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SOME FAMILY HISTORY OF FRANK MORTON SHERMAN III

My Father FRANK MORTON SHERMAN III (FMSIII), is directly descended from:

fourteen of the 102 English settlers who arrived aboard the Mayflower at Plymouth in 1620.

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1. Master RICHARD WARREN, Pilgrim, merchant. 2. Master STEPHEN HOPKINS, Stranger, leather maker 3. his wife: ELIZABETH HOPKINS 4. EDWARD DOTY, Pilgrim, his servant 5. FRANCIS COOKE, Pilgrim, wool comber 6. His son: JOHN COOKE, Deacon 7. WILLIAM MULLENS, Pilgrim, shoe and boot merchant 8. his wife: ALICE MULLENS 9. His daughter: PRICILLA MULLENS 10. JOHN ALDEN, Stranger, ships cooper 11. JAMES CHILTON, Pilgrim, tailor 12. His wife: SUSANNA CHILTON 13. His daughter: MARY CHILTON II 14. GEORGE SOULE Pilgrim, teacher

And several of the First English Settlers of Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
Twenty-four lines from fifteen MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS and GEORGE MORTON are traced to:

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD and ANNIE ELMA SISSON, the fraternal grandparents of (FMSIII).

 FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD \
 FRANK MORTON SHERMAN Jr\ / MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN
 ANNIE ELMA SISSON / FRANK MORTON SHERMAN III/ SARAH SHERMAN
 VIOLA HEISE/ BONNIE JEAN BANDY/  \PETER BARROWS SHERMAN                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                        \ PAUL GIFFORD SHERMAN

    

Notes: Indicates a person served in the Colonial Militia or U.S. Military.
Mayflower passengers are in BOLD.
(FMSIII) direct ANCESTOR NAMES are ALL CAPITALS.
Persons named in brown were born and or lived in Dartmouth.
A person’s occupation is shown in bold green. Linked words are underlined.
     Place names refer to towns in Massachusetts unless obvious or otherwise noted.
Lines of decent are numbered in bold italics. Superscript numbers ³³ link to original sources
Olde English spellings, except names and places, were updated and text slightly reformatted to be easily read.
Compiled by Marcus Morton Sherman with information taken directly from:

Martha S. Winters , Caleb Johnson , The Plymouth Colony Archive Project, Pilgrim Hall Museum , Mayflower Database, Mayflower Families, A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England Before 1692, worldconnect.rootsweb, and GOOGLE.

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1. Master RICHARD WARREN Pilgrim Came over on the Mayflower and left his wife and five daughters behind. He planned to have them sent over after things were more settled in the Colony. His wife and daughters arrived in America in 1623 on the ship Anne. An Article “Richard Warren and his descendants” appeared in MD 3:45-51 covers all known records of Richard Warren and his wife Elizabeth. Also, a booklet published by the Mayflower Society covers him and his descendants to four generations. He is on a list of “Some Plymouth Families with connections to Scituate”. March 1999. He was the 12^th signer of The Mayflower Compact. See painting: "The Signing of the Mayflower Compact" by E. Moran on display in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, MA.

The only sure things we know about Richard Warren’s ancestry are that he was a merchant of London—whether he was born there or not is an entirely different question. He was spoken of as “a man of some means and of superior character, such a man would be a valuable acquisition to any company about to found a new commonwealth”. He was always referred to as “Mister”, which indicated that he belonged to the gentry. He married ELIZABETH WALKER, born before 1580, on April 14, 1610 in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire. He had five daughters baptized somewhere in England and perhaps the true records will, some day, be found.

Caleb Johnson states regarding erroneous information published about Richard Warren: “Richard Warren is not a proven descendant of any royalty, whether it is Sir John de Warrene or Charlemagne. Richard Warren’s parents have not even been identified, despite extensive searches in the records of England (see Mayflower Quarterly, 51:109-112 for a summary of one such search)”.

He became associated with the Pilgrims and the Mayflower through the Merchant Adventurers. Richard Warren participated in early explorations made along Cape Cod by the Pilgrims in 1620, while looking for a place to settle, including the third trip on Dec. 16, 1620. On Dec. 20, they decided on the site in Plymouth. He appears by land records to have been fairly well to do. The Division of Land in 1623 he received 5 acres on the North side of the Eel River, and his family shared in the 1627 Division of Cattle.  In 1624, he was elected to be Assistant Governor to William Bradford, performing all duties of governor together with Bradford until 1628, having what was called “double voice in all matters. He was among the “Purchasers” of 1627 who bought from the London Adventurers all their rights in the Colony.

He died a year later in 1628. The only record of his death was found in Nathaniel Morton’s 1669 book New England’s Memorial, in which he writes: “This year [1628] died Mr. Richard Warren, who was an useful instrument and during his life bore a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth.”

Richard Warren is an ancestor to many famous Americans. Among these are Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space, fifth man to walk on the moon and a graduate of Proctor Academy, the same high school from which FMS III graduated.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD and his wife ANNIE ELMA SISSON each descended a different Warren child: Anna and Sarah.

ANNA WARREN, The second child born about 1612 probably in England, emigrated aboard the Anne in 1623 and married THOMAS LITTLE born about 1605, on April 19, 1633 in Plymouth. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is an eighth generation descendant of this marriage.

1st. RICHARD WARREN Pilgrim=> ANNA WARREN, MERCY LITTLE, MERCY SAWYER, MARY EAMES, JOHN SHERMAN, JOHN SHERMAN Captain,\

EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

SARAH WARREN the third child, born about 1614, probably in England, was a separatist who came on the Anne. She married Mayflower passenger

JOHN COOKE on March 28, 1634 in Plymouth and died after July 15, 1696 probably in Dartmouth, at least 82 years old. It was noted when she posted bond as “being a very ancient woman”. ANNIE ELMA SISSON is an eighth generation descendant of this marriage.

2nd. RICHARD WARREN Pilgrim => SARAH WARREN 1, SARAH COOKE, LYDIA HATHAWAY, JONATHAN SISSON, JONATHAN SISSON II,

DAVID SISSON, ISAAC SISSON, CHRISTOPHER GIFFORD SISSON, ANNIE ELMA SISSON

See: Porringer (Warren Family).

2. Master STEPHEN HOPKINS, Stranger. Born about 1578, probably in Hampshire, England. Another source said about 1585. The home in England of Stephen Hopkins was just outside of London Wall on the high road entering the city at Aldgate near Heneage House. In this neighborhood lived John Carver and William Bradford of the Mayflower Company; Robert Cushman, the London agent for the Pilgrims; and Edward Southworth, who later came to New England. His son Oceanus was the only child born while on the Mayflower voyage. Stephen Hopkins sailed to Plymouth in the Mayflower in 1620, one of the “Londoners” or “strangers” recruited for the voyage. He was called “Master” and only two others of the 17 free men on the voyage were so styled (another was Richard Warren). Stephen was a tanner or leather maker at the time of the Mayflower voyage. He was the 14^th signer of the Mayflower Compact.

Previously, Stephen Hopkins served as minister’s clerk on the vessel “Sea Venture” which sailed from London June 2, 1609, bound for Virginia. The ship was severely damaged in a hurricane, and the company was washed ashore on the Bermudan “Ile of Divels” on 28 July. The 150 survivors were marooned on the island for nine months. The passengers and crew survived on turtles, birds, and wild pigs.  They built two vessels the “Patience” and the “Deliverance” that ultimately took them to Virginia and arrived at Jamestown on 24 May 1610.

During the sojourn, Stephen Hopkins encouraged an uprising by his fellows upon grounds that the Virginia Governor’s authority pertained only to the voyage and the regime in Virginia and not to the forced existence in Bermuda. For his remarks, he was placed under guard, brought before the Company in manacles and sentenced to death by court-martial. “But so penitent he was and made so much moan, alleging the ruin of his Wife and Children in this his trespass,” according to William Strachey’s record of the voyage, that friends among his cohorts procured a pardon from the Governor. No evidence has been found of Hopkins’ residence in Virginia and it is presumed he soon returned to his family in England. Strachey noted that while Hopkins was very religious, he was contentious and defiant of authority and possessed enough learning to undertake to wrest leadership from others.

He was one of three men designated to provide counsel and advice to Capt. Myles STANDISH on the first land expedition of the Pilgrims in the New World. During the third day out, the company chanced upon an Indian deer trap, and Stephen was able to explain its function and danger to his fellows. In February of 1621, when Indians appeared on a neighboring hilltop in Plymouth, Captain Standish took Stephen Hopkins with him to negotiate with the savages. Thereafter, Stephen was invariably deputized to meet the Indians and act as an interpreter. In July 1621, he served as envoy to friendly Chief Massasoit, and he made a friend for the colonists of Samoset, another Indian whom Stephen entertained in his home. The ' first visit of white men to the locality (Dartmouth), now Bristol County, probably occurred in June or July, 1621, when Massasoit, at his home in Pokanoket, was sought out and visited by Edward Winslow and Stephen Hopkins, accompanied by the Indian Squanto, who acted as their interpreter.

Despite the high mortality caused by tribulations of the first Pilgrim winter in New England, Stephen Hopkins household of eight persons was one of only four households that escaped loss. Stephen Hopkins was referred to as a merchant and a planter in Plymouth records, also as “Gentleman” and “Master”. He received a six-acre lot in the division of land in 1623. It is stated that throughout his life at Plymouth, he kept for his home a lot that had been assigned to him on arrival on the easterly corner of Main and Leyden streets between the homes of Mr. Isaak Allerton and Edward Winslow.

Though his major occupation is unknown, he did build and own the first wharf in Plymouth Colony of which there is record, selling it for sixty pounds in July of 1637. He had an apprentice, John Harmon, for seven years starting in 1636. Francis Cooke was also on the 1643 Plymouth list of those who were able to bear arms.

His major service to the community, however, seemed to come in the highway realm. In 1637, he was appointed to the committee to lay out highways. He followed this appointment with the job of surveyor of the highways for Plymouth in 1641, 1642 and again in 1645. He served on a committee to find the best route for a new road. He was often appointed by the court to survey properties in dispute. He built a house at Yarmouth on Cape Cod but returned to Plymouth and gave the Yarmouth dwelling to son Giles, who remained there.

Stephen Hopkins was made freeman by 1633. He held the position of Assistant in the colony from at least 1633 to 1636. Probably because of his status in the Colony as a “stranger”, Stephen Hopkins found himself on occasion in official difficulty. In June 1636, while serving as Assistant, he was fined for battery of John Tisdale. In 1637 and 1638, he was charged with various indiscretions involving the sale of intoxicants and other items at his dwelling. Also in 1638, Stephen Hopkins’ maidservant, Dorothy, got pregnant from Arthur Peach, who was subsequently executed for murdering an Indian.  The Plymouth Court ruled he was financially responsible for her and her child for the next two years (the amount remaining on her term of service).  Stephen, in contempt of court, threw her out of his household and refused to provide for her, so the court committed him to custody.  John Holmes stepped in and purchased Dorothy’s remaining two years of service from him: agreeing to support her and child. In December of 1639, he was charged with selling a looking glass at an excessive price. He volunteered to fight in the Pequot War in 1637.

He is on a list of “Some Eastham Families with Scituate connections”. March 1999 The following has been disproved July 1998: He seems to have originated from the family of Hopkins, alias Seborne, located for several generations at Wortley, Wotton, Underedge, Co. Glouchester. The Wortley historian has conjectured, after a thorough study of the family, that Stephen of the Mayflower may well have been son of Stephen Hopkins, a clothier of Wortley who also had son Robert Hopkins of London.

