Hezekiah Sherwood

Abt 1777 - 1824  (~ 47 years)

• Name	Hezekiah Sherwood  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt Apr 1777	Fairfield County, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Christening	6 Jul 1777	Greenfield Hill Church, Fairfield Co, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 May 1824  [2]
  Person ID	I269	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2007

  
  

  Father	Jehiel Sherwood,   b. 1 Mar 1738/39, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut d. 21 Sep 1807, South East, Dutchess Co, New York (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Sarah Squire,   b. 23 Jan 1746/47, Fairfield County, Connecticut d. 6 May 1793, Fairfield County, Connecticut (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	5 Oct 1763	Fairfield County, Connecticut   [5, 6]
  Family ID	F37	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor Ogden,   c. 27 Sep 1778   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	16 Mar 1796	Probably Fairfield Co, Connecticut
  Family ID	F168	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 May 2005

  
  

• Notes

  Two DAR applications list the husband as "Hebbard" (No. 74380, Mrs. Ida L. Fitchard and No. 131665, Mrs. Jessie Estelle Margerin). They list the birthdate of Abigail as 17 Feb 1777. That, however, was the birth year of Hezekiah who was omitted from their applications. They may have been referring to the Grenville C. Mackenzie papers which also omit Hezekiah substituting his birth year of 1777 for Abigail's. I do not think that there is any justification for omitting Hezikiah from the list of Jehiel Sherwood's children. In fact, with reports of the pencilling in of information in the MacKenzie papers and the Lounsbury papers (letterTalbot to Arnold) it appears that there has been deliberate alteration of Sherwood family history data (possibly as early as 1895) in order to juggle, include, and exclude names in the list of Jehiel Sherwood's children. With Fitchard, for example, she desperately had to find a father for her ancestor Abigail Sherwood and Jehiel Sherwood, Revolutionary War Patriot, filled the bill. However, it is unconscionable to remove a name (Hezekiah) to get Abigail in there. I have done an analysis in which I added three names (Mehitable, Abigail, and William) to the original Greenfield Hill Church list leaving original birth dates in place with logical birth dates for the additional children. A mystery of the ages, however, is why two of those names, Mehitable and Abigail, did not appear in the Greenfield list. William was a latecomer born in New York City, giving a reasonable explanation for his omission.

  
  

• Sources

  [S79] Compiled records, Greenfield Hill, (Hartford Connecticut State Library, Jan 25, 1932), SH15A. [S30] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Jacobus - Fairfield main, (For The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter/Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1932 ), p851 (Reliability: 3). [S29] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Bulkeley **main, (New Haven, Connecticut, 1933), pp342-3 (Reliability: 3). [S184] R.P. Talbot, Talbot-Arnold 1961, (26 Sep 1961), SH29-SH30. [S30] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Jacobus - Fairfield main, (For The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter/Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1932 ), p900 (Reliability: 3). [S645] Bailey, Frederic W., Conn marriages, Page 36 (Reliability: 3).