Thomas Sherwood Sr. (abt. 1586 - bef. 1655)

Born about 1586 in Kettlebaston, Suffolk, England

Husband of Alice (Tiler) Sherwood — married about 1610 in Suffolk, England [uncertain]

Husband of Mary (Unknown) Banks — married about 1638 in Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 7 Sep 1655 before about age 69 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Name

Name: Thomas Sherwood ^{[1] [2]}

of Kettlebaston,^[3] co. Suffolk, England and Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.

He is not the same man as Thomas Sherwood of Stratford, Connecticut. Care must be taken to distinguish the two men. They both immigrated to New England, moved to within 10 miles of each other in Connecticut, and died within 3 years of each other. However, records easily show they are not identical. There is no known connection between the two men.

Birth

Born: About 1586.

Age 48 on the passenger list of the Francis in April of 1634. ^[4]

Marriages and Children

Married: 1st - Alice Tiler, daughter of John Tiler and Joan Smith, about 1610. ^[5] This identification was made and published by Leslie Mahler in The American Genealogist in 2007. The key was the discovery of her mother's will which mentioned "Alice my daughter the weife of Thomas Sherwoode of Kettlebarston." The actual marriage of Thomas Sherwood to Alice Tiler was not found, but is estimated from the birth of their first known child about 1611. She was baptized on 16 November 1585 at Hitcham, co. Suffolk, England; she died by 1638 when Thomas had remarried to his second wife Mary.

Married: 2nd - Mary, maiden name unknown, by 1638. She is not "Mary Fitch." There is also no evidence that she is Mary Onge, as is sometimes said. See error section. She married, as her second husband, John Banks by 4 June 1658.

Children of Thomas Sherwood and Alice Tiler: ^{[1] [2]}

Note: parentage confirmed by the will of Thomas Sherwood.

• Jane Sherwood b. say 1611; First named in her father’s will of 21 July 1655, and therefore presumed to be the eldest. Her younger sister Mary was born in 1613, so Jane is estimated to have been born about 1611. Probably married; no further record.

• Mary Sherwood, bp. Kettlebaston, Suffolk, 1613 (day and month not recorded); named in father’s will, 21 July 1655, probably married, no further record.

• Thomasine Sherwood, bp. Kettlebaston 10 April 1615; named in father’s will, 21 July 1655, probably married; perhaps m. William Belden of Wethersfield. However, there is no actual evidence to support this outside of the name Thomasine,

• Sarah Sherwood, bp. Kettlebaston 26 January 1616/7; named in father’s will, 21 July 1655, probably married; no further record. (Jacobus argued that she did not marry Samuel Beardsley.)

• Anna Sherwood, bp. Kettlebaston 13 June 1619 (aged 14 on 30 April 1634; named in father’s will, 21 July 1655, probably married; no further record.

• Rose Sherwood, bp. Kettlebaston 10 December 1620 (aged 11 [sic] on 30 April 1634; m. (1) by about 1641 THOMAS RUMBALL (1635, Saybrook); m. (2) by 1650 Thomas Barlow (‘Phebe Barlowe the daughter of Thomas Barlowe was born the 27 of February 1650' at Fairfield; m. (3) after 1658 Edward Nash.>

• Rebecca Sherwood, bp. Kettlebaston 13 October 1622 (aged 9 [sic] on 30 April 1634; named in father’s will, 21 July 1655, probably married; no further record.

• Thomas Sherwood, b. about 1624 (aged 10 on 30 April 1634; m. (1) by about 1650 Sarah Wheeler, daughter of Thomas Wheeler; m. (2) by about 1660 Ann Turney (eldest known child b. about 1660, daughter of Benjamin Turney; m. (3) by 1683 Elizabeth ( ) Cable, widow of John Cable m. (4) soon after 24 June 1695 (marriage contract) Sarah (Hide) Colcy, daughter of Humphrey Hide and widow of Peter Coley.

Children of Thomas Sherwood and his second wife Mary: ^{[1] [2]}

• Stephen Sherwood, b. say 1638; m. (1) by 1661 Rebecca Turney, daughter of Benjamin Turney(1639, Concord); m. (2) by 1688 Hannah (Jackson) Galpin, daughter of HENRY JACKSON (1635, Watertown) and widow of Philip Galpin ; m. (3) by an unknown date Mary (Adams) (Guire) Murvin, daughter of Fdward Adams and widow of Guire and Murvin..

