Ancestry of
Gene Roddenberry

Creator of Star Trek

Samuel Sherman

View famous kin of Samuel Sherman

• • 7th Great-grandfather of Gene Roddenberry — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 714 
  • Father:
  • Philip Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Odding   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1648 
  • Birth Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1717 
  • Death Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Tripp
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Feb 1680/1681 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Sherman (Ahnentafel No:357 )

  Rebecca Sherman

• Sources for Samuel Sherman

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1933, Vol. 87, p. 54.
  • ² The Essex Genealogist, 2000, Vol. 20, p. 96.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1672.
  • ⁴ Chase, George W., Genealogy of a Portion of the Descendants of William Chase, Who Came to America in 1630, and Died In . . ., Washington, D.C.: Unknown (1886), 5.
  • ⁵ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 24.
  • ⁶ Tripp, George H., Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches No. 26: Early Tripps in New England, New Bedford, Massachusetts: Old Dartmouth Historical Society (1909), 12.
  • ⁷ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 344.

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