Daniel Shed (ca.1620-1708) emigrated about 1643 from England to Braintree, Massachusetts, and married twice. He moved in 1659 to Billerica, Massachusetts. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Shedd) and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere. Includes English ancestral lineage to 1327 A.D.