Ancestry of
Roger Sherman

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Roger Sherman

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Mehetable Wellington   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Apr 1721 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Jul 1793 
  • Death Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution

• Marriages for Roger Sherman

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Hartwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Nov 1749

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Prescott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 May 1763

• Sources for Roger Sherman

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/09/2013).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847, Vol. 1, p. 259.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 140.
  • ⁴ Seymour, Thomas Day, The Family of the Rev. Jeremiah Day of New Preston to January 1, 1900: A Genealogical Appendix to . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1900), 10, 34.
  • ⁵ Sherman, Thomas Townsend, Sherman Genealogy including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England, Some Descendants of the Immigrants . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright, Printer and Publisher (1920), 142, 146, 149-207.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Roger Sherman", (accessed 05/09/2013).