Ancestry of General
William Tecumseh Sherman

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

John Sherman Jr.

View famous kin of John Sherman

• • 2nd Great-grandfather of William Tecumseh Sherman — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • John Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 17 Jun 1687 
  • Christening Location:
  • Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 21 May 1727 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Emm Preston
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Jul 1714 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Daniel Sherman (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Sources for John Sherman Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Woodbury, p. 95, Birth record for son Daniel Sherman.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 65.
  • ³ Woodbury, CT: Deaths 1678-1898, p. 3682, Death record for John Sherman.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 222.
  • 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), 134, 148-149.
  • ⁶ Sherman, William T., Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1886), 9.