David Sherwood (1778 - 1873)

Born 23 Oct 1778 in Weston, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 24 Jan 1873 at age 94 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Biography

son of Stephen & Jerusha Sherwood. (perhaps Stephen 1740-1837 and Jerusha Savage 1752-1782)

m. Ann ____ (1774-21 Feb. 1852) (Find A Grave: Memorial #146295300)

Children:

1. Wheeler
2. David
3. Fannie
4. Sarah
5. Polly

Burial

Mountain Grove Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Sources

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. Weston.

• Page 45: "Sherwood, David, [s. Stephen & Jerusha], b. Oct. 23, 1778 Vol. LR11 Page 494"

• Wheeler, William. The Genealogy of the Wheeler Family (Washington, D.C., 1919) Page 61
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930) Vol. 2, Page 861, Page 1022.
• Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1886) Vol. 1, Page 549 & Page 640 & Page 660-1
• Find A Grave: Memorial #146295241
• Wheeler, William. The Genealogy of the Wheeler Family (Washington, D.C., 1919) Page 45 & Page 61
• Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: 2013. Original data: Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Volume 011, Bridgeport, Page 282

• "Sherwood, David, s. Stephen, adm. ch. 1831, on profession; d. Jan. 24, 1873 Vol. 3, Page 11,38-9,308-9"
• "Sherwood, David, ch.mem. Jan. 24, 1841 Vol. 3, Page 23"
• "Sherwood, David, Dea., d. Jan. 24, 1873, age 94 Vol. 4, Page 308 & Vol. 5, Page 2"

• 1870 United States Federal Census, NARA Roll 97 (Conn., Vol.2) Series M593, Page 485

David Sherwood, Age 92

Gender Male

Race White

Birth: 1777-1778 Connecticut

Film No. 000545596

House Hold 1168

Line Number 24

• Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Hartford Probate Packets, Shelton, Lewis-Slatcher, A, 1840-1880 Image 1029: Feb. 18, 1873 Probate records of David Sherwood, of Bridgeport deceased

• David W.Sherwood of Fairfield County, Connecticut
• Stephen W. Sherwood of McArthur, Vinton, Ohio. Died before 9 July 1906.
• Clara A. Sherwood
• Miranda B. Dyas
• Fannie S Hawley, wife of Anson T. Hawley
• Polly P. Hall

• Fairfield Historical Society, Reports and Papers (The Standard Assoc., Bridgeport, 1882)

• Page 34: "... the well-known Deacon David Sherwood who so many years lived on the south side of Fairfield avenue, at the point now the site of Clinton avenue, extended southerly - where he owned and held a farm of one hundred acres of land in one body to the time of his death in 1873, at the great age of ninety-four years."

• Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, database, FamilySearch (7 January 2020) David Sherwood, 1778.
• Bridgeport Standard (Bridgeport, CT, Saturday, Jan 25, 1873) Page: 3

• "Deacon David Sherwood died last evening, in the 95th year of his age. Mr. Sherwood was, we believe, the oldest person residing in Bridgeport, and had lived in the house of Fairfield avenue, where he died, for about thirty years. His funeral will be attended from his late residence on Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock."