Philip Sherman (bef. 1611 - bef. 1687)

Born before 5 Feb 1611 in Dedham, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Odding) Sherman — married 1633 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died before 19 Mar 1687 at about age 76 in Portsmouth, Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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Philip Sherman migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 3, p. 1670) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Philip Sherman is Notable.

Philip Sherman was born in England.

In New England are found two distinct families bearing the name of Sherman. One of them descends from William Sherman, who came with the Pilgrims about 1630 and settled at what is now Marshfield, Massachusetts. His birthplace and antecedents are unknown. The other distinct family is the Dedham, Essex, England stock; a branch of which immigrated to New England and settled in the Boston vicinity. There are few dates or records of the Dedham family. First in America was (7) Philip; born in Dedham, England, in 1610. Arrived 1632-1633, settling in Roxbury, Massachusetts. There he married Sarah Odding. In 1634, banished from Massachusetts, he settled in Rhode Island.^[1]

Birth

before 5 FEB 1609/10 Dedham, Essex, England^[2]

Baptized Dedham, Essex, 5 February 1610/1, son of Samuel Sherman [Sherman Gen 95].

Immigration

1633

Marriage

He married Sarah Odding about 1633^[2] in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts

Note: Sarah Odding, daughter of Margaret (_____) (Odding) Porter [RChR 78-79; TAG 73:176-80].

Children

1. EBER, b. say 1634; m. Mary _____. (She has been called Mary Wilcox, daughter of Edward [Transatlantic Shermans 114; Philip Sherman 28], but there is no room for her in the family of Edward Wilcox [NEHGR 147:190-91].)
2. SARAH, b. say 1636; m. by about 1656 Thomas Mumford [Austin 136].
3. PELEG, b. say 1637; m. Portsmouth 26 July 1657 Elizabeth Lawton, daughter of Thomas Lawton [RIVR 4:Portsmouth:37].
4. EDMUND, b. 1641; m. by 1674 Dorcas Hicks, daughter of Samuel Hicks and granddaughter of ROBERT HICKS [Harriet Woodbury Hodge, Hicks (Hix) Families of Rehoboth and Swansea, Massachusetts (Winnetka, Illinois, 1976), p. 59].
5. SAMSON, b. 1642; m. Portsmouth 4 March 1674/5 Isabel Tripp, daughter of John Tripp [ RIVR 4:Portsmouth:37; TG 4:62].
6. JOHN, b. 1644; by about 1674 Sarah Spooner, daughter of William Spooner (in his will of 8 March 1683[/4] William Spooner made a bequest to "my daughter Sarah Sherman" [PCPR 4:2:71]).
7. MARY, b. 1645; living on 31 July 1681 (father's will). (Austin says she married Samuel Wilbore, son of Shadrach, but th is Samuel was born in 1663 [ Austin 228], so this identification seems highly unlikely.)
8. HANNAH, b. 1647; m. by about 1678 William Chase, son of William Chase [ NEHGR 87:51-52; Austin 178-79].
9. SAMUEL, b. 1648; m. Portsmouth 23 February 1680/1 Martha Tripp [ RIVR 4:Portsmouth:37; TG 4:62].
10. BENJAMIN, b. 1650; m. Portsmouth 3 December 1674 Hannah Mowry, daughter of ROGER MOWRY [ Austin 179].
11. PHILIP, b. 1652; m. by about 1674 Benjamin Chase, son of WILLIAM CHASE [ PoLE 1:150; Austin 178-79; NEHGR 87:51].

Two Marys?:' Some sources show an earlier born Mary who died as a young child (1639-abt 1644). I have not done sufficient research on this to verify it, but have left both Marys. - FR

Death

BEF 19 MAR 1686/87 Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island.^[2]

"before 19 March 1686/7" is based on the date of the inventory of his personal property after his death.

WILL of PHILIP SHEARMAN, of Portsmouth, RI

In the name of God Amen, I, Philip Shearman, yeoman, aged seventy-one years, of the Town of Portsmouth in the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, being in good memory, praise be therefor given to Almighty God, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in the manner and form following: (that is to say); first and principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the earth to be decently buried by my executor hereafter named. And as for the disposition of my worldly estate, it is in manner and form following; first I give to Sarah my loving wife the use and her dwelling in the first room at the west end of my now dwelling house & bed and bedding with the furniture thereto belonging now standing in the aforenamed room. Also I do here by ordaine and appoint my son Samuel my sole Executor to this my last will and testament truely performed; and to b__ himself, heirs, Executors and Administrators for the true performance hereof; furthermore my will is that my executor shall sufficiently maintain my loving wife with food and raiment and all necessaries whatsoever during her natural life and at her decease decently to bury her; furthermore, I do give unto Sarah my wife ten good ewe sheep to be marked out of my flock for the sole use and dispose both of bodie and wool yearly, wch said number shall be kept by my said Executor during the natural life of Sarah my said wife free and without any charge to my wife.

