Roger Sherman

1768 - 1856  (87 years)

• Name	Roger Sherman
  Birth	16 Jul 1768	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Mar 1856	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I13588	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	Roger Sherman,   b. 19 Apr 1721, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 23 Jul 1793, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Prescott,   b. 20 May 1742, Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts d. 19 Apr 1813, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1763	Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Family ID	F8515	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna Staples,   b. 20 Aug 1778, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut d. 22 Nov 1855, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	7 Jan 1801	Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Baldwin Sherman,   b. 27 Oct 1823, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 10 Mar 1917, Nordhoff, California (Age 93 years)
  Family ID	F8514	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Shortly after the Revolution, he spent two weeks visiting George Washington at Mount Vernon. On 31 Jan 1794, with his uncle Benjamin Prescott, he formed the firm of Prescott & Sherman, trading in dry goods, groceries, navigation, shoemaking, and tanning. Representative for New Haven in the Connecticut General Assembly, May and October 1810 and May 1811.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1998] 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 Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920.