Phillip SHERMAN

1610 - 1687  (77 years)

• Name	Phillip SHERMAN
  Born	1609/1610	Dedham, Essex, England
  Christened	5 Feb 1610/1611
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Planter, 1st Secretary of RI, Deputy Governor of RI
  _UID	CB838E2B89017A4C9BA5DA05392361D70AAD
  Died	19 Mar 1686/1687	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
  Person ID	I979	SteveParker
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	Samuel SHERMAN,   b. 1573, Dedham, Essex, England ,   d. 1615, Dedham, Essex, England  (Age 42 years)
  Mother	Phillippa (Phillis) WARD
  _UID	E608A09296D1044985E6C90048DA559F1EDD
  Family ID	F497	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah ODDING
  Married	1633	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States   [1]
  _UID	68AFC1BF187D494AAB8BE7CC1E5126A3E0DA
  Children	1. Eber SHERMAN,   b. 1634, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 1706, North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States  (Age 72 years)   2. Sarah SHERMAN,   b. 1636, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States   3. Peleg SHERMAN,   b. 1638, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States ,   d. 1719  (Age 81 years)   4. Mary SHERMAN,   b. 1645,   d. Aft 1681  (Age > 37 years)   5. Edmund SHERMAN,   b. 1641, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States ,   d. 1719  (Age 78 years)   6. Samson SHERMAN,   b. 1642, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States ,   d. 1720, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States  (Age 78 years)   7. John SHERMAN,   b. 1644, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States ,   d. 16 Apr 1734, South Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 90 years)   8. Mary SHERMAN,   b. May 1645   9. Hannah SHERMAN,   b. 1647   10. Samuel SHERMAN,   b. 1648, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States ,   d. 1717, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States  (Age 69 years)   11. Benjamin SHERMAN,   b. 1650, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States ,   d. 24 Sep 1709  (Age 59 years)   12. Phillip SHERMAN,   b. 1 Oct 1652
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F511	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  in 1634 he emigrated to New England. Settled in Roxbury, Mass. In the Anne Hutchinson trouble in Boston he took the popular side, but as Gov. Winthrop finally prevailed, he with others found it convenient to emigrate to Rhode Island. In Providence they met Roger Williams who advised them to purchase the island of Aquetnet, now Rhode Island, of the Indians. The purchase was completed March 24, 1638. On July 1, 1639, they established a regular government, with Wm. Coddington, Governor, and Phillip Sherman, Secretary. After this he often held office in the Colony, and in critical periods. He was a man of intellignece, wealth, and influence, and frequently consulted by those in authority. The early record prepared by him still remains in Portsmouth, and show him to have been a neat and skillful penman, as well as an educated man. After he emigrated to Rhode Island he left the Congregational Church, and united with the Society of Friends. Tradition affirms he was a devout as well as a determined man. Phillip Sherman (Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III) In his will, dated 31 July 1681 and proved 22 March 1686/7, “Philip Shearman, yeoman, age seventy-one years, of the Town of Portsmouth,” bequeathed to “Sarah my loving wife the use and her dwelling in the first room at the west end of my now dwelling…”, “my son, Samuel my sole executor” and to provide “my loving wife with food and raiment and all necessaries whatsoever during her natural life and at her decease decently to bury her”, to “Sarah my wife ten good ewe sheep”, to Eber my eldest son that which I have already given him, ten acres of land in the bounds of Portsmouth…. At a place called Briggs swamp…and all my horse flesh in the Narragansett country excepting one mare, the second best, such excepted mare , I give to Thomas Mumford and Peleg Mumford my grandchildren”, to “my son Peleg five ewe sheep”, to “my son Edmund a quarter share of meadow and a sixteenth part of a share of upland lying in Ponagansett within the township of Dartsmouth

  
  

• Sources

  [S44] International Genealogical index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Philip SHERMAN; Male; Birth: 05 FEB 1615 Dedham, Essex, England; Death: 22 MAR 1687; Father: Samuel SHERMAN; Mother: Phillipa WARD; Spouse: Sarah ODDING; Marriage: 1633 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 21 Apr 2006