SAMUEL⁷ (Hon.) SHEARMAN  [Henry⁴, Edmund⁵, Edmund⁶]

From: "Transatlantic Shermans" Bertha L. Stratton, 1969, p. 150, private printing, LOC Card No. 76-89997

9. Samuel⁷Sherman, b.12 July 1618 (Ibid.), came to New England and was ancestor of Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman among others. He was active in public affairs, a leader in New Haven Colony. While first of Watertown (was around 14. years old when emigrated) he went in or about 1636 to Wethersfield, Conn.; later to Stratford, Stamford and Fairfield, Conn. Was an Assistant (Lt. Gov.) 1660-65; on comm. to assist in rendering the Colony safe against the Dutch in 1665. He is referred to as Hon. Samuel Sherman. He m. Mary Mitchell (dau. of Matthew and Sarah (Butterfield) Mitchell sister of Jonathan Mitchell, of Cambridge, a Fellow of Harvard, she was bap. S. Owram, Halifax, Yorks. England, 14 Oct. l62l. He d. Fairfield, 5 Ap. 1700 (G. S.). An agreement between his surviving children and. heirs in division of estate took place 10 Sep. 1700 (Matthew⁸and Edmund⁸, dec.) His other children were: Samuel⁸, Theophilus⁸, John⁸, Sarah⁸, Nathaniel⁸, Benjamin⁸, David ⁸.

From John⁸ Sherman, Admiral Fredrick¹⁶ C. Sherman takes his decent through Samuel⁹, David¹⁰, Matthew¹¹, Judson¹², A1bert¹³, Loren¹⁴, Frederick^l5 Ward Sherman (who m. Charlot Wolfe). Adm. Sherman m. Fanny Jessop 22 Nov.l915 at San Diego, Calif. Ch.: Jill¹⁷, John South^l7, Joanne^l7, Sherman. (ref.: early lines F. D. Shermans Geneal. (op.cit); later from the Admiral). After retiring, when touring Eng., he saw Southfields (of which he had. read in New Light) and had tea with the Perrys.

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