He died before July 1644 in Plympton. The will of Stephen Hopkins, dated 6 June 1644, was proved upon testimony of William Bradford and Captain Myles Standish at a General Court at Plymouth on August 20, 1644. He called himself of Plymouth in New England and “weak yet in good and perfect memory,” he directed that his body be “buried as near as conveniently may be to my wife, Deceased.” He made these bequests: To son Giles Hopkins the great bull now in the hands of Mrs. Warren. To Steven Hopkins “my son Giles his son” 20 shillings in Mrs. Warren’s hands for the hire of said bull. To daughter Constance Snow, wife of Nicholas, and “my mare” To daughter Deborah Hopkins: “the broad horned black cow and her calf and half the Cow called Motley”. To daughter Damaris Hopkins: “the Cow called Damaris heifer and the white faced calf and half the cow called Motley.” To daughter Ruth “ The Cow called Red Cole and her calf and a Bull at Yarmouth which is in the keeping of Giles Hopkins which is an year and advantage old and half the curled Cow.” To daughter Elizabeth “the Cow called Smykins and her calf and the other half of the Curled Cow with Ruth and an yearling heifer without a tail in the keeping of Gyles Hopkins at Yarmouth.” To four daughters Deborah, Damaris, Ruth and Elizabeth Hopkins: “all the moveable goods that belonged to his house, “and in case any of my said daughters should be taken away by death before they be married then ...their division to be equally divided amongst the Survivors.” To son Caleb: “heir apparent,” house and lands at Plymouth, one pair of oxen and the hire of them, then in the hands of Richard Church, and “all my debts which are now owing unto me.” The testator reserved to his daughters. “Free recourse to my house in Plymouth upon any occasion there to abide and remain for such time as any of them shall think meete and convenient & they single persons.” He named son Caleb as executor and Caleb and Captain Standish as joint supervisors of the will. The inventory of his goods, taken by Captain Standish, Thomas Willet and John Doane on July 17, 1644, listed livestock (fifteen neat cattle, a horse and other stock), household goods, clothing, tools and more than seventeen pounds owed to Hopkins by debtors. The estate was given a total value of about 130 pounds. The division of his moveable estate to daughters Deborah, Damaris, Ruth and Elizabeth was made by son Caleb and Captain Standish on November 30, 1644.

3. ELIZABETH (FISHER) HOPKINS, The second wife of Stephen Hopkins, sailed to Plymouth in the Mayflower in 1620. She was born about 1595 in London, England. They were married Feb. 19,1617/18 in St.Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England. The identity of his first wife is unknown. Their children were: Damaris HOPKINS I born about 1618/19 in Donyat, Somersetshire, England, died onboard the mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, Oceanus HOPKINS born between Sept.6, 1620 and Nov.11, 1620 on the “MAYFLOWER”, Caleb HOPKINS born about 1623 in Plymouth, Deborah HOPKINS born about 1625 in Plymouth, Ruth HOPKINS b: in Plymouth, Elizabeth HOPKINS II b: in Plymouth. Elizabeth was one of only four women who survived to the “first” Thanksgiving in Nov. 1621. She died sometime between 1638 and 1644 in Plymouth.

DAMARIS HOPKINS II, was their seventh and last child, born shortly after May 22, 1627 in Plymouth. The modern Sherman family of FMSIII has four lines of decent to Master STEPHEN HOPKINS, and ELIZABETH HOPKINS=>DAMARIS HOPKINS II. She married JACOB COOKE, son of FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim.

Their first child SARAH COOKE born about 1635 in Plymouth, (Based on the marriage of her parents on March 28, 1634 and her own marriage of Nov. 20, 1652 at which time, if born about 1635, she would have been about seventeen.) She married ARTHUR HATHAWAY II born about 25, 1620 probably in England.

ANNIE ELMA SISSON is a seventh generation descendant of this marriage through their daughter LYDIA HATHAWAY:

^3rd. STEPHEN HOPKINS Master\

DAMARIS HOPKINS II, SARAH COOKE, LYDIA HATHAWAY, JONATHAN SISSON, JONATHAN SISSON II\

ELIZABETH HOPKINS/ DAVID SISSON, ISAAC SISSON\

CHRISTOPHER GIFFORD SISSON, ANNIE ELMA SISSON

ELIZABETH COOKE born Jan. 18 1647/48 in Plymouth, first child of JACOB COOKE and DAMARIS HOPKINS II, married JOHN DOTY, born by 1640, son of EDWARD DOTY, Pilgrim before 1668 in Plymouth. Their first child JOHN DOTEN, was born Aug.24, 1668 in Plymouth. John Doten Jr., as he was known until after his father died, was a wealthy farmer with extensive lands. He succeeded to a large part of his father’s estate, which was increased by lands received by his wife from her father’s estate, as well as by subsequent grants from the towns of Plymouth and Plympton and by purchases. He made his residence at Plympton, early on, where his father had made considerable purchases, and his name appears in the list of persons first entitled to vote for Selectmen at Plympton, 1708-9. At the March 1719/20 court, John Doty, Sr. of Plimpton moved that the child of Lydia Jackson, of whom he was the reputed father, be boarded out or the weekly payments abated. No further record of the child, which was probably an infant at the time, has been found. In 1731, he and his sons, John, Jr. and Jacob, petitioned with others to be set off as a separate precinct. They lived in the southern part of the town of Plympton, which was erected about 1800 into a town and called Carver. It was probably there that Doty’s Plain and Doty’s Meadow named in his father’s will were situated. In 1706, John Doten and Mehitable, his wife, sold to her brother, Samuel Nelson, lands which they received from her father, John Nelson, deceased. He died July 14,1747 in Plympton. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is thus a seventh generation descendant of ELIZABETH COOKE:

^4th. STEPHEN HOPKINS Master\

DAMARIS HOPKINS II, ELIZABETH COOKE, JOHN DOTEN, JOHN DOTEN, EBENEZER DOTEN, LYDIA DOTEN,

ELIZABETH HOPKINS / EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

MARY COOKE born about 1652 in Plymouth, the fourth child of JACOB COOKE and DAMARIS HOPKINS II, married JOHN RICKARD Deacon, born: Nov. 24, 1657, in Plymouth, in about 1678 in Plymouth. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is a seventh generation descendent of this MARY COOKE, through her fourth child JOHN RICKARD IIII.

^5th. STEPHEN HOPKINS Master\

DAMARIS HOPKINS II, JOHN RICKARD IIII, MARGARET RICKARD, NOAH PRATT,

ELIZABETH HOPKINS / EPHRAIM PRATT, DAVID PRATT, SARAH BARROWS PRATT, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

MARY RICKARD born before 1688 in Plymouth, the fifth child of JOHN RICKARD Deacon and MARY COOKE, married TIMOTHY MORTON born March 12, 1682 in Plymouth, Jan. 1, 1713/14. This is a convergence with the Morton family line mentioned elsewhere.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is a fifth generation descendant of MARY RICKARD through her first child CHARLES MORTON, born Oct.17, 1714 in Plymouth.

 
6th.  STEPHEN HOPKINS Master\ 

DAMARIS HOPKINS II, MARY COOKE, MARY RICKARD, CHARLES MORTON, JOB MORTON,

ELIZABETH HOPKINS/ ABIGAIL MORTON, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

4.EDWARD DOTY, Pilgrim, came on the Mayflower as an apprentice (servant) to Stephen Hopkins. He was born between 1595 and 1602, Probably near London, England but exact place is unknown. Note: The Register of the Society of the Mayflower Descendants in the District of Columbia says his birth year is 1600. Caleb Johnson/Mayflower Web Pages gives his birth date as between 1595 and 1602. The source book says “probably before 1603” because he signed the Mayflower Compact and he would have been an adult or almost an adult to have been allowed to do that. He was the 40^th signer of the Mayflower Compact. At least eight known genuine Edward Doty baptisms occurred in England between 1585 and 1605. None have been conclusively identified as the Edward Doty of the Mayflower.

He married FAITH CLARKE, who was born about 1619 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, on January 6, 1634/35 in Plymouth. This is his second marriage. Caleb Johnson, Mayflower Web Pages, says he was married previously (“marriage to Faith Clarke called a second marriage” by Bradford) and he had no children by his first wife. “Doty’s mysterious first marriage must have occurred in Plymouth sometime after he was released from his contract with Hopkins (which apparently occurred between 1623 and 1627).

He signed the “compact” on board the Mayflower in Cape Cod Harbor and from this time, he was treated to all intents and purposes as one of the company, receiving the same allotment of land and stores as all other single men. He was a member of the third expedition, which set out in the shallop on December 16, 1620. This exploration party had the first encounter with the Indians at Cape Cod and went on to select the Plymouth site for the first settlement. In the 1623 allotment of land, Edward Doty, being single, was allotted one acre next to that of Steven Hopkins. In the 1627 division of livestock, Edward is listed with the group headed by John Howland, which indicates an independent status at the time. His name appears often as “Yeoman”, “Planter”, and “Freeman”. His name is on the first list of “Freeman of Plymouth”, in 1633. Although, a large purchaser of lands at Yarmouth, Cohasset and Dartmouth, he evidently did not live at any of those places, but made his home in the northern part of Plymouth. The oldest house in Plymouth is the Doten house; the oldest wharf was named for Doty-Doten.

Edward Doty appears to have been a high-spirited and aggressive young man and somewhat of a troublemaker throughout his life at Plymouth.  In June 1621, he engaged in a sword and dagger duel with fellow Hopkins servant Edward Leister. Both were wounded before being separated, and were punished by having their head and feet tied together for an hour (it was supposed to have been for a whole day without food or drink, but they were let go early because of their apparent suffering). The story is told in Fleming's One Small Candle:

     "...Constance Hopkins was a pretty girl with her father's high spirits. Dotey and Leister [Stephen Hopkin's servants, both named Edward], equally high spirited - they had been among the chief mutterers of mutiny before the compact was signed - soon found themselves competing ferociously for a kind word from her...Soon, where there had been easy camaraderie and friendship, there was sullen jealousy. Young Constance, childishly playing at courtly love, coyly encouraged the strife....At dawn on June 18 [1621], Dotey and Leister seized the swords and daggers and crept quietly out of the crowded house. Down the beach to a deserted stretch of sand they stalked. There, sword in one hand, dagger in the other, they began Plymouth's first duel. Snarling, cursing, they raged up and down the shore. Dotey sank his rapier deep into Leister's thigh, and Leister, with a scream of rage and pain, slashed with his dagger at this friend's sword hand, gashing him viciously... By now their battle cries and clashing swords had awakened the colony, and several men came racing down the beach, lead by Miles Standish ...Disarming the two culprits at the point of his own rapier, Standish marched them shamefacedly back to Governor William Bradford ...Bradford gave the two young men a stern lecture, and then as punishment ordered them strung up with head and heels together to "cool off their hot blood"...But within an hour their cries for mercy became so pitiful that Stephen Hopkins went to Bradford and asked him to pardon them, promising that he guaranteed their good behavior. Bradford was happy to agree and quickly ordered them cut down."

Edward Doty made regular appearances in Plymouth Colony Court, as shown by some of his court records:

1632/3 Sued by Joseph Rogers, failed to pay a contract with six pigs, as had been agreed.  Rogers won.

1632/3 Sued by William Bennett for dealing fraudulently in a trade of bacon for beaver skins. Bennett won.

1633 Sued by William Bennett for slander. Doty fined 50 shillings.

1633/4 Sued by his apprentice John Smith to be freed from his 10-year contract.  Court agreed, and required Doty to give him double payment in apparel for having given so little to his apprentice.

