Person:John Sherman (5)

The marriage to Grace Makin (some say Mckim) is powerfully documented in “Ancestry of Rev. John Sherman and Capt. John Sherman,” NEHGR 51:309-315 (1897).

And then disproved in "Was Tobias Makin an Ancestor of the New England Shermans," by Myrtle Stevens Hyde and Douglas Richardson, TAG 61:79-82 (1985).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John 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)
   81.

   John Sherman, bap. at Dedham, Aug 17, 1585, father of Captain John Sherman, of Watertown, Mass.

2. ↑ Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, A.M.. Genealogical Gleanings in England. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1901)
   NEHGR 50:414-415, 1896.
3. ↑ Wood, Michael J., "The English Origin of Grace (Ravens) (Sherman) (Rogers) Porter and Mary (Ravens) Coolidge of Watertown, Mass.: New England Descendants of Ravens of Dedham, co. Essex," 62 [Apr-Jul 1987] : 65-77; 161-170., in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   (at 62:76).
4. ↑ John 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)
   100.

   John Sherman was buried at Great Horkesley, Essex, Jan. 24, 1616 [note: Author is date raising, so year is 1615/16](Reg. 66, p. 323)