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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3][4] |
Samuel Sherman |
| Gender |
Male |
| Christening[1][2] |
12 Jul 1618 |
Dedham, Essex, England |
| Military[2] |
1637 |
Served in the Pequot War. |
| Marriage |
Est 1640 |
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)to Sarah Mitchell |
| Residence[2] |
1641 |
Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
| Residence[2] |
1650 |
Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
| Residence[2] |
1685 |
Stratfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[2] |
5 Apr 1700 |
Stratfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edmund Sherman, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
6:285.
"Samuel Sherman, bp. Dedham, Essex, 12 July 1618 [Waters 1203; NEHGR 50:416]; …"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Sherman, Samuel, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
1:540-41.
"Sherman, Samuel, s. of Edmund. Served in the Pequot War. Deputy (Stratford) to Conn. Leg., Oct. 1660; Assistant, Conn. Col., Oct. 1662, 1663-67. Commissioner for Stratford, 1671-75, for Stratford and Woodbury, 1676-79, for Stratford, 1680-84, for Fairfield, 1685-88.
Bapt. at Dedham, co. Essex, Eng., 12 July 1618, d. at Stratfield, 5 Apr. 1700 ae. 80 (g. s.). He came with his father to Wethersfield, and (prob. there) m. abt. 1640, Sarah Mitchell, dau. of Matthew, bapt. 14 Oct. 1621. With the Mitchells and others, he joined the migration to Stamford.
He remained in Stamford until 1650, rem. to Stratford, and finally in 1685 to Fairfield, where he located in the Stratfield section."
- ↑ Samuel Sherman, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:84-85.
"Samuel (Sherman), Stratford, br. of Rev. John, perhaps did not come so early as 1634, wh. Cothren, 60, assumes, but was aft. 1640 some yrs. at Wethersfield, there had houselot, giv. by his f.; was among first resid. at Stamford, and had sev. ch. b. there; was chos. an Assist. 1662, 3, 4, and aft. the union of the Cols. of Conn. and N. H. 1665-7, but tho. nominat. for 1668, he fail. of the elect. and is no more heard of exc. in project. with others, 1672, settlem. of Woodbury. Cothren says he m. in Eng. Sarah Mitchell, and brot. her hither; but this is to the last degr. improb. for he brings him in 1634, then only 19 yrs. old at most, perhaps only 18, and in the mo. country very few so young were m. beside wh. he calls this w. sis. of Rev. Jonathan, wh. does not seem to have had such sis. at least we kn. that Richard Mather, a fellow passeng. with Mitchell's f. in 1635, has no refer. to a d. then m. on our side of the water, and f. Mitchell in his will of 1646 names ds. only Susanna and Hannah, no Sarah; and beyond that, our Sherman tribe was from the E. part of Essex, while the Mitchells were of the W. Riding of Yorksh. on the edge of Lancash. opposite sides of the kingdom, between wh. two hundred and thirty yrs. ago intercourse was very rare. Reconciliat. of the principal fact (if it be true) may be gain. by a resona. conject. that the m. tho. it could hard. have occur. in Eng. was some yrs. aft. com. of the parties hither. The dates of b. of their ch. give further evid. as Cothren hims. furnish. them, of his error, as the earliest is 1641, and the latest 1665, wh. is beyond the usual result of a m. in 1634. His roll, with slight correction, is: Samuel, b. 19 Jan. 1641; Theophilus, 28 Oct. 1643; Matthew, 21 Oct. 1645; Edmund, 4 Dec. 1647; John, 8 Feb. 1651; Sarah, 8 Feb. 1654; Nathaniel, 21 Mar. 1657; Benjamin, 29 Mar. 1662; and Daniel (wh. careful Mr. Judd made David) 15 Apr. 1665. Some ground for support of the tradit. of m. with the d. of Mitchell may appear in two of the names of these ch. Matthew and Sarah; but I must adher to my conject. a. the time. When he d. might seem as hard to settle, as his date of m. Cothren tells, that he d. bef. Oct. 1684, but it was prob. fifteen yrs. later, at least we kn. that div. of his est. among heirs, whose lang. implies recent dec. of their ancest. was made Sept. 1700, and deeds by him as late as 1694 can be read."
- ↑ 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)
p. 124.
HON. SAMUEL7 SHERMAN (27. Edmund,6 Edmund,5 Henry,4 Thomas,3 John,2 Thomas1 ), bap. at Dedham, July 12, 1618. (Reg. 50, p. 416.) Came over with his father when about 14 years old. Was at Watertown, Mass., for a while. Went from there about 1636, to Wethersfield. Afterwards at Stratford, Stamford and Fairfield, Conn. m. Mary Mitchell (daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Butterfield) Mitchell), sister of Jonathan Mitchell, of Cambridge, a Fellow of Harvard College. She was bap. at South Owram, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, Oct. 14, 1621. He was a leading man in New Haven Colony and a conspicuous member in the church. Assistant 1662-1665. In 1665 on committee to assist in putting the colony in a posture of defense against the enemy (the Dutch) from Stratford to Rye. He d. at Fairfield, Conn., Apr. 5, 1700 (G. S.). Sept. 10, 1700, agreement between his surviving children and heirs to divide his estate, Matthew and Edmund then dead.
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