1633/4 Fined 6 shillings 8 pence for “breaking the peace”, and awarded Josias Cooke 3 shillings 4 pence because Doty caused him to bleed during their fight.

1634 Doty sued Francis Sprague over a debt: Doty won 6 shillings 6 pence, plus a peck of malt.

1636 Edward Doty and Joseph Beedle sue and counter-sue for “matters being raw and imperfect” and were sent to an arbitrator.

1637/8 Fined 10 shillings for breaking the peace, by assaulting George Clarke.

1641 Sued George Allen.  Reason and outcome unrecorded.

1641/2 Sued Thurston Clarke.  Doty awarded 12 bushels and 1 peck of Indian corn, and 12 shillings money or an additional 4 bushes of corn, plus 11 shillings for charges.  John Jenny then entered an attachment to receive 31 shillings 6 pence from Clarke before it was paid to Doty, of which the court ordered him to then pay Doty five and a half bushels of Indian corn and 3 pence to settle the account.

1641/2 Court orders Edward Doty to keep his two cows and a steer fenced in during the summer, or pay Thomas Symons for all damage caused by his cows in Symons’ cornfield.

1641/2 Sued George Clark.  Doty awarded four bushels of Indian corn.

1643 Doty ordered to pay five bushels of Indian corn to John Groome, for Manessah Kempton’s use.

1647 Samuel Cutbert sued Edward Doty for taking wood from his land.  Doty ordered to pay 7 shillings damages plus court fees.

1650 Edward Gray and Samuel Cutbert sue Edward Doty for damage done by his cows to their corn.  Doty ordered to pay 1 bushel of Indian corn to each.

The name DOTY was not a common one in those days, yet it was spelled in a variety of ways. Several variations were as follows: DOTEN, DOTIN, DOTTEN, DOTTIE, DOWTIE, and DOTEY. Reference: The Doty/Shepperd and Allied Families by Carl V. Wright

He died August 23, 1655 in Plymouth. He was buried 02 SEP 1655 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. His will dated 20 MAY 1655 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts and proved 5 Mar 1655/6, left a double portion of his estate to his son Edward, the other sons (unnamed) to have equal shares, with a third of the estate to his wife. The daughters are not mentioned at all. The inventory of his estate, taken 25 Nov 1655, valued his estate at over £130. This was a sizeable estate for his time.

His children were: Edward DOTY II born by 1637, JOHN DOTY, born by 1640, Thomas DOTY born probably 1641/2, Samuel DOTY born probably 1643/4, Desire DOTY born ABT 1645/4, Elizabeth DOTY born ABT 1647, Isaac DOTY born Feb 8,1648/49, Joseph DOTY born April 30, 1651, Mary DOTY born about 1653 all born in Plymouth.

The second son JOHN DOTY was a farmer and probably the only one of Edward Doty’s children that settled down in Plymouth, remaining there devoted to his occupation. He early secured land there, for, besides what he received from his father’s estate, the town, at a meeting held 8^th January 1665-6, granted him “three acres of meadow land at the Turkey Swamp.” He probably also took charge of the lands and property of his mother in Plymouth as early as 1660. 30^th January 1668-9, he was granted at town meeting, thirty acres at Indian Pond.

“An exact list of all the names of the Freemen of Plymouth”, made May 29, 1670, the name of John Doety is the only one of the family that appears. He appears on various records on coroners’ and petit juries at various times, spelled in various styles: In 1675 and 1676 as John Dotey, in 1679 and 1680, as John Doten. In 1683-4,it was again as Dotey, and a year later as John Dotye. In 1671 he was elected “Surveyor of the highways” at Plymouth and again in 1675, he was reelected to the same position. In 1680, he was elected constable. His cattle mark is entered May 10, 1683. On May 17, 1686, he was granted four acres upon Mahucket Brook. On May 9, 1671, Faith Phillips sold to son John Doty, for “a valuable and Considerable sum of money” the house and land at High Cliff, as well as sixty acres of upland, six adjoining acres of meadow, and the land at Sepecan.

From the Old Colony Records, Vol. 6, we quote: “The selectmen of Duxborough having reported that two of their inhabitants Henry Clark and Thisten Clarke, by reason of their age, indiscretion and weakness of understanding, are incapable of their own support notwithstanding they have an estate sufficient. John Dotey of Plymouth their nephew having promised to take prudent care of them, is allowed to recoup himself from their estate,” under certain provisions. In March of 1687/8, John Doty was ordered to care for his relatives Thurston and Henery Clarke. (His mother’s brothers)

In the early part of 1701, shortly before his death, the town granted him a considerable plot of ground, which afterward proved to be valuable. In 1716, his sons united in a deed of this land to their sister Elizabeth, wife of Joshua Morse, “as they knew it was their father’s intention to do before his death.” This plot was situated mainly on Court street, in Plymouth, and will be found described in David’ “Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth,” pages 201-203. In April 1661, he received a musket in a distribution of guns and swords belonging to the town of Plymouth.

He died May 8, 1701 in Plymouth. His will, received in Probate: June 3, 1701 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts “proved” gives his name, and is signed “John Doty Sr.,” but by his mark, and is as follows: “The last Will and Testament of John Doty senior of Plymouth. I being sick & weak of body & not knowing how it may please God to deal with me, yet being of disposing mind and memory do dispose as follows of my worldly estate, which God has given me. Imprimis, I give to my eldest son, John Doty a hundred acres of Upland at Doty’s Plain, and thirty acres of Upland at Indian Pond and a grant of four acres of meadow. I give to Sarah, my wife, the third of ye income of profits of my farm and one room in my dwelling house during her widowhood, further, I give to my wife two cows & one great trunk, and an iron pot, & one feather bed with furniture belonging to it. I give to my four youngest sons, Isaac Dotey & Samuel Dotey, Elisha Dotey and Josiah Dotey all my Homestead Housing & Upland belonging to ye farm, whereon I now live, and ten acres of meadow at Dotey’s Meadow, more or less. I further give to my four sons, Isaac, Samuel, Elisha & Josiah all my whole stock undisposed of viz. oxen, cows & sheep & cattle of all sorts not disposed of with all my implements of husbandry, provided ye debts being first paid. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Moss a two-year-old heifer. I give to my daughter Martha a feather bed with furniture belonging to it. I give ye quarter part of my ketch to my four youngest daughters, Martha, Sarah, Patience and Desire. I give to Martha one pewter platter.

I give all ye rest of my household stuff, one-third part to my wife & the remainder to my four youngest sons viz. Isaac, Samuel, Elisha & Josiah Dotey. I do make & appoint my loving wife Sarah Dotey to be ye sole Executrix of this my last will and testament. And I desire my loving brother John Rickard to be helpful to my said wife in the management of it.” “This, I do acknowledge to be my last will and testament whereunto I have set my hand and seal this fifteenth April 1701.

“The mark X of John Dotey, Senr [seal]. Signed, Sealed and delivered in ye presence of William Ring, Eleazer Ring, William Shurtleff.”

“Memorandum: on ye day above year Sarah Dotey, relict of ye said John Dotey, deceased & sole executrix of ye within written will before probate… declared that she did & doth reserve to herself the benefit of ye law respecting her dower or third in ye housing & lands of ye said deceased, anything to ye contrary thereof, contained in said will.”

At the same time that the will was admitted to probate “Samuel Dotey, one of the orphan children of John Dotey, Sr., deceased, late of Plimough, chooses his uncle, Jacob Cooke for his guardian.” Elisha Dotey chose his brother, John Dotey, Jr., to be his guardian. The court appointed Sergeant John Rickard, probably a brother of the widow, guardian of Josiah Doty. William Wing was appointed guardian of Martha Dotey. Later on, Desire, the youngest daughter, was adopted by Giles Rickard, who, if not her uncle Giles, was probably his son. Will: April 15, 1701 Plymouth, Plymouth. (Proved June 3,1701) Names his eldest son JOHN DOTEN; wife Sarah; four younger sons Isaac, Samuel, Elisha and Josiah; daughter Elizabeth MOSS; four younger daughters Martha, Sarah, Patience, and Desire. The will names his wife Sarah to be sole executor, with brother (in law) John RICKARD to assist her. His inventory was taken May 17, 1701 and presented June 3, 1701.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is an eighth generation descendant of EDWARD DOTY, Pilgrim:

^7th. EDWARD DOTY, Pilgrim => JOHN DOTY, JOHN DOTEN, JOHN DOTEN, EBENEZER DOTEN, LYDIA DOTEN,

EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

5. FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim was a wool comber, born in August 1582 probably in England. He immigrated to Plymouth Colony in 1620 at about age 42 on the “MAYFLOWER”. He and his son JOHN traveled without any other family members. They Embarked on the Speedwell at Delfshaven, Holland in July 1620. At Southampton or Plymouth, England, they were transferred to the Mayflower and left Plymouth on Wednesday 6 Sep 1620 [new style: 16 Sep 1620] He was the 17^th signer of the Mayflower Compact.

Born in England, one source says "after August 1583", LDS records say before 1582, probably 1580. Married Hester Mahieu in Leyden, Holland, on July 4, 1603. .

     The Leyden records described him as an unmarried wool comber from England. On July 20, 1803 in Leyden, Neherlands, at the Waloon church called the Vrouwekerk. (Now standing in the public square in front of the Boerhaave Museum, just north of the Haarlemmerstraat) Francis Cooke and Hester Mahieu were married. Their Intentions were published June 30 1603, Leyden. Their nephew Philipe de la Noye (Philip Delano) was baptized here the same year. These Pilgrims became ancestors of United States presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and George H. W. Bush.  

He went to Holland to espace religious persecution and was residing in Leyden long before the other Pilgrims. In the Mayflower Web Pages, Caleb Johnson says: “Francis Cooke’s ancestry is unproven.” When in Leyden, from 1603 until the arrival of the Pilgrims, Francis and Hester were members of the French Waloon (or Huegnot) church. However, in 1606 Francis and his wife left for a trip to Norwich, and they returned—Probably because of religious persecution— in 1607 to have their son baptized in the Church, and in 1608, they rejoined communion with the Walloon Church in Leyden. Sometime between 1611 and 1618, the Cookes switched and began communion with the Pilgrims’ Separatist church in Leyden. (The Cooke Silver Book says he may have been in Leyden by 1602, but did not appear in Leyden records until 1603.)

Hester was born between 1582 and 1588 probably in Canterbury, Kent, England. She followed her husband Francis to Plymouth Colony, via “ANNE” between July and August 1623. William Bradford recorded in his list of passengers that came over in the Mayflower: “Francis Cooke and his son John, but his wife and other children came afterwards”

    Their 7 children were: JANE COOKE b: ABT 1604 in probably Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands; JOHN COOKE born about Jan. 1, 1607 probably in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands; In 1608 there is a burial record for an unnamed child, the record states that the father lived on the Levendaal, a canal on the Southeast side of Leiden. Elizabeth COOKE born before Dec. 26, 1611 in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands. JACOB COOKE, was born 1618 in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands.

HESTER COOKE, was born about? 27 1623 probably in Plymouth, Massachusetts and Mary COOKE was born between March 22, 1626 and March 26, 1627 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

He is included in the first division of land in 1623, among the first seven men who arrived, of the mearsteads and garden plots laid out in 1620. His land was adjacent to Mr. Isaac Allerton to the east and Edward Winslow to the west. Also, an additional 29 acres on the south side of the brook to baywards was divided among 11 men. The falls of their grounds which came first over in the Mayflower according as their lots were cast. Francis Cooke received 2 acres. He received an additional 4 acres beyond the brook to Strawberry hill during the 1623 division of land, which included passengers from the Anne.

