Richard Sherman, bap. at Dedham, Mar. 3, 1577 (Reg. 50, p. 415). Went to New England. Of Boston, Mass.
RICHARD6 SHERMAN (14. Edmund,5 Henry,4 Thomas,3 John,2 Thomas1 ), bap. at Dedham Mar. 3, 1577 (Reg. 50, p. 415). (Signed his name "Shearman.") His grandfather Henry4 Sherman by his will, dated Jan. 20, 1590, gave to him a legacy of forty shillings at 22. (Supra.) His father by his will dated Aug. 1, 1599, gave him a legacy at 24. (Reg. 50, p. 283.) m. Elizabeth . Went to New England. Symon Whiting, of Dedham, clothier, in his will dated Apr. 17, 1637, proved June 15, 1637 (P. C. C. Goare 99) gave "unto ould Richard Sherman, of New England, ten shillings" (Reg. 50, p. 389.) Died in Boston, Mass., May 30, 1660. (Rec. Commrs. Report, Vol. 9, p. 75). Will dated Apr. 7, 1660, proved in Suffolk County, July 13, 1660, mentions wife Elizabeth. Gives legacies to daughter Ann Shearman, Priscilla Garrett, wife of Martin Garrett (Garwood?), Martha Browne, Abigail Damine; the legacies "to my two daus. in England into ye hands of my cousine Mr. Anger of Cambridge to be sent unto my said two daus., if then liueing, or else to ye child or children of them." (Ann and Priscilla were the daughters in England.) Legacies to grandchildren Mary and Elizabeth Spawle. Appoints his friends and kinsmen Edmund Anger and John Livermore of Watertown, Mass., overseers. (Reg. 9, p. 227.) Elizabeth Sherman, Richard's widow, m. Thomas Robinson as his third wife. He m. at Boston, Jan. 10, 1652/3, Mary Woodie, widow of John Woodie, of Roxbury, and daughter of John Coggan of Boston. She d. Oct. 26, 1661. Thomas Robinson's will was dated Mar. 17, 1664/5, proved Apr. 27, 1666. (Reg. 15, p. 123.) In this will he says "Though my wife hath not carryed herself as a wife should have done towards mee, but contrary to the Law of God and Man, hath withdrawn her selfe from Liuing with me as she ought to Doe." Elizabeth (Sherman) Robinson d. in 1667. Her will dated Aug. 21, 1666, proved Nov. 16, 1667, mentions her former husband Richard Sherman; John Browne, son of Edward Browne of Dorchester; Samuel Deman, son of John Deaman of Reeding; Elizabeth Spaule daughter of Thomas Spall of Boston; Mary Spall daughter of said Spall aforesaid; sister Bridget Lock's children of Faucet in England; kinsman John Greenleafe and his sister Mary Greenleafe; husband Thomas Robinson. (Reg. 18, p. 156.)
