Matthew Sherwood Jr. (abt. 1667 - abt. 1709)

Born about 1667 in Stratfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Died about 1709 at about age 42 in Stratfield, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Born: 1667

Died: Will written 12 July 1709 and probated 21 November 1709. Death is assumed to have happened between these two dates.

• Previous notes: Date on burial memorial^[1] state he died 1700 or 1709, aged 22 or else 42. The dates entered in the profile make the most sense, but are not 100% certain.)

Married Elizabeth Morehouse, dau of Samuel. Her second husband was Rev. Charles Chauncey, #3 was Richard Miles of New Haven.

ABSTRACT OF PROBATE RECORDS AT FAIRFIELD, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD, AND STATE OF CONNECTICUT., BY SPENCER P. MEAD, L.L.B. Volume 5, 1702-1750. Page 217

SHERWOOD, Mathew, Jr., Sergeant, late of Stratfield, will dated July 12, 1709, probated Nov. 21, 1709, mentioned his wife Elizabeth, and daughter Sarah Treadwell, and her issue, and if she die without issue, then to Nathaniel a son of brother Samuel Sherwood, and to John a son of brother Thomas Morehouse., who lives with me, "my son Timothy Treadwell to have the use of one acre" and legacy to the church at Stratfield. Executrix his wife Elizabeth. Overseers James Bennit and Ensign Samuel Hubbell. Witnesses James Bennit and Mary Bennit, page 154.

Inventory taken Nov. 17, 1709, by James Bennit, Samuel Hubbell and Richard Hubbell, had nine acres of the six mile division of Thomas Knoll's of Stratford, and filed Nov. 21, 1709, page 154a.

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20786013/matthew-sherwood: accessed 9 June 2023), memorial page for Matthew Sherwood (unknown–1709), Find A Grave: Memorial #20786013, citing Old Stratfield Cemetery, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by Scout (contributor 50176429).

• 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) page 554
• Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1886) Page 577
• Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, Connecticut, Down to 1721 (n.p.) Page 371
• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985) Vol. 2, 1369

• SHERWOOD, Matthew3 & Elizabeth [MOREHOUSE]; by 21 Dec 1696; Fairfield, CT
• {Fairfield Fam. 1:141, 420, 551, 554; Fairfield Prob. 57, 217}

• Palmer, Charles Ray. The Bi-Centennial Celebration of The First Congregational Church and Society of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, 1895) Page 170.