On Dec. 17, 1623, Cooke helped write "Orders agreed on at several times for the General good of the Colony and the better government and preferration of the fame.” He appears frequently in Plymouth records on grand and trial juries, on various ad hoc committees and in a number of land transactions. Though his major occupation in Plymouth is unknown, He had an apprentice, John Harmon, for seven years starting in 1636. Francis Cooke was also on the 1643 Plymouth list of those who were able to bear arms.

His major service to the community, however, seemed to come in the highway realm. In January 1628, He helped write "About division of lands" that was agreed in a full court. In 1637, he was appointed to the Committee to lay out highways. He followed this appointment with the job of surveyor of the highways for Plymouth in 1641, 1642 and again in 1645. He served on a committee to find the best route for a new road. He was often appointed by the Court to survey properties in dispute.

He died on April 7, 1663 in Plymouth. His will was dated: Dec. 7, 1659 Plymouth. The inventory of his estate was taken May 1, 1663. The inventory was exhibited at Court in Plymouth on June 5,1663 and attested unto upon oath by Hester Cooke widow.

FMSIII has seven lines of decent from FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim.

     Three lines are through JACOB COOKE. Jacob married DAMARIS HOPKINS II (daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth) after June 10, 1646 (probably “latter part of 1646 or early in 1647” as this date is the date of a marriage gift.) in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

 8th. FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JACOB COOKE, ELIZABETH COOKE, JOHN DOTEN, JOHN DOTEN, EBENEZER DOTEN, LYDIA DOTEN,

EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

 9th. FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JACOB COOKE, MARY COOKE, JOHN RICKARD IIII, MARGARET RICKARD, NOAH PRATT, EPHRAIM PRATT,
DAVID PRATT, SARAH BARROWS PRATT, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

10th. FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JACOB COOKE, MARY COOKE, MARY RICKARD, CHARLES MORTON, JOB MORTON,

ABIGAIL MORTON, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

one line is through HESTER COOKE,

 ^11th  FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => HESTER COOKE, ADAM WRIGHT, MARY WRIGHT, JONATHAN GIFFORD, DELE GIFFORD,

GIDEON CORNELL, PARDON CORNELL, JOSEPH WING CORNELL, LYDIA ALMY CORNELL, ANNIE ELMA SISSON.

one line is through JANE COOKE:

    12th

FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim\

JANE COOKE, ELIZABETH MITCHELL, JOSEPH WASHBURN, EPHRAIM WASHBURN, WILLIAM WASHBURN, MARY 'Polly' WASHBURN,

EXPERIENCE MITCHELL/ SARAH BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS PRATT, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

George Morton and Experience Mitchell received 8 acres in the 1623 Division of land as passengers on the "Anne". Experience was probably a teenager living with the Mortons. He was unmarried in the 22 May 1627 Division of Cattle.

Two lines are through:

6. JOHN COOKE born about Jan.1, 1607 probably in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands. He is called Jean in the record of his baptism,.

William Bradford recorded on his list of passengers that came over in the Mayflower: “Francis Cooke and his son John, but his wife and other children came afterwards” He became a deacon of the Plymouth Church in the 1630s, but he was excommunicated from the church about 1657. Probably around the time he was excommunicated, he became a Baptist. He served on juries and on various special assignments, and was a long-time Plymouth deputy.
He appears in the records as John Cooke Junior or John Cooke the younger [sic] because there was another John Cooke in the vicinity who came in 1633 and was unrelated.

Later in 1651 Bradford writes “Francis Cooke is still living, a very old man, and hath seen his children’s children have children. After his wife came over with other of his children, he hath three still living by her; all married and have five children, so their increase is eight. And his son John which came over with him is married, and hath four children living.” He had five children born in Plymouth between 1635 and 1657.

John Cooke was the leading original proprietor of Dartmouth. John Cooke was authorized by the Plymouth Court as Magistrate, His Majesties representative, in Dartmouth to make contracts…administer oaths…commence a suite…issue warrants…and give subpoenas. The Proprietors Records of 1684 indicate John Cooke was among the 14 Dartmouth men who took the oath of fidelity.

He died Nov. 23, 1695 in Dartmouth and was buried there. His wife Sarah Warren died after July 15, 1696, probably in Dartmouth.

JOHN COOKE married SARAH WARREN, born about 1614, probably in England, On March 28, 1634 in Plymouth. Their children: SARAH COOKE born: About 1635, Elizabeth COOKE born: About 1641, Hester COOKE born: Aug. 13, 1650, MARY COOKE born: About 1652 and Mercy COOKE born: July 25, 1657 were all born in Plymouth. Sarah, Hester, Mary and Mercy all lived in Dartmouth.

/SARAH COOKE

ANNIE ELMA SISSON has two lines of decent from: FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JOHN COOKE

\MARY COOKE

ANNIE ELMA SISSON is an eighth generation descendant of their first child, SARAH

^13th FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim =>JOHN COOKE\

SARAH COOKE, LYDIA HATHAWAY, JONATHAN SISSON, JONATHAN SISSON II, DAVID SISSON\

SARAH WARREN/

ARTHUR HATHAWAYII, ISAAC SISSON, CHRISTOPHER GIFFORD SISSON, ANNIE ELMA SISSON

ANNIE ELMA SISSON is an eighth generation descendant of their fourth child: MARY

^14th. FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim => JOHN COOKE\

MARY COOKE, BETHIA TABER, PHILIP MACOMBER, CONSTANT MACOMBER\

SARAH WARREN/ TABITHA MACOMBER, MIRIAM GIFFORD, CHRISTOPHER GIFFORD SISSON, ANNIE ELMA SISSON

END COOKES

7. WILLIAM MULLINS Pilgrim A merchant shoe and boot dealer was born about 1572, apparently to John and Joan (Bridger) Mullins of Dorking, Surrey, England.  He was a wealthy Huguenot refugee who went to England and bought a Manor house in 1612 in Dorking, Surry. He sold it in 1619 in preparation for leaving on the Mayflower. Mullins was a pious man, very concerned and involved in the religious troubles in England. It is recorded in the Privy Council records of April 29, 1616 that an arrest warrant was issued to bring him before the Lords of the Council. He appeared before the Council on May 1, was held in custody but later released. Mullins was part of the London contingent and a heavy stockholder (over 500 Pounds) in the Adventurers Company that sponsored the Mayflower voyage. He also had a financial interest in the Jamestown Colony and no doubt other adventurer groups. He was the 10^th signer of the Mayflower Compact.

	     William brought his second wife: Alice Port, children: PRISCILLA  and Joseph and a servant Robert Carter on the Mayflower; he also
 brought over 250 shoes and 13 pairs of boots. He died likely from a combination of pneumonia 
 and scurvy on February 21, 1621, a great blow to the community.  His original will has 
 survived, written down by John Carver the day of Mullins’ death.  In it, he mentions his 
 wife Alice, children Priscilla and Joseph, and his children back in Dorking, William Mullins and Sarah
 Blunden. He also mentions a Goodman Woods, and a Master Williamson, who have not been 
 identified.  The Mayflower’s Captain Christopher Jones, the Mayflower’s surgeon Giles Heale,
  and Plymouth’s Governor John Carver witnessed it. He is described in “Morton’s memorial”
   as “a man pious and well deserving, endowed with considerable outward estate, and had it been
    the will of God that he had survived might have proved a useful instrument in this place”.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is a tenth generation descendant of WILLIAM MULLINS Pilgrim:

^15th. WILLIAM MULLINS Pilgrim\

PRISCILLA MULLINS, REBECCA ALDEN, SARAH DELANO, THOMAS DREW, JEMIMA DREW, THOMAS BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS,

ALICE MULLINS/ SARAH BARROWS PRATT, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

8. ALICE MULLINS born between Jan 1573 and 1574 in England Very little is known about her.  She is named in the will of William Mullins, which he had written for him on the day of his death, 21 February 1620/1. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is a tenth generation descendant of ALICE MULLINS:

^16th. WILLIAM MULLINS Pilgrim\

PRISCILLA MULLINS, REBECCA ALDEN, SARAH DELANO, THOMAS DREW, JEMIMA DREW, THOMAS BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS,

ALICE MULLINS/ SARAH BARROWS PRATT, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

9. PRISCILLA MULLINS was born May 1600, probably in Dorking, Surrey, England to William and Alice Mullins.  She, her parents, and her brother Joseph all came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620.  Her entire family, accept her, died during the first winter. In 1622 or 1623 she married JOHN ALDEN .  John and Priscilla lived in Plymouth until the late 1630s, when they helped found the neighboring town of Duxbury. John and Priscilla had ten or eleven children, and have an enormous number of descendants, including poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and Vice President Dan Quayle.

10.  JOHN ALDEN Pilgrim  was born about 1598, probably in England. Said to have originated from an Alden family residing in Harwich, Essex, England, 
that was related by marriage to the Mayflower’s master Christopher Jones. He was about 21 years old when he was hired in Southampton to be the cooper, or 
barrel-maker, for the Mayflower’s voyage to America because an act of Parliament (1543) required that a ship carrying beer should have a cooper aboard to replace lost  "barrel-stock". He was given the option to stay in America, or return to England; he decided to stay.1 He was the 7th signer of the Mayflower Compact. See: The Alden Halberd.

At Plymouth, he quickly rose up from his common seaman status to be a prominent member of the Colony.  About 1622 or 1623, he married PRISCILLA MULLINS, the orphaned daughter of WILLIAM MULLINS Pilgrim and ALICE MULLINS. Their originalhomesite was located on Fort Hill. The legend of the rivalry between Miles Standish and John Alden for the hand of Priscilla Mullins was first published in Rev. Timothy Alden's 1814 Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions.   The courtship of the two is romanticized in the William Wadsworth Longfellow poem “The courtship of Myles Standish”. They had their first child, Elizabeth, around 1624, and would have ten more children over the next twenty years. Their second child was REBECCA ALDEN was born before 1649 in Duxbury.

She married THOMAS DELANO Dr, born March 21,1642 in Duxbury, between January and Oct. 30 1667 in Duxbury. He is called "doctor" in the court's administration of his estate; and as "tailor of Duxbury" when he sold some land on Nov. 16 1711. He was a surveyor of public highways in 1676 and elected constable in 1691. Thomas’ father Phillip arrived in Plymouth in 1621 on the Fortune. She was unmarried when she conceived her first child. Their seventh child was SARAH DELANO was born about 1681

In 1623 came a division of the land whereby each man would have a farm of his own, large enough to support his family. Where previously a man had a house on a small lot and a one-acre field, he now was to have twenty acres for each one in his household. From this time on a man could plan, could prosper by his own efforts, could have property to bequeath to his sons. The farm grants had to run along the shore since there was no good farmland to the west, and each man drew his location by lot. John Alden drew a grant “on the other side of the bay”, along Blue Fish River, a one hundred acre grant, good land and a good location. Just what month or what year the Aldens moved to their farm is uncertain, as they first came only in the summer growing months; but it was soon apparent that it would be their permanent home. By 1632, John Alden, along with many other settlers, had decided to stay on the new land all year round and the Plymouth Colony very reluctantly agreed.

