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Grace married SHERMAN, Samuel about 1626 in , Dedham, Essex, England. Samuel was born on 20 Oct 1601 in Dedham, Essex, England; was christened on 20 Oct 1601 in Dedham, Essex, England; died in Oct 1644; was buried on 30 Oct 1644 in Dedham, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"New England Historical and Genealogical Register," 168 [Jan 2014]:16-33; article "The Earliest Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and Their Wives: Part 6: Edmund Sherman and His Descendants," by Michael Johnson Wood. Note that I only transcribe pages 16-18 which deals with Edmund and his two wives Ann Pellett and Ann Clere and their immediate children; the article continues thereafter detailing the descendants of this family:
"Part 1 of this article presented the structure of this family, descended from two sons of Henry Sherman the Elder (ca. 1512-1590) of Dedham, Essex, and his first "wife, whose ancestry can tentatively be taken back as far as 1366. The first son, Henry Sherman the Younger (say 1545-1610), married Susan Lawrence, and their descendants were presented in Parts 2 and 3 in an account of the Lawrence family. Five descendants of Henry and Susan (Lawrence) Sherman were Great Migration colonists to New England (see chart on facing page), and three other colonists were descended from Susan’ s siblings.[347]
The second son, Edmund Sherman (say 1548-1600), married first Ann Pellett, and an account of the Pellett family was presented in Part 4. He married second Anne Clere, and an account of the Clere family was presented in Part 5. Edmund Sherman had children by both wives, and an account of some of his descendants is given in Part 6.[348] Twelve descendants were Great Migration colonists to New England (see chart on facing page), of whom seven were children of colonists.
Genealogical Summary:
Edmund Sherman, son of Henry Sherman the Elder and his first wife, was born say 1548. He was buried in Dedham, Essex, 22 December 1600. He married first in Dedham 25 April 1569, Ann Pellett, born say 1549, probably in Steyning, Sussex, daughter of William Pellett. She was buried in Dedham 8 June 1584, and Edmund married second in Dedham 11 September 1584, Anne Clere, born say 1566, probably in Colchester, Essex, daughter of Nicholas and Ann (___) (Haselwood) Clere.
As Edmund Sherman, clothier of Dedham, he left a will dated 31 July 1599, with codicil dated 20 December 1600, proved 20 April 1601.[349] The will mentioned wife Anne; sons Edmond, Richard, Bezaliel, Samuel, John, and Benjamin; eldest daughter Anne Sherman (under 21); daughter Sarah; Hanna, daughter by "Anne my second wife" (under 21); daughters Susan and Mary (under 21); sister Judith Pettfield; brother Henry Sherman; kinsman Simon Fenn; children Sarah, Hanna, Susan, Samuel, and John, 20s. apiece "which was bestowed upon them by their grandmother Clere; kinsman John Elmes. Wife Anne was to be executrix, and Dr. Chapman and brother-in-law Robert Lewis were to be supervisors.
Anne (Clere) Sherman left a will dated 3 August 1609, proved 12 January 1610/1,[350] mentioning son John Sherman (under 21), son Samuel Sherman; my seven children, namely, Samuel, John, and Benjamin Sherman, Sara Warner, Anna Sherman, Susan Sherman, and Mary Sherman (all but Sara under 21). Executors were to be brother Nicholas Clan [sic] of Colchester and son-in-law Thomas Warner. Overseers were to be brother Mr. Thomas Haselwood and brother Mr. Robert Lewis.
Children of Edmund and Ann (Pellett) Sherman, all exact dates from the Dedham parish register:
i. Henry Sherman, bp. 1 Sept. 1570; bur. 1 Jan. 1585/6.
ii. Edmund1 Sherman, b. say 1572; m. Grace Makin.
iii. Ann Sherman, bp. 9 Oct. 1575; d. young.
iv. Richard Sherman, bp. 3 March 1576/7; m. (1) Alice Cage; (2) Elizabeth ___.
v. Child, b. and bur. 4 Feb. 1578/9.
vi. Ann Sherman, bp. (as Anna) 7 March 1580/1; m. John Anger.
vii. Bezaliel Sherman,[351] b. say 1583; m. (1) Mary ___; (2) Priscilla Burges.
