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.
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