| 8. |  Thomas Sherwood was born about 1586 in England; died about 1655; was buried about 1655 in Stratford Old Burying Ground, Connecticut Colony. 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.
(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.
Thomas married Alice Tiler. Alice was born about 1586-1587 in England; died about 1639. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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