Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Edmund Sherman
Abt 1548 - Bef 1600 (~ 52 years)
Generation: 1
1. Edmund Sherman was born about 1548 in of Dedham, Essex, England (son of Henry Sherman and Agnes); died before 22 Dec 1600; was buried on 22 Dec 1600 in Dedham, Essex, England. Edmund married Anne Pellett on 25 Apr 1569 in Dedham, Essex, England. Anne (daughter of William Pellett) was born about 1549; died on 8 Jun 1584; was buried on 8 Jun 1584 in Dedham, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Ann Sherman died in 1625.
- Edmund Sherman was born about 1572; died between 29 Oct 1640 and May 1641 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.
2. Henry Sherman was born about 1511; died between 26 Feb 1590 and 25 Jun 1590 in Colchester, Essex, England. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate birth: Abt 1512
Notes:
A prominent clothier in Dedham, Essex. Settled in Dedham about 1534. Not a son of Thomas Sherman of Yaxley, Suffolk. He and his wife Agnes were ancestors of US presidents Taft, Hoover, and the two Bushes; of British prime ministers Archibald Philip Primrose and Winston Churchill; of Canadian prime minister Robert Borden; of Founding Father Roger Sherman (himself an ancestor of TSW); and of (among others) Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Russell Lowell, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Tennessee Williams, and the person at the end of the descent shown below.
Henry Sherman (1512-1590) = Agnes (d. 1580)
Edmund Sherman (1548-1600) = Ann Pellatte
Edmund Sherman (1577-1641) = Joan Makin
Hon. Samuel Sherman (1618-1700) = Sarah Mitchell
Deac. John Sherman (1651-1730) = Elizabeth
John Sherman (1687-1727) = Emm Preston
Hon. Daniel Sherman (1721-1799) = Mindwell Taylor
Hon. Taylor Sherman (1758-1815) = Betsey Stoddard
Charles R. Sherman (1788-1829) = Mary Hoyt
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)Henry married Agnes about 1539. Agnes died before 14 Oct 1580; was buried on 14 Oct 1580 in Dedham, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Agnes died before 14 Oct 1580; was buried on 14 Oct 1580 in Dedham, Essex, England. Notes:
Michael Johnson Wood (citation details below) conjectures that she was a daughter of Robert Perpoynt of Dedham.
Children:
- Henry Sherman was born about 1545; died between 21 Aug 1610 and 31 Aug 1610.
- 1. Edmund Sherman was born about 1548 in of Dedham, Essex, England; died before 22 Dec 1600; was buried on 22 Dec 1600 in Dedham, Essex, England.