Children of Edmund and Anne (Clere) Sherman, all exact dates from the Dedham parish register:
viii. Sarah Sherman, bp. 4 July 1587; m. Thomas Warner.
ix. Ann Sherman, b. say 1589; m. (1) Richard Backler; (2) Robert Salmon.
x. Susan Sherman, bp. 17 Feb. 1590/1; mentioned in her mother’s 1609 will as unmarried but not in three subsequent family wills that mentioned her siblings.[352]
xi. Samuel Sherman, b. say 1593; m. Hester Burges.
xii. John Sherman, b. say 1595; m. (1) Margaret Sparhawke; (2) Anne ___.
xiii. Benjamin Sherman, bp. 27 March 1597; m. Margaret Freeman.
xiv. Mary Sherman, bp. 20 March 1598/9; m. Andrew Bacon.
Footnotes:
347. The three were Anne (Gibbs) Fiske (Register 167:46-47), Anne (Lawrence) Peck, and her daughter, Anne (Peck) Mason (Register 167:49-50).
348. The author has collected substantial unpublished material on the descendants of Henry Sherman the Elder, as well.
349. Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 24 Woodhall PROB 11/98/45; Waters, "Genealogi­cal Gleanings in England" [note 49], 2:1166.
350. Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 9 Wingfield, PROB 11/115/59; Waters, "Genealogi­cal Gleanings in England" [note 49], 2:1167.
351. Two men named Bezaliel ("in the shadow of God") appear in the Old Testament.
352. The 1619 will of Thomas Haselwood [note 334], the 1620 will of Mary Lewis [note 336], and the 1627 will of Ann Anger [note 175]."

Edmund married MAKIN, Joan in 1598 in Dedham, Essex, England. Joan (daughter of MAKIN, Tobias) was born in 1575 in Fingrinshoe, Essex, England; died on 15 May 1611 in Dedham, Essex, England; was buried on 15 May 1611 in , Dedham, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"New England Historical and Genealogical Register," 168 [Jan 2014]:16-33; article "The Earliest Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and Their Wives: Part 6: Edmund Sherman and His Descendants," by Michael Johnson Wood. Note that I only transcribe pages 16-18 which deals with Edmund and his two wives Ann Pellett and Ann Clere and their immediate children; the article continues thereafter detailing the descendants of this family:
"Part 1 of this article presented the structure of this family, descended from two sons of Henry Sherman the Elder (ca. 1512-1590) of Dedham, Essex, and his first "wife, whose ancestry can tentatively be taken back as far as 1366. The first son, Henry Sherman the Younger (say 1545-1610), married Susan Lawrence, and their descendants were presented in Parts 2 and 3 in an account of the Lawrence family. Five descendants of Henry and Susan (Lawrence) Sherman were Great Migration colonists to New England (see chart on facing page), and three other colonists were descended from Susan’ s siblings.[347]
The second son, Edmund Sherman (say 1548-1600), married first Ann Pellett, and an account of the Pellett family was presented in Part 4. He married second Anne Clere, and an account of the Clere family was presented in Part 5. Edmund Sherman had children by both wives, and an account of some of his descendants is given in Part 6.[348] Twelve descendants were Great Migration colonists to New England (see chart on facing page), of whom seven were children of colonists.
Genealogical Summary:
Edmund Sherman, son of Henry Sherman the Elder and his first wife, was born say 1548. He was buried in Dedham, Essex, 22 December 1600. He married first in Dedham 25 April 1569, Ann Pellett, born say 1549, probably in Steyning, Sussex, daughter of William Pellett. She was buried in Dedham 8 June 1584, and Edmund married second in Dedham 11 September 1584, Anne Clere, born say 1566, probably in Colchester, Essex, daughter of Nicholas and Ann (___) (Haselwood) Clere.
As Edmund Sherman, clothier of Dedham, he left a will dated 31 July 1599, with codicil dated 20 December 1600, proved 20 April 1601.[349] The will mentioned wife Anne; sons Edmond, Richard, Bezaliel, Samuel, John, and Benjamin; eldest daughter Anne Sherman (under 21); daughter Sarah; Hanna, daughter by "Anne my second wife" (under 21); daughters Susan and Mary (under 21); sister Judith Pettfield; brother Henry Sherman; kinsman Simon Fenn; children Sarah, Hanna, Susan, Samuel, and John, 20s. apiece "which was bestowed upon them by their grandmother Clere; kinsman John Elmes. Wife Anne was to be executrix, and Dr. Chapman and brother-in-law Robert Lewis were to be supervisors.
