SHEPPARD, John Hannibal, author, born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, 17 March, 1789; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 25 June, 1873. In 1793 his parents settled in Hallowell, Maine He was educated at Harvard, which he left in his junior year, but in 1867 the university placed his name among the graduates of 18O8. He studied law was admitted to the bar in 1810, and practised in Wiscassett, Maine From 1817 till 1834 he was register of probate for Lincoln county, and in 1842 he settled in Boston, Massachusetts He was an early and efficient member of the New England historic-genealogical society, its librarian in 1861-'9, and contributed to its "Register." The degree of A.M. was given to him by Bowdoin in 1830, and by Harvard in 1871. In addition to several masonic and antiquarian addresses, he was the author of occasional poems, of "Reminiscences of the Vaughan Family" (Boston, 1865), and " The Life of Samuel Tucker, Commodore in the American Revolution" (1868).