Person:Grace Makin (4)

Grace Makin not wife of John Sherman, Thomas Rogers and Roger Porter

"Because she was still a Sherman in 1621, she could not be the Grace who m. (1) John Sherman, (2) Thomas Rogers by 1617 (when a child was baptized), and (3) Roger Porter. The possibility exists that Grace Makin married the immigrant Edmund Sherman of Dedham and was called Joan in error in a 1608 baptismal entry, but no supporting evidence has been found for this suggestion. The 1608 entry was for a son Richard, but Edmund already had at least four children. Why would Grace's father Tobias Makin single out their fifth child unless he carried his grandfather's name. This child did not. Of course, it is possible that Edmund's earlier children were by another wife, but of this we have no evidence. In an effort to find further information about Grace (Makin) Sherman, we read wills of her possible relatives named Stone and Weald without finding mention of her."^[1]

Summary of Hyde/Richardson Article

"The evidence presented above proves that Joan Makin did not marry Edmund Sherman and that Grace Makin did not marry John Sherman. The possibility that Grace Makin married the Edmund Sherman who immigrated to New Haven CT is unlikely, but it has not been completely eliminated."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Hyde, Myrtle Stevens and Douglas Richardson, "Was Tobias Makin an Ancestor of the New England Shermans?" 61 [Jul-Oct 1985] : 79-82, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   (at 61:81-82).

   GRACE b. say 1585; m. bef. 1610 ----- SHERMAN (prob. an Edmund Sherman, of a unknown place but in all likelihood a member of the Dedham, co. Essex, Sherman family and father of the Richard Sherman mentioned in Tobias Makin's will).