Edmund Sherman

  General Notes:

Most genealogies give Grace Makin, daughter of Tobias Makin, as the wife of Edmund Sherman, the immigrant. An article from The American Genealogist, Vol. 61, pp. 79-82 from 1983 titled "Was Tobia Makin An Ancestor of the New England Shermans?" and authored by Myrtle Stevens Hyde and Douglas Richardson, concludes that there is no documented evidence that proves this to be true or untrue.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁰⁸
Edmund Sherman, son of Edmund, was born at Dedham about 1572. His grandfather, Herny Sherman, in is will dated 20 Jan 1590, gives "To Edmonde Shearman, the son of my son Edmonde" £13 13s. 4d. at two and twenty. His fahter's will dated 1 Aug 1599 gives "to Son, Edmond, after decease of my wife all the houses and lands before given to said wife and a house and seven acres called Ryes where he now dwells, and my sherman's occupation." He also authorized his son Edmond and his heirs forever to appoint a poor child to be freely taught by the schoolmasterr of the Public Grammar School in Dedham. [Reg. 50, p. 283].

Edmund went to New England, was at Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1635, and later went to New Haven, Connecticut, whre he died in 1641. "3 Mon 1641 an Inventory and will of Olde Fahter Shirman was delivered into Court." [New Haven Colony Records, Vol. 1, p. 52]. This will and inventory cannot be found. Edmund's brother Bezaliel Sherman of Ipswich, grocer, in his will dated 7 Oct 1618 gives "To Joane Sherman, daughter of my brother Edmond Sherman forty pounds at the age of four and twenty years. To John Sherman, son of my said brother, twenty pounds at same age." [Reg. 50, p. 288]

Edmund's sister Ann Sherman Anger, in her will dated 2 Sep 1625, gives legacies to her brother Edmund Sherman and to Ann Sherman and Jone Sherman "daughter of my brother Edmund." [Reg. 50, p. 402]

In the will of Samuel Sherman, of Dedham, clothier, brother of Edmund, dated 14 Jun 1643: "I give unto my sister Bacon in New England ten pounds to be sent to her or her husband in linen cloth and shoes by my cousin Edmond Sherman. To my loving sister Sherman, Edmond's widow, twenty shillings and to her son Samuel ten pounds, to her son John Sherman twenty shillings, and to her daughter Grace and Ester Ward and her youngest daughter, to either of them twenty shillings." [Reg. 50, p. 391]

Sheman Genealogy, pp. 105-108

• Children. ⁴⁶⁶
Based on the estimated date of his marriage, Edmund was born about 1574 & was the son of Edmund Sherman of Dedham, Essex [NEHGR 50:415]. He died between 29 Oct 1640 and May 1641 [NHCR 1:52].

Children:

Edmund Sherman, bp. Dedham Essex, 23 Oct 1599 [NEHGR 50:415]
Ann Sherman, bp. Dedham, Essex, 15 Sep 1601 [NEHGR 50:415], living on 2 Sep 1625, unmarried and named in will of aunt Anne Angier [Commissary Court of London, Original Wills, Box 47]
Joan Sherman, bp. Dedham, Essex, 13 Dec 1603 [NEHGR 50:415]
Hester Sherman, bp. Dedham, Essex, 1 Apr 1606 [NEHGR 50:415], m. by abt. 1628, Andrew Ward.
Richard Sherman, bp. Dedham, Essex, 16 Oct 1608 [NEHGR 50:415], m. by 1638 Mary.
Beazleel Sherman, bp. Dedham, Essex, 17 Sep 1611 [NEHGR 50:415]
John Sherman, b Dedham, Essex, 26 Dec 1613, bp. there 4 Jan 1613/4; m. 1st, Mary who died in New Haven 8 Sep 1644, perhaps sister of John Gibbs of New Haven; m. 2nd by 1646, Mary Launce, daughter of John Launce.
Grace Sherman, bp. Dedham, Essex, 18 Jun 1616 [NEHGR 50:416]; m. by abt 1637 John Livermore.
Samuel Sheerman, bp. Dedham, Essex, 12 Jul 1618 [NEHGR 50:416]; m by abt. 1640 Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Matthew Mitchell.
Daughter Sherman, b. about 1620; living 14 Jun 1643, when named in will of uncle Samuel Sherman.

Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, pp. 282-284

Edmund married in 1611 in Dedham, Essex, England.¹⁰⁸