Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

John Sherman

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1238 
  • Father:
  • Edmund Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Grace Makin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Dec 1613 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dedham, Essex, England 
  • Christening Date:
  • 4 Jan 1613/1614 
  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Aug 1685 
  • Death Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Launce
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1645 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Abigail Sherman

  James Sherman

  Mary Sherman (Ahnentafel No:619 )

• Additional marriages for John Sherman

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1638

• Sources for John Sherman

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2014, Vol. 168, p. 17.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1943, Vol. 20, p. 138.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 699.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 284-285.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 421.
  • ⁶ Pope, Charles Henry, ed., Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines, Boston: Printed for the Family (1912), 87-88.
  • ⁷ Pope, Charles Henry, et. al., Willard Genealogy: Sequel to Willard Memoir, Cambridge: Murray and Emery Company (1915), 15.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 140.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 28.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 217.
  • ¹¹ Sherman, Roy V., The New England Shermans, Akron, Ohio: unknown (1974), 40-41.
  • ¹² Stratton, Bertha L., Transatlantic Shermans, Staten Island, New York: Bertha L. Stratton (1969), 148-149.
  • ¹³ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 20.

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