• Mary Sherwood, b. say 1640; m. Windsor 28 June 1659 Joseph Loomis, son of JOSEPH LOOMIS (1638, Windsor) [Windsor Hist 2:432-33; Dawes-Gatcs 2:567-72 (both these sources have an incorrect surname for the bride)].

• Ruth Sherwood, b. say 1642; m. Windsor 4 June 1663 Joshua Holcombe, son of THOMAS HOLCOMBE.

• Matthew Sherwood, b. about 1644 (d. Stratfield 26 October 1715 “in 72 year”; m. (1) by about 1669 Sarah Turney, daughter of Benjamin Turney; m. (2) by about 1672 Mary Unknown.

• Abigail Sherwood, b say 1649; m. by about 1669 Daniel Lockwood, son of ROBERT LOCKWOOD.

• Isaac Sherwood, b. say 1651; m. by 1676 Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of John Jackson.

Incorrect disconnected children frequently found in other sources:

• Margaret Sherwood - Married Elias³ Maverick on 8 December 1669 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Respected secondary sources have made her a daughter Thomas Sherwood and Alice Tiler. As pointed out and discussed in detail in an article in The American Genealogist in 2005, this is certainly incorrect. ^[2]
• Anna/Hanna (Barrett) Coe - The wife of John¹ Coe is frequently claimed to be Anna/Hannah Sherwood, daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield. This is incorrect. She has been shown to be actually Hannah (Barrett) (Jenner) Coe.^[6] She has been disconnected from her Sherwood parents.
• Rebecca Unknown - Rebecca, the wife successively of Robert Rose and Henry Allen was previously connected as a daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield. All trusted secondary sources call her Rebecca Unknown. Extensive research has failed to find any evidence that she was the identical with the Rebecca Sherwood born in 1622. She has been disconnected, until proof is found as to her identity.
• Jane Sherwood - A number of secondary sources state that Thomas Merritt married "Jane, daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Stratford and his wife Alice Seabrook." This is a very confused statement. Thomas of Stratford married Sarah Seabrook, not Alice. Furthermore, he did not have a daughter Jane. If it was meant that she should be Jane daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield by his first wife Alice, Jane would have been way to old to have married Thomas Merritt (b. 1634). She has been disconnected from Thomas of Fairfield.
• Margery Sherwood - Previously connected as a daughter of this Thomas. However, he did not have a daughter Margery. She is certainly meant to be a granddaughter - daughter of his son Thomas who signed a deed of conveyance in 1709. ^[7] She has been connected as a daughter of Thomas Sherwood jr.

Death and Will

Died: Between 21 July 1655 and 7 September 1655,

Dates will made and inventory taken. ^[2]

Burial: He is presumed to have been buried at the Old Burying Ground, Fairfield, though this is not known with certainty. The Sherwood Kindred of America has constructed a monument there.^[8]

Will: The original will of Thomas Sherwood does not survive, and a recorded copy is in very bad condition. ^[2][9] This is important because published abstracts differ in at least one key point regarding a daughter Mary/Marg. See error section. The most complete transcription was published in 1929 when the original still existed and was apparently in better condition. ^[10]

WILL OF THOMAS SHERWOOD---1586-1655, New England.

As given in the 1929 transcription. ^[10]

Imprimis. I give & bequeath unto the children of my first wife: I bequeath to my son Thomas five acres of upland lying upon the north end of Sasqua Neck.

I bequeath to my daughter Jane twenty shillings.

I bequeath to my daughter Tamsen twenty shillings.

I bequeath to my daughter Mary twenty shillings.

I bequeath to my daughter Sarah twenty shillings.

I bequeath to my daughter Hanna twenty shillings.

I bequeath to my daughter Rose twenty shillings.

I bequeath to my daughter Rebecca forty shillings.

I will that the above named legasies be payd within one year after my decease.

I will & bequeath to my well beloved wife Mary Sherwood whom I make my executor & executrix of this my last will who shall pay the above named legasies. And also the legasies underwritten.

