Agnes

Notes:

Michael Johnson Wood (citation details below) conjectures that she was a daughter of Robert Perpoynt of Dedham.

Agnes married Henry Sherman about 1539. Henry was born about 1511; died between 26 Feb 1590 and 25 Jun 1590 in Colchester, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1547, Dedham, Essex, England

Notes:

Like his father, he was a clothier.

Ancestor of Roger Sherman, founding father, the only person to sign all four of the Great Articles of State which created the United States -- the Declaration, the Articles of Association, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. First Senator from Connecticut. First mayor of New Haven.

This Henry Sherman was also an ancestor of James S. Sherman (1855-1912), 27th Vice President of the United States.

Henry married Susan Lawrence on 14 Jun 1568 in Moze, Essex, England. Susan (daughter of Rev. John Lawrence) was born about 1548; died between 31 Aug 1610 and 13 Sep 1610 in Dedham, Essex, England; was buried on 13 Sep 1610 in Dedham, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Anne Pellett on 25 Apr 1569 in Dedham, Essex, England. Anne (daughter of William Pellett) was born about 1549; died on 8 Jun 1584; was buried on 8 Jun 1584 in Dedham, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Phillipp Ward about 1598. Phillipp (daughter of Lancelot Ward and Joan) was born about 1575; died after 8 Jan 1617. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Grace Ravens on 26 Sep 1611 in Wattisfield, Suffolk, England. Grace (daughter of Rev. Richard Ravens and Elizabeth Hedge) was born about 1591 in East Bergholt, Sussex, England; died on 3 Jun 1662 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married John Angier on 15 May 1601 in Dedham, Essex, England. John (son of William Angier and (Unknown first wife of William Angier)) was born about 1575; died between 19 Jan 1623 and 18 Feb 1623. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1574, Dedham, Essex, England
• Alternate death: May 1641, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes:

He and his wife emigrated to New England in 1635. First at Watertown, them Wethersfield by 1638, and New Haven by 1640.

Edmund Sherman (<1574-1641) = Grace Makin (d. 1643)
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)

Edmund married Grace Makin before 1599. Grace (daughter of Tobias Makin and Katherine Westbrome) was born about 1578; died after 14 Jun 1643. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 19 Mar 1687, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

Notes:

A founding settler of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, he became its first recorder and served various other roles in the town's government. Wikipedia entry here".

"PHILIP, Roxbury, came in 1633, a single man, freem. 14 May 1634, first on the list aft. Gov. Haynes, m. Sarah Odding, d. of John Porter's w. by former h. went home early, but soon came again, and was led away, says the ch. rec. to familism by Porter, disarm. Nov. 1637, and banish. next yr. went to R. I. there sign the compact of civil governm. Mar. 1638, was Secr. or Recorder of the Col. 1648, and was rep. 1656. See Callender, 30. As secr. he was happy eno. to have a descend. at 1857, prob. at seventh generat. fill. the same post; but I can hardly indicate the line. He had Samson and Samuel, perhaps more." [James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England]

According to Ancestral Lines (citation details below), he and his wife were ancestors of Herbert Hoover and Winston Churchill.

Philip Sherman (1611-1681) = Sarah Odding (1612-1681)
Samuel Sherman (1648-1717) = Martha Tripp (1658-1717)
Sarah Sherman (b. 1682) = Samuel Chase (d. 1758)
Elisha Chase (1706-1764) = Elizabeth Wheaton (1706-1744)
Charity Chase (b. 1734) = Stephen Bourne (1724->1760)
Stephen Bourne (1757-1822) = Deborah Bourne (1763-1822)
John Bourne (1801-1870) = Clarissa H. Morrison (1806-1868)
Malina E. Bourne (1848->1880) = William Wallace Cushing (1850-1935)
Clara May Cushing (1875-1917) = Leon E. Roddenberry (1867-1907)
Eugene Edward Roddenberry (~1896-1969) = Caroline Glen Golemon (1904-1998)
Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (1921-1991)

Philip married Sarah Odding in 1634. Sarah (daughter of William Oddyn and Margaret) was born before 21 Oct 1612 in Braintree, Essex, England; died after 31 Jul 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arrived in 1634, with his mother, on the Elizabeth out of Ipswich. He was a magistrate and soldier, and held many public offices.