Item: I do give unto Eber my Eldest son that which I have already given him, ten acres of land in the bounds of Portsmouth aforesaid at a place called Briggs swamp joining to a parcel of land of his own to him and his heirs forever. And all my horse flesh in the Narragansett country except one mare, the second best; such excepted mare, I give to Thomas Mumford and Peleg Mumford my Grandchildren.

Item: I give unto my son Peleg five ewe sheep.

Item: I give unto my son Edmund a quarter share of meadow and a sixteenth part of a share of upland lying in Ponagansett within the Township of Dartmouth in the colony of New Plymouth in New England with all the privileges th__ to belonging or any wards appertaining. And also my whole right in the purchase of Squamscutt now called Westerly by the collony to the said Edmund and his heirs.

Item: I give unto my son Samson after the decease of my said wife his half of the breadth of my farm which I now dwell upon from the westward end to the sea and three Rood more in breadth of the whole length of the aforesaid land and bounded southward upon a straight line Eastward from the south west corner of that orchard now called Sampson's upon a straight line to a lande marke about a rood short of the cart way that goes from my dwelling house to my barn in Portsmouth aforesaid. And from the said land marke upon a sloap line five Rood westwardly of my barn until it comes to the line of the aforesaid half-breadth of the aforesaid farm to him and his heires forever and to have the third part of any hay and grass yearly of the aforesaid farm. And my son Samson and my son Samuel to have equal privileges in the arible land of the aforesaid farm during the natural life of Sarah my wife.

Item: I give unto my son Samuel all the remaining of my aforesaid farm with my now dwelling house and all the other buildings upon the said part of the land lying southward of the other part of my farm now given to my son Samson as aforesaid to him and his heirs forever after the decease of Sarah my wife and to have two parts of the grass and the hay during the natural life of Sarah my wife.

Item: All my neat cattle, hors kind, sheep kind and swine I do give unto my son Samuel aforenamed Executor, (excepting two oxen and a fatting cow.) And also all my moveable goods (Excepting two great chests with lock and key to each of them, which said chests I give unto my wife Sarah) he my aforesaid executor paying the several legacies herein this my will specified both the aforementioned and what shall hereafter be exprest in this my will.

Item: I givee unto my son Samson aforenamed one white faced mare with her foale and all those four Indians wch we jointly bought.

Item: I give unto my son Samson and my son Samuel my draught horse and two draught steers equally betwixt them.

Item: I give unto my son John my bay mare.

Item: I give unto my son Benjamin all the remaining __art of of my land at Brigg's Swamp whereupon the said Benjamin's house now stands, being by estimation twentie acres be the same more or less to him and his heires forever.

Item: I give unto my daughter Sarah ten ewe sheep to be paid her the year after my decease.

Item: I give unto my daughter Mary ten ewe sheep to be paid her the year after my decease.

Item: I give unto my daughter Hannah fivee pounds of New England silver money for the proper use of her selfe and children to be paid the year after my decease.

Item: I give unto my daughter Hannah five ewe sheep to be paid to her the year after my decease.

Item: I give unto my daughter Philip ten ewe sheep to be paid to her the year after my decease.

Item: I give unto Benjamin Clarke to my son Edmund until he comes of age of one & twenty years, the said Edmund finding the said Benjamin with sufficient food and clothing duting the terme aforesaid.

Item: I the above said Philip Shearman do ordain and appoint this to bemy last will and testament, making void all former wills and testaments heretofore by me made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this one and thirtyeth day of the month comonly called July, Anno Domino on thousand six hundred and Eightie one.

Philip Shearman (Seal)

Before the signing and sealing of this my will and testament, I the aforesaid Philip Shearman do declare that wheras the word Assigns is omitted in the giving of the several parcels of land to my children:

That it is my true intent and meaning that I do give the said several parcels of land specified in my above written will to my children to their heires and Assigns forever.

Signed and sealed in the presence of:

Job Almy

Philip Phettiplace

Elias Williams

Proved March 22, 1686/7.