In 1627, the colony bought out their backers, the Merchant Adventurers, and owned their settlement outright except for a debt of 1800 pounds, a sort of mortgage to be paid off at the rate of 200 pounds a year. In order to contract for this purchase the Pilgrims formed a group to called the Undertakers, since they undertook the responsibility for payment on behalf of the colony. Among the undertakers, right along with the ablest men was John Alden, a fact that puts him as early as 1627 among the leaders in Plymouth. 2

John Alden was one of the earliest freemen in the Colony, was elected as an Assistant to the Governor and Plymouth Court as early as 1631, and was regularly re-elected throughout the 1630s.  He also became involved in administering the trading activities of the Colony on the Kennebec River. In1634 He witnessed a trading dispute escalate into a double killing in Boston Harbor. Moses Talbot of Plymouth Bay Colony was shot at point-blank range by trespasser John Hocking from Maine, who was then shot and killed when other Plymouth men returned fire.  The Massachusetts Bay Colony held John Alden in custody for a few days while the two colonies debated who had jurisdiction to investigate the murders.  Myles Standish came to Boston for Alden and argued so strongly in defense of his friend that Alden was set free. The language used by Standish bordered on insult, and clashed so rudely with the dignity of the Puritan Boston magistrates that their return to Plymouth was welcomed. 

Alden, and several other families, including the Myles Standish and GEORGE SOULE families, founded the town of Duxbury in the early1630s and by 1633 John and Priscilla were living there on a 169-acre farm. In the 1650s, he built the house at left, in Duxbury, which still stands today.  Eventually John Alden sold his land in Plymouth and his unoccupied house there reverted to the colony, breaking his land ties with the first town. Colonel John Alden owned a Negro slave, named Hampshire, who was, married, April 16th, 1718, to Mary Jones, an Indian Woman. Alden served as Duxbury’s deputy to the Plymouth Court throughout the 1640s, and served on several committees, including the Committee on Kennebec Trade, and sat on several Councils of War.  He also served as colony treasurer and was a soldier under Captain Standish. He was among the largest taxpayers.

By the 1660s, Alden’s frequent public service, combined with his large family of wife and ten children, began to cause his estate to languish, so the Plymouth Court provided him a number of land grants and cash grants to better provide for his family. He was the assistant to Governor Josiah Winslow during the King Phillip’s War. Throughout the 1670s, Alden began distributing his land holdings to his surviving sons.  When Governor Josiah Winslow died unexpectedly in Dec.1680, John Alden as Senior Assistant would normally have succeeded to the Governorship. He was then eighty years old and infirm. Priscilla persuaded him to pass up the honor. He died in 1687 at the age of 89, the last surviving signer of the Mayflower Compact and one of the last surviving Mayflower passengers. See: Alden Joined Cupboard.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is a ninth generation descendant of John Alden:

^17th. JOHN ALDEN Pilgrim=>REBECCA ALDEN, SARAH DELANO, THOMAS DREW, JEMIMA DREW, THOMAS BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS,\

SARAH BARROWS PRATT, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

11. JAMES CHILTON Pilgrim, a tailor by trade, came on the Mayflower with his wife Susanna and daughter Mary. He was the 24^th signer of the Mayflower Compact. He was born about 1556 and probably raised in Canterbury, Kent, England and around 1600 moved to Sandwich, England. By 1615, James and at least some of his children were living in Leyden, Holland. On 28 Apr 1619, James Chilton and his daughter Isabella were caught in an anti-Armenian riot and James was hit in the head with a large stone and required the services of the town surgeon, Jacob Hey. He was the oldest Mayflower passenger, and died on Dec. 18,1620 aboard “MAYFLOWER”, in Cape Cod Harbor (Provincetown), Massachusetts.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is a 13^th generation descendant of JAMES CHILTON Pilgrim through his daughter, MARY CHILTON II.

12. SUSANNA CHILTON came on the Mayflower and died shortly after James, leaving their daughter orphaned.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is a 13^th generation descendant of SUSANNA CHILTON/ through her daughter, MARY CHILTON II.

13. MARY CHILTON II born: Before May 31,1607 in Sandwich, Kent, England came on the Mayflower at the young age of 13, and legend has it she was the first female to step ashore at Plymouth. Mary Chilton’s landing on Plymouth Rock has been celebrated in story and in art. The Landing of the Pilgrims, painted in 1877 by Henry Bacon and showing Mary Chilton landing on Plymouth Rock, is on exhibit at Pilgrim Hall Museum. appendix

After the death of her parents she probably joined the household of Myles Standish. MARY CHILTON II married JOHN WINSLOW in Plymouth after July 1623 and before the May 22, 1627 Division of Cattle, when their names appear together. JOHN WINSLOW, brother of mayflower passenger Edward WINSLOW Pilgrim*, arrived in Plymouth in 1621 on the “Fortune”. Many records indicate John Winslow was an active leader of the early Plymouth community. After Aug 1653 James and Mary Chilton Winslow moved to Boston.   The place of their first residence is not known.  On Sept. 19, 1671, John Winslow bought, for the sum of 500 pounds in New England silver money, "the Mansion or dwelling-house of the Late Antipas Voice. On June 16, 1671, John and Mary transferred their church membership from Plymouth to the Third Church in Boston (Third Church is now called Old South Church; the present Old South Meeting House was built about 50 years after Mary Chilton's death). At the time of his death, John Winslow was one of the wealthiest merchants in Boston.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is a 12^th generation descendant of MARY CHILTON II through two lines:

^18th. MARY CHILTON II, SUSANNA WINSLOW, ROBERT LATHAM, MERCY LATHAM, ISAAC HARRIS, SAMUEL HARRIS, ABIGAIL HARRIS, JEMIMA DREW\ THOMAS BARROWS, MARY 'Polly' WASHBURN, SARAH BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS PRATT, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

^19th. MARY CHILTON II, SUSANNA WINSLOW, HANNAH LATHAM, EPHRAIM WASHBURN, WILLIAM WASHBURN, MARY 'Polly' WASHBURN\ SARAH BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS PRATT, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

14. GEORGE SOULE Pilgrim (George Soule)came on the Mayflower as a servant and/or teacher to Edward Winslow’s children, indicating he was less than 25 years old at the time; He was the 35^th signer of the Mayflower Compact. Since he did sign the Mayflower Compact, it suggests he was over 21.  This puts his birth year at around 1595-1599.  This matches well with his apparent marriage date of around 1625 at Plymouth. By the May 1627 Division of Cattle, he was married to MARY BECKETT born 17 JAN 1599 in Donyat, Somersetshire, England, who came over on the Anne and was married before 1627 in Plymouth. The marriage was established through the record of sale, by George Soule of that acre of land granted to her as a passenger, which he could do as her husband. He lived at or near a muddy pond. He was on the 1633 Freeman’s list. They had nine children.

George Soule’s origins in England have not been proved.  The most promising record found to date is the baptism of a George Soule on 9 February 1595 at Tingrith, Bedford, son of William.  or he was born in1590 in Donyat, Somersetshire, England. He was orphaned when fire destroyed his home and was brought up by his brother Robert SOULE of Selter Co. Other Soule families using the name George can also be found in Sudbury, Suffolk, and Flitwick, Bedford.

George Soule, Capt. Myles STANDISH and JOHN ALDEN laid out the first town, Duxbury, and are buried there. George Soule and family moved to Duxbury very early on. He was Deputy to the General Court from Duxbury beginning in 1642 and in 1642 was a deputy for Duxbury. He was taxed in 1633/34 and, independent of Winslow, had removed to Duxbury before 1643.

      One important duty to which he was called was as a collaborator with Governor Prince, Winslow and Constant Southworth, in the revision of the Colonial Laws. This position was one of great responsibility and required the exercise of superior ability. Few were the men in the settlement at the time who were possessed with the scholarship and judgment equivalent to such a task; and the result was evidence of his erudition and application.
He had volunteered for the Pequot War of 1637, but Plymouth’s troops were not needed.  He was a representative 1645 and some yrs. later, an original proprietor of Bridgewater. In 1652 he was among the purchasers of Dartmouth. He was on various committees, juries, and survey teams, during his life in Duxbury.  In 1646, for example, he was appointed to the committee to deal with Duxbury’s problem of the disorderly smoking of tobacco. In 1668, he gave an estate in Middleborough to John Haskins and Francis Walker who were his sons-in-law, married respectively to his daughters, Patience and Elizabeth.

He died before Jan. 22, 1678/79 or, he died “shortly before February 1, 1680” in Duxbury. George Soule made out his will on August 11, 1677, and added a codicil to it on September 20, 1677.  The codicil is quite interesting as it gives a little insight into a family squabble between son John and daughter Patience. “If my son John Soule, shall at any time disturb my daughter Patience, in peaceable possession or enjoyment of the lands I have given her at Nemasket alias Middleboro and recover the same from her, then my gift to my son, John Soule, shall be void. Then my will is: my daughter Patience shall have all my lands at Duxbury and she shall be my sole executrix of this my last will and testament and enter into my housing lands and meadows at Duxbury.” There is a marker for George Soule at Duxbury which reads: "Nearby Rests George Soule, Pilgrim, A signer of The Mayflower Compact on Nov 11th 1620, who died in January 1679-80. Erected by Soule Kindred 1971." The Plymouth Genealogy Society isn't sure where he's buried but believes he was buried on his property. Being a founder of the town, he was given a place in the cemetery.

        His first child Zachariah settled on his land at the 'Gurnett Meadows'." [Powder Point]. He was made a Freeman June 7, 1653; Surveyor of highways, 1655; Grand juryman, 1658 and was lost in the Canada Expedition, 1663.

       His fifth child Elizabeth Born in 1662, fell from grace by committing adultery with Nathanial Church, to whom she was engaged to be married; he refusing to fulfill the compact, they were both convicted of the criminal act and each was fined 5 lbs. However the alliance was continued and for the second offence both were publicly brought to the whipping post and the lash applied. Refusing to recognize his obligation to take her as his wife, she sued him for breach of promise for the sum of 100 lbs. He was convicted by the court, and the jury awarded her 10 lbs and costs of suit. She was subsequently married to Francis Walker, previous to 1663."

        It is curious that Nathanial church was the younger brother of Capt. Benjamin Church who played a prominent part in the war with the Narragansett Indians and led the force which hunted King Philip to his death on August 12, 1675. Their mother was Elizabeth WARREN. The grandson of Capt. Church was Colonel Benjamin Church (August 24, 1734 – 1776), the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army July 27, 1775 - October 17, 1775. Church's loyalty to the American Revolution fell under suspicion, and he was forced from office in public disgrace, convicted of communicating with the enemy.

     Benjamin SOULE , the youngest of 8 children of George Soule, was born about 1651 in Duxbury . He died March 26, 1676 in King Phillips War at Pawtucket. buried Mar 1676 in Duxbury. *Soule, Sowle, and Soulis History : "Benjamin Soule was one of the 'impressed soldiers' called out by the Plymouth Colony on February 8, 1675-6, and under the command of Capt. Michael Pierce was engaged in the ill-fated battle against outnumbering Indians who out-generaled him, led him with his men into a cunningly arranged ambuscade and hewed them to pieces. From the town of Scituate fifteen were slain; from Marshfield, nine were slain; from Duxbury, four were killed, among them Benjamin Soule." (full account of the battle: Addresses and poem in commemoration of the Captain Michael Pierce Fight, March 26, 1676: Memorial services at Central Falls, Rhode Island, October 15, 1904. Dedication of monument, September 21, 1907 )

       On Sunday morning March 26, 1676, after receiving word that a party of the enemy lay near Blackstone's house at Study Hill in Cumberland, Capt. Michael Pierce marched from Rehoboth, leading a company of 63 English and 20 friendly Wampanoag Indians. Pierce was commissioned a Captain by the Colony Court in 1669.

