Roger Sherman

1721 - 1793  (72 years)

• Name	Roger Sherman
  Birth	19 Apr 1721	Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Jul 1793	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut   [1]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Roger Sherman ,   b. 19 Apr 1721, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 23 Jul 1793, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut  (Age 72 years) ▻ Elizabeth Hartwell ,  m. 17 Nov 1749 ;  Rebecca Prescott ,  m. 12 May 1763   2. Rev. Josiah Sherman ,   b. 1 Apr 1729, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 25 Nov 1789, Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut  (Age 60 years) ▻ Martha Minot ,  m. 24 Jan 1757
  Person ID	I13590	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	William Sherman,   b. 28 Jun 1692, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 20 Mar 1741, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Mehetabel Wellington,   b. 26 Feb 1688, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	13 Sep 1715	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Family ID	F8516	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Hartwell,   b. 31 Aug 1726   d. 19 Oct 1760, New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	17 Nov 1749  [2]
  Family ID	F20292	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2021

  
  

  Family 2	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]
  Children	+ 1. Roger Sherman,   b. 16 Jul 1768, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 5 Mar 1856, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F8515	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "Sherman is especially notable in United States history for being the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States: the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Association, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. Robert Morris, who did not sign the Articles of Association, signed the other three." [Wikipedia] 1745-1752 Surveyor New Haven County 1752-1758 Surveyor Litchfield County 1754 February Admitted to the Bar of Litchfield County 1755-1759 Justice of the Peace Litchfield County 1755-1756 1758-1761 Deputy for New Milford to General Assembly 1759-1761 Justice of Quorum County Court for County 1759 Commissary of Supplies for Connecticut at Albany NY 1760-1772 In mercantile business in New Haven 1765-1776 Treasurer of Yale College 1764-1766 Deputy for New Haven to General Assembly 1765 May Justice of the Peace, New Haven County 1765 October Justice of the Quorum, New Haven County 1766-1789 Judge of Superior Court of Connecticut 1768 Received degree of Master of Arts from Yale College 1774-1781 and 1784 Delegate to Continental Congress 1774 Signed Articles of Association 1774 Signed Address to the King 1776 Signed Declaration of Independence 1777 Delegate to Currency and Anti Monopoly Conventions at Springfield Mass 1777-1779 and 1782 Member of Council of Safety of Connecticut 1778 Signed Articles of Confederation 1778 Delegate to Convention on regulation of prices at New Haven 1783 Revised the Connecticut Laws with Judge Richard Law 1784-1793 First Mayor of New Haven 1787 Delegate to Constitutional Convention 1787 Signed the Constitution of The United States 1788 Delegate from New Haven to Convention of Connecticut which ratified the Constitution of the United States 1789-1791 Representative for Connecticut in Congress of the United States 1791 June until death July 23 1793 United States Senator for Connecticut

  
  

• 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. [S5522] The Hartwells of America: A Genealogy of the Hartwell Families of the United States and Canada by Lyman Willard Densmore. Saginaw, Michigan, 1958.