Reuben Sherwood D.D. (bef. 1789 - 1856)

Born before 4 Oct 1789 in Mill Hill, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Died 11 May 1856 after age 66 in Hyde Park-on-the-Hudson, Ulster, New York, United States

Biography

He "belonged to the old Sherwood family of Fairfield."

grad. Yale 1813.

Children:

1. Catherine Sherwood

m2. Penelope, dau. of Champlain Harrison.

He was Rector of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, Connecticut. (Selleck)

He was the first Rector of Trinity Church, Saugerties, 1831-1835. He was also the first Rector of St. John's Church, Kingston, 1832-1835. (Clearwater)

Sources

• Rogers, James Swift. James Rogers of New London, CT, and His Descendants (Boston, 1902) Page 158.
• Selleck, Charles Melbourne.. Norwalk (The Author, Norwalk, Conn., 1896) Page 95 & Page 170-1.
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1912) Vol. 6: 1805-1815, Page 602
• Jacobus, Donald. The Bulkeley Genealogy (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1933) Page 344
• Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Fairfield County, Connecticut with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (J.W. Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, 1881) Page 562: 1816: Officiated in Norwalk.
• Clearwater, Alphonso. The History of Ulster County, New York (W.J. Van Deusen, Kingston, N.Y., 1907) Page 466
• Reynolds, Helen Wilkinson. The Records of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, New York (Frank B. Howard, Poughkeepsie, 1911) Vol. 1, Page 169
  • 1845: "the Rev. Reuben Sherwood of St. James's, Hyde Park"
• Danbury Gazette (Danbury, CT, Tuesday, Sep 07, 1813) Vol: I, Issue: 12, Page: 3. Reuben Sherwood graduation: Yale, Bachelor of Arts.
• Hall, Edwin. The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut (James Mallory & Co., Norwalk, 1847) Page 170.
• Poucher, J. Wilson. Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, New York (Dutchess County Historical Society, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1924) Town of Hyde Park, St. James' Church Ground, #287.