Thomas
Abraham
Sherwood
Born about in Canada
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Sherwood
and Endymis (Winn) Sherwood
Brother of
Lucinda (Sherwood) Minthorn
Husband of
Lydia (Morton) Sherwood
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Annie (Mitchell) Sherwood
— married
1819 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Ezra Bartlett Sherwood, Elizabeth (Sherwood) Mayhew, Sarah Anne (Sherwood) McCann and Justus Jacob Sherwood
Died
at about age 69
in Georgina Township, York County, Ontario, Canada.
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Oct 2015
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Thomas Sherwood served in the War of 1812
Service started:
Unit(s): 1st Regiment of York Militia, Canada
Service ended:
Service started:
Unit(s): 1st Regiment of York Militia, Canada
Service ended:
Biography
Thomas was born in 1799. He passed away in 1861.
During the War of 1812, Thomas Sherwood served as a private in the 1st York Militia. From Sept. 25 to 28, 1813, he served in Captain Jeremiah Traviss’ Company. [1]
Thomas is buried in the Mann Cemetery in Keswick, York County, Ontario, Canada.
Sources
- ↑ Collections Canada, War of 1812: Upper Canada Returns, Nominal Rolls and Paylists, Microfilm t-10384, pages 682-683
- The War of 1812 Militia Rolls and Payrolls can be accessed online
- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30092313
- Burial Mann Cemetery, Keswick. York County, Ontario, Canada
- "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMFL-K9D : 11 March 2018), Justin Sherwood and Ellen Smith, 17 Apr 1870; citing registration , Georgina, York, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,862,475.
"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV5-WP61 : 13 December 2015), Thomas A Sherwood, 1861; Burial, Keswick, York Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada, Mann Cemetery; citing record ID 30092313, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Thomas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Thomas:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Thomas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Thomas:
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~0.78%
Francis Stenger
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member fjstenger87
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~0.59%
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