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Birth: 1 JUL 1572 Dedham, Essex, England[1]
Death: 1 JUL 1641 New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut[2]
The genealogies of Edmund Sherman found online are unbelievably confused and scrambled. There were several men of the same name, father & son, cousins, nephews, etc. What seems to be the most accurate source for placing these men and their wives in the proper order is by Thomas Townsend Sherman [3]
Edmund's grandfather Henry Sherman, in his will dated 20 Jan 1590, gave a bequest to "Edmonde Shearman, the son of my son Edmonde", a little over 13£ to be given to him when he reached the age of "two and twenty". Edmund's father's will, dated 1 Aug 1599, gave 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" [4]
1635 Edmund Sherman migrated by 1635 - he was elected as a Watertown selectman 25 Nov 1635 and admitted to church membership prior to 25 May 1636 when he became one of eight freemen.
25 Jul 1636. Edmund Sherman was granted 50 acres in the first division of the Great Dividend at Watertown. 28 Feb 1636/7, he was six acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands; and on 26 Jun 1636, six additional acres in the Remote Meadows. Although this Edmund has been confused with his son of the same name, the awarding of the six acres of plowland and remote meadow indicates he had a household of six persons - that would be Edmund, his wife and the four younger children, John, Samuel, Grace & an unnamed youngest daughter. The younger Edmund was not known to be married at this time and there is no indication he left England.
1638 He lived at Wethersfield
29 Oct 1640 when he was admitted a member of New Haven Court and his name added to the list of freemen.
Edmond died in New Haven in 1641 where the New Haven Records [5], state "3 Mon 1641 an Inventory and will of Olde Father Shirman was delivered into Court". Neither the will nor the inventory has ever been found.
24 Apr 1641 Lands of Sam. Sherman, given him by his father Ed. Sherman, lying in Wethersfield on Connecticut River: 1 piece whereon his house & barn stands, 3 acres; one pice of 40 acres lying in the West Field, one pice on the east side of the Great River, 144 acres.
The 1644 Watertown inventory of Grants showed five parcels granted Edmond Shearman: 4 acres of meadow in Pequusset Meadow; 7 1/2 acres of upland; 50 acres of upland being a Great Dividend in the First Division and second lot; 6 acres of plowland in the Hither Plain, and 6 acres of Remote Meadow & the 53rd lot.
In the 1644 Watertown Inventory of Possessions & Composite Inventory, Nicholas Busby held the homestall that had been granted to Andrew Ward and the Great Dividend, Plowland and Remote Meadows lots that had been granted to Edmond Sherman. This implies that Edmond Sherman purchased the homestall of Andrew Ward when the latter left for Westhersfield in 1635, after which Sherman received further grants based on the proprietary share attached to that homestall, and that Nicholas Busby purchased all these parcels from Sherman before 9 Apr 1638 when Busby was granted six acres at the Town Plot, based on the proprietary share attached to the homestall that came from Ward by way of Sherman.[6]
She was widow of Edmond Sherman, who had lived in Watertown and Wethersfield, and died soon after arrival in New Haven [7]. For more information about Grace Makin visit her profile.
Edmund's children were baptized in Dedham, in England.
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Ann
As you have correctly posted Grace Ravens, b. abt 1591 Prob. East Bergholt, Suffolk, died 3 June 1662 Watertown, MA, daughter of Richard Ravens & Elizabeth Hedge married 1st John Sherman b. 17 Aug 1585 , 2nd Thomas Rogers, 3rd Roger Porter. Grace Makin, daughter of Tobias Makin & Katherine Westbrome, on the other hand, married Edmund Sherman b. abt 1572. [Note that Edmunds wife was not Joan Makin]. Source for Grace Ravens & John Sherman: NEGHR Vol 167 Jan 2013; Whole Number 665, pp 45, 50 & 51 Michael Johnson Wood 'The Earliest Shermans of Dedham Essex; Source for Grace Makin & Edmund Sherman: NEHGR Vol 168; January 2014; Whole Number 669, p.18; Michael Johnson Wood "The Earliest Shermans of Dedham Essex" Because this involves The Great Migration Project I am not quite sure of the best way to sort all this out. Kind Regards, Gilly Wood.