Thomas Shepard
 

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Many of the details come from public trees on Ancestry.

Name - "official" name and what they were known as – Thomas Shepard

Date and place of birth – 22 Nov 1742, Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Names of parents – not known

Date and place of baptism – not known

Details of each of his or her marriages – to Elizabeth Brew, in 1769 at Holderness, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA

Occupation(s) -

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
At least one child born in Grafton County, New Hampshire around 1770
Family moved to Abercorn, Brome, Quebec, Canada sometime between then and 1792.

ABERCORN VILLAGE
(Pop. 330)
Known as the cradle of Sutton Township, this hamlet lies a stone’s throw from the Vermont border. It was here beside the Sutton River that New Hampshire Loyalist Thomas Shepard settled in 1792. For many years Abercorn was known simply as Shepard’s Mills.
From Brome County Heritage Trail Quebec Heritage Web on Ancestry

Robert Manson and Thomas Shepard of the Mississquoi colony were given lands in Bolton Township near Lake Memphermagog in 1797.
Excerpt from "The American Loyalists in the Eastern Seigniories and Township of the Province of Quebec" by Wilbur H Siebert,Ohio State University (Read May 28,1913) by Dr LeSueur

Date, place and cause of death - 10 Apr 1834, Abercorn, Brome, Quebec, Canada

Date and place of burial - .not known

Details of will / administration of their estate – not known

Memorial inscription – not known

Daughter
Sarah Shepard

This must be his burial, in the Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) on ancestry:
Quebec records

Anglican Church, Holy Trinity, Frelighsburg, Quebec
Thomas Shepherd of the Township of Sutton died on the tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, in ninety second year of his age, and was buried on the twelfth day of the same in presence of the subscribing witnesses by James Reid Minr
Caleb Edwards(?)
Sara(?) James

Family Search has a baptism for a Thomas Shepard on 16 January 1744 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire. Parents are Thomas and Dorothy.

There are further baptisms in Rockingham for this couple:

Samuel 16 January 1744
Jacob 29 July 1746
John 19 Sept 1749

There is a user-submitted genealogy on FS which gives Dorothy's maiden name as Ellison.

A lot of those public trees on ancestry have Thomas as born Rockingham, New Hampshire, 22 Nov 1742, the son of Thomas Shepard and Dorothy Ellison. The New Hampshire Births and Christenings database has a Thomas Shepherd christened 16 Jan 1744 Portsmouth, Rockingham, parents Thomas and Dorothy. Not sure whether this is your Thomas, though.

Edit - snap, Shona!

Barrington is about 10 miles from Portsmouth.

The New Hampshire Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index 1790-1890 on ancestry has an entry for Thomas Shepherd, township of South Hampton, Rockingham County, 1776, taken from the NH Early Census Index.

The 1790 US census has the following heads of families listed at New Holderness, Grafton County, New Hampshire:
Shepard Jacob 1 3 5 - - 9
Shepard Joseph 2 3 3 - - 8
Shepard Lucy - 1 2 - - 3
Shepard Richard 2 - 5 - - 7
Shepard Samuel 2 - 5 - - 7
Shepard Samuel Junr 1 - - - - 1
Shepard Samuel 3d 1 - - - - 1
Shepard Thomas 2 1 3 - - 6

The columns being: Free white males of 16 years & upward including heads of families
Free white males under 16
Free white females including heads of families
All other free persons
Slaves
Total

So Thomas's household included another male over 16 as well as Thomas himself, a boy under 16, and three females.

Wow, I go out for a couple of hours and come back to all this info. Thanks Kite & Shona. :)

So this is quite possibly your man, too, Sue?

1751 Holderness - Thomas Shepard

More History: In 1751 the township of Holderness had been asked for and granted. On October 15th, in that year, His Excellency, Benning Wentworth, laid before the council a "petition of Thomas Shepard and others, inhabitants of the Province, praying for a grant of His Majesty's lands of the contents of six miles square on Pemidgwasset river, to which the Council did advise and consent. Thomas Shepard's petition was signed by sixty-four persons, to whom accordingly the grant was made. The decisive defeat of the French at Quebec, in 1759, removed that terror from this region. The land was open for safe occupation. In 1761 Governor Benning Wentworth issued grants for eighteen townships. It was under one of these grants that Holderness was finally settled. It incorporates into a township a piece of land six miles square. In Holderness it amounted to eight hundred acres. The charter gave the township thus erected the name of New Holderness. The first settler of New Holderness was William Piper and his wife Susanna. She was John Shepard's daugher. John Shepard had been a ranger with Robert Rogers, and eloped with Susanna Smith. When the War of Independence came on, he purposed to remain neutral, but was arrested by overzealous patriots and put on parole at Exerter. This so altered his ideals of neutrality that on being released he prompltly donned the uniform of the British service. He was killed in action on shipboard off the Grand Menan. His daughter Susanna, on her marriage to William Piper, had her father's lot for dowry. It lay between Squam Lake and White Oak Pond, on the west side of the connecting brook. There, in 1763, they build a cabin and set up housekeeping, and thus began the actual settlement of Holderness.

Have you looked at this?

Thomas SHEPARD (b. 1744, d. April 10, 1834) - familytreemaker

Great find, Janet.