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Profiles

  • Abel Sherwood (1720 - c.1761)
  • Abigail Burr (bef.1702 - 1768)
    Not the same as Abigail Lord - Hall, son of Isaac Hall and Jane Burgis Hall, was born Nov. 8, 1701 and baptized Nov. 16, 1701 in Stratfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. He married Abigail, last name un...
  • Abigail Ogden (1670 - 1744)
  • Abigail Pike (1674 - 1735)
  • Abigail Lord (bef.1712 - d.)
    Not the same Abigail Burr m. Ebenezer Lord, and had son Eben, who m. Anna Seeley. *- White, Elizabeth S., The Seeley-Seely Family (April 1942) Page 111. Archive.Org

About the Sherwood surname

origin

English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire, around which once stood the famous Sherwood Forest. The place is so called from Old English scir "shire" or scir "bright" + wudu "wood".