Rev. Nathaniel Sherman

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Rev. Nathaniel Sherman

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Death: July 18, 1797 (70)
East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
Place of Burial: South Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of William Sherman and Mehetabel Sherman
Husband of Lydia Sherman
Father of Sarah Miller and Thaddeus Sherman
Brother of Mehetebel Battell; William Sherman; Mary Brottle; Hon. Roger Sherman, signer of the "Declaration of Independence"; Elizabeth Buck (Sherman) and 2 others
Half brother of William Sherman

Occupation: Reverend
Managed by: Private User
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About Rev. Nathaniel Sherman

Rev. Nathaniel Sherman

Find A Grave Memorial ID # 22418523

Sherman, Thomas Townsend. Sherman genealogy, including families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: some descendants of the immigrants Capt. John Sherman, Rev. John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman. (New York, New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920)
p. 142, 207.

From family Bible of brother U.S. Senator Roger Sherman: Nathaniel born March 5, 1726 O.S. March 16 N.S. Died July 18th, 1797.

Rev. Nathaniel Sherman, b. Stoughton 5 Mar 1726/7, d. East Windsor, Connecticut, 18 Jul 1797, m. Bedford 1 March 1759 Lydia Merriam of Bedford. Ordained at Church of Bedford 18 Feb 1756, later at Mount Carmel, Connecticut.

↑ Find A Grave: Edwards Cememtery, South Windsor, Connecticut, in Find A Grave
{{fgravemem|22418523|Rev Nathaniel Sherman.
In
memory of the
Revd NATHANIEL SHERMAN, AM
He was born at Stoughton in Massachusetts
March 5. AD. 1726:
was educated at Princeton College, and graduated in 1752.
...
[Note: memorial page give birth 13 March, but gravestone appears to say 5 March, which is the same date given by the Sherman Genealogy.]

Brown, Abram English. History of the town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the year of Our Lord, 1891: with a genealogical register of old families. (Bedford [Massachusetts]: A.E. Brown, 1891)
p. 13.
Rev. Nathaniel Sherman ordained 18 February 1756. About 1768, after controversy about "half-covenants," requested and granted his dismissal and installed at Church of Christ in Mount Carmel, New Haven.

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Rev. Nathaniel Sherman's Timeline

1727
March 16, 1727
Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
1752
1752
Age 24
Graduated Princeton
1774
September 23, 1774
East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
1777
September 28, 1777
Probably East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
1797
July 18, 1797
Age 70
East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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Bedford, Massachusetts
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Nassau Hall
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Edwards Cemetery, South Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States