As to my son Steven Sherwood I bequeath my dwelling house & homelot with all the buildings on this homelot & all the lott that layd next to my homelot on which I now live excepting half an acre--etc, etc.

I will & bequeath to my son Matthew all my upland & meadow lying on the other side of Uncawy Creek namly on the east side of the said creek. I will & bequeath to my daughter Mary ten pounds. I will & bequeath to my daughter Ruth ten pounds. I will & bequeath to my daughter Abigail ten pounds. I wil & bequeath to my son Isaac that dwelling house next to my dwelling house that I now live in. And also I give him with the building on that homelot on which it standeth & he is to have the said half acre of land square off from the front the whole widence of the lot & soe downward.

I give & bequeath to my loving & well beloved wife Mary Sherwood all the estate undivided whom I make mine Executor of this my last will Excepting a mare colt which my son Isaac shall have & that to his use & profit presently.

I will that Steven have his portion when he is twenty years of age. And also that Matthew shall have his portion when he is twenty years old. And my son Isaac shall have four acres of meadow in the great meadow which I bought of Peter Merritt & five acres in the new field which he is to have at twenty years of age. To Mary, Abigaill & Ruth which I had by my last wife,---Etc; etc.

And I desire my well beloved friends Thomas Staples & Nathan Gold to be overseers of this my last will. Signed in presence & Witnesses of us this twenty first day of July 1655. Thomas Sherwood

Seal: Giles Smith, John Tomson, Proved October ye 25th. 1655. Fairfield, Connecticut, Probate Records, Liber 1.Folio 109-11.

The Burial Plaque, True and False

In the Old Burial Ground in Fairfield, Connecticut, presumed resting place of the immigrant Thomas Sherwood, is a large stone upon which a plaque has been placed in memory of Thomas Sherwood.

Memorial plaque for Thomas Sherwood Old Burial Ground in Fairfield Caution: Contains errors.

Placed over sixty years ago, 1950, it contains some information, derived from the confusion over two Thomases, which recent genealogical researches have proved incorrect. 1586-1655: true enough, he was age 48, when he came on the "Francis" in 1634 and his will and the proving of that will were in 1655. Puritan, Pioneer, Ancestor: definitely a pioneer and an ancestor, but do we know he was a puritan? Founder of New England and first Settler of Fairfield: true. Deputy to the General Court: no, Thomas Sherwood of Stratford held this position, judged by the position of his name next to the other Stratford Deputy in the Connecticut Colony Records.^[12] Committeeman: This refers to a committee of men doing preparation work for the Narragansett War in 1654. The colonial record is clear that this was the Stratford Thomas.^[12] Was he a soldier in the Pequot War? He was probably living in Wethersfield in 1637, when the town provided 26 men for the militia. He was also 51. There is no actual record of who these men were. Stiles, in his History of Ancient Wethersfield, made a rough list of 20 men. Thomas is not on the list.^[13] Alice Seabrook and Mary Fitch have been disproved as wives and are discussed elsewhere in this profile.

Research Notes

Immigration: Thomas Sherwood and his family are recorded on the reconstructed passenger list of the Francis which sailed on the last day of April 1634, arriving at Boston, Massachusetts in June 1634. The list includes Thomas Sherwood aged 48, wife Alice 47, children Anna 14, Rose 11, Thomas 10, and Rebecca 9.^[4] The eldest daughters (Jane, Mary, Thomasine and Sarah) are not listed. However, it must be remembered that this is not a true passenger list, but a list of those who had signed a Certificate of Conformity and was collated many months after the Francis had sailed by the church. These lists are often very incomplete, an the other daughters may or may not have also arrived in New England with their parents.

Movement: He arrived with some members of his family on the ship Francis in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1634, and moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in the following year. He sold his lands there in 1640 and went to Stamford, Con­necticut, moving again in 1648 to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he remained until his death there in 1655.

