Ancestry of General
William Tecumseh Sherman

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

John Sherman

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of William Tecumseh Sherman — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Mitchell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Feb 1650/1651 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Dec 1730 
  • Death Location:
  • Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1680 
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  • Child:

  John Sherman Jr. (Ahnentafel No:16 )

• Sources for John Sherman

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stratford, p. 127, Birth record for John Sherman.
  • ² Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Samuel Sherman (m.1640), p. 3.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 65.
  • ⁴ Woodbury, CT: List of the First Settlers, p. 127, Death record for John Sherman.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 222.
  • ⁶ 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), 124, 134.
  • ⁷ Sherman, William T., Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1886), 9.