Dr. John Sherman

1683 - 1774  (91 years)

• Name	John Sherman  [1]
  Prefix	Dr.
  Birth	20 Nov 1683	Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Nov 1774	Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts   [1, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I27895	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Rev. James Sherman,   b. Abt 1651   d. 3 Mar 1718, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 67 years)
  Mother	Mary Walker,   b. 9 Aug 1661, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. Aft 11 Mar 1709 (Age > 48 years)
  Marriage	13 May 1680	Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F16652	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abigail Stone,   b. 13 Feb 1681, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 9 Mar 1772, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	9 Nov 1703	Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Notes	Jacobus (citation details below) gives this marriage a date of "9 Nov. 170(3?)". The published vital records of Sudbury (citation details below) say "SHEARMAN, John and Abigaill Ston, Nov. 9, 170[torn] [? 1703]". We note, however, that Jacobus, Bartlett (citation details below), and the vital records of Brimfield (citation details below) all agree that John and Abigail's eldest child Bezaleel was born 31 Mar 1703, suggesting that this marriage may actually have taken place on 9 Nov 1702, or even 9 Nov 1701 — although John Sherman would have been eleven days short of 18 years old on that latter date.
  Children	+ 1. Bezaleel Sherman,   b. 31 Mar 1703, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts d. 1779 (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F16650	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He and his wife Abigail Stone "settled in Springfield, Mass., where he was a schoolmaster and physician; but about 1722 they removed to the region which in 1731 became the town of Brimfield, where he was a physician, town clerk for thirty successive years, representative three years, and captain of militia." They were married for nearly seventy years.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3961] Vital Records of Brimfield, Massachusetts To the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1931. [S228] Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Boston: New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903. [S1809] Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917 by J. Gardner Bartlett. Boston: Stone Family Association, 1918. [S3981] Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Family of Rev. John Sherman of Wethersfield, Milford, and Branford, Conn., and Watertown, Mass." The American Genealogist 20:129, 1944. [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., date only. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.