Ancestry of
James Sherman

27th U.S. Vice-President

Richard Winslow Sherman

View famous kin of Richard Winslow Sherman

• • Grandfather of James Sherman — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Jahaziel Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Nancy Winslow   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Apr 1797 
  • Birth Location:
  • Albany, Albany Co., New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Mar 1868 
  • Death Location:
  • Vergennes, Addison, Vermont 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Prospect Cemetery, Vergennes, Addison, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Frances Lucretia Williams
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jan 1821 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Utica, Oneida, New York 
  • Child:

  Mary Frances Sherman (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • Richard Sherman was Captain of the Phoenix when it caught fire and sank in 1819 in Lake Champlain.

• Sources for Richard Winslow Sherman

  • ¹ Federal Census, VT, Addison County, 1850, Vergennes, Image 24 of 33.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/10/2015).
  • ³ Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, JUL 1920, Vol. 56, No. 3, p. 190.
  • ⁴ The Middlebury Galaxy (Middlebury, Vermont), 27 NOV 1844, p. 1, Obituary for father Jahazel Sherman.
  • ⁵ The Vermont Transcript (Saint Albans, Vermont), 27 MAR 1868, p. 2, Obituary for Richard W. Sherman.
  • ⁶ Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, Death record for Richard W. Sherman.
  • ⁷ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 7th Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2000), 224.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 66.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 64.
  • ¹⁰ Ross, Ogden J., The Steamboats of Lake Champlain, 1809 to 1930, Albany: The Champlain Transportation Company (1930), 34-35, 66.
  • ¹¹ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 500-501.
  • ¹² Stratton, Bertha L., Transatlantic Shermans, Staten Island, New York: Bertha L. Stratton (1969), 172.