        Upon reaching a ravine near Attleborough Gore on the Blackstone River above Pawtucket Falls, his company were ambushed by about 500 to 700 Narragansett led by chief sachem Canonchet. According to an account related by Hon. Edwin C. Pierce of Providence, the English retreated across the river to set up a defense on the west bank (now part of the City of Central Falls), but were attacked by a blocking force of about 300 Indians. Pierce formed his men into a circle and they continued to fight in ever decreasing numbers for about two hours, until only a few remained. Pierce was killed early in the battle. A few of the Wampanoags managed to escape by disguising themselves as attackers. Nine English were captured and taken to a spot in Cumberland, now called Nine Men's Misery, where they were tortured to death. Arriving too late, a relief force found and buried the bodies of the nine. A few days later, Canonchet was captured and executed. In this engagement, as many were killed as at the Battle in the Swamp, near Narraganset, which were generally computed to be above three Hundred.

       ANNIE ELMA SISSON is a ninth generation descendant of John's second child: JOHN SOULE, born about 1632 in Plymouth. John became a freeman in 1653. He died in 1707 at age 75. John and his wife Esther's gravestones are standing in the old Duxbury cemetery, leaning, and weather-beaten.

^20th. GEORGE SOULE Pilgrim => JOHN SOULE, SARAH SOULE, MARY WRIGHT, JONATHAN GIFFORD, DELE GIFFORD, GIDEON CORNELL, PARDON CORNELL, JOSEPH WING CORNELL, LYDIA ALMY CORNELL, ANNIE ELMA SISSON

And ANNIE ELMA SISSON is a ninth generation descendant of his fourth child: GEORGE SOULE II, born: About 1639 probably in Duxbury:

^21st. GEORGE SOULE Pilgrim => GEORGE SOULE II, WILLIAM SOULE, SARAH SOULE, HANNAH HOWLAND, DAVID SISSON, ISAAC SISSON, CHRISTOPHER GIFFORD SISSON, ANNIE ELMA SISSON,

15- JOHN WINSLOW

JOHN WINSLOW was born at Droitwich, England, in 1597. He was a passenger on the Fortune, arriving at Plymouth in 1621. His brothers, Gov. Edward WINSLOW Pilgrim and Gilbert Winslow, were passengers on the Mayflower, arriving at Plymouth in 1620. Two other Winslow brothers, Kenelm and Josiah, also settled in New England, arriving before 1632.

     Gilbert Winslow was the only person under the age of 21 who signed the Mayflower Compact. According to William Bradford, writing in 1651, Gilbert Winslow lived in Plymouth for "divers years", before he "returned into England and died there." In 1663, the Plymouth Court acknowledged Gilbert Winslow, deceased, was a first-comer and his heirs could seek out and purpose a plot of land to the Court. The estate inventory of Kenelm Winslow, mentions that he and his brother JOHN WINSLOW were granted Gilbert Winslow's land. This grant of their brothers land no doubt helped in their future financial success.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is an 8^th and 11^th generation descendant of JOHN WINSLOW through two lines:

WILLIAM LATHAM, ROBERT LATHAM \ MERCY LATHAM, ISAAC HARRIS, SAMUEL HARRIS, ABIGAIL HARRIS, JEMIMA DREW, THOMAS BARROWS\

<                                                                                                                                             SARAH BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS PRATT, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

JOHN WINSLOW\ HANNAH LATHAM, EPHRAIM WASHBURN,   WILLIAM WASHBURN, MARY 'Polly' WASHBURN/                                                                                                                                                          SUSANNA WINSLOW/

MARY CHILTON II/

     John and Mary Winslow had ten children : John, SUSANNA, Mary, Edward, Sarah, Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, an unnamed child who died young, and Benjamin. The youngest of these, Benjamin, is the only child whose birth is listed in the Records of Plymouth Colony.

     John Winslow was a leading landowner and merchant in the early decades of the colony. According to colony records, He was a Purchaser and was on the1633 Freemans List. On July 31 1633, the Court noted that John Beaven had covenanted to serve John Winslow for six years. On July 23 1634, Mr Timothy Hathery turned over his servant Ephraim Tinkham to John Winslow for the rest of his term. On March 3 1634-5 he was on the Committee to assess colonists for the cost of the watch and other charges. He served on various committees and juries as a Deputy for Plymouth. In 1652, John Winslow was one of the original purchasers of Dartmouth from Massasoit, including: Mr. William Bradford, Captain Standish, Thomas Southworth, John Winslow, JOHN COOKE, and their associates, the purchasers or old comers. In 1653, he was appointed to the Council of War.

     Around -1655, Sometime after the birth of Benjamin, John and Mary Winslow moved to Boston.   John Winslow was a neighbor and surely a close associate of John Winthrop, the prominent Puritan and first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1630. "The land along Washington Street, between Milk Street and Spring Lane, belonged originally to John Winthrop, who built his house there in order to be conveniently near the spring of clear water from which Spring Lane derives its name. In the winter of 1775 Winthrop’s house was pulled down by the British troops, to be burnt at their camp-fires. Under its thatched roof the governor often entertained the envoys and chiefs of the adjacent Indian tribes, and conciliated them by diplomatic feasts."

     The place of their first residence is not known, though they did live for some time at Marshfield on the Careswell Estate of his brother Edward. He became a wealthy Merchant and ship owner, though he still retained his lands in Plymouth. In 1662, he was on the list of 'first born' men of Plymouth to share in land distribution.

    On the 16th of June, 1671, John and Mary transferred their church membership from Plymouth to the Third Church in Boston (Third Church is now called Old South Church; the present Old South Meeting House was built about 50 years after Mary Chilton's death).

     On the 19th of September, 1671, John Winslow bought, for the sum of 500 pounds in New England silver money, "the Mansion or dwelling-house of the Late Antipas Voice with the gardens wood-yard and Backside as it is scituate lying and being in Boston aforesaid as it is nowe fenced in And is fronting & Facing to the Lane going to mr John Jolliffes." The Winslows lived in this house until the death of John Winslow in 1674 and Mary Chilton Winslow in 1679. The house (which would have been on Spring Lane) no longer exists. Across Washington Street from School Street there is a short pedestrian lane, marked “Spring Lane.” This marks the old path to Boston’s source of fresh water in the seventeenth century. At the end of the lane where it meets Devonshire Street there is now a tablet in the wall to Mary Chilton Winslow, the only Mayflower passenger who ever lived in Boston. Spring Lane is located in Boston's Downtown Historic District.

     At the time of his death in 1674, John Winslow was one of the wealthiest merchants in Boston. See: his will and the inventory of his estate, which was valued at 2,946 pounds.

    John's daughter SUSANNA WINSLOW was born between 1625 and 1630 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. She died on 14 Nov 1685 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. She was married to Robert Latham in 1649 in Plymouth. Robert Latham was born about 1613 in England (Prob). Father?: William LATHAM, Pilgrim.

He was appointed constable in 1653 in Marshfield (Civil, Military & Professional Lists of Plymouth Colony.) He lived first in Cambridge, later moved to Plymouth and then to Marshfield before he and his wife moved to East Bridgewater. (all in MA)

Savage: He notes that "Mitchell" thinks him son of William of the Mayflower." According to Banks in "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers" William came as a servant in 1620, was taxed in Plymouth in 1632, and later resided in Duxbury. William returned to England after 1641. Savage adds that he was a boy under Carver's charges, and for the division of lands in 1624, was of Duxbury between 1637-9 and Marshfield from 1643-1648, and that (quoting Bradford) "after so long residing here, he went home to England thence to the Bahamas, where he died of starvation." We give Robert to William Latham only as a matter of study. There is no proof to date.

    On March 4,1654/55 Robert Latham was indicted for felonious cruelty to his servant John Walker, age about fourteen, by unreasonable correction, by withholding necessary food and clothing, and by exposing Walker to extremities of the seasons, whereby he died.(Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, FASG. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691.) " On 31 January 1654/55 a coroner's jury was called to view the body of Latham's servant boy, John Walker." The jury found: that the body of John Walker was blackish and blew, and the skine broken in divers places from the middle to the haire of his head, viz, all his backe with stripes given him by his master, Robert Latham, as Robert himselfe did testify; and also wee found a bruise of his left arme, and one of his left hipp, and one great bruise of his brest; and there was the knuckles of one hand and one of his fingers frozen, and alsoe both his heeles frozen, and one of the heeles the flesh was much broken, and alsoe one of his little toes frozen and very much perished, and one of his great toes frozen, and alsoe the side of his foot frozen; and alsoe, upon the reviewing the body, wee found three gaules like holes in the hames, which wee formerly, the body being frozen, thought they had been holes; and alsoe wee find that the said John was forced to carry a logg which was beyond his strength, which hee indeavoring to doe, the logg fell upon him, and hee, being downe, had a stripe or two, as Joseph Beedle doth testify; and wee find that it was some few daies before his death; and wee find, by the testimony of John Howland and John Adams, that heard Robert Latham say that hee gave John Walker som stripes that morning before his death; and alsoe wee find the flesh much broken of the knees of John Walker, and that he did want sufficient food and clothing and lodging, and that the said John did constantly wett his bedd and his cloathes, lying in them, and so suffered by it, his clothes being frozen about him; and that the said John was put forth in the extremity of cold, though thuse unabled by lamenes and sorenes to performe what was required; and therefore in respect of crewelty and hard usage he died.

      The trial jury found him guilty of "manslaughter by chaunce medley," and he was sentenced to be burned in the hand and, having no lands, to have all his personal property confiscated. Latham's wife, Susanna, was presented by the grand jury for being in great measure guilty with her husband in exercising extreme cruelty toward their late servant John Walker. In her case, however, the presentment continued without trial for three years, until the court on 1 June 1658 ordered that she would be held for trial if anyone wished to prosecute her for the offense, but no one came forth, and the court ordered the presentment erased from the records.22"

     The focus of Plymouth law seemed to be deterrence, not vengeance. This is shown by the number of killings in which the jury found "misadventure," and the defendant was freed.

     1657 Robert Latham takes the Oath of Fidelity, Marshfield, MA (History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater) 1667 Robert Latham settles in East Bridgewater (History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater) 1670 Robert Latham is appointed Surveyor of Highways (Civil,Military and Professional Lists of Plymouth Colony) 1672 He is appointed Constable in Bridgewater (Civil, Military and Professional Lists of Plymouth Colony) Robert Latham died before Feb 1688/89 in East Bridgewater, MA and is buried there. 

15. Edward WINSLOW Pilgrim, (1595-1655) was a Mayflower passenger and a leader of the Plymouth Colony. He served as an ambassador to the Wampanoag, wrote several books about Plymouth Colony, and served 3 terms as governor.

Edward Winslow was the brother of JOHN WINSLOW and brother in law of MARY CHILTON II. He was the wealthy owner of a salt boilery. He was born in Droitwich, Worcester, England in 1595.  He was the eldest son of Edward Winslow, the salt maker in Droitwich and his wife Magdalene Oliver. He worked at his fathers’ brine works and was educated at King’s School at Worcester Cathedral. Afterwards he spent four years as an apprentice printer in London, where he became associated with William Brewster. Later he became a printer in his own right.

