Person:Benjamin Sherman (22)

Name^[1]	Captain Benjamin Sherman
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	22 Dec 1675	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Marriage	9 Apr 1702	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United Statesto Mary Lawton
Will^[1]	22 May 1734
Death^[1]	Bet 22 May 1734 and 7 Oct 1734	Between date of will and date of probate.
Probate^[1]	7 Oct 1734	Will proved.

First son named in father's will.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Benjamin³ Shearman, in Sumner, Edith Bartlett. Ancestry and descendants of Amaziah Hall and Betsey Baldwin. (Los Angeles, Calif.: American Offset Printers, 1954)
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"Benjamin³ Shearman was born in Portsmouth, R.I., on Dec. 26, 1675. Benjamin died in Newport in 1734 (Mss. in New York City Public Library). Benjamin, though the eldest son, was not executor of his father's will, but shared with his brother Joseph in a large amount of property in Portsmouth. He was a resident of Newport, and was probably the Captain Benjauin Shearman of Newport who was admitted freeman of the colony on May 4, 1714. (There were two other records of a Benjamin Shearman admitted freeman of the colony, one in 1727 and one in 1733, both of Newport.) … The only record of Benjamin's will of May 22, 1734, probated on Oct. 7, 1734, in Newport, is found in 'Town Council, a fragment, VII:202,' which unfortunately only contains the name of a Mary Perkins."