John Sherwood

John Sherwood was born c 1672, in Fairfield, Connecticut.2 He married Johanna Booth, daughter of Ephraim Booth and Mary Osborne, in 1695.2 John Sherwood died in Sep 1696 in Fairfield, Connecticut, his daughter was only 8 months old!

GEDCOM Note

Biography ==John Sherwood married Johanna Booth at an early age and had a daughterJemima who was born posthumously (following his death), since John died prior to October 7, 1696.<ref name=CN>Connecticut Nutmegger </ref>

• Estate inventory, 7 Oct 1696.

Sources

<references />*Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume I. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut) page 555*The Connecticut Nutmegger. Glastonbury, CT: Connecticut Society of Genealogists, 1970-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) "Johanna (Booth) Sherwood) Hawley, her husbands John Sherwood and DeaconThomas Hawley of Stratford, Connecticut, her daughters (Bennett, Gold, Hall, Judson, Sterling, Walker) and several grandchildren (Allen, Benedict, Gregory, Hawley, Peet, Sherman): Focusing on a long lived woman's land records, will, andprobate records to establish correct descendant information" by Robert W. Hull. Vol.37 (2004), pp. 362ff.subscriber's link* Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Genealogy of the Booth Family (E.C. Booth, Pleasant Hill, Mo., 1952) Page 3* Hawley, Elias. The Hawley Record (E. H. Hutchinson & Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1890) Page 436.* Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England MarriagesPrior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)Vol. 2, 1369::* SHERWOOD, John (-1696) & Johanna [BOOTH] (1678-), m/2 Thomas HAWLEY 1701; ca 1694; Stratford, CT ::* {Stratford Hist. 2:1213; Fairfield Fam. 1:88, 555; Fairfield 1:409, 411; Booth 30; Booth (1892) 15; Booth (1952) 3; Stevens-Miller 417}