Recorded on page 260 of "Land Evidence, 2nd Book, No. 1"

Town of Portsmouth, R.I.

H.E.S. &F.D.S. 48-50

Biographical Notes

Signer of the Portsmouth Compact in 1638.

In the Ann Hutchinson troubles, he took the popular side, but as Governor Winthrop ultimately prevailed, he with others found it convenient to emigrate to Rhode Island, and in Providence -- with seventeen others -- purchased the island of Aquedneck, "through the joint influence of Roger Williams and Sir Henry Vane with the Narraganset Sachems. The Indian name of the place, where the settlement was made, was Pocassett, and was retained some time by the settlers, until changed to Portsmouth." The purchase was completed March 24, 1638. On the first day of July, 1639, they established a regular government of which William Coddington was chosen Governor and Philip Sherman, Secretary. After this he often held office in the colony, and in critical periods, as a man of intelligence, wealth and influence, was frequently consulted by those in authority.^[3], p. 28-9. is recorded in Portsmouth, dated July 30, 1681, proved March 22, 1687.

In 1633 or previous to that year he came from his home in Dedham, England, and settled in Roxbury, Mass. In that year he was admitted a freeman. In the Anne Hutchinson troubles he took the popular side and was one of the "Roxbury men" ordered to be disarmed for being seduced and led into dangerous errors by Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson, and with John Clark and 16 others, he was banished from Massachusetts Bay by the general court of Newton, Oct. 2, 1637. They left Boston with the intention of settling in New Hampshire, but finding the climate too severe in that section of the country, they abandoned their lands there, and removed March 7, 1638, to the island of Rhode Island, which they purchased by the advice of Roger Williams, whom they met in Providence, from Aquetnet, the Indian chief (Alt. version - advised to purchase the island of Aquetnet [now Rhode Island] of the Indians).

The purchase was completed March 24, 1638, and on the first day of July, 1639, they established a regular government, of which Coddington was chosen Governor, and Philip Shearman (so spelled by himself) Secretary. They named the upper part of the island Portsmouth, and there Philip Shearman resided, owning a tract of land at that place. It was there that all his children were born, except Eber, his eldest son, and daughter Sarah who were born in Roxbury, Mass. He was town clerk for many years, and the records of the town of Portsmouth were kept by him with great neatness and exactness. He held various other offices in the Colony, and in critical periods, as a man of intelligence, wealth and influence was frequently consulted by those in authority. After he removed to Rhode Island he left the Congregational church and united with the "Society of Friends" (Quakers)."^[4]

"Owing to the fact that our ancestor Phillip used the Shearman spelling, I have continued it's use in this record where it seemed appropriate. Although a few descendants still use it, our family discontinued the practice about 1800 and now spell the name Sherman."^[5]

DNA Note

Wikitree member Diane Wilson Flynn is (along with many of her maternal cousins) descended from at least four of the sons of Philip Shearman/ Sherman and Sarah Oddyn:

• Edmund who married Dorcas Hicks, the parents of Joseph Shearman, Sr.;
• Peleg who married Elizabeth Lawton,
• Samson who married Isabel Tripp and
• Samuel who married Isabel's sister Martha Tripp.

This possible fourfold increase in Shearman/Sherman autosomal DNA (and twofold increase in Tripp autosomal DNA) also increases the possibility of matches with more remotely-related cousins than otherwise would have been the case.

Sources

1. ↑ In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:32, February 10, 2017, from [1]]title=Philip_Sherman&oldid=745775982]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33.(New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston. 1995). Volume: 3. pp 1670-73. Links for subscribers: Ancestry.com or American Ancestors.
3. ↑ Spooner, Thomas. Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Mass., and his descendants, vol. 1, pt. 1. Cincinnati, Ohio : Press of F. W. Freeman, 1883. Call Number: GC 929.2 Sp66so v.1 pt.1. Note: This book is also available for download in PDF and other formats at Archive.org.
4. ↑ the work of Rev. Henry B. Sherman.
5. ↑ the work of Rev. Henry B. Sherman.

• New-England Historical and Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, Volume XXIV (24), by Joseph Barlow Felt; published by the Society, 17 Bromfield Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1870; printed by David Clapp & Son Wilbur-403 11:56, 9 February 2017 (EST)
• Wood, Michael Johnson. The Earliest Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and Their Wives, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2013) Vol. 167, Page 152.
• Wikipedia - Philip Sherman
• Mumford, James Gregory. Mumford Memoirs, Being the Story of the New England Mumfords (Merrymount Press, Boston, 1900) Page 27