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John married Mary LANCE about 1419 in England. Mary (daughter of John LANCE and Isabella DAVIS) was born about 1400 in Dartford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Wool Merchant
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Thomas Sherman was possibly descended from Richard le Sherman, merchant, of Hythe - located not far from nearby Colchester- who in the reign of Edward I, on July 8, 1274 at Westminister was granted a license to trade in wool; and he was almost certainly descended from John Sherman who paid twelve pence in taxes in Yaxley in 1327 and from Henry, John's son, who was receiver of money for the Prior of Eye in County Suffolk near Yaxley. He lived in both Diss and Yaxley, and he had two children named John and Agnes. It is recorded that he was a lawyer, that he served as church warden of the Yaxley Parish and that he was a "man forceful and interesting". His will was written in Latin, and gave his son John his property in Diss and Yaxley. Diss is a small village in the English county of Norfolk on the North bank of the Waveney River about seventy-five miles northeast of London. The Waveney marks the boundary between the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and the village of Yaxley is close to Diss on the south side of the river. (This is "Constable Country" for it was in Dedham - only thirty miles to the south - that John Constable grew up and from many of his landscapes you can visualize the countryside familiar to generations of our Sherman ancestors.)

Thomas married Agnes FULMER about 1458 in Diss, Norfolk, England. Agnes (daughter of Thomas FULLER and Margery) was born about 1437 in of Yaxley, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Wool Merchant
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He like his father, was termed "Gentleman". He also lived in Diss and Yaxley. His will provided that his son, Thomas, then less than sixteen years old, should inherit "when he shall be twenty-two years old".

John married Agnes /FULLER, FULLER about 1489 in Yaxley, Suffolk, England. Agnes was born about 1470 in of Yaxley, Suffolk, England; died in 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Agnes married John CLERK est 1482 in . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Lawyer, Deputy Sheriff
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This probably is not the father and mother of Henry Sherman.

He lived in Yaxley and was called "Gentleman". He became an attorney-at-law with a large practice and served as a Deputy Sheriff in 1540 and 1546 and church warden of Yaxley whose parish now owed its allegiance to the King of England instead of the Pope of Rome. He was a wealthy man, possessing the manors of Royden and Roydentuft at Royden and Bessingham and other manors and landed estates in the vicinity. A manor, incidentally, may contain one or more villages or hamlets or only part of a village. It is a noble sort of fee, always claimed by prescription:i.e., by long continuance of time beyond the memory of man. Thus Thomas' ownership of these manors confirms our belief that our family had lived in this area for generations. Thomas and Jane had 10 sons and all except one perhaps, married, and were still living in 1551 when he died and was buried in Yaxley.

Thomas married Jane WALLER in 1512 in , Suffolk, England. Jane (daughter of John WALLER and Margaret THORALDE) was born about 1495 in Wartham, Suffolk, England; died about 1572 in Yaxley, Suffolk, England; was buried in Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Margery married Robert LOCKWOOD in 1512 in Yaxley, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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