Eber Sherman, II

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 1757, North Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island; written

Notes:

He was a farmer.
Oct., 14, 1758, Eber Sherman deeds "to my son Henry Sherman, for love and affection" land in North Kingstown. (Recorded July 26, 1759) In May, 1744 in the settlement of his brother Samuel's estate, Eber pays out of the estate "to Gershom Shearman, as per receipt."

[Vital, Probate, and Land records of North Kingstown - via RVS-68]


Will:
His will dated 1757, proved in North Kingstown, RI. It is so damaged by fire that it reveals only three names: John, William and Eber, Jr.

Eber married Martha Remington about 1706 in North Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island. Martha was born about 1670; died after 1725 in North Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Sherman was born on 30 Oct 1711 in North Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island; died in 1790 in North Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island.
2. William Sherman was born on 30 Dec 1716 in of, North Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island; died in 1792 in North Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island.
3. Henry Sherman was born on 14 Jan 1724 in North Kingston, Washington Co, Rhode Island; died in 1795.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 13 Nov 1706, Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island

Notes:

birth dates of children are not confirmed.
Sequence of births not confimed.
Which mother to which children not confirmed.

sequence of wives not confirmed


Will:
Will of EBER SHERMAN of North Kingston, RI

(Margins destroyed by fire, Dec. 1870)
God so blest me in this life I give and bequeath the same in the following manner and form
first my debts and funerall charges be paid ( )
I give to my beloved Son Eber Sherman one hundred acres of land joyning to the house which jo ( )
to be to him and to his heires lawfully begotten of his own body ( )

Item: I give to my beloved son Samuel Sherman ( ) acres of land joyning and bounding upon my son Eber Shermans land that is above mentioned to be to him and to his heires lawfully begotten of his own body. Item I give to my beloved son Stephen Sherman one hundred acres of land joyning and bounding upon the land given to Samuel Sherman my son that is to say to him and to his heires lawfully begotten of his own body.

Item: I give to my beloved son Elisha Sherman one hundred acres of land joyning and bounding upon the land given to son Stephen Sherman before mentioned to be to him and his lawfully begotten of his own body. Item. I give to my beloved son William Sherman one hundred acres of land adjoyning and bounding upon the land which I have given to my son Elisha Sherman to be to him and to his heires lawfully begotten of his own body. Item. I give to my beloved son Peleg Sherman one hundred and eighty & two acres of land ( ) bounded upon John Sweets land near ( ) to be to him and to his heires lawfully begotten of his own body but in case any of them w( ) entioned shal depart th ( ) I hereby utterly disallow and revoke all other testaments and wills by me formerly any wise named wri( ) ing and confirming this & noe other to be my last will and testament; In witness whereof I have here unto sett my hand and seale the day and year above writen ( ) signed sealed published and declared to be the last will and testament in the presence of the subscribers by Eber Sherman.


Eber (his mark) Sherman
Captain Jesse ( his mark) Champlin
Peleg Mumford
Theophilus Whale
Capt. Jeffery Champlin and Peled Mumford both of Kingstowne in the colony of Rhood Island and Providence Plantations did both appear before the Council of Kingstowne the 14th day of ( ) did declear that they did see and hear Eber Sherman of Kingstowne (late deceased) sett his mark and seal upon the the above writen instrument and declared the same to ( ) his last will and testament and that they sett their names thereto as witnesses to the same.
Entered upon record the 13th day
November 1706

Samuel ffones Clerke

------------------------------------------------------------Inventory Follows
Kingstown October the 11th day 1706

Inventory of Eber Shermans Estate late deceased
By us Justice Champlin, Jonathan Sherman:

Oxen five cows two three year old
olds one calf--
North Kingstown, R.I. Probate Records V. 1-5, pp. 81-82
F.D.S. 603, 604

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Eber married Mary Wilcox in 1659 in Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island. Mary was born about 1635 in Washington Co, Rhode Island; died before 1706. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Both Bertha Stratton and Roy Sherman call her Mary Wilcox, daughter of Edward Wilcox, but "The Great Migration Begins", pub. 1995 (page 1672) states that she cannot be - and references NEHGS article.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 7 Mar 1638, Portsmouth Compact, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
• Will: 01 Jul 1681, Portsmouth, Newport Co, Rhode Island

Notes:

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Townsend Sherman has elaborated the large Sherman family of Dedham, Essex, and vicinity [Sherman Genealogy (New York 1920)], cited above as Sherman Gen]. Philip Sherman was followed to New England by his brother Samuel Sherman of Boston, his first cousin John Sherman of Watertown, and his first cousins once-removed Edmund Sherman and Richard Sherman.

