Margaret (Sherwood) Maverick (1631)

Born 1631 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England

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Biography

Common Errors to Avoid

• Incorrect parents: 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. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ The American Genealogist, vol. 50 (2005):278-282. The English Home of Thomas Sherwood¹ of Wethersfield, Stamford, and Fairfield, Conn., by Leslie Mahler.

• Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume I. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut) vol. 1, page 549
• Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown (D. Clapp, Boston, 1879) Vol. K-Z, Page 863
• French, Miss Elizabeth. Genealogical Research in England, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1915) Vol. 69, Page 155

• "Margaret Sherwood, who was admitted to the Charlestown church 8 Aug. 1675"

• Cleveland, Edmund. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (Hartford, Conn., 1899) Vol. 1, Page 226