Sarah (Odding) Sherman (bef. 1612 - 1681)

Born before 21 Oct 1612 in England [uncertain]

Wife of Philip Sherman — married 1633 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 1681 after age 68 in South Kingstown, Washington, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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Sarah (Odding) Sherman migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 2, p. 1347) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Disputed Parents

Researchers of the Oddings family in England have given convincing proof that George Odding and his wife Margaret Lang were not the parents of Sarah Odding, who married Phillip Sherman (Shearman).

Patricia Law Hatcher, in her article Reconstructing Sarah (Odding) Sherman, in The American Genealogist, persuasively argues that Sarah Odding's father was William Oddyn. The maiden name of William Oddyn's wife Margaret is not known.

Biography

Sarah Odding, only child of William Oddyn and Margaret (_____), was born in Essex, probably Braintree, before 21 October 1612, the date of her father's will. Sarah married Philip Sherman probably in early 1634, and they moved to Portsmouth with her mother and stepfather.^[1] Sherman became the first General Recorder of Rhode Island (family genealogies call him "Secretary").^[2] Sarah and Philip had eleven children, all of whom survived to adulthood. ^[3] Sarah was named in her husband's will 31 July 1681.^[4] )Her date of death is not known.

Birth

BEF 21 OCT 1612 prob: Braintree, co Essex, ENG^[5][6]

The date, "before 21 Oct 1612" is used because that is the date of her father's will in which she is mentioned. Her exact birth date is unknown.

Marriage

Husband: Philip Sherman

1633 Portsmouth, Newport, RI

1633 Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA^[6][7]

Some reports suggest they married in RI. There was no RI before 1638. The marriage therefore must have have been in England or Roxbury. From Wikipedia:

The Roxbury church records give this account of Sherman, "He came into the land in the year 1632 [sic; should read 1633], a single man, & after married Sarah Odding, the daughter o[f] the wife of John Porter by a former husband. This man was of melancholy temper, he lived honestly & comfortably among us several years, upon a just calling went for England & returned again with a blessing: but after his father-in-law John Porter was so carried away with these opinions of familism & schism he followed them & removed with them to the Iland, he behaved himself sinfully in these matters (as may appear in the story) & was cast out of the church."

In the list of admissions to Roxbury church, member #95 was "Sarah Odding. She was step-daughter to John Porter, & came with her parents & was after married to Philip Sharman of this church" [RChR 79].

Quotes above sourced to The Great Migration Begins

Death

Kingston, Washington, RI

Research Notes

• Several merges into Odding-1 on various dates created this profile. Click to the Changes tab for the details of edits.
• A review of source material is needed at this time Stills-18 17:26, 9 January 2018 (EST)

FSFTID LTXQ-DYC.

AMTID 372052476434:1030:155493587.

Buried 1681 Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island,.

Sources

1. ↑ Roy V. Sherman and other genealogies give a birth date of December 1634 for their first child. No substantiating source is known, but the date is reasonable.
2. ↑ John Eliot's record and "Philip Sherman," Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 3:1670-73.
3. ↑ "Philip Sherman," Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 3:1672.
4. ↑ "Philip Sherman," Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 3:1671.
5. ↑ Reconstructing Sarah (Odding) Sherman, Wife of Philip Sherman of Portsmouth, RI". Author: Hatcher, Patricia Law. The American Genealogist 73: 176–180 (July 1998).
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Shermans of Yaxley webpage
7. ↑ NEGHR Vol 167 Apr 2013; Whole Number 666, page 156 The Earliest Shermans of Dedham Essex; Michael Johnson Wood.

• Mumford, James Gregory. Mumford Memoirs, Being the Story of the New England Mumfords (Merrymount Press, Boston, 1900) Page 27
• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633. 1995 v 2, p 1347. American Ancestors (subscription)
• Spooner, Thomas. Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Massachusetts & his Descendants .
• Cohan, Art.: Shermans of Yaxley Homepage. Note: Author is dedicated Sherman family researcher. Note: The author of the website referenced here died 15 Jul 2013. The work has been taken over by another researcher. I have corrected the url to reflect the current site. The previous url led only to an error page.
• American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA
• Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Gale Research, Farmington Hills, MI, USA, 2012)
• Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (1887) page 155 ISBN 978-0-8063-0006-1.