Land records: ESTATE: On 26 March 1640, “Thomas Sherwood of Wethersfield ..., carpenter,” sold to “George Wyllys of Hartford ..., gent., ... my house & housing & homelot wherein I the said Tho[mas] Sherwood now dwelL & hold in possession with all other my lots of meadowings, uplands & swamp grounds ... or hereafter to be belonging by reason of any future dividend or dividends according to the proportion of fifteen acres of meadow in large meadow & beaver meadow” in Wethersfield [WetLR 2:35]. “The 4th month [June] & 21th day 1643 the lands of Gorg Willis Esquire lying in Wethersfeild in Connecticut: One piece as it now lyeth together containing thirty-four acres…, viz: a houselot bought of Ed[ward] Wodd containing ten acres & a piece of meadow bought of Thomas Sherwood containing ten acres, also a piece of meadow bought of John Sticklion containing fourteen acres…, one piece whereon a house and barn standeth containing three acres…, one piece in the great meadow containing four acres ..., one piece in the great meadow bought of Thomas Sherwood containing two acres ..., one piece in the great meadow containing four acres…, one piece which was Thomas Sherwood & Thomas Morehowse their houselot with other lands thereunto adjoining in all containing sixteen acres…, one piece bought of Nathaniel Foott containing three acres” [WetLR 1:62). P. 305. ^[1]

Occupation: Carpenter [WetLR 2:35]. ^[1]

Education: He signed his deed and his will. His inventory included ‘books” valued at £1 Ss. [Fairfield PR 1:10]. His widow’s inventory included books valued at £1 lOs. [Fairfield PR 4:115]. ^[1]

Witch trials: His wife Mary Sherwood was friends of Goodwife Knapp. Mary's husband, Thomas, was called as a witness during Goodwife Knapp's witchcraft trial. Knapp was convicted and Thomas accompanied her to the gallows, and after she was hanged, prevented desecration of the body by the mob.

Mary Sherwood is documented as having been personally involved with convicted witch Goodwife Knapp and Great Grandma's Court testimony at a subsequent trial is the only surviving record today in Connecticut's history of that event. Goodwife Knapp is believed to have been the first wife of Roger Knapp, a very early settler of New Haven, Connecticut. As Roger was the only Knapp appearing in Fairfield records at that period, Donald Lines Jacobus in his volumes "Families of Old Fairfield" makes the connection of the two. The witch trial testimony of Mary Sherwood is found in The Witchcraft Delusion - The Story of the Witchcraft Persecutions in Seventeenth-Century New England, Including Original Trial Transcripts" by John M. Taylor, Gramercy Books New York & Avenel, Chapter 10, pp. 122-141, It is actually a trial following the Witch trial in which "Goody" Knapp's husband, Roger Knapp, attempted to sue Thomas Ludlow for defamation of his wife's character and her hanging as a convicted witch. The story of Mary Sherwood's involvement with Goody Knapp is also found in Witchcraft Trials of Connecticut, by R. G. Tomlinson, "The First Comprehensive, Documented History of Witchcraft Trials in Colonial Connecticut, copyright 1978 by R. G. Tomlinson, printed by The Bond Press, Inc., Hartford, Conn., pp. 7-9. The Court case is also found in History of Fairfield No. II, Suit of Thomas Staples Against Roger Ludlow, New Haven Col. Rec. Vol. 3. 77-89", pp. 324-328.

