Henry Sherman

Abt 1511 - 1590  (~ 79 years)

• Name	Henry Sherman  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1511  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1512  [2, 3]
  Death	Between 26 Feb 1590 and 25 Jun 1590	Colchester, Essex, England   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I4787	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2023

  
  

  Family	Agnes   d. Bef 14 Oct 1580
  Marriage	Abt 1539  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Henry Sherman,   b. Abt 1545   d. Between 21 Aug 1610 and 31 Aug 1610 (Age ~ 65 years) + 2. Edmund Sherman,   b. Abt 1548, of Dedham, Essex, England d. Bef 22 Dec 1600 (Age ~ 52 years)
  Family ID	F2910	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2016

  
  

• 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)

  
  

• Sources

  [S1791] The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1963. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S950] Michael Johnson Wood, "The Early Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and Their Wives." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 166:245, October 2012; 167:35, January 2013; 167:149, April 2013; 167:213, July 2013; 167:275, October 2013; 168:16, January 2014.