Person:Edmund Sherman (4)

Edmund Sherman's Will

"(Edmund Sherman's) will, dated August 1, 1599, codicil Dec. 20, 1600, proved Apr. 30, 1601 (P. C. C. Woodhall 24.) Lands and personal property to wife Anne for life. 'To son Edmund, after decease of my wife, all the houses and lands before given to said wife and a house and seven acres called Ryes, where he now dwells and my sherman's occupation.' To son Richard at four and twenty. Similar bequests to sons Bezaliell, Samuel, John and Benjamin. To eldest daughter Anne Sherman at one and twenty. Similar bequest to daughter Sarah. To 'Hanna my daughter which I had by Anne my second wife' at one and twenty. Same to daughters Susan and Mary at similar ages. To sister Judith Pettfield for life 'the tenement wherin Edmond Browne the taylor now dwelleth.' Lands, including 'my house at the church gate' to be sold by my brother Henry Sherman and my kinsman (brothr in law) Symon Fenne, clothier, of Decham. 'My youngest daughter Mary' under twenty. After wife's death gives to son Bezaliell tenement called Ryes, now in occupation of Edmond, on condition he pay Richard £50. 'After my sister's death, I give the field and tenement before given unto her during life, unto the Governors of the Public Grammar School in Dedham, to be improved for a dwelling house for a schoolmaster.' 'To Sarah, Hannah the daughter of Anne my second wife, Susan, Samuel and John, my children, twenty shillings apiece which was bestowed upon them by their grandmother Cleere.' Wife Anne, Executrix. Rev. Dr. (Edmund) Chapman and my brother in law Robert Lewys Supervisors. Codicil: To eldest daughter Anne Sherman and son Bezaliell and daughter Sarah, each forty shillings which their grandfather Sherman gave them to be paid them at the ages mentioned in his will (Reg. 50, p. 283.)"^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Edmund Sherman, in Sherman, Thomas Townsend. Sherman genealogy, including families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: some descendants of the immigrants Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the descendents of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman. (New York, New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920)
   82-84.
2. ↑ Edmund Sherman, in Wood, Michael Johnson. The Earliest Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and their wives. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historical and Geneaological Register, 2012-14)
   166:258.

   Edmund Sherman, b. say 1548;