Common Errors to Avoid

• Merge Caution: Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield is not identical with Thomas Sherwood of Stratford. These men both immigrated to New England, moved to within 10 miles of each other in Connecticut, and died within 3 years of each other. However, records easily show they are not identical.
• Birth date: His baptism and origins have not yet been discovered. Therefore, any precise date is incorrect. He was stated to age 48 in 1634, and so born about 1586.
• Birth date and place: He is sometimes said to have been baptized at St Nicholas Parish, Ipswich, co. Suffolk, England in 1585. However, no such record occurs in the parish records of St. Nicholas. ^[14]
• Incorrect name of first wife (Seabrook): The name of his first wife can sometimes be found as Alice Seabrook. This is incorrect. The supposed parents "Alice Seabrook" were married 9 years after her birth. The error is certainly another confusion with Thomas Sherwood of Stratford who was married to Sarah Seabrook. She has been proven to be Alice Tiler, daughter of John Tiler.^[5]
• Incorrect name of second wife (Fitch): Older references indicate that the second wife of Thomas Sherwood was named Mary Fitch. ^[15] This is incorrect. The error started with the History of Fairfield in 1889 which was the first to name her as a Fitch. ^[16] The error was copied in many susequent secondary sources. Donald Lines Jacobus in two articles took great pains to point out that the error was likely a transcriptional error as it was Thomas' son Mathew who married Mary Fitch. ^{[17] [18]} There is absolutely no evidence or clue as to maiden name of Mary.
• Incorrect name of second wife (Onge): A more recent theory which is becoming more widely distributed on the internet is that the second wife of Thomas Sherwood was named Mary Onge. The theory is highly speculative and contains no real evidence that this is true. Mary Onge was a fellow passenger on the Francis, aged 27 in 1634. She was almost certainly the daughter of Frances Ong who immigrated to Watertown, Massachusetts several years before. Other than Mary Onge immigrating on the same ship as Thomas Sherwood, there is nothing to connect them. They settled in different towns, and there are no records to connect the families.
• Incorrect daughter: The wife of Thomas Merritt is sometimes said to be Elizabeth or Jane, a daughter of Thomas Sherwood. Merritt researchers have shown this to be incorrect and she is Jane Unknown. Furthermore, there is no evidence that Thomas Sherwood had a daughter Elizabeth in the parish records, his will, his wife's will, or estate records. This incorrect daughter has been disconnected from this profile.
• Marriage date and place: He is sometimes said to have married his first wife Alice on 21 October 1604 in Ipswich, co. Suffolk, England. There is no evidence to support this date or place. His children were baptized at Kettlebaston, and Alice was from nearby Hitcham. An extensive search of parishes around Kettlebaston failed to find the marriage of Thomas and Alice. ^[5]
• Incorrect daughter (Margaret): Margaret Sheerwood who married Eliza³ Maverick was not a daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield. There is some controversy regarding this person. Jacobus and Prindle both concluded that Thomas had a daughter Margaret based on his will - they read 'Mary' as 'Marg'. However they working from a highly damaged transcription; Andrew Sherwood's renders the name as Mary. We now know from Kettlebaston parish records that Thomas had two daughters named Mary but no daughter named Margaret. The facts that the marriage of Margaret Sherwood and Elias Maverick took place in Charlestown in 1669, and that he was born in 1643 also argues strongly that this Margaret could not be a daughter of Thomas Sherwood. See Sherwood article in TAG 2005 for a complete discussion. ^[2]
• Incorrect parents: He is sometimes said to be the son of Esdras Sherwood and Dorcas Unknown of Ipswich, co. Suffolk, England. Esdras Sherwood did have two children baptized at St. Nicholas in Ipswich, but no Thomas.^[14] While Esdras and his wife cannot be excluded with 100% certainty as the parents of Thomas, there is absolutely no evidence (by will or baptisms) to connect this Sherwood family in Ipswich to Thomas Sherwood of Kettlebaston, England and Fairfield, Connecticut. ^[2]
• Incorrect parents: A previous profile made his parents to be John Sherwood and Joan Sherwyn. The origins of Thomas Sherwood have recently been published and there is no evidence to support these parents. ^[2] They have been disconnected. His parents are unknown.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S. (Boston: NEHGS, 2009):304-312, biography of Thomas Sherwood. Available at AmericanAncestors.org PAID
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} The American Genealogist, vol. 80 (2005): pages 278-282. The English Home of Thomas Sherwood¹ of Wethersfield, Stamford, and Fairfield, Conn., by Leslie Mahler. AmericanAncestors.org link.
3. ↑ Sometimes Kettle Baston as 2 words in older records.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Hotten, John Camden, ed., The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... (London, 1874):278-79. Ancestry.com LINK or Link at archive
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} The American Genealogist, vol. 82 (2007):211-213. The Parentage of Alice Tiler, First Wife of Thomas Sherwood¹ of Wethersfield, Stamford, and Fairfield, Conn., by Leslie Mahler, FASG.
6. ↑ The American Genealogist vol. 78 (January 2003):37-41. English Relatives of Samuel Barrett¹ of Yonkers, New York and his Sister Hannah (Barrett) (Jenner), wife of John¹ Coe of Connecticut and New York, and Mother of Samuel¹ Jenner of Woodbury, Connecticut, by Mahler, Leslie.
7. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume 1. (Fairfield, 1930):553. Books.google.com Snippet View
8. ↑ Find-a-grave website: Memorial #9072676
9. ↑ Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007627300_00013). Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line], Fairfield, Probate Records, Vol. 1-5, 1648-1750, image 13-14. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.Original data: Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts.The record is not indexed and is damaged at the top of the page. Very difficult to read. Starts on the right-hand side of the book. Inventory is on the second image. (Two free ancestry.com images: (1). https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/26284634?h=2512c1&utm_campaign=bandido-webparts&utm_source=post-share-modal&utm_medium=copy-url ; (2). https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/26284656?h=e5da9c&utm_campaign=bandido-webparts&utm_source=post-share-modal&utm_medium=copy-url)
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Sherwood, Andrew. Daniel L. Sherwood and his paternal ancestors : including Sherwood evidences both in England and America... (Portland, 1929):38.
11. ↑ Photo of Memorial Find a grave 1037956. Thomas Sherwood. Old Burial Ground, Fairfield, Connecticut.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665 (deputy pp 130, 195, 207, 248, 261; war committee p. 264)
13. ↑ Stiles, Henry Reed. and Sherman W. Adams. The History of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut... Vol I – History, Part 1. New York: The Grafton Press., 1903.
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1} Cookson, Rev. Edward, ed. The registers of St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Co. Suffolk. Baptisms, 1539-1709. Burials, 1551-1710. Marriages, 1539-1710. (London: Parish Register Society, 1897):42-43. Archive.org LINK
15. ↑ eg. New England Historical and Genealogical Register vol. 92 no. 3 (July 1938):203. The Second Wife of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Conn., by Elisha S. Loomis.
16. ↑ Schenk, Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: 1639-1700. (1889):351, 408. Google.Books.com LINK
17. ↑ The American Genealogist, vol. 27 (1950):156-159. Repercussions II: Sherwood of Fairfield and Stratford, Conn., by Donald Lines Jacobus.
18. ↑ New England Historical and Genealogical Register vol. 92 no. 3 (July 1938):303. The Second Wife of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Conn., by Donald Lines Jacobus.

