Ensign Jehiel Sherwood

Ensign Jehiel Sherwood

DAR Ancestor #: A103513
Service: CONNECTICUT
Rank(s): ENSIGN
Birth: 3-1-1739 IN FAIRFIELD, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT
Death: 9-21-1807 IN SOUTHEAST, DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK
Service Source: HOADLY, PUB RECS OF THE STATE OF CT, 1776-1781, VOLUME 2, P 473
Service Description: 1) 9TH COMPANY OR TRAINBAND, 4TH REGIMENT, 1780

DAR Patriot: Connecticut, Ensign, 9th Company, 4th Regiment, January 1780

Letter of Administration, Dutchess County, New York from Surrogate Office's Records Liber C p33. Summary: Lyman Sherwood appointed executor of Jehiel Sherwood's estate; officially recorded at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York on 24 Oct 1807 The People of the State of New-York by the Grace of God, Free and Independent. To Lymen Sherwood of the town of Southeast in this County of Dutchess son of Jehial Sherwood deceased. Whereas Jehial Sherwood of the Town of South East in said County as is alleged, lately died intestate, having whilst living, and at the time of his Death, Goods, Chattels, or Credits within this state...do grant unto you the said Lymen Sherwood full power by these presents, to administer, and faithfully dispose of all and singular the said Goods...And we do by these presents, depute, constitute and appoint you the said Lymen Sherwood Administrator of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits which were of the said Jehial Sherwood. IN TESTIMONY whereof, we have caused the seal of office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness James Talmadge (?)...Esquire, Surrogate of the said county, at Poughkeepsie, the twenty fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven and of our Independence the thirty second...James ______ Dutchess County...Recorded the preceding Letter of Administration to Lyman Sherwood this twenty fourth day of October 1807

"James Sears was present in the probate of Jehiel Sherwood's estate" - taken from a letter to Hubert Andrew Arnold from a professional genealogist identified as "Box 480, Salt Point" [Salt Point is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It lies northeast of Poughkeepsie following New York Route 115, the Salt Point Turnpike]. This statement is very important with respect to establishing circumstantial evidence that Mehitible Sherwood, James Sears' wife, was the daughter of Jehiel Sherwood.

Southeast, New York The first settler arrived around 1730. The area first exploited was called "The Oblong," and was outside of the land claimed by the Philipse Patent. Due to a border dispute between New York and Connecticut the area between the undisputed border of New York and the undisputed border of Connecticut was an approximately 4-mile-wide area which ran the full north-south dimension of Dutchess County. This was called the Oblong. Land was sold in this area both by the Governor of New York and the King of England for Connecticut, with conflicting deeds. The boundary was settled in New York's favor by the 1731 Treaty of Dover.

A southern portion of the Oblong was alternately known as Southeast, as it was the southeastern most town in Dutchess County. It consisted of the eastern half of the current Town of Patterson, and the eastern half of the current town of Southeast. The western half of the current town of Southeast was part of the large Phillipse Patent, which had not yet been divided into towns. The most heavily settled area of the Oblong at this point was the "city" of Fredericktown, now the hamlet of Patterson. The town of Southeast, then still including its portion of the Oblong, was founded in 1788, and formed the southeast corner of Dutchess County.

In 1795, the town that had been Southeast's neighbor, Fredericktown was divided into the present Carmel, Kent, and Patterson, the latter two known at first as "Frederick" and "Franklin." At that time, Southeast lost its northern half to Patterson, and expanded to the west to become the shape it is now. Putnam County split from Dutchess in 1812. The most densely populated area in the town is the Village of Brewster.
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Ancestry.com for Horace Hibbard, born 1806, shows his mother as Abigail Sherwood and her parents as Jehiel Sherwood and Sarah Squire. Abigail is not shown as a daughter of Jehiel Sherwood in "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield", Vol II by Donald Jacobus page 851; nor in the NEH&G Register for 1915 Volume 69 page 366 for the Greenfield Hill (Congregational) Church Records which list the children of Jehiel Sherwood and wife Sarah; nor in "Greenfield Hill Church Records, Fairfield, Connecticut" in LDS FHC film 4199 page 100. I think the LDS film of the Greenhield Hill Church Records was a transcript, not the original records, which did not list four children and included an incorrect child, Hezekiah. I think the other publications used the "Greenfield Hill Ch. Records" as their source. Ancestral File also shows Jehiel Sherwood family with Abigail born 1777 and Hezekiah born later. This needs confirmation.

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XO8nAQAAMAAJ&printsec=front... (IV) Joseph, son of Benjamin and Sarah Sherwood, was born December 1, 1702. Married, February 17, 1730, Sarah Osborn, born June, 1711, daughter of Sergeant David and Dorothy Osborn. Children: Grace, Eleazer, Joseph, Jehiel, Grizel, David, Abel, Reuben. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/p/Sandra-Popiel/FILE... (V) Jehiel, son of Joseph and Sarah (Osborn) Sherwood, was born March 1, 1739. He built, in 1765, on Greenfield Hill, his comfortable house, where with his wife (a very superior woman) he reared his ten children. He served during the revolution, enlisting in Colonel Beebe's regiment; sergeant in 1775, at Fishkill; with Colonel Whiting in 1777, and ensign of Fourth Company, Fourth Regiment, January, 1780. His house was used as a hospital for the wounded after Tryon's raid. He married, October 5, 1763, Sarah Squire of Greenfield Hill, Connecticut.

Children: Squire, Jehiel, Sarah, Lyman, Charity, Stephen, Abigail, Mabel, Lyman, William. After the death of his wife, about 1796, he disposed of the home farm to his son Stephen, and with his two youngest children settled on the Oblong, now Southeast, Putnam County, New York, paying for the farm when the line (Oblong) was finally established. At his death it became the property of his son Lyman and it has been in the possession of his family to the present time. The family burial plot is on this farm where the families of Jehiel and Lyman are all interred. Source: Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. New York, New York, USA: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911, page 668 (from http://connecticut-genealogy.blogspot.com).

