Daniel Sherman (1642 - 1716)

Born 16 Mar 1642 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Abiah (Street) Sherman — married 28 Sep 1664 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Husband of Martha (Bradley) Sherman — married 1707 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 3 Nov 1716 at age 74 in New Haven (West), Connecticut

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Biography

Daniel Sherman was a son of Rev. John & Mary Sherman. He was baptized 27 Mar 1642 at the Milford 1st church and died 3 Nov 1716 ae 75. Capt. Sherman was buried in the original New Haven cemetery which is now the New Haven Town Green. He married (1) 28 Sep 1664 in New Haven Abiah Street and married (2) after 1707 Martha Bradley, widow of Samuel Munson and Eliasaph Preston.^[1]

His gravestone still exists and is at the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven.

Note

I. Mary4 Bassett, b. Feb. 14, 1678-1751. m. Jan. 21, 1702, Daniel Sherman, son of Daniel and Abiah (Street) Sherman, b. Sep. 3, 1668. d. May 8, 1729, ae. 61. "Capt. Sherman was a master mariner, son of Rev. John and Mary {Launee) Sherman. The mother of Capt. Sherman was second wife of the pastor at Watertown, and was grandaughter of the Earl of Rivers, whose family were Roman Catholics. Her mother, a daughter of the Earl, married a Mr. Launce, a Puritan, and was herself a Puritan also." Abiah Street was the daughter of Rev. Nicholas Street, pastor of the church at Taunton, Mass.. and afterward of the First church at New Haven, son of Nicholas and Susanna (Gilberd) Street of Bridgewater, England.—Street Genealogy, p. g.

Families of Dickerman Ancestry: Descendants of Thomas Dickerman, an Early Settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1897 - 650 pages pages 156-57

Sources

1. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines (compiler). Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol I-VIII. and Index Vol IX New Haven: 1931. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 1981, 1997. Originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, Volumes I-VIII. Rome, NY and New Haven, CT 1922-1932.

• The New England Shermans, Roy V. Sherman
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 338

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