↑ 1.01.11.2 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 61:82).
John the elder b. say 1587, named 1596/7 and 1610 (as eldest son); he or his brother, John the younger, had a son John named in 1621.