Benjamin
Sherwood
Born in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of Jabez Sherwood Jr.
and Elizabeth (Kniffen) Sherwood
Brother of
Elizabeth Sherwood, Hannah Sherwood, Gertrude Sherwood, Sarah Sherwood, Mary Sherwood and Rebecca Sherwood
Husband of
Anna (Anderson) Sherwood
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Alanson Sherwood, Allen Sherwood, William Sherwood, Warren Sherwood, Caroline (Sherwood) Peck, Harriet M. (Sherwood) Smith and Jotham M. Sherwood
Died
at age 88
in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Feb 2012
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Biography
m. Anna ____ d. Nov. 10, 1848, age 73 yrs. 4 mos. 20 days. (Mead)
Children:
- Alanson
- Allen
- William
- Warren
- Jotham
- Sarah Ann, m. Frederick Read
- Harriet
Sources
- Mead, Spencer Percival. Abstracts of Records and Tombstones of the Town of Greenwich (1913) Page 153
- Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography (American Historical Society, Boston, MA. 1917) Vol. 8, Page 357
- Find A Grave: Memorial #12627702
- Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Fairfield Probate Records, Vol A, 3, 5, 1853-1885 Page 294, Image 167: Benjamin Sherwood, will dated Feb. 3, 1845
- wife Ann
- son-in-law William Peck, husband of Caroline Sherwood
- dau. Harriet
- son Warren, William, Jotham
- Benjamin Sherwood son of Allen Sherwood, his two brothers James and Allen Sherwood
- Sarah Ann Read wife of Frederick Read
- Silas Sherwood son of Alanson Sherwood, and his dau. Jane Emmins
- Baird, Charles W. Chronicle of a Border Town (Anson D. F. Randolph and Co., New York, 1871) Page 443.
- Rockett, Charles Whitlock. Proving a New Sherwood Line, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (NYGBS, 1985) Vol. 116, Page 82.
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