COMMENTS: One of the Wheelwright supporters ordered disarmed [MBCR 1:212]. He signed the Portsmouth Covenant 7 March 1637/8 [RICR 52].
Accounts of this family in secondary sources, beginning with Austin, supply incomplete dates of birth for all the children, including a son William and an earlier daughter Mary [Austin 178-79]. None of these dates is found in any contemporary records, and so all these dates and the two additional children are omitted in the arrangement given above. If there is any basis for these data, it would probably be a surviving family record, but no mention of such a document is made.

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This following letter, from the Society of Friends, regarding the placement of a Tombstone for Philip - a project in the works by Alonzo Sherman of Michigan:

From: PORTFRNDS@aol.com
To: shermanaj@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Tombstone for Phillip Shearman (1610-1887)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001

Dear Mr. Sherman:

Please forgive my not responding to your e-mail sooner. I have been out of town at a Pastor's Conference in South Carolina, then we had some bad news concerning a family member in Fla. who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

This is the first opportunity I have had to catch up on my correspondence since returning.

With respect to your inquiry regarding a monument to you ancestor. Several months ago a letter was drafted and I was under the impression that it had been sent to you regarding your request.

However, there seems to be some question as to if you received this letter at all. Let me therefore, try to bring you up to date with where we are on the issue of the monument.

The Administrative Council of the Church, met and discussed in detail you family's request. Additionally, several different thoughts were taken into consideration concerning placing a monument in the Cemetery.

After long and careful discussion and deliberation the following was the result:

The "Friends or Quakers" of the time your ancestor was associated with the Church, were very much out of favor with the thought of marking graves. They were, as you have come to understand, a simple plain people who were not given to what some of the early "Friends" might have called "pretense."

As a result they did not mark their graves with tomb stones, monuments, markers and such. The "Friends" held to the scripture that, "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord," and with that belief firmly in their hearts and minds, they placed little care or concern about marking graves. They believed that the person was no longer there, but rather was in heaven with the Lord.

Over time, we have indeed allowed for the marking of the grave sites of later "Friends" who have died, but even at that it has been relatively simple.

The final decision of the Administrative Council with respect to your request was that out of respect to the memory and the belief and trust that the " Friends" of the time period your family member was a part of, and in keeping with the "Friends" history and practice of that era, we would respectfully decline your request to place a monument in the cemetery.

We appreciate your concern and we also appreciate the contribution your ancestor made not only to the "Friends Meeting" here, but also to the Community and the state of Rhode Island.

It may be that the Rhode Island State Historical Society, would be interested in allowing a monument of some type to be placed in one of the parks near or around the capital since your ancestor played such an important role in our early state development.

We hope you appreciate the Church's position, and that our declining your offer in no way is meant to diminish or minimize the contribution your ancestor made to our Church, the community and the state in which he lived.

Please accept our sincere appreciation for your consideration toward us in this matter.

Respectfully yours, Jordan S.C. Jacobson, Sr. Pastor, Portsmouth Evangelical Friends Church

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from http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/4791/encyclopediabios.html

Hon. Philip Sherman, son of Samuel Sherman, and the immigrant ancestor of the branch of our subject's family, was born in Dedham, England, February 5, 1610. In 1633 he settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and on May 14, 1634, was made a freeman. In the Anne Hutchinson troubles he took the popular side, but as Governor Winthrop ultimately prevailed, Philip Sherman and others who held his views were warned on November 20, 1637, to deliver up all gems, pistols, swords, powder, shot, etc. He and eighteen others who were banished from Massachusetts signed a civil compact under date of March 7, 1638, for the occupation of Rhode Island. In Providence they met Roger Williams who advised them to purchase the Island of Aquetnet (now Rhode Island) from the Indians. The purchase was completed March 24, 1638. He was present at a general meeting held at Portsmouth on May 13, 1638. A regular government was established on July 1, 1639, and Philip Sherman was elected secretary. His records show him to have been an expert penman and an educated man. He was made freeman, March 16, 1641, was general recorder from 1648 to 1651, inclusive. In 1665-67 he was deputy to the General Court. Because of his intelligence, wealth and influence, he was often consulted by those in authority. In Rhode Island he left the Congregational church and became identified with the Society of Friends. His will shows him and his son Samuel to have been joint owners of four Indian slaves. His will was proved March 22, 1687. He was married to Sarah Odding, a daughter of Mrs. John Porter by a former marriage.
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BIRTH: Baptized Dedham, Essex, 5 February 1610/1, son of Samuel Sherman [Sherman Gen 95].
DEATH: Portsmouth before 19 March 1686/7 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: Roxbury about 1633 Sarah Odding, daughter of Margaret (_____) (Odding) Porter [RChR 78-79; TAG 73:176-80].
CHILDREN:
i 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].)

ii SARAH, b. say 1636; m. by about 1656 Thomas Mumford [Austin 136].

iii PELEG, b. say 1637; m. Portsmouth 26 July 1657 Elizabeth Lawton, daughter of Thomas Lawton [RIVR 4:Portsmouth:37].