Source list:

• The American Genealogist, vol. 27 (1950):156-159. 'Repercussions II: Sherwood of Fairfield and Stratford, Conn., by Donald Lines Jacobus.

• The American Genealogist, vol. 50 (2005):278-282. The English Home of Thomas Sherwood¹ of Wethersfield, Stamford, and Fairfield, Conn., by Leslie Mahler. AmericanAncestors.org ($) LINK

• The American Genealogist, vol. 52 (2007):211-2013. The Parentage of Alice Tiler, First Wife of Thomas Sherwood¹ of Wethersfield, Stamford, and Fairfield, Conn., by Leslie Mahler, FASG.

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S. (Boston: NEHGS, 2009):304-312, biography of Thomas Sherwood. Available at AmericanAncestors.org PAID

• Hotten, John Camden, ed., The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... (London, 1874):278-79. Ancestry.com LINK

• Schenk, Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: 1639-1700. (1889):351, 408. Google.Books.com LINK

• Sherwood, Andrew. Daniel L. Sherwood and his paternal ancestors : including Sherwood evidences both in England and America... (Portland, 1929).

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume 1. (Fairfield, 1930):553. Books.google.com Snippet View

• Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Page 424

• Commemorative biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1899. Page 483

• http://www.sherwoodfarm.org/history.html

• The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Vol. 1, Page 408

• Daughters of American Colonists Vol. 15 p 302:

• Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Vol II, Page 425.

• "A Changing America: Seen Through One Sherwood Family" gives a description of the witch trial and execution.

• New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vols. 1 - 148,dated 1887 through 1994. (Vols. 1,14,27,39, and 92 especially.)

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• Catalogue of Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut by Royal R. Hinman 1852

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• Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1886) Page 120 Warning: Do not use. Out of date and contains many errors.

• Drake, Samuel. Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information Relative to the Founders of New England (NEHGR, Boston, 1860) Page 53: Thomas Sherwood age 48 and Alice his wife age 47

• Frederick C. Hart Jr., "Sherwood Notes: New Discoveries Complicate the Thomas Sherwood Picture", Connecticut Ancestry, Reference Volume 59 (February 2017), pages 101-109

• Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and burials Index: "Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934"
  FHL Film Number: 3200
  Ancestry Record 2557 #1703483 (accessed 13 February 2024)
  Thomas Sherwood death (age 67) in Connecticut.