David Shepard (October 23, 1744 – December 12, 1818) was an American doctor, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,[1] a Minuteman, and surgeon in the Continental Army.

[2] Shepard was present at several key battles of the American Revolution, usually acting in a medical capacity, as a military surgeon.

They would frequently speak against the British Parliament in chapel, and petitioned the Corporation with their grievances, insisting on the removal of the disciplinarian president Thomas Clap.

Things at the college had become so difficult the Corporation ordered an early spring vacation, and David Shepard was one of the few undergraduates that returned.

In 1769 David is included in a list of Master's degree candidates, his thesis relating to the nature of slow versus acute disease.

[9] He later served with a detachment of the Third Hampshire County Regiment which marched to Ticonderoga to reinforce the army by order of General Schuyler,[4] and was present at the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777.