1812 Southeast Township, Dutchess County, New York was transferred to Putnam County, New York.

1810 survey of farms on Lot No. 8 of the Philipse Patent shows a Nathaniel Hebbard with 1 acre (who married Abigail Sherwood) and Elisha Hebbard with 4 acres (father of Nathaniel). See the "History of Putnam County, NY" by William S. Pelletreau dated 1886 page 420 found at Heritage Quest Online.

1807 death date from "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield", Volume II by Donald Jacobus page 851 and Ancestry.com. On 24 October 1807 Letters of Administration were granted by the count to Lyman Sherwood of Southeast for the intestate death of his father, Jehial Sherwood of Southeast as item #462 on page 77 of "Dutchess County, New York Probate Records 1787-1865 Register of Wills and Letters Testamentary and of Adm. in the Surrogate's Office, Poughkeepsie, New York" by Arthur C.M. Kelly supplied by NEHGS. Similar info on LAFHC film 913657 "Gen Index Probate Records 1751-1934 New York Surrogate Court (Dutchess County)" S-Z page 696 line 16 with ref to box 480 Letters Adm. C33.

1805, being of Southeast Township, Dutchess County, New York, he conveyed to Sturges Sherwood of Fairfield, right in land from his father Joseph Sherwood dec'd. See film 599306 page 838 and 851 "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield", Volume II by Donald Jacobus at the FHC.

1800 U.S. Census for Southeast, Dutchess County, New York shows Jehiel Sherwood age 45+ (he is 62) living near Nathaniel Hibbard who married Abibail Sherwood, reported to be Jehiel's daughter.

1797 June 2nd, Jehiel Sherwood purchased a farm from James Porter being one quarter mile south of the Sears burying ground (page 440 of W.S. Pelletreau's book) at Doansburg (page 433 of W.S. Pelletreau's book), Dutchess Co., NY (now in Putnam County which formed in 1812) containing 31 acres. The farm is on the north side of the line between Lot 8 and 9 of the Philipse Patent. The area is also known as Town Southeast. See "History of Putnam County, NY" by William S. Pelletreau dated 1886 pages 423 (map), 442 and 452 at Heritage Quest Online.

1793 he's still of Fairfield per film 599306 page 851 "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield", Vol II by Donald Jacobus.

1781 March 4: from NEHGS Register 1914 Volume 68 page 177: Greenfield Hill Church Records Jehiel Sherwood & his wife were admitted.

1777 - DAR recorded and accepted application dated 2 Aug 1909 by Mrs. Ida L. Hollingworth Fitchard member # 74380 shows the children of Jehiel Sherwood and Sarah Squire which includes an Abigail Sherwood born 17 Feb 1777 who married Nathaniel Hebbard (see file: DAR47380.jpg) and does not include a son Hezekiah. The LDS film 4199 page 100 "Greenfield Hill Church Records 1668-1878" shows some of the childern including a son, Hezekiah, born 25 April 1777, and does not show a daughter Abigail. Research is needed to solve this problem.

1763 marriage from NEH&G Register 1916 Volume 70 page 34; "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield", Volume II by Donald Jacobus, page 851; and Ancestry.com.

1739 birth date from "A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut" by Rev. Samuel Orcutt Part I dated 1886 page 1293 from Heritage Quest under Joseph Sherwood #48, who was his father, and shows Jehiel's birth date of 1 March 1739.

86. JEHIEL5 SHERWOOD (JOSEPH 4, BENJAMIN 3, THOMAS 2, THOMAS 1) was born 01 March 1739. He married SARAH SQUIRE 05 October 1763. She died about 1796. Notes for JEHIEL SHERWOOD moved to the Oblong, now South East, Putnam county, New York; Notes for SARAH SQUIRE of Greenfield Hill, Connecticut

Children of Jehiel Sherwood and Sarah Squire:

• Squires Sherwood.
• Jehiel Sherwood.
• Sarah Sherwood.
• Lyman Sherwood.
• Charity Sherwood.
• Abigail Sherwood.
• Mabel Sherwood.
• Lyman Sherwood.
• William Sherwood
• Stephen Sherwood, b. 20 Apr 1775; d. 03 Jul 1835.

Sources

Name Jehiel Sherwood
Gender Male
Spouse's Name Sarah Squire
Spouse Gender Female
Marriage Date 5 October 1763
Marriage Place Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Early Connecticut Marriages

Name Jehiel Sherwood
Gender Male
Age 67
Birth Date 1739
Birth Place Fairfield, Connecticut
Death Date 1806
Death Place Putnam, New York
Spouse Sarah Squire
Child Stephen Sherwood

North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000

Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 851, 900; digital images, Heritage Quest Online, My E-Books: Old Fairfield by Jacobus.
Todd, Charles. The History of Redding, Connecticut (Grafton Press, New York, 1906) Page 74
Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911) Vol. 2, Page 668.
Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1886) Part 1, Page 1293
Gene Chamberlain (chamberg925@gmail.com), "Fourth Generation Joseph (1) Sherwood of Greenfield (1702-1791," , Second Edition: Januray 5, 2016 (my efile Sherwood): page 3.
Jacobus, Donald. The Bulkeley Genealogy (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1933) Page 342
Hopkins, Timothy. The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New (Sunset Press, 1903) Vol. 1, Page 377
Talcott, Mary Kingsbury. Records of The Greenfield Hill Church, Fairfield, Conn., NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 1916) Vol. 70, Page 34
The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. Fairfield, Page 96