iv 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].

v SAMSON, b. 1642; m. Portsmouth 4 March 1674/5 Isabel Tripp, daughter of John Tripp [RIVR 4:Portsmouth:37; TG 4:62].

vi 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]).

vii MARY, b. 1645; living on 31 July 1681 (father's will). (Austin says she married Samuel Wilbore, son of Shadrach, but this Samuel was born in 1663 [Austin 228], so this identification seems highly unlikely.)

viii HANNAH, b. 1647; m. by about 1678 William Chase, son of William Chase [NEHGR 87:51-52; Austin 178-79].

ix SAMUEL, b. 1648; m. Portsmouth 23 February 1680/1 Martha Tripp [RIVR 4:Portsmouth:37; TG 4:62].

x BENJAMIN, b. 1650; m. Portsmouth 3 December 1674 Hannah Mowry, daughter of ROGER MOWRY [Austin 179].
xi PHILIP, b. 1652; m. by about 1674 Benjamin Chase, son of WILLIAM CHASE [PoLE 1:150; Austin 178-79; NEHGR 87:51].

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Philip Sherman (1610-1687) was a prominent leader in early Rhode Island and one of its founders. His last name is sometimes spelled Shearman, which reveals the family's ancient involvement with shearing sheep and the wool industry.

Sherman was born in 1610 in Dedham, Essex, England. He was the son of Samuel and Phillippa (Ward) Sherman.

In 1633 Sherman came to America during the great Puritan migration. He settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. There he married Sarah Odding, the daughter of George Odding and Margaret(Lang) Odding, in 1634.

Sherman sided with Anne Hutchinson against Governor John Winthrop. In 1637 he was among the followers of Hutchinson who were ordered to give up their arms. He then left with her and her other followers to see Roger Williams in Providence Plantations (now part of the state of Rhode Island). Williams advised them to buy land on Aquidneck Island. There they founded Pocasset, which is now called Portsmouth. Philip Sherman-along with William Coddington, Ann Hutchinson's husband, and sixteen other men--signed the Portsmouth Compact, a model of constitutional government.

At first the colony we know as Rhode Island was in two separate parts-Providence Plantations and Rhode Island. Philip Sherman was the first Secretary (General Recorder) of the latter part.He held several other political offices during his life. At some point Sherman became a Quaker (member of the Religious Society of Friends).

Sherman died in Portsmouth in 1687.

He was a direct ancestor of James S. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony,George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Janis Joplin, Sir Winston Churchill, Lyndon LaRouche, Conrad Aiken, Alexander Stine, Nicholas Stine, Mamie Eisenhower, and possibly Marilyn Monroe

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sherman


Will:
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 mywife 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 scond 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 thecollony 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 wch 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 lineof 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 be my 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


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The inventory of the estate of Philip Sherman, dated 19 March 1686/7, totalled £100, with no real estate included [Portsmouth Scrapbook 17].

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Philip married Sarah Odding, (immigrant) in 1633 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts. Sarah was born on 05 Feb 1608 in Madron, Cornwall, England; died on 05 Feb 1682 in Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 20 Jan 1615, Ardleigh, Essex, England

Notes:

Will:
Will of SAMUEL SHERMAN Of Dedham and Ardley, County Essex, ENGLAND

In the name of God Amen the 20th daye of January anno domini, 1615, I Samuel Sherman of Ardley, Co. Essex, yeoman sick in body but in good and perfecte remembrance thanks I give to God for the same, doe make and ordaine this my testament containing my last will in manner and form following:

First and principallie, I give & bequeath my soule into the handes of god almithtie my maker & to Jesus Chtiste, my most mercifull redeemer hopin assuredly to have pardon & remission of all my sins through his death & bludshedding & to enjoye a joyfull resurrection. And my body to be buried where it please God to call.

And touching that earthly substance wch it hath pleased god to bestowe on me, I doe will & devise in manner folllowinge, that is to say:

I doe give & devise unto Philipp my well beloved wife all my landes, tenements, houses, edifices, buildings, yard Orchards, gardens wth the appurtenances whatsoever, both fr__ copy or customary sette, lying & being within the parishe of Dedham, in the countie of Essex, or elsewhere, to have & to holde to her the said Philipp & her assigns for & during her natural life, for such endes & purposes as are here after expressed in this my will.

Item, I give & devise to Henry, my sonne all that my coppieholde or customary messuage called Hardinges in Dedham afforesaide wth the houses & barnes, yards, orchards, & gardens where Thomas Cole now dweleth, together wth twoe acres of lande gelonging & neere adjoining unto the same mesuages lying on the northe side thereof & twoe fields, parcel of the sayde tenement, Hardings, one of them lying next the heath caled Dedham Heath containing by estimation foure acr__ and the other lying betwene the last recited fields & a close or fielde called Poppes fielde containing likewise by estimation foure acres more or lesse to have & to hold the saide messuage, landes & buildings & other premisses wt_ their appurtenances with the parcells of lande above devise to the saydeHenry, my sonne, to the sayde Henrye & his heirs for ever from & after the decease of the said Philipp, my wife.