John married Martha Palmer before 1638. Martha (daughter of William Palmer) died on 7 Feb 1701 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He arrived in 1636 and settled at Cambridge. He was a merchant and shopkeeper.

Edmond married Anne Batt on 12 Jun 1657 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Anne (daughter of Christopher Batt and Anne Baynton) was born before 1 Aug 1630; was christened on 1 Aug 1630 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 3 Oct 1688 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried on 5 Oct 1688 in Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Said by Cotton Mather to have come to New England in 1634, possibly the John Sherman, aged 20, enrolled on the Elizabeth of Ipswich, 30 April 1634, although Great Migration has assigned that record to his cousin of about the same age who became known as Captain JOHN SHERMAN (GM2, 6:287-94) of Watertown. Rev. John Sherman's parents and several siblings came to Watertown in 1635 and he removed with them to Wethersfield the same year. John moved on to Milford in 1640 and New Haven, Connecticut, before returning to Watertown in 1647." [Early New England Families Study Project, citation details below]

"He was dismissed from the Watertown, Mass. church, 29 May 1635, and came to Wethersfield, Connecticut with the early settlers. He represented Wethersfield as Committee (Deputy) in the Connecticut General Court, May 1637. He joined the Milford settlers, probably in 1640, and was the first minister of Branford, 1 Oct. 1644 to Jan. 1646/7. He was Deputy for Milford to the New Haven General Court, Oct 1643. In 1647 he was called to Watertown, Mass., to fill the pastorate there, and continued in this office until his death." [Donald Lines Jacobus, citation details below]

He was a Fellow of Harvard College, where he lectured for over thirty years. According to F. L. Weis's 1936 The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches in New England, "his sermons were distinguished for beauty of style and language; he was a recognized authority in astronomy."

"Mather's [Magnalia Christi Americana says of the Rev. John Sherman that] 'His intellectual abilities, whether natural or acquired, were such as to render him a first-rate scholar, the skill of tongues and arts, beyond the common rate, adorned him. He was a great reader...he read with an unusual dispatch, and whatever he read became his own. From such a strength of invention and memory it was, that albeit he was a curious preacher, nevertheless, he could preach without any preparatory notes of what he was to utter...He was witty, and yet wise and grave, carrying a majesty in his very countenance; and much visited for council, in weighty cases; and when he delivered his judgment in any matter, there was little or nothing to be spoken by others after him.' His hobby was mathematics and Mather claimed that Sherman was one of the best mathematicians 'that ever lived in this hemisphere.' '...among other things very valuable to me, in the temper of this great man, one was a certain largeness of soul, which particularly disposed him to embrace the Congregational way of church-government, without those rigid and narrow principles of uncharitable separation, wherewith some good men have been learned.' 'And there was one thing in his preaching, which procured it a singular admiration: this was a natural and not affected loftiness of stile; which with an easie fluency bespangled his discourses....'" [Early New England Families Study Project, citation details below]

He was taken suddenly ill while delivering a guest sermon at Sudbury and died three days later in his house at Watertown. The Latin inscription on his tombstone there translates as "Sacred to the memory of John Sherman, a man distinguished for his piety, character, and truth; a profound theologian; as a preacher a veritable Chrysostom; unsurpassed in his knowledge of the liberal arts, particularly mathematics; a faithful pastor of the Church of Watertown in New England; an Overseer and Fellow of Harvard College."

"Rev. Mather's account of the career of Rev. John Sherman states that he entered 'Immanuel' (Emmanuel) College in Cambridge but did not graduate. Later historians apparently matched the name John Sherman with records of a man who entered Emmanual College in 1638, but who could not be the same as Rev. John Sherman of New England, who was in Connecticut by then. Another attempt was made to match him with the John Sherman who graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, recciving his B.A. in 1629-30 and MA in 1633. The problem here is that this man was a tutor at Trinity from 1636 to 1644, received a B.D. in 1640, and a D.D., per Literas Regias, in 1660." [Early New England Families Study Project, citation details below]

John married Mary Launce about 1647. Mary (daughter of John Launce and Isabella Darcy) was born about 1625; died on 9 Mar 1710 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Grace married John Livermore before 1637. John (son of Daniel Livermore and Elizabeth Hammond) was born about 1606; died on 14 Apr 1684 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]