The family then drove to Florence, and spent several hours in Florence, Georgia the birthplace of Grandfather William Joseph Shepherd, born in one of the former Shepherd slave Quarters, September 4, 1880. His father Prince Shepherd, and mother, Frances (Evans) [Jackson] Shepherd-Marshall were also born in the "Quarter", located in the twenty-second district of Stewart County, referred to as the Militia District. They were into slavery, and collectively worked most of their lives for the Shepherds, of Columbus and Stewart County, Georgia, Dr. Albert H. Shepherd, wife Anne Elizabeth (Smythe) Shepherd, and their son Colonel William S. Shepherd. (1800) About the Progenitor: Prince According to primary research the timeline of Prince (I),and his son, Prince (II)(Elbert County, GA.)are found in the following documents: Captain R.D. Sheherd,Co. (1760) Port of Louisina slave Manifesto), Levin Wailes, 1765, Ebert County, GA, Thomas Scott, 20 July 1776 to William Oats);Jermiah Walker 1793, Jonathan Halsted 1830. Dr. Albert H. Shepherd,1820-1836, Charles and William Warren, 1840 to Edward Shepherd, Florence, GA., who bequeth to his wife Anne Elizabeth Smythe, and his three children; Colonel William S. Shepherd, Sarah Porterhouse Flewellen, and Mary Elizabeth Shepherd, and inventory of fifty-seven slaves in 1836. My first discovery of documentation of a slave named Prince, was in Deed Book G, p. 162,Dec 1785,which state: "...Mortage following negro slave... a boy named PRINCE, about 11 years old. Other records show slave PRINCE among a group of forty-two slaves who was transported to Lousinna, by slave traders R.D. Shepherd Co. Lucy Shepherf (husband John Shepherd) purchased a slave PRINCE. Ref. New Orleans Public Library, wills, and inventoried slaves. According to tradtion Prince was abducted no doubt from the Wolof tribe [p] by Mandingo slave traders, from the shores of Seneglegambia. There is a slave named Prince on board a ship owned by "Captain Shepherd" distination St. James Parish, New Orleans. 1800- 1836: Prince's son Prince the African's first off-spring was also named Prince (II) which is followed through to the g-grandson of Prince, So, there is Prince (the African), his first son Prince (II), born 1818, his son Prince (III) (called "PW". G-grandfather Prince was born 1858, and his son Prince (born called "Jr, my Grandfather's brother was born in 1887. This was very confusing at first but after following the paper trail in what turned out to be a very small region as well as community of people who were not only neighbors and friends but also business partners who associated on a daily basis, I was able to figure out the names as well as the sequence of events as both father and son were traded and moved about until the father, Prince I, was freed and moved North to Conneticut and his son became the property of Dr. Albert H. Shepherd of Stewart County, GA. The history of the name PRINCE , was not given in the sometime slaveholder's mockery -the habit of naming their slaves "Royal" names in humor mocking their predicament. According to tradtion, the history of PRINCE's name is that he was given the name Prince by his first owner because his father was the Chief of |
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