He was traveling in the Low Countries, for unknown reasons and subsequently became acquainted with the Pilgrims' church in Leiden.  He was married in Leiden in 1618 to Elizabeth Barker, and was called a printer of London at the time.  It is quite possible he was assisting William Brewster and Thomas Brewer in their publishing of religious books that were illegal in England. Edward Winslow and wife Elizabeth came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620.  He was the third signer of the Mayflower Compact. He was the leader of the exploratory parties sent out to find a place for a permanent settlement. Elizabeth died the first winter, and Edward remarried to the widowed Mrs. Susanna White, on 12 May 1621--the first marriage in the Plymouth Colony.

Winslow quickly became one of the more prominent men in the colony.  He was on many of the early explorations of Cape Cod, and led a number of expeditions to meet and trade with the Indians.  He cultivated a lifelong personal friendship with Chief Massasoit, which was influential in maintaining the peace treaty with the natives that lasted forty years. He was a scholar and prolific writer. He wrote several first-hand accounts of these early years, including portions of A Relation or Journal of the Proceedings of the Plantation Settled at Plymouth (London, 1622) and the entirety of Good News from New England (London, 1624).

Edward Winslow was the pilgrim’s diplomat and publicist. He defended the Plymouth and later Massachusetts Bay Colonies from their opponents and adversaries in England. He made several trips back and forth between England and Massachusetts, including trips in 1623/4 when he brought the first cattle back to America., 1630, and 1635. On one occasion, he was arrested and thrown into the Fleet Prison in London by his adversaries, on grounds that he performed marriage ceremonies without being ordained. The Pilgrims viewed marriage as an event to be handled by the civil magistrates, not by the Church.  Winslow returned to England shortly after the English Civil War, and published a couple of pamphlets in defense of the New England colonies, including Hypocrisy Unmasked (1646) and New England's Salamander Discovered (1647).  He also wrote the introduction to the Glorious Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England (1649).

In Plymouth, he held a number of political offices. He was routinely elected an Assistant to Governor William Bradford from 1625 - 1633. Winslow was then elected Governor of Plymouth on three occasions: 1633, 1636, and 1644.  After Winslow returned to England in 1646 as an agent of the Colony, he served Cromwell on several Parliamentary committees. While serving as a Commissioner for Oliver Cromwell, he was one of the commanders of a military expedition on to retrieve English ships in the West Indies that had been captured by the Dutch and to retake the islands of Jamaica and Hispaniola from the Dutch. Winslow died of fever in 1655 at sea on the journey between Jamaica and Hispaniola, and was buried at sea.

(left) Edward Winslow. By an anonymous artist, school of Robert Walker. Painted in London, 1651. Material : Oil on canvas. The portrait of Edward Winslow is the only likeness of a Pilgrim made from life. It was painted by an unknown English artist in 1651 when the 57-year-old Winslow was joined in London by his son Josiah on the occasion of Josiah's wedding to Penelope Pelham. Josiah and Penelope also had their portraits painted at this time.

Edward Winslow is depicted holding a letter. The only portion that is legible is the inscription at the bottom which reads "From yr loving wife Susanna". Susanna White Winslow did not accompany her husband Edward on his travels but remained at home at the family's estate, Careswell, in the Plymouth Colony town of Marshfield. Edward Winslow is shown wearing black and white (it used to be thought that the Mayflower passengers wore only those colors). When Winslow was painted in 1651, black was very fashionable and expensive. In 1620, however, when the Pilgrims came to America, colors were fashionable. more biography

Josiah Winslow (1628-1680) was the son of Mayflower passengers Edward Winslow and Susanna White Winslow. Josiah studied at Harvard but left without a degree. He was introduced into public life at an early age by his father.

    Josiah Winslow journeyed to England in 1651 and, while in England, married Penelope Pelham. Both Josiah and Penelope had their portraits painted in London, as did Josiah's father Edward Winslow. Josiah, returned to Plymouth with Penelope in 1655. Edward remained in England, never to return to America.

(left) Josiah Winslow Painted in London, 1651.                                                                      (right) Penelope Winslow Painted in London, 1651.

     These portraits of Josiah Winslow and his wife, Penelope Pelham Winslow, show a couple of wealth and prominence. Their elegance was unknown to the first generation of settlers. Along with the painting of Edward Winslow (above), these paintings form one of the earliest groups of American family portraits.

    When he returned to Plymouth in 1652, at age 24 Josiah was appointed militia commander of Marshfield, and in 1657 he was appointed assistant governor of the Plymouth colony. In 1658 he became one of the colony's commissioners in the New England Confederation's directorate, and later he was chosen commander-in-chief of Plymouth's military forces, succeeding Myles Standish. As commander, he labored to prevent Indian uprisings. In 1672 he became a signatory to the new governing articles of the New England Confederation.

     Winslow was elected governor of Plymouth in 1673, becoming the first Plymouth-born governor of the colony. He served as governor from 1673 until his death in 1680. One of his early administrative actions was establishing the first public school in the colony. When King Philip's War erupted in 1675, he became commander-in-chief of the forces of the New England Confederation. Although he defeated the rebellious Indians in a battle and burned many of their villages, his losses were high and illness obliged him to relinquish his command to Captain Benjamin Church in February 1676.

     Unlike his father Edward, Josiah was not a friend of the native Americans. During an Interview with Nathaniel Philbrick in answer to the question: Who was at fault in King Philip’s War?, the noted author answered: "I see the outbreak of violence in June 1675 as a failure of leadership on both sides. King Philip (Metacomet) and Governor Josiah Winslow had an intense personal hatred for one another, and Winslow was loath to open up the lines of communication that might have made peace possible. He had also spearheaded the aggressive series of land purchases that had done much to increase tensions amid the Indians throughout the colony."

     On November 2,1675, Josiah Winslow led a force from Plymouth to attack the Narragansett tribe. The Narragansetts had not yet been involved in the war, but they occupied desirable land throughout the colonies, and the colonial view was that any Indian was an enemy. Several Indian towns were burned, and in December the Narrargansett stronghold near modern South Kingstown, Rhode Island was taken. This is known as the Great Swamp Fight, or the Great Swamp Massacre. About 300 Indians were killed and winter stores destroyed, but most of the warriors escaped into the swamp. Facing a winter without food and shelter, the Narragansett joined the uprising.

     In the preface to his book Mayflower, Mr. Philbrick states: "In 1676, fifty-six years after the sailing of the Mayflower, a similarly named but far less famous ship, the Seaflower, departed from the shores of New England. Like the Mayflower, she carried a human cargo. But instead of 102 potential colonists, the Seaflower was bound for the Caribbean with 180 Native American slaves.  Josiah Winslow had provided the Seaflower’s captain with the necessary documentation. In a certificate bearing his official seal, Winslow explained that these Native men, women, and children had joined in an uprising against the colony and were guilty of “many notorious and execrable murders, killings, and outrages.” As a consequence, these “heathen malefactors” had been condemned to perpetual slavery."

    In 1677 he successfully satisfied the inquiries into the colony's activities by Edward Randolph, investigative agent for the Lords of Trade. He was in the process of negotiating a new charter from crown officials in England at the time of his death, Dec. 18, 1680 in Marshfield, where he was buried.

             end Winslows 

16. GEORGE MORTON (1),145 a merchant, came to Plymouth on the Anne in 1623. He is included here for sake of interest that his name survives in the Sherman family, the important role he played in the early Plymouth colony and the interesting role of his descendants in Massachusetts’s history. Some of his descendants married into families of Mayflower passengers. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is descended separately through each of his parents from two children of GEORGE MORTON (1)

^22nd. /EPHRAIM MORTON Deacon, GEORGE MORTON Deacon, TIMOTHY MORTON, CHARLES MORTON, JOB MORTON\

GEORGE MORTON (1) ABIGAIL MORTON\

MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN\

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

^23rd.

^{GEORGE MORTON (1)}

\SARAH MORTON, RUTH BONUM, GEORGE BARROWS, PELEG BARROWS, PELEG BARROWS II, THOMAS BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS PRATT/

George Morton (1) was born Aug. 1583 in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England Note: or Bantry, Nottinghamshire, England. He was baptized March 17, 1584 in St. James Church, Bath, Somerset, England. His father was ANTHONY MORTON, a wealthy Catholic gentleman born 1521 in Bawtry, Yorkshire, England. His mother was ANNE or ISOLD PLUMPTON born before 1539 in Waterton, Yorkshire, England. William BREWSTER Pilgrim converted him to Puritanism when he was very young. He was a member of the Scrooby congregation before their emigration and either went to Holland with them or followed them after a residence at York. He is one of the three emigrants to America who can be traced to the Scrooby district, the others being Brewster and William Bradford. Before that, he was said to be a merchant of Harworth, Notts, and to have come to Austerfield, Yorks. A Thomas Morton, Jr., came over in the Ann the same year and his father; Thomas Morton came over in the Fortune in 1621.

He married JULIANA CARPENTER born about 1584 in Bath, Somerset, England, on July 23, 1612 in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands. An entry in his marriage record says George Morton was possessed of considerable means.

George Morton (1) “served as an agent in London for the Mayflower. He reportedly published the first news of the Pilgrim’s settlement in New England in 1622 "Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth" He came to Plymouth in the ‘Ann’ in 1623, traveling with Manasseh Kempton, and perhaps a brother, Thomas. Juliana (his wife) was perhaps the sister-in-law of Gov. William Bradford, William taking for his second wife Alice (Carpenter) Southworth, widow of Edward and reportedly sister to Juliana. The division of land in 1624 shows George and his family counted with Experience Mitchell to make a total of eight.

“George died less than ten months after his arrival, leaving a wife and five children.” His passing was noted in NEW ENGLAND MEMORIAL, written by his son Nathaniel. “(Mr. George Morton) was a pious gracious Servant of God, and very faithful in whatsoever public employment he was entrusted withal. He was an unfeigned well-willer, & according to his Sphere and Condition, a suitable promoter of the Common Good and Growth of the Plantation of New-Plimouth. He labored to still the Discontents that sometimes would arise amongst some spirits, by occasion of the difficulties of these new beginnings; but it pleased God to put a period to his days soon after his arrival in New-England, not surviving a full year after his coming ashore. With much comfort and peace he fell asleep in the Lord in the Month of June, 1624.” in Plympton.

He is on a March 1999 list of “Some Plymouth Families with connections to Scituate”.

Information from another source (Internet) said he came to Plymouth in the “Little James” in 1623 along with Mrs. Juliana (Carpenter) Morton. “Hotten’s Lists” pp 29-30 and “The Planters of the Commonwealth”, p.55. has him, his wife, sons Nathaniel, John, Ephraim and possibly George, Jr. and daughters Patience and Sarah on the Anne. “The Planters lists George and Juliana on the Little James. The children are not mentioned in Planters.”

      Nathaniel, born about 1613. To him is due the good preservation of the archives of the Plymouth Colony. He was clerk of the colony court from 1645 to his death, June 29, 1685. He wrote the "First Beginnings and After Progress of the Church of Christ at Plymouth," which has preserved the early history of the first church established in New England. But the greatest work upon which his fame securely rests is "New England's Memorial," published at Cambridge, in 1669, frequently referred to as "the corner stone of New England history." It is a time-honored book, has passed through seven editions, and is an impartial history of the Pilgrim Fathers.

LT. EPHRAIM MORTON Deacon born 1623 at sea on the “Anne” was the youngest of their six children. He was first married to ANN COOPER born about 1627 on Nov. 18, 1644 in Plymouth.The Kempton Book gives her name as “Lydia Cooper” He was a prominent man, and served in the council of war, was prominent in the militia, appointed lieutenant in 1664, served in King Phillip’s War as Colonel of his regiment; was deputy to the general court for twenty-eight years, from 1657, and again under the new charter in 1692. He was deacon of the First Plymouth Church, “The church having not then a Deacon, the Elders called upon them to choose some to that office; Accordingly, after a church-meeting in Private some being Nominated, every brother speaking his mind man by man. On August 1, 1669 Robert Finney & Ephraim Morton were chosen Deacons in the public Assembly on the Sabbath, & then ordained by the Elders.”

