Moses Sherwood (1749 - 1800)

Born 28 May 1749 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Chapman) Sherwood — married 20 Feb 1772 in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut

Husband of Mary (Couch) Sherwood — married 5 May 1784 (to 28 Jun 1800) in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Died 28 Jun 1800 at age 51 in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Biography

• Baptized 4 Jun 1749 @ Westport, CT
• Six slaves were enumerated in Moses's household for the 1790 US Census.

Burial

Greens Farms Church Upper Cemetery, Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut

Probate

His will is dated 12 June 1800 and proved on 26 July 1800 in Fairfield.^[1]

His inventory was recorded on 6 October 1800.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 26-27, 1795-1819”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-YWB4 : 2 August 2022), FHL microfilm 007627303, image 566-567, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 27, 1798-1801, Pages 383-386.
2. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 28-29, 1798-1829”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-TLK4  : 17 August 2022), FHL microfilm 007627297, image 540, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 29, 1803-1818, Pages 464.

• 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 156: Westport, Moses Sherwood & Mary Chapman, Feb. 20, 1772.
  • Page 161: Westport, Moses Sherwood & Mary Couch, May 5, 1784.
• 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. 1, pages 855, 858
• Find A Grave: Memorial #116825882
• Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 Fairfield Probate Records, Vol. 24-25 1787-1798. Page 217, image 128: "Moses Sherwood of Fairfield was appoiinted guardian of Ebenezer Hanford, a minor..."
• Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 Fairfield Probate Records, Vol 26-27, 1795-1819. Page 383, image 566: Moses Sherwood of Fairfield will dated June 12, 1800.

• wife Mary
• Samuel Burr Sherwood of Weston
• Aaron Sherwood of Fairfield
• Moses Chapman son of James Chapman
• Moses Sherwood son of David Sherwood, Jr.

• Chapman, Frederick William. The Chapman Family (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1854) Page 205.
• Jesup, Henry Griswold. Edward Jessup of West Farms, Westchester Co., New York, and His Descendants (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1887) Page 99.
• US Census, 1790
• Dempsey, Barbara. Greens Farms Church Records, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn.)
  • (Aug 2015) Vol. 58, No. 1, Page 46. Baptism record.
  • (Feb 2018) Vol. 60, No. 3, Page 109. Marriage record.