Thomas
Sherwood
Family
? England
Thomas Sherwood
b. about 1586
Christened: 4 Dec 1590 St.Mary-St.Peter, Moblethorpes, Lincolnshire,
England
d. 21 Jul 1655 Stratford, Fairfield, Ct,
buried: 25 Oct 1655 Fairfield, Fairfield, CT.
1m. Alice Seabrook 21 OCT
1604 in
England
b. 23 April 1587 (according to shipping record
from Ipwich)
d. 1635 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut
her father: Robert Seabrook
her mother: Alice Goodspeed
2m. Mary Fitch
b. 1587
d.
her father: unknown
her father: Thomas Fitch
his father: unknown
his mother: unknown
| Children with Alice Seabrook |
| Jane Sherwood |
b. |
d. |
m. |
| Thomasina Sherwood |
b. |
d. |
m. |
| Margart Sherwood |
b. 1628 London, Eng |
d. |
m. |
| Sarah Sherwood |
b. 1628 London, Eng |
d. |
m. |
| Rose Sherwood |
b. 1628 London, Eng |
d. |
m. |
| Thomas Sherwood |
b. about 1630
baptized 23 Jan 1630 Notts, Nottinghamshire, England |
d.1 Jan 1687 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut |
m. Sarah Wheeler |
| Rebecca Sherwood |
b. 1632 London, Eng |
d. |
m. Angel Hustad 1665 |
*Colonial Families of America
| Children with Mary Fitch |
| Stephen Sherwood |
b.
|
d.
|
m.
|
| Matthew Sherwood |
b. |
d. |
m. |
| Mary Sherwood |
b. |
d. |
m. |
| Ruth Sherwood |
b. |
d. |
m. |
| Abigail Sherwood |
b. |
d. |
m. |
| Isaac Sherwood |
b. |
d. |
m. |
Abt 1586 England- Thomas Sherwood is Christened.
The records that are used to define this family are very confusing
and have great discrepencies. The LDS files which are used by the bulk
of the researchers list the Christening date before he was born, I have
reversed these dates to make more sense but I have not seen the actual
records to verify the facts. Some list Thomas with as many as four
wives but the marriage and birth orders don't fit the possible dates.
Even though the Thomas Sherwoods are proved related I still have not
been able to tie Philip Sherwood to this family with any documentary
proof.
1625-Thomas Sherwood is listed
"At Basse's Choice on
February 16, 1623-24, were Captain Nathaniel Basse, Samuel Basse,
Benjamin Simes, Thomas Sherwood,
Benjamin
Handclare,
William Barnard, John Shelley, Nathaniel Moper,
Nathan Gammon, Margaret Giles, Richard Longe, vx Longe, infans Long,
Richard Evans, William Newman, John Army, Peter Langden, Henry, Andrew
Rawley, Peter ------. Total, twenty."
A "Muster of the inhabitants
in Virginia" was taken in February, 1625, and the total number of
inhabitants was 1095.
Unfortunately, this particular Thomas Sherwood is listed as "Dead"
in Warryscoak, Virginia. 1624-25. [Boddie p. 84]
1634- Thomas Sherwood takes a ship with his wife to the colonies
from Ipswich, England on the ship Francis.
Ipswich- A note of the names and ages of all the Passengers which took
shippinge in the Ffrancis of Ipswich, Mr John Cutting bound for new
England the last of Aprill, 1634.
John Beetes aged yeeres 40 Robert Pease 27
William Haulton 23 Hugh Mason 28
Nicholas Jennings 22 Hester (Mason) his wife 22
William Westwoode 28 Rowland Stebing 40
Bridgeett (Westwords) his wife 32 Sarah (Stebing) his wife 43
Cleare Drap 30 Thomas Sherwood 48
Robert Rose 40 Alice (Sherwood) his wife 47
Margery (Rose) his wife 38 Thomas King 19
John Bernard 36 John Mapes 21
Mary (Bernard) his wife 38 Mary Blosse 40
William FFebourne 40 Robert Cooe 38
Anthony White 27 Mary Onge 27
Edward Bugbye 40 Thomas Boyden 21
Rebecca (Bugbye) his wife 40 Richared Wattlin 28
Abraham Newell 50 John Lyuermore 28
Ffrancis (Newell) his wife 40 Richard Pepy 27
Just Houlding 23 Mary (Pepy) 30
John Pease 27 Richard Houlding 25
Robert Winge 60 Judith Garnett 26
Judith (Winge) his wife 43 Elix: Hamond 47
John Greene 27 Thurston Clearke 44
These p'sons aboue named tooke the Oath of Allegance and Supremacy at
his Ma'tes Custome house in Ipswich before vs his Muties Officers
according to the order of the Lords and others of his Ma'ties most
honable Privy Coucell the xijth of Nouember 1634.
Ipswich Custome house
Phil: Browne Edw: Mann Compt. tho: Clere, Sec.
p'r Custr.
[Mackensie, Colonial Families of America]
1655, Oct 25 - Thomas Sherwood's will is probated in Fairfield, CT.
His buried Fairfield, Fairfield, Ct.
Will 21 July 1655, proved 25 October 1655; Children by former wife
Alice, Thomas, Jane, Tamsen, Margaret, Sarah Hannah, Rose, Rebecca:
Wife Mary, and children by her, Stephen, Matthew, Mary, Ruth, Abigail,
Isaac.
Fairfield Deeds mention 18 January 1658 that "John Banks hath married
Mary Sherwood the relict."
sources:
Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century, Isle of Wight County,
Virginia... Chicago Law Printing Co., Chicago. 1938
The Families of Old Fairfield p 548
Mackensie, George Norbury. Colonial Families of America, in which
is given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial
Families who settled in the American Colonies from the Time of the
Settlement of Jamestown 13th of May 1607, to the Battle of Lexington
19th April 1775. published NY 1907
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