Person:Rebecca Sherwood (1)

Emigrated with parents on the "Francis" in 1634. (S3)

That she was also the wife of Angel Husted is SUGGESTED but not yet documented. (S4)

1.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
   pg 548.

   [Ancestry.com: Vol. 1] "Thomas came to Boston in the Frances, Apr. 1634, ae. 48, with wife Alice, ae. 47, and children Anna (14), Rose (11), Thomas (10), and Rebecca (9)."

2. ↑ Thomas Sherwood sketch, in Great Migration Newsletter. (Boston, Massachusetts: Great Migration Study Project)
   [1].

   Children... vii. REBECCA SHERWOOD, bp. Kettle Baston 13 October 1622 [TAG 80:281] (aged 9 [sic] on 30 April 1634 [Hotten 278]); named in father’s will, 21 July 1655, probably married; no further record.

3.   Coldham, Peter Wilson. The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660: a comprehensive listing compiled from English Public Records of those who took ship to the Americas for political, religious, and economic reasons; of those who were deported for vagrancy, roguery, or non-conformity; and of those who were sold to labour in the new colonies. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1987)
   Section II, Ch. 29.

   30 April 1634. Passengers of the Francis of Ipswich, Mr. John Cutting, captain, bound for New England (landed at Plymouth or Boston, MA): from the Pubic Record Office, Kew, Richmond, Surrey (TW9 4DU, England): "Thomas Sherwood 48 and Alice his wife 47, Anna Sherwood 14, Rose Sherwood 11, Thomas Sherwood 10, Rebecca Sherwood 9"

4.   "Rebecca, wife of Angel2 Husted, of Greenwich", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   30:127, 1954.

   by George E. McCracken, Ph.D., F.A.S.G., Drake University, Des Moines, IA
   
   That the wife of Angel2 Husted (Robert1), of Greenwich, Conn., was named Rebecca is shown by the will of her husband dated 5 April 1706 [D.L. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, 1:317]. She has often been identified with Rebecca, daughter of Thomas1 Sherwood, of Fairfield, by his first wife Alice, who came on the Frances in Apilr 1634 with her parents and three older children, Rebecca being then aged nine. This identification has been denied, the most recent writer known to me to have touched on the subject being Mr. Jacobus himself in an article entitled “Sherwood of Fairfield and Straftford, Conn.” (see ante, 27:156-159, especially, p. 158) The point may have been lost in part because Mr. Jacobus neglects to mention Angel Husted as the supposed husband. Referring to an article in Your Ancestors, 3:338, Mr. Jacobus says: “Husbands are provided for the daughters Rebecca and Jane but without citation of any evidence. There is, to my certain knowledge, no record in Fairfield which proves these marriages, hence, while they may be correct, the reader is entitled to ask for documentation.”
   
   Mr. Ralph E. Boyce has kindly turned my attention to the will of Jabez3 Sherwood (Stephen2, Thomas1 of Fairfield), dated at Greenwich, 7 Oct. 1704, probated 6 Nov. 1704 [Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, 1:551]. Jabez obviously had neither wife nor child .He leaves all his land in Greenwich to Jonathan Husted and wife; his carpenter’s tools to Jonathan Jessup, son of Edward, of Fairfield; mentions his sister-in-law Elizabeth Sherwood, of Rye, and his brother Nathaniel; leaves property in Rye to brother Stephen; leaves his gun to cousin Stephen Sherwood, wearing apparel to sister Ruth Merritt, except the hat to Jonathan Jessup and two shirts to Mary, wife of Jonathan Husted. Administration was granted to Stephen Sherwood, Jonathan Husted, and John Pettit.
   
   The above-mentioned Rebecca2 Sherwood was an aunt of testator, being half-sister of his father Stephen. If she had married Angel2 Husted, then her son Jonathan3 Husted was a first cousin of testator. Mary Husted, wife of Jonathan was daughter of Robert and Susanna Lockwood. On 1 Dec. 1681, Jonathan Husted, of Greenwich, husband of Mary Lockwood, daughter of Robert and Susanna Lockwood, signed a release to Daniel Lockwood, Joseph Lockwood and William War, administrators for the estate of their father and mother, Robert and Susanna aforesaid. Jabez Sherwood had another aunt, Abigail2 Sherwood, wife of Daniel2 Lockwood, who both died before Jabez leaving issue. If the relationship was through the uncle by marriage, Daniel2 Lockwood, it is strange that his sister was left property rather than his children, since his sister was not related to Jabez so far as known, while the children of Daniel2 Lockwood were his first cousins.
   
   It may be suggested that Angel2 Husted did marry Rebecca2 Sherwood, and that Jabez Sherwood left his Greenwich property to his first cousin.
   
   Editor’s Note. Statements in the past to the effect that the wife of Ange2 Husted married Rebecca2 Sherwood may well have been based on the terms of the will of Jabez3 Sherwood and the line of reasonong followed by Dr. McCracken above. The present writer ha never denied the possibility of this identification of Rebecca and in the previous article cited ante stated that it “may be correct.” Perhaps it should be pointed out, however, that Jabez Sherwood did not remember all of his brothers and sisters, nor did he give to any of them his most valuable property with the exception of his Rye estate to his brother Stephen. As to his real estate in Greenwich he passed over his immediate relatives in favor of the Husteds. Whether they were his cousins, or simply friends, it may be suggested that being unmarried, he may have made his home with them. His will failed to specify any relationship to the Husteds or to Jonathan Jessup, whom he also remembered. Jonathan Husted in his own will of 1705 called Jonathan Jessup his cousin and made him his chief heir, also mentioning that Jonathan Jessup was under 21 and living with him.
   
   These factors strongly indicate that Jabez Sherwood was also a member of the childless Husted household. He may originally have entered that household because of relationship, or there may have been some kind of family connection without actual relationship. The facts are suggestive but, in this writer’s view, are far from proving that Jabez Sherwood was a cousin of Jonathan Husted or that the latter’s mother Rebecca was Rebecca Sherwood. It is a very plausible theory that she was, but actual record proof, oat least further circumstantial evidence pointing in that direction, would be required to move the identification from the stage of conjecture to that of fact. -- D.L.J.