Ancestry of General
William Tecumseh Sherman

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

Sarah Mitchell

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of William Tecumseh Sherman — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 65 
  • Father:
  • Matthew Mitchell 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Wood   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 14 Oct 1621 
  • Christening Location:
  • Halifax, Yorkshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • AFT 15 Apr 1665 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1640 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Sherman

  Theophilus Sherman

  Matthew Sherman

  Edmund Sherman

  John Sherman (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  Sarah Sherman

  Nathaniel Sherman

  Benjamin Sherman

  David Sherman

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources list Sarah Mitchell as Mary Mitchell, but this appears to be incorrect.

• Sources for Sarah Mitchell

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 66.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 2002, Vol. 77, pp. 255, 257.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 127.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 285.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 83, 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), 124-125.
  • ⁷ Sherman, William T., Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1886), 9.