Marriages and family Roger Sherman
1 marriages , family
1.1 elizabeth hartwell
1.2 rebecca prescott
1.3 children
marriages , family
roger sherman married 2 times , had total of fifteen children thirteen reaching adulthood.
elizabeth hartwell
sherman married elizabeth on november 17, 1749. born august 31, 1726, in stoughton, father deacon joseph hartwell (born august 11, 1698, died february 6, 1786) , mother mary hartwell (née tolman), born on october 4, 1697, , died on november 10, 1782. married samuel dunbar , had 7 children. elizabeth died on october 19, 1760.
rebecca prescott
sherman married rebecca (also spelled rebekah) prescott on may 12, 1763. born on may 20, 1742, in danvers, essex county, massachusetts. had 8 children, rebecca; married , elizabeth; married same simeon baldwin, roger, mehitabel (1st), mehitabel (2nd); married jeremiah evarts, oliver, martha; married jeremiah day, , sarah; married samuel hoar. first mehitabel , oliver both died in infancy. rebecca died in august 1814.
children
a son, roger sherman jr. (1768–1856), 1787 graduate of yale college served in connecticut general assembly in 1810–1811.
a daughter, rebeca sherman, married simeon baldwin, career included service in united states congress (1803–1806), associate judge of connecticut superior court, 1806–1817, , became mayor of new haven, connecticut, in 1826. following death of rebecca sherman, baldwin married of roger sherman s daughters, elizabeth sherman burr. daughter, mehitabel sherman barnes married jeremiah evarts, served treasurer , secretary of american board of commissioners foreign missions. daughter martha sherman married jeremiah day, president of yale university 1817 1846. daughter, sarah sherman, married samuel hoar, member of massachusetts state legislature , u.s. congress.
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