Philip Sherman (settler)

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Philip Sherman
Bornbaptized 5 February 1610/11
Dedham, Essex, England
Died1687
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Other namesPhilip Shearman
EducationSufficient to be General Recorder of the colony
Occupation(s)Secretary, Town Clerk, General Recorder, Deputy
SpouseSarah Odding
ChildrenEber, Sarah, Peleg, Edmund, Samson, John, Mary, Hannah, Samuel, Benjamin, Phillip[1]
Parent(s)Samuel Sherman and Philippa Ward

Philip Sherman (1611–1687) was a prominent leader and founding settler of

Quaker
after settling in the Rhode Island colony, and died at an advanced age, leaving a large progeny.

Life

Born in the village of

freeman the following year.[2]

Portsmouth Compact with Sherman's signature 13th on the list

In time, Sherman became attracted to the preachings of the dissident ministers John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson, during the so-called Antinomian Controversy, and following their banishment from the Massachusetts colony, Sherman and many other followers were disarmed.[2] On 20 November 1637, he and others were ordered to deliver up all guns, pistols, swords, powder, and shot because the "opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and led into dangerous errors many of the people here in New England."[2] The Roxbury church records give this account of Sherman, "He came into the land in the year 1632 [sic; should read 1633], a single man, & after married Sarah Odding, the daughter o[f] the wife of John Porter by a former husband. This man was of melancholy temper, he lived honestly & comfortably among us several years, upon a just calling went for England & returned again with a blessing: but after his father-in-law John Porter was so carried away with these opinions of familism & schism he followed them & removed with them to the Iland, he behaved himself sinfully in these matters (as may appear in the story) & was cast out of the church."[3]

Scores of the followers of Wheelwright and Hutchinson were ordered out of the Massachusetts colony, but before leaving,

Roger Williams to purchase some land of the Indians on the Narragansett Bay. They settled on the north east end of Aquidneck Island, and established a settlement they called Pocasset, but in 1639 changed the name to Portsmouth.[5] William Coddington was elected the first judge (governor) of the settlement.[6]

Sherman was in Portsmouth by May 1638 when he was present at a general meeting, and the following year, he was selected as Secretary.[2] In 1640, he and four others were chosen to lay out lands within the town, and the following year, he was made a freeman.[2] From 1648 to 1651, he was the General Recorder for the town,[2] and from 1649 to 1656, he was the town clerk.[3] He sat on the Portsmouth town council for many years from 1649 to 1657, and again in the early 1670s, but appears to have stayed out of public service between 1657 and 1665.[3] From 1665 to 1667, he once again served in a civil capacity when he was elected as a Deputy from Portsmouth.[2]

Philip Sherman house, Portsmouth

Though Sherman was never the governor or deputy governor of the colony, that he was highly esteemed by his fellow citizens was made very clear in 1676, during the difficult times of

Religious Society of Friends, better known as Quakers.[7] His house, originally built in 1670, still stands in Portsmouth as a private residence, though moved from its original location.[8]

Family and descendants

While still living in Roxbury, in the Massachusetts colony, Sherman married Sarah Odding, the daughter of William and Margaret Odding.

Samuel Wilbur, Jr., whose father, Samuel Wilbore was another signer of the compact.[11] Among the many descendants of Philip and Sarah Sherman are former United States Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.[12] Other descendants include James S. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony,[13] Janis Joplin, Sir Winston Churchill, Lyndon LaRouche, Conrad Aiken, Mamie Eisenhower,[14] Taylor Swift and possibly Marilyn Monroe.[15]

Ancestry

The ancestry of Philip Sherman is covered in Roy V. Sherman's 1968 genealogy of the family, with additional material published in 2013 by Michael Wood.[16][17]

See also

References

  1. ^ Anderson 1995, p. 1672 (Austin adds two more children without documentation).
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Austin 1887, p. 178.
  3. ^ a b c Anderson 1995, p. 1670.
  4. ^ Bicknell 1920, p. 992.
  5. ^ Bicknell 1920, p. 993.
  6. ^ Bicknell 1920, pp. 992–3.
  7. ^ Sherman roots.
  8. ^ Sherman House.
  9. ^ Hatcher 1998, pp. 176–80.
  10. ^ Anderson 1995, pp. 1672–3.
  11. ^ Anderson 1995, p. 1503.
  12. ^ Roberts 2009, p. 463.
  13. ^ Roberts 1998, pp. 111–117.
  14. ^ Hart 2004, pp. 71–77.
  15. ^ Roberts 1999, pp. 130–140.
  16. ^ Sherman 1968, pp. 1–25.
  17. ^ Wood 2013, pp. 47–52.

Bibliography

  • OCLC 42469253
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  • ISBN 978-0-8063-0006-1
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  • Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1920). The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol. 3. New York: The American Historical Society. pp. 1046–54.
  • Hart, Craig (2004). A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and Their First Two Generations of Descent. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company. pp. 71–77.
    ISBN 9780786419562
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  • Hatcher, Patricia Law (July 1998). "Reconstructing Sarah (Odding) Sherman, Wife of Philip Sherman of Portsmouth, RI". The American Genealogist. 73: 176–180.
  • ISBN 9780936124179
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  • ISBN 9780936124209
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  • ISBN 978-0-88082-220-6
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  • Sherman, Roy V. (1968). Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman: The First Secretary of Rhode Island. Akron, Ohio: private. pp. 1–25.
  • Wood, Michael Johnson (January 2013). "The Earliest Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and their Wives". New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 167: 35–54.
    ISBN 978-0-7884-0293-7
    .

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