Anne (Clere) Sherman left a will dated 3 August 1609, proved 12 January 1610/1,[350] mentioning son John Sherman (under 21), son Samuel Sherman; my seven children, namely, Samuel, John, and Benjamin Sherman, Sara Warner, Anna Sherman, Susan Sherman, and Mary Sherman (all but Sara under 21). Executors were to be brother Nicholas Clan [sic] of Colchester and son-in-law Thomas Warner. Overseers were to be brother Mr. Thomas Haselwood and brother Mr. Robert Lewis.
Children of Edmund and Ann (Pellett) Sherman, all exact dates from the Dedham parish register:
i. Henry Sherman, bp. 1 Sept. 1570; bur. 1 Jan. 1585/6.
ii. Edmund1 Sherman, b. say 1572; m. Grace Makin.
iii. Ann Sherman, bp. 9 Oct. 1575; d. young.
iv. Richard Sherman, bp. 3 March 1576/7; m. (1) Alice Cage; (2) Elizabeth ___.
v. Child, b. and bur. 4 Feb. 1578/9.
vi. Ann Sherman, bp. (as Anna) 7 March 1580/1; m. John Anger.
vii. Bezaliel Sherman,[351] b. say 1583; m. (1) Mary ___; (2) Priscilla Burges.
Children of Edmund and Anne (Clere) Sherman, all exact dates from the Dedham parish register:
viii. Sarah Sherman, bp. 4 July 1587; m. Thomas Warner.
ix. Ann Sherman, b. say 1589; m. (1) Richard Backler; (2) Robert Salmon.
x. Susan Sherman, bp. 17 Feb. 1590/1; mentioned in her mother’s 1609 will as unmarried but not in three subsequent family wills that mentioned her siblings.[352]
xi. Samuel Sherman, b. say 1593; m. Hester Burges.
xii. John Sherman, b. say 1595; m. (1) Margaret Sparhawke; (2) Anne ___.
xiii. Benjamin Sherman, bp. 27 March 1597; m. Margaret Freeman.
xiv. Mary Sherman, bp. 20 March 1598/9; m. Andrew Bacon.
Footnotes:
347. The three were Anne (Gibbs) Fiske (Register 167:46-47), Anne (Lawrence) Peck, and her daughter, Anne (Peck) Mason (Register 167:49-50).
348. The author has collected substantial unpublished material on the descendants of Henry Sherman the Elder, as well.
349. Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 24 Woodhall PROB 11/98/45; Waters, "Genealogi­cal Gleanings in England" [note 49], 2:1166.
350. Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 9 Wingfield, PROB 11/115/59; Waters, "Genealogi­cal Gleanings in England" [note 49], 2:1167.
351. Two men named Bezaliel ("in the shadow of God") appear in the Old Testament.
352. The 1619 will of Thomas Haselwood [note 334], the 1620 will of Mary Lewis [note 336], and the 1627 will of Ann Anger [note 175]."

Edmund married CLERE, Anne Pellatte on 25 Apr 1570 in Dedham, Essex, England. Anne (daughter of CLERE, Nicholas and Ann) was born on 8 Jun 1548 in Dedham, Essex, England; died on 8 Jun 1584 in Dedham, Essex, England; was buried on 8 Jun 1584 in Dedham, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 166 (October 2012):245-58 (Part 1), "The Earliest Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and Their Wives," "Part I: Henry Sherman the Elder and His Wives," by Michael Johnson Wood. A small excerpt from the article (see article for a very lengthy documented narrative):
"Henry Sherman, a prominent clothier in Dedham, who died in 1590, had several children. His two eldest sons, Henry the younger and Edmund, had between them fifteen grandchildren who settled in New England, either as young adults or with their parents. They did not all leave issue, but most did, which is why so many descendants of Great Migration colonists have a Sherman line.[1]
In "New Light on Henry Sherman," Mrs. B. L. Stratton conclusively proved that Henry Sherman the elder was not the son of that name of Thomas Sherman of Yaxley, Suffolk.[2] That Henry, who was under age 21 in 1551, had a son Thomas who in 1587 was living in Diss, Norfolk, where his children were living in the early 1600s. In contrast, Henry Sherman the Dedham clothier was born about 1512, settled in Dedham about 1534, was fathering children in the 1540s, and was not survived by a son named Thomas. Exhaustive research, by myself and others before me, has yielded no clue to the true origin of the Dedham clothier.
