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- 5. Rev. John Sherman was born February 8, 1651, in Stratford, CT., died December (November) 13, 1730 in Connecticut. He was the speaker of the Connecticut
General Assembly. Another record (LDS) shows his death date as May 20, 1727. He married on July 22, 1714, Emma Preston, in Woodbury, Litchfield County, CT. They had a son, John, born in 1687, christened June 1687, in Woodbury, Litchfield County, CT. He in turn had a son, Judge Daniel Sherman, orn in 1721,
who sat in the Connecticut General Assembly for 30 years.
He married M. Taylor.
They had a son Judge Taylor Sherman, lawyer and judge in Norwalk, CT, born in 1758, who married Elizabeth (Betsey) Stoddard, daughter of Anthony Stoddard, a Harvard graduate, known as a Puritan divine.
They had the following three children:
1. Charles Robert Sherman was born in 1788 in Norwalk, CT. He married in 1810 Mary Hoyt, born in 1787 in Norwalk, CT. Shortly afterwards they moved to Ohio, first to Zanesville, and later to Lancaster. Charles was a lawyer and a judge and a collector of internal revenue. He received land grants in the Ohio "Western Reserve" because of damage inflicted by the British in the War of 1812. He died in 1829, leaving his family impoverished. They had the following children:
1. Charles Taylor Sherman was born in 1811, in Norwalk, CT.
2. Mary Elizabeth Sherman was born in 1813, in Lancaster, OH. She married ______ Reese.
3. James Sherman was born in 1814, in Lancaster, OH.
4. Amelia Sherman was born in 1816, in Lancaster, OH.
5. Julia Ann Sherman was born in 1818, in Lancaster, OH.
6. General William Tecumseh Sherman was born on February 8, 1820, in Lancaster, OH. He married Ellen Ewing, his foster sister. He was the famous leader of the Union troops, who eventually made the celebrated march through Georgia. Much inforon has been written on his life, including his own personal memoirs.
7. John Sherman was born in 1823, in Lancaster, OH.
8. Lampson Sherman was born in 1822, in Lancaster, OH.
9. Susan Sherman was born in 1826, in Lancaster, OH.
10. Hoyt Sherman was born in 1827, in Lancaster, OH.
11. Frances (Fanny) Sherman was born in 1829, in Lancaster, OH.
2. Daniel Sherman, a farmer.
3. Betsy Sherman married Judge ______.
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