Ancestry of
Kristen Wiig

TV and Movie Actress

Benjamin Sherman

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Kristen Wiig — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3928 
  • Father:
  • Philip Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Odding   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1650 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Sep 1719 
  • Death Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Mowry
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Dec 1674 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jonathan Sherman

  Joseph Sherman (Ahnentafel No:1964 )

  Amy Sherman

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give Benjamin Sherman's death date as 24 SEP 1719.

• Sources for Benjamin Sherman

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, p. 68.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1947, Vol. 101, p. 309.
  • ³ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 3, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 1871.
  • ⁴ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 14, New York: James T. White and Company (1910), 407.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1314.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1672.
  • ⁷ May, Lillian and Charles Morris Gardner, Gardner History and Genealogy, Erie, Pennsylvania: The Erie Printing Co. (1907), 149.
  • ⁸ Robinson, Caroline E. and Daniel Goodwin, ed., The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner The Colonist, 1638, Providence: Printed by the Editor (1919), 4, 12.
  • ⁹ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 24, 539-541.
  • ¹⁰ Stratton, Bertha L., Transatlantic Shermans, Staten Island, New York: Bertha L. Stratton (1969), 172.
  • ¹¹ Talcott, S. V., Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families, Vol. 1, Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons, and Company (1883), 690.
  • ¹² Talcott, Schoolcraft Visscher, Talcott Pedigree in England and America from 1558 to 1876, Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company (1876), 262.

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