The Shermans of Yaxley were armigerous, whereas the Shermans of Dedham were not; otherwise; they should have been recorded in at least one of the Visitations of Essex. Yet they were not recorded there, and they did not even put in a claim that had to be respited for further evidence. They had no such pretensions until a little before 1660, when one of Henry’s great-grandsons, Edmund Sherman, a London merchant, was using the arms of Sherman of Yaxley, according to Guillim, but without authority.[3] A thorough search of the records of the College of Arms, reported by Mrs. Stratton, did not produce any arms registered to a male-line descendant of the Dedham family.[4] …
GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY
HENRY SHERMAN[64] was born about 1512,[65] perhaps in Essex. He settled in Dedham, Essex about 1534, and late in life in Colchester, Essex, about 1584. He died between 26 February 1589/90 and 25 July 1590 (dates of codicil and probate), probably in Colchester. His first wife, whom he married about 1539, was perhaps A DAUGHTER OF ROBERT PERPOYNT of Dedham [See article for the heavily documented logic for this statement]. She was probably identical with AGNES, wife of Henry Sherman the elder, who was buried in Dedham 14 October 1580. He married next in Dedham 5 June 1581, MARION (___) (SMYTHE) WILSON, widow of Thomas Smythe of Dedham, then of Edmund Wilson of St. Leonard’s, Colchester, whom she had married in Dedham 5 April 1563 . She was perhaps "Mrs Sherman" buried at St. James, Colchester, 4 August 1584. Henry married last MARGERY ___, who was living when he made his will.
As Henry Shearman the elder, of Colchester, Essex, he left a will dated 20 January 1589/90, with a codicil dated 26 February 1589/90, proved in London 25 July 1590.[66] The will named son Henry Shearman and his children Henry, Samuel, Daniel, John, Ezechiell, Phebe, Nathaniel, and Anne Shearman; son Edmonde Shearman and his children Edmonde, Richard, Bezaliell, Anne, and Sara Shearman (all under age; sons under 22, daughters under 21), son-in-law William Petfield and his children Richard, Susan, and Elizabeth Petfield (all under age); wife Margerye; son Robert; Jane and Anne Shearman, underage daughters of Robert [evidently the testator’s son Robert]; daughter Judith Petfield; son-in-law Nicholas Fynce; the wives of sons Edmond, Henry, and Robert; the poor of All Hallows [i.e., All Saints, Colchester]; and the poor of Dedham and the free school of Dedham (the testator asked to be buried in Dedham). Executors were to be sons Henry and Edmond.
Children of Henry Sherman and his first wife (if Agnes was his second wife, she could have been the mother of at least one of the youngest children):
i. ALICE SHERMAN, b. say 1540; bur. Dedham 20 Oct. 1580 as Alice, wife of Nicholas Fince; m. ca. 1562, as his first wife, NICHOLAS FINCE, b. after 25 Aug. 1532 (date of his father’s will), bur. Dedham 28 Feb. 1593/4, son of John and Ellen (___) Fince of Ardleigh, Essex.[67] Nicholas and Alice had seven children baptized in Dedham from 1562/3 to 1578. The burials of five in infancy or childhood are recorded there, and the other two children, Judith and Alice, may have died young also as they were not named in their grandfather’s will.[68]
ii. JUDITH SHERMAN, b. say 1543, bur. Dedham 1 April 1601 as Judith, wife of William Petfield; m. Dedham 27 June 1566 WILLIAM PETFIELD, clothier, living in 1610,[69] probably the elder son of John Petfield of Earls Colne, Essex, clerk, whose undated will proved 17 June 1572, names also a younger son Matthew.[70] William and Judith had nine children baptized in Dedham from 1567 to 1588, the eldest being named Matthew.
iii. HENRY SHERMAN, b. say 1545; m. SUSAN Lawrence. See Part 2.
iv. EDMUND SHERMAN, b. say 1548; m. (1) ANN PELLETT; (2) ANN CLERE. See Parts 3 and 4.
v. John Sherman, b. say 1551,[71] bur, Dedham 16 Oct. 1576, unmarried. He left an undated nuncupative will, probably proved in 1576.[72] The will mentioned brothers-in-law "William Pettfylld" and "Nycollas Fynce"; brother Robert Sharman; "my mother"; and "my father."
vi. Thomas SHERMAN, b. say 1555; bur. Dedham 16 March 1563/4. Probably he was the godson of Thomas Butter, as discussed above.
