Nielsen Hayden genealogy
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
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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.
- Shortly after the Revolution, he spent two weeks visiting George Washington at Mount Vernon.
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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.
- [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.