| Elizabeth (UNKNOWN) Robinson migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
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Elizabeth (______) married first Richard Sherman by year 1635.[1]This date is based on the birth of his daughter with his wife Elizabeth on December 1, 1635. A house plot for "Richard Sherman's wife..." was granted on April 17, 1637 and on December 30, 1639 the Boston selectmen granted to "Richard Sherman a great lot for seven heads at Muddy River."[1] These seven heads were evidently for the couple, their daughter, Elizabeth, and some of the children of Richard Sherman and his former wife, Alice. The will of Richard Sherman clarifies the seven heads: daughters Anne and Priscilla Sherman were in Old England; so Martha, Abigail, Samuel and Alice, children of Richard Sherman and his 1st wife Alice were in the immigrants household.
Elizabeth married second Thomas Robinson. His will (dated 17 March 1665/6, probated 27 April 166[6?]) mentioned his wife Elizabeth. "Though my wife hath not carryed her selfe as a wife should have towards me, but Contrary to the Law of God & Man hath withdrawne her selfe from Living with mee as she ought to Doe" He did however leave her £10, if she was willing to take it.[2][3]
Her will dated 21 Aug 1666 and proved 16 Nov 1667 mentions her former husband Richard Sherman[4]and also mentions her husband's children and grandchildren.[1]
Anderson in his "Great Migration" says, "...we conclude that the first wife of Richard Sherman died sometime after 1628, probably at Dedham, Essex, during a gap in the parish registers there, and that his second wife (Elizabeth Sherman, this profile) was mother only of the last child, Elizabeth." He continues, "If Richard Sherman actually arrived in New England in 1635, he must have married his second wife in England. If he arrived in 1634, at the same time as his brother Edmund, then this second marriage (to Elizabeth) might have taken place in New England."[1]
Embroiled in a famous lawsuit, Elizabeth Sherman stood her ground. The case known as "Goody Sherman's sow," had substancial constitutional consequences that has affected the bicameral legislature we are familiar with today. The story goes... that in 1636 the swine owned by Boston residents were brought back to the town from Deer Island. Robert Keayne lived neighbors to the Shermans and retained a sow that was not his, later butchering it. Elizabeth Sherman, with the assistance of George Story (since her husband was in England at that time) brought a law suit against Keayne. Eventually Keayne sued Elizabeth Sherman for slander, giving him damages of L20. This slander suit aggravated the deputies and general population since Keayne was known as a price-gouger. The lower house believed that the court was siding with the wealthy against a poorer Bostonian. Some believed that the case of Sherman vs. Keayne should be decided by combining the vote of the upper and lower houses with the majority deciding the case. leading ultimately to the larger lower house casting more of the votes in favor of acquittal. The magistrates, however, held out for what was called "the negative voice," wherein each house would vote separately, with a majority of each house being necessary to settle the matter; essentially what we have in our legislature today.[1]
There was evidently no animosity between the Shermans and the General court. since the treasurer on May 14, 1645 paid 13 1/3 s. to the wife of Richard Sherman as a gratuity for her care and pains in this court schedule. Also on this day it was "ordered, that Richard Sherman should be allowed 19s. for lodging 3 of the deputies and the Governor's men."[1]
An interesting side note, in 1642 Governor John Winthrop "prepared a careful, detailed summary of the case between Richard Sherman and Robert Keayne." Plus two modern scholars have written about this case's constitutional significance: Arthur Prentice Rugg in 1920[6] and Robert Emmet Wall Jr. in 1971.[7]
Imported only 10 JAN 1652 from Marriage Date and marked as uncertain.
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Thanks.
Her CLN will need to change to Robinson, though, since he was her last husband.
Sherman can go under OLN