vii. ROBERT SHERMAN,[73] bp. Dedham 6 Feb. 1559/60; bur. St. Stephen Coleman Street, London, 14 Jan. l602/3.[74] He was educated at Cambridge University, and became a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1599[75] He m. (1) Dedham 9 Dec. 1583 BARBARA BROWNE, bp. Dedham 1 April 1561, daughter of Martin and Katherine (Reynolds) (Warner) Browne;[76] (2) shortly after 4 July 1597 BRIDGET JENNEY, daughter of Francis and Margaret (Peyton) Jenney.[77] Robert’s will, dated 10 Jan. 1602/3, proved 20 Jan. 1602/3,[78] names wife Bridget; children Jane, Mary, Anne, and Robert; son Richard. Brother Henry Sherman was to be executor…”


Henry Sherman (1512-1590) & Agnes ___(-1580)
Henry Sherman was a "Clothier." He turned to that great British staple -- wool, whose export after the Black Death bought the food so desperately needed for common survival and whose vital importance to the nation is memorialized by the House of Lords. Henry, however, did not deal in raw wool, but as a Clothier became a pioneer in a new type of enterprise based upon it.
At about this time the Craft Guilds were becoming outmoded. Since the days of the Romans and Saxons the housewife of County Essex had spun their woolen yarn, taken it to the weaver who wove it into cloth and passed it on to the customer right in the same town. It was all local. But now demand was broadening, markets were expanding, and goods manufactured in one town were sold in in another or across the Channel.
However, the local craftsmen were not in contact with the consumers in the expanding market and now men were needed who had a knowledge of this market plus the capital to finance operations during the period required to process and distribute the wool from sheep to shop. So there occurred what might be termed a Preliminary Industrial Revolution with the "entrepreneur" coming into being. In the woolen cloth trade he was the "Clothier."
As competition grew, individual Clothiers stamped each bale of their goods with their distinctive trademarks. Some dyed their cloth in their own "woad houses" ( a dye house) where it was colored blue with the juice of the fermented leaves of woad -- a plant used by our more ancient British ancestors to paint their bodies. This plant (Isatis Tinctoria) now extinct in England, can be seen in the gardens of The Cloisters in New York City. On adjacent fields the cloth was stretched on tenter hooks, or in long lofts, adjoining or near the clothier's residence, to dry. The woad house the deep blue of ancient Briton is often mentioned in Sherman wills.

Henry married PERPOYNT, Agnes in 1541 in Dedham, Essex, England. Agnes (daughter of BUTLER, Sir Thomas and BUTTER, Joane) was born about 1520 in Dedham, Essex, England; died on 14 Oct 1580 in Colchester, Essex, England; was buried in Oct 1590. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register 166 (October 2012):245-58 (Part 1), "The Earliest Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and Their Wives," "Part I: Henry Sherman the Elder and His Wives," by Michael Johnson Wood. A small excerpt from the article (see article for a very lengthy documented narrative):
"Henry Sherman, a prominent clothier in Dedham, who died in 1590, had several children. His two eldest sons, Henry the younger and Edmund, had between them fifteen grandchildren who settled in New England, either as young adults or with their parents. They did not all leave issue, but most did, which is why so many descendants of Great Migration colonists have a Sherman line.[1]
In "New Light on Henry Sherman," Mrs. B. L. Stratton conclusively proved that Henry Sherman the elder was not the son of that name of Thomas Sherman of Yaxley, Suffolk.[2] That Henry, who was under age 21 in 1551, had a son Thomas who in 1587 was living in Diss, Norfolk, where his children were living in the early 1600s. In contrast, Henry Sherman the Dedham clothier was born about 1512, settled in Dedham about 1534, was fathering children in the 1540s, and was not survived by a son named Thomas. Exhaustive research, by myself and others before me, has yielded no clue to the true origin of the Dedham clothier.
The Shermans of Yaxley were armigerous, whereas the Shermans of Dedham were not; otherwise; they should have been recorded in at least one of the Visitations of Essex. Yet they were not recorded there, and they did not even put in a claim that had to be respited for further evidence. They had no such pretensions until a little before 1660, when one of Henry’s great-grandsons, Edmund Sherman, a London merchant, was using the arms of Sherman of Yaxley, according to Guillim, but without authority.[3] A thorough search of the records of the College of Arms, reported by Mrs. Stratton, did not produce any arms registered to a male-line descendant of the Dedham family.[4] …
GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY
HENRY SHERMAN[64] was born about 1512,[65] perhaps in Essex. He settled in Dedham, Essex about 1534, and late in life in Colchester, Essex, about 1584. He died between 26 February 1589/90 and 25 July 1590 (dates of codicil and probate), probably in Colchester. His first wife, whom he married about 1539, was perhaps A DAUGHTER OF ROBERT PERPOYNT of Dedham [See article for the heavily documented logic for this statement]. She was probably identical with AGNES, wife of Henry Sherman the elder, who was buried in Dedham 14 October 1580. He married next in Dedham 5 June 1581, MARION (___) (SMYTHE) WILSON, widow of Thomas Smythe of Dedham, then of Edmund Wilson of St. Leonard’s, Colchester, whom she had married in Dedham 5 April 1563 . She was perhaps "Mrs Sherman" buried at St. James, Colchester, 4 August 1584. Henry married last MARGERY ___, who was living when he made his will.
