Ancestry of
Janis Joplin

Singer and Songwriter

David Sherman

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Janis Joplin — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 480 
  • Father:
  • Edmund Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Dorcas Hicks   
  • Birth Date:
  • Jan 1680 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1755 
  • Death Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Hathaway
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Dec 1710 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jacob Sherman (Ahnentafel No:240 )

  Hannah Sherman

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give David Sherman's birthdate as 01 MAY 1676.

• Sources for David Sherman

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth Marriages, Vol. 2, Page 291, Marriage record for daughter Hannah Sherman.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth Births, Vol. 1, Page 223, Birth record for Hannah Sherman.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth Births, Vol. 1, Page 221, Birth record for David Shearman.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Taunton Marriages, Vol. 2, Page 432, Marriage record for David Sherman and Abigail Hathaway.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth, Vol. 1, p. 225, Birth record for son Jacob Shearman.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 24, Page 183.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, April 2000, Vol. 75, Page 112.
  • ⁸ Hathaway, Charles F., Tribe Hathaway, New York: Unknown (1909), a2.
  • ⁹ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 293, 295.