"Benjamin [Sherman] … m. at Trumbull, 20 Nov. 1740, widow Obedience Fairchild. She was widow of Nathan Fairchild and previously of Edmund Curtis, and dau. of John Mallory, b. at New Haven, 11 Apr. 1704. She m. (4) 25 Dec. 1763, Robert Bassett, and was living 1785."