Ancestry of
John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

John Sherman Jr.

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1074 
  • Father:
  • John Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Grace Ravens   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 3 Sep 1612 
  • Christening Location:
  • Great Horkesley, Essex, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 25 Jan 1690/1691 
  • Death Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Palmer
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1638 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Sherman

  Martha Sherman (Ahnentafel No:537 )

  Mary Sherman

  Elizabeth Sherman

  Sarah Sherman

  Joseph Sherman

  Grace Sherman

• Sources for John Sherman Jr.

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January 2013, Vol. 167, p. 51.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2014, Vol. 168, p. 17.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1987, Vol. 62, p. 77.
  • 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, 287-294, 299.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 140.
  • 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), 118-124.

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