Anne Pellett

Anne married Edmund Sherman on 25 Apr 1569 in Dedham, Essex, England. Edmund (son of Henry Sherman and Agnes) was born about 1548 in of Dedham, Essex, England; died before 22 Dec 1600; was buried on 22 Dec 1600 in Dedham, Essex, England. [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]

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]

Elizabeth married Jonathan Pierpont on 29 Oct 1691. Jonathan (son of Robert Pierpont) died on 2 Jun 1709 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1645

Notes:

Minister at Sudbury, Massachusetts, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and Salem, Massachusetts.

James married Mary Walker on 13 May 1680 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Stone) was born on 9 Aug 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died after 11 Mar 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married John Coolidge on 14 Nov 1655 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John (son of John Coolidge and Mary Ravens) was born about 1630 in England; died on 8 Feb 1691 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Hannah before 1668. Hannah died before 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Dec 1700

Notes:

His epitaph gives his death date, evidently incorrectly, as 14 Jan 1690. He was a maltster in Watertown and had a grist mill on Chester Brook. Freeman 31 May 1671; surveyor in 1677, tithingman in 1679, selectman in 1684 and 1690.

Samuel married Anna Bridge on 4 Jun 1668 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Anna (daughter of Matthew Bridge and Anne Danforth) was born in 1646; died on 28 Aug 1727 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]