Thomas Sherwood

Abt 1586 - Abt 1655  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Thomas Sherwood  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1586	England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1655  [5]
  Burial	Abt 1655	Stratford Old Burying Ground, Connecticut Colony
  Person ID	I474	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2021

  
  

  Family	Alice Tiler,   b. Abt 1586-1587, England d. Abt 1639 (Age ~ 52 years)
  Children	1. Ann Sherwood,   b. Abt 1624, England d. Young   2. Hannah Sherwood,   b. Abt 1626, England d. Yes, date unknown   3. Rose Sherwood,   b. Abt 1628, England d. Yes, date unknown   4. Thomas Sherwood,   b. Abt 1624, England d. Abt 1699, Probably Fairfield County, Connecticut (Age ~ 75 years)
  Family ID	F171	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2007

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  Thomas Sherwood, born in Sherwood Forest*, Nottingham, England, 1586, died in Fairfield, Ct, 1655. He sailed from Ipswich April 21, 1634 in the good ship Francis (John Cutting, Master), and landed in Boston in June of the same year, accompanied by his wife, Alice born 1587, and four children: Ann, born 1620; Rose, 1623; Thomas, 1624; Rebecca, 1625. He settled first at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, where his name appears on the second list of settlers other than those from Watertown. He settled in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, as early as 1643, when his name appears on the Stanford** land records. He served as deputy with Roger Ludlow in the General court, 1650. He brought with him to Fairfield his second wife, Mary [?] by whom he had six more children. His will is dated July 21, 1655 and proved October 26, 1655. *Cutter's assertion that Thomas was born in Sherwood Forest is a flight of fancy that cannot be supported. Also, Dutchess-Beekman Patent Settlers asserts that Thomas was born in Ipswich which cannot be supported either. Just because he sailed from Ipswich doesn't mean he was born there. **Stanford is an erroneous reference. This probably should be Stratford. According to Fairfield County Cemeteries at http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield there is a Thomas Sherwood d. 1656 buried at the Old Burying Ground in Stratford. 30 April 1634. Passengers of the Francis of Ipswich, Mr. John Cutting, captain, bound for New England (landed at Plymouth or Boston, MA): from the Pubic Record Office, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, England). Among the passengers: Thomas Sherwood 48 and Alice his wife 47, Anna Sherwood 14, Rose Sherwood 11, Thomas Sherwood 10, Rebecca Sherwood 9 From Ye Historie...Grenwich: Thomas Sherwood, born in Englend, in 1586, sailed in April 1634 from the port of Ipswich England in the ship Frances (sic) with his wife Alice daughter of Robert Seabrook, born 1587 and five children: Ann, Hannah, Rose, Thomas, and Rebecca, for America. After a short stay in Massachusetts he and his family removed to Wethersfield Conn; removed to Stamford Conn, in 1641 sold out in 1648 and removed to Fairfield Conn where he died in 1655. He married 2nd Mary, daughter of Thomas Fitch, who, afterhis death married john Banks. [2, 6, 7] (Research):Stratford was founded in 1639 by Puritan leader Reverend Adam Blakeman (pronounced Blackman), William Beardsley and either 16 families-according to legend-or approximately 35 families-suggested by later research-who had recently arrived in Connecticut from England seeking religious freedom. Stratford is one of many towns in the northeastern American colonies founded as part of the Great Migration in the 1630s when Puritan families fled an increasingly polarized England in the decade before the civil war between Charles I and Parliament (led by Oliver Cromwell). Some of the Stratford settlers were from families who had first moved from England to the Netherlands to seek religious freedom, like their predecessors on the Mayflower. Fairfield County was established on May 10, 1666 by an act of the Connecticut General Court in Hartford along with Hartford County, New Haven County, and New London County. These were the first four Connecticut counties. From transcriptions of the Connecticut Colonial Records for that day: "This Court orders that from the east bounds of Stratford to ye bounds of Rye shalbe for future one County wch shalbe called the County of Fairfield. And it is ordered that the County Court shalbe held at Fairfield on the second Tuesday in March and the first Tuesday of November yearely.

  
  

• Sources

  [S30] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Jacobus - Fairfield main, (For The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter/Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1932 ), pp836-38 (Reliability: 3). [S791] Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., Ye historie, (The Knickerbocker Press, New York City, 1911), p647; daughter of Robert Seabrook (Reliability: 3). [S475] Godfrey Memorial Library, AGBI, v.158, p.296 (Reliability: 3). [S686] AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016 , Beekman Patent, (Orig. Pub. by Frank J. Doherty, Pleasant Valley, NY. Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent, ten volumes. 1990), p528, The Sherwood Family. Birth information supercedes Jacobus and AGBI. (Reliability: 3). [S30] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Jacobus - Fairfield main, (For The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter/Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1932 ), pp836-38 (Reliability: 3). Old Fairfield Burying Ground [S548] Cutter, William Richard; Edward Henry Clement, Samuel Hart, Mary Kingsbury Talcott, Frederick Bostwick, Ezra Scollay Stearns. , Cutter, (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, New York; 1911 ). [S686] AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016 , Beekman Patent, (Orig. Pub. by Frank J. Doherty, Pleasant Valley, NY. Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent, ten volumes. 1990), p528, The Sherwood Family (Reliability: 3).