Abraham Sheppard (died 1790) was a soldier and legislator who served as colonial-era sheriff of the now-defunct Dobbs County. A local justice of the peace, in 1762 Sheppard was accused of coming into Priscilla Allen's home and carrying away eight of Allen's enslaved people. The motivations for such an act were not recorded. If Sheppard was punished for the crime, he did not lose prominence as he later served in the North Carolina Colonial Assembly (1769), the North Carolina Provincial Congress (1775-76), and in the North Carolina General Assembly (1779-80). He also served as a colonel in the North Carolina state militia during the American Revolution. He died in Dobbs in 1790.