Zadoc Sherwood (1761 - 1859)

Born 19 Apr 1761 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Olmstead) Sherwood — married 13 Nov 1783 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 9 Jul 1859 at age 98 in Algonquin, McHenry, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Zadoc was born in 1761.

He married Abigail Olmstead and they had ten children.

After she died he married Margaret (Glen) Ament.

Zadoc passed away in 1859.

Centennial History of Nunda, NY

Abigail Olmstead, b 1760, d 31 May 1840, age 80, 1st wife of Zadoc Sherwood, b 1759, CT, enlisted 1776, married 1777, settled Northville 1785, settled Nunda 1822 or 23, lived in Nunda until 1855, d at Algonquin, IL, 1859, age 99y 9m. Zadoc m/2 Margaret Glen, widow of Eldert Ament ... (more available).^[1]

Name

Zadoc Sherwood

Birth

19 APR 1761 Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Death

1860 or 1861 in Algongwin, Illinois.

Burial

Village of Algonquin Cemetery, Algonquin, McHenry County, Illinois,

Sources

1. ↑ Hand's 1906 Centennial History of Nunda, p. 222

• The History of Ridgefield, Connecticut (Ridgefield, Conn., 1927) Page 469 & Page 499: m. Abigail ____
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/
• Hand, Henry Wells. Centennial History of The Town of Nunda (Rochester Herald Press, Rochester, N.Y., 1908) Page 222

• Page 483: He had a large family. Some of his children: Granville, John, Nathan, Reuben, Harry, lived in Nunda.
• Page 635: "Zadock Sherwood, a veteran of the revolution, came to Nunda in 1823 and outlived all the other citizen soldiers of that ware. He died near Nunda, Ill., in the one hundredth year of his age. He broke his hip bone when he lacked the three months of one hundred years, and refused to eat, saying, he had lived long enough."

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130862940/zadok-sherwood : accessed 25 August 2021), memorial page for Zadok Sherwood (10 Apr 1760–6 Jul 1859), Find a Grave Memorial ID 130862940, citing Village of Algonquin Cemetery, Algonquin, McHenry County, Illinois, USA
• Olmste(a)d files of Walt Steesy
• Olmsted, Henry King, M.D. Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America (A.T. De La Mare, New York, 1912); pg. 197, #4102s
• Wolff, Kathryn Downs. The James Hard Family of England, and Derby and Newtown, Connecticut, to Five Generations, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., May 2022) Vol. 64, No. 4, Page 126.