Stephen
Sherwood
Born in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph Sherwood
and Mary (Deming) Sherwood
Brother of
Nathan Deming Sherwood, Sarah Sherwood, Betty Sherwood, Mary Sherwood, Ebenezer Sherwood, Joseph Sherwood, Abigail Sherwood and Eunice Sherwood
Husband of
Ruth (Benedict) Sherwood
— married
11 Aug 1773 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut
Husband of
Elizabeth (Eggleston) Sherwood
— married
1786 in Dover, Dutchess, New York, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Esther (Sherwood) Alvord, Stephen Sherwood Jr., James Wesley Sherwood, Hiram Sherwood and Elizabeth Clarinda (Sherwood) Alvord
Died
at about age 77
in Geneseo, Livingston, New York, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Jul 2018
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Biography
son of Joseph and Mary (Jackson) Sherwood
m1. Ridgefield 11 Aug 1773 Ruth Benedict
Burial
- Temple Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, Livingston, New York
Sources
- Draper, Thomas Waln-Morgan. The Bemis History and Genealogy (Stanley-Taylor Co., San Francisco, Cal., 1900) Page 208. Elizabeth Eggleston m. Joseph Sherwood
- Find A Grave: Memorial #211443069: Elizabeth Eggleston m. Stephen Sherwood
- Bailey, Frederic William. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 (Bureau of American Ancestry, New Haven, Connecticut, 1898) Book 3, Page 85: Ridgefield, Stephen Sherwood of _____ & Ruth Benedict of Danbury, Ridgebury parish, Aug. 11, 1773.
- Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1930) Vol. 2, Page 844. He married three times.
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