I give and bequeath unto Phillipp, my sonne, and to Samuel my sonne after the decease of my sayde wife, all that messuage or dwelling house wch was sometyme John Wrenches when I late dwell in Dedham afforesaide wth all the houses edi__ces & buildings, yardes & gardens, barnes, & outhouses wth their appurts to have and to hold to them the sayde Phillipp & Samuel, their heyres & assigns, for ever.

I doe further give unto the sayde Samuel, my sonne, all that orchard lying at the estate end of the barn there wth one close called Poppes field containing by estimation four acres parcell of the lande late John Wrenches & one close called Bushie field, parcell of the tenement Hardings lying adjoyning to the nether end of the sayde Popes fielde and seven roodes of medow lying and being in a place in Dedham called Coxepittes to have & to hold to him the sayde Samuel & his heyres for ever after the decease of said Philipp my wife.

I givee & devise unto my sonne Phillipp, five closes of lande lying together nere the sayde messuage as they are in the tenure & occupation of one Lionel Cheute or his assigne contayning by estimation eight acres more or lesse, parcell likewise of the sayde landes late John Wrenches to have & to hold to him & his heyres for ever, after the decease of the sayde Philipp, my wife. Provided alwayss that if it happen eyther of my sonnes Samuel & Phillipp to depart this life before he shall accomplishe the age of XXII years and wth oute issue of his body lawfully begotten, then I will that the sayde Henry, my sonne shall have & hold to him & his heyres for ever, after the decease of the sayde Philipp my wife those landes, tenements & hereditamentes wch were late the mayde John Wrenches together wth the close called Popes fields & also the sayde acre & three roads of meadow lying in Coxepittd aforesayde. And then I give & demise to the survivor of the sayde Samuel & Phillip my sonnes & his heyres for ever all those lands, tenements & hereditaments wth theyre appurtces before mentioned called Hardings aforesayde unto the sayde Samuell, my sonne & his heyres for ever as he should have had the same if he had survived his brother Phillip. And then I will also that the sayde Phillip, my sonne shall have all those landes, tenements & hereditaments to him & his heyres wch were some time John Wrenches afforesaide, as th sayde Henrye should have had & enjoyed the same if the said Samuel or Phillip had departed this life & the sayde Henrye had survived.

I will & bequeath to Mary & Martha, my daughters to eyther of them the sum of XL4i of lawful English moneye, when they shall accomplish their ages of XXI yeres.

And I will & bequeathe further unto the sayde Philipp my wife, all those my goodes & cattalls, householde stuffe moveable & unmoveable, corn, cattell, money, plate & leases whatsoever the better to enable her (wth the profit of the sayde landes & tenements beforementioned) to paye my debtes my legaceys & to bring up my my sayde children in good & decent manner. But if it should happen the sayde Philipp my wife to departe this life before all the sayde children shall accomplishe the full age of XXII yeres, that then I will my other executor mentioned in this will shall enter upon all suche landes, tenements & hereditaments as those children should have & enjoye (by virtue of this my will) whiche at the tyme of the decease of the sayde Philipp my wife have not accomplished theyree sayde ages of XXII yeres. And my sayde other executor to hold & enjoye the same & take the issues & profits of them & every of them until they, my children shall severally come to their sayde ages of XXII years for the better performance of this my will & bringing up of so many of my sayde children, as shall be then under the sayde age of XXII yeres.

And of this my presente last will & testament I make and ordeyne the sayde Philipp my wife & John __peheire of Dedham, my brother in lawe, my executors, whom I desire to see this my will performed in all thinges as I have reposed my trust in them.

I give to the poor of Ardley XVs.

Item, to Mr. John Rogers, of Dedham XXs. to be payde & delivered to them by my executors wth in convenient time after my decease.

In witnes whereof hereunto I have sett my hande & seale & do publishe this for my last will & testamente, revoking all former wills whatsoever in the presence of us-- Rob't W-rde, Henry Sharman, John Ward, Ezeckiel Sherma, George Fudson.

I do also appoynte my wellbeloved friend, Nathaniel Hecksor, of Ardley, yeoman, overseer of this my will and testamente.


(signed) Samuel Sherman his mark
(Seal: Asea lion sitting)
Dated January 20, 1615: proved, March 2, 1615.
Arch. Colchester, 1585-1614, Cooke, 31. F.D.S. 36-38

Samuel married Philippa Ward about 1598 in Dedham, Essex, England. Philippa was born in 1573 in Lexden, Essex, England; died after 1610 in of, Dedham, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]