Ancestry of
James Sherman

27th U.S. Vice-President

Jonathan Sherman Jr.

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of James Sherman — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 May 1705 
  • Birth Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Apr 1778 
  • Death Location:
  • Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Child:

  Robert Sherman (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give Jonathan Sherman's birthdate as 14 OCT 1705, his birth year as 1704, or his death date as 14 APR 1778.

• Additional marriages for Jonathan Sherman Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Dorcas Sheldon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 05 or 07 FEB 1726/1727

• Sources for Jonathan Sherman Jr.

  • ¹ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 3, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 1871.
  • ² Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts, 1636-1899, Birth record for son Robert Sherman.
  • ³ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 14, New York: James T. White and Company (1910), 407.
  • ⁴ Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton, The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land, Giving a Sketch of the French and . . ., Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Company (1910), 819.
  • ⁵ 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), 23.
  • ⁶ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 544, 553.
  • ⁷ Stratton, Bertha L., Transatlantic Shermans, Staten Island, New York: Bertha L. Stratton (1969), 172.
  • ⁸ Talcott, S. V., Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families, Vol. 1, Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons, and Company (1883), 699, 701.
  • ⁹ Talcott, Schoolcraft Visscher, Talcott Pedigree in England and America from 1558 to 1876, Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company (1876), 262.