Ancestry of
Richard Nicholls Barnum

(1876–1929)

Comfort Sherman

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Richard Nicholls Barnum — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 97 
  • Father:
  • Theophilus Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Feb 1726/1727 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Richard Nichols
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jun 1702 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Theophilus Nicholls (Ahnentafel No:48 )

• Sources for Comfort Sherman

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stratford, p. 126, Marriage record for Richard Nicholls and Comfort Sherman.
  • ² Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, p. 438.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, p. 69.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 2002, Vol. 77, p. 255.
  • ⁵ Phelps, Judge Oliver Seymour and Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America, and Their English Ancestors, with Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and . . ., Vol. 1, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company (1899), 744.