As Henry Shearman the elder, of Colchester, Essex, he left a will dated 20 January 1589/90, with a codicil dated 26 February 1589/90, proved in London 25 July 1590.[66] The will named son Henry Shearman and his children Henry, Samuel, Daniel, John, Ezechiell, Phebe, Nathaniel, and Anne Shearman; son Edmonde Shearman and his children Edmonde, Richard, Bezaliell, Anne, and Sara Shearman (all under age; sons under 22, daughters under 21), son-in-law William Petfield and his children Richard, Susan, and Elizabeth Petfield (all under age); wife Margerye; son Robert; Jane and Anne Shearman, underage daughters of Robert [evidently the testator’s son Robert]; daughter Judith Petfield; son-in-law Nicholas Fynce; the wives of sons Edmond, Henry, and Robert; the poor of All Hallows [i.e., All Saints, Colchester]; and the poor of Dedham and the free school of Dedham (the testator asked to be buried in Dedham). Executors were to be sons Henry and Edmond.
Children of Henry Sherman and his first wife (if Agnes was his second wife, she could have been the mother of at least one of the youngest children):
i. ALICE SHERMAN, b. say 1540; bur. Dedham 20 Oct. 1580 as Alice, wife of Nicholas Fince; m. ca. 1562, as his first wife, NICHOLAS FINCE, b. after 25 Aug. 1532 (date of his father’s will), bur. Dedham 28 Feb. 1593/4, son of John and Ellen (___) Fince of Ardleigh, Essex.[67] Nicholas and Alice had seven children baptized in Dedham from 1562/3 to 1578. The burials of five in infancy or childhood are recorded there, and the other two children, Judith and Alice, may have died young also as they were not named in their grandfather’s will.[68]
ii. JUDITH SHERMAN, b. say 1543, bur. Dedham 1 April 1601 as Judith, wife of William Petfield; m. Dedham 27 June 1566 WILLIAM PETFIELD, clothier, living in 1610,[69] probably the elder son of John Petfield of Earls Colne, Essex, clerk, whose undated will proved 17 June 1572, names also a younger son Matthew.[70] William and Judith had nine children baptized in Dedham from 1567 to 1588, the eldest being named Matthew.
iii. HENRY SHERMAN, b. say 1545; m. SUSAN Lawrence. See Part 2.
iv. EDMUND SHERMAN, b. say 1548; m. (1) ANN PELLETT; (2) ANN CLERE. See Parts 3 and 4.
v. John Sherman, b. say 1551,[71] bur, Dedham 16 Oct. 1576, unmarried. He left an undated nuncupative will, probably proved in 1576.[72] The will mentioned brothers-in-law "William Pettfylld" and "Nycollas Fynce"; brother Robert Sharman; "my mother"; and "my father."
vi. Thomas SHERMAN, b. say 1555; bur. Dedham 16 March 1563/4. Probably he was the godson of Thomas Butter, as discussed above.
vii. ROBERT SHERMAN,[73] bp. Dedham 6 Feb. 1559/60; bur. St. Stephen Coleman Street, London, 14 Jan. l602/3.[74] He was educated at Cambridge University, and became a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1599[75] He m. (1) Dedham 9 Dec. 1583 BARBARA BROWNE, bp. Dedham 1 April 1561, daughter of Martin and Katherine (Reynolds) (Warner) Browne;[76] (2) shortly after 4 July 1597 BRIDGET JENNEY, daughter of Francis and Margaret (Peyton) Jenney.[77] Robert’s will, dated 10 Jan. 1602/3, proved 20 Jan. 1602/3,[78] names wife Bridget; children Jane, Mary, Anne, and Robert; son Richard. Brother Henry Sherman was to be executor…”

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Nicholas married Ann. Ann was born about 1538 in Essex, England; died on 23 Mar 1571 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England; was buried in Mar 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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