He remarried to Mary SHELLEY on Oct. 18, 1692 in Plymouth and had no children by her. He died Oct. 7, 1693 in Plympton. “Plymouth Church Records”, “1693 Lieutenant Ephraim Morton, the Deacon died, October, 7; about 70 years of age. He was not only serviceable to the church in that office, but usually a Selectman & principally employed in the civil & military services of the town for many years. He was on a List of those able to bear Arms in New Plymouth. Some references call him Lt..” Also “Lieutenant Ephraim Morton, a Deacon, October, 7: in his 70^th year or 71^st” (for 1693) Plymouth VR 135 “September 5, 1693 or 1691 Aug.1, 1669 Plympton.

Lt. EPHRAIM MORTON Deacon b.1623, is also the ancestor through: Eleazer Morton Sr. born:1659, Nathaniel Morton Sr. born:1695, Nathaniel Morton Jr., born:1722, and  Nathaniel Morton , III, Esquire, Honorable born:1753, to:  Gov. Marcus Morton born: 1784, also

GEORGE MORTON Deacon, (104)born 1645, was the fourth child of Ephraim and Anne Morton. He is one of the 34 first purchasers of Dartmouth in 1652, though he was only a child at the time. He succeeded his father Ephriam as Deacon of First Plymouth Church, ordained March 25, 1694. He married on Dec 22, 1664, to JOANNA KEMPTON born Sept. 29, 1646 in Scituate. He and his wife were recorded as members of the church in 1703 and in 1724.

He died on Aug.2, 1727.Buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth. Epitaph: 'Here lyes ye Body of Deacon George Morton, who Decd August ye 2nd, 1727, in ye 82d year of his Age.'145
"Just at the summit of Burial Hill, and at a point to which the long flight of steps going up from the town naturally leads the visitor, is a row of four stones, made of slate, marking the graves of Deacon George Morton, his youngest son Thomas, his wife Joanna, and his brother Ephraim. That of George Morton has been bound in metal to preserve it from the effects of the weather, and to prevent its being broken by thoughtless persons who desire relics of this interesting spot."145
See: Morton Chest with Drawer.

TIMOTHY MORTON was their seventh child, born March 12, 1682 in Plymouth, baptized after March 12, 1682 in the First Church, Plymouth. He married MARY RICKARD born before 1688, in Plymouth on Jan.1 1713 or 1714 [”Perhaps Jan. 1, 1712]; [at least six children Plymouth, VR, 49-50] or 11 Jan. Kempton book says married 1 Jan 1713/4. This marriage is significant to the Morton/Sherman lineage because it marks a joining with Mary Rickard’s lineage of Mayflower passengers: Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins and Stephen Hopkins.

CHARLES MORTON was their first child, born Oct.17, 1714 in Plymouth. He married MARY SHATTUCK born March 9, 1720 in Plymouth, on April 28, 1737 in Plymouth. Note: Intention was: March 14, 1731.His second marriage on Dec. 15, 1737 in Kingston was to Mercy ELLIS born 1685. He died before April 28, 1747 in Plymouth. Note: (before 3 Aug 1747)

JOB MORTON, born in 1764, was the third child of Charles and Mary Morton. He married Patience Crocker, born 1764, on Nov. 5, 1789 in Carver.

Their second child ABIGAIL MORTON was born July 5, 1793 in Carver. She Married EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN on April 15, 1815 in Carver. Note: Martha S. Winters (mswinters@mindspring.com) has a picture of her. Death information confirmed by visit to Lakenham Cemetery, Linton Rd., Carver, June 1999: Stone reads: “Abigail Wife of Ebenezer Died Sept 20, 1856 Aged 63 yrs. 2 mo”. Death certificate lists her age as 63 yrs. Cause of death “Cancer” with no further detail. MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN was the sixth of their eight children. He married SARAH BARROWS PRATT on Dec. 10, 1856 in Middleborough. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD was the oldest of their five children

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24th.  GEORGE MORTON(1), EPHRAIM MORTON Deacon, GEORGE MORTON Deacon, TIMOTHY MORTON, CHARLES MORTON, JOB MORTON\                                                                ABIGAIL MORTON, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD

SARAH MORTON, born in 1618 in Donyat, Somersetshire, England or Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands, was the fourth of her parents’ six children. She emigrated to Plymouth with her parents and siblings in 1623 on the “Anne”. She married GEORGE BONUM born 1609/10, on Dec. 20 1644 in Plymouth. Martha winters has a picture of their house from: (Plym.Col.Rec.,2:79) RUTH BONUM was the second of their four children. She married ROBERT BARROWS Nov. 28 1666 in Plymouth. GEORGE BARROWS was the youngest of their three children. He married PATIENCE SIMMONS from Duxbury on Feb. 14 1694/95 in Plymouth. PELEG BARROWS was the younger of their two children. He Married HOPESTILL DARLING on Nov. 26, 1733 and lived in Carver to the age of 95.

The younger of their two children was PELEG BARROWS II who married JEMIMA DREW May 4, 1775 in Halifax, Ma. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Frank Morton Sherman, MD states "the Revolutionary marker is at his grave" MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS & SAILORS IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION Vol. 1, p. 700 lists:Barrows, Peleg -Plympton, Private in John Bridgham’s Company, Colonel Cottons regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 to Marshfield. Service 3 days.
Barrows, Peleg - Corporal, Capt. George Hammond's Company, commanded by Lieut. Joshua Perkins, Col. Thomas Lothrop's regiment Brigadier General Joseph Cushing's brigade; service 14 days, marched to Bristol, RI on an alarm. Roll dated Plympton. He was a yeoman per Delano Book. THOMAS BARROWS was the second of their eight children. He married MARY 'Polly' WASHBURN on Feb. 13, 1800 in Carver. SARAH BARROWS was the eldest of their five children. She married DAVID PRATT Dec.12 1824 in Barnstable, by Rev. Enoch Pratt. Dr. Frank Morton Sherman wrote in October 17, 1932 "I remember her (Sarah Varrows) very well as a member of my Aunt Mary Barrows' family & a frequent visitor for long periods at our house - a strong character, but gentle & much beloved by all her grandchildren. She seemed to be always knitting stockings & mittens for all the family."

SARAH BARROWS PRATT was the youngest of their four children. Betty Warberg has a picture of the house where she and her siblings were born. She married MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN on Dec. 10, 1856 in Middleborough. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD was the oldest of their five children.

^25th. SARAH MORTON

GEORGEMORTON\

SARAH MORTON, RUTH BONUM, GEORGE BARROWS, PELEG BARROWS, PELEG BARROWS II, THOMAS BARROWS, SARAH BARROWS, SARAH BARROWSPRATT\ FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

Footnote:

The right of every man
to a voice and an equal voice in the government over him,
is a natural and innate right.
It does not depend upon the accident of birth or the possession of property.
Gov. Morton's message, January, 1843. Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, Spruce St. N. Y.

Gov. Marcus Morton, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Acting: 1825, elected: 1840-1841, 1843-1844), was born on Dec. 19, 1784 at his parents’ home, a farm on the shore of Long Pond in Freetown. His father Nathaniel Morton, III, Esquire, Honorable was the only son of Nathaniel Morton, Jr. from Plymouth and Martha Upper from Sandwich. "The chronicle of the Pilgrims voyage to and settlement in America" was begun by Nathanial Morton, keeper of the records of Plymouth Colony, based on the account of William Bradford. The house where Hon. Nathaniel Morton resided, and where Governor Morton was born, is still standing. Marcus traced his heritage to the Pilgrims, when George Morton of the Plymouth Colony married Ann Southworth, who had also come over on the “Anne”. The modern Morton/Sherman family is related to Governor Morton only by having the same common ancestor: EPHRAIM MORTON Deacon

Lt. EPHRAIM MORTON Deacon b.1623, is the ancestor through: Eleazer Morton Sr. born:1659, Nathaniel Morton Sr. born:1695, Nathaniel Morton Jr., *born:1722, and  Nathaniel Morton , III, Esquire, Honorable born:1753, to:  Gov. Marcus Morton born: 1784 also, Hon. Marcus Morton born: 1819, Hon. James Madison Morton born: 1890.

*(During the Civil War, The Third Regiment, under Colonel, David W. Wardrop, of three months' troops, was composed of men from Norfolk, Plymouth, and Bristol Counties. When the call was made in 1862 for a draft of nine months' men, the regiment volunteered at once and rendezvoused at " Camp Joe Hooker," at Lakeville, and on October 22, 1862, left Boston for Newberne, N. C., under command of Col. Silas P. Richmond, of Freetown. The companies were officered as follows: Company A.-Captain, John W. Marble; First Lieutenant, Charles P. Lyon; Second Lieutenant, N. Morton (2d).)

 At an early age, Marcus Morton gave marked indications of talent and love of learning. This determined his father, a man of  great respectability and worth, to give his 
son a liberal education. Accordingly, at the age of fourteen years, he was placed, under the instruction of Rev. Calvin Chadwick, an accomplished teacher of Rochester, 
where he pursued classical studies with such industry and success as to enter Brown University in the autumn of 1801, a year in advance. He graduated in 1804 with the 
second appointment in his class, having the reputation of a talented, brilliant young man. 
 He at once commenced the study of law with Judge Padelford, of Taunton, but supplemented his studies with him in the Law School at Litchfield, Conn., then in charge
 of Judge Reeves, one of the most learned lawyers of his time. Here Mr. Morton was associated in study with John C. Calhoun and other men afterward of eminence, with 
whom he formed a lasting acquaintance. They expressed an admiration for the abilities of the student from Taunton.

On completing his course of study in Litchfield, Mr. Morton re-entered the office of Judge Padelford, and on being admitted to the bar showed such remarkable ability practicing law in Taunton that Governor Sullivan offered him the appointment of county attorney, which he honorably declined through his high respect and friendship for Judge Padelford, who then held the office. Marcus Morton married Charlotte Hodges on Dec. 23, 1807 in Taunton. They had eleven children.

In 1811, Governor Gerry appointed him Clerk of the State Senate, he accepted and held the office for six years. Some one who was familiar with his professional career
 at that period has said of him: “With the skill and vigilance of the faithful prosecutor were always blended the kinder feelings and sympathies of the man. A love of conviction,
 irrespective of the guilt of the accused, never was his governing motive. He had no less pleasure in the acquittal of the innocent than in the conviction of the guilty.” 
In 1816,he was elected as a Republican Representative to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1821, which was considered
 complimentary to a Democrat, as the district gave large federal majorities to candidates for other offices. He was Chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business
 (Sixteenth Congress) On the question of the admission of Missouri as a slaveholding State, Mr. Morton took ground against slavery. . He was a committed opponent of
 slavery and a supporter of the anti-slavery movement called the “Free-Soil Movement”. He was an unsuccessful candidate for  reelection to the Seventeenth Congress.
 He was appointed and served on the Commonwealth's Executive Council 1823-1824. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1824 on the ticket with Gov. William 
Eustis and after the death of Gov. Eustis he served as Governor between February and May in 1825. In 1825 he was re-elected Lieutenant-Governor on the ticket with 
Governor Lincoln, and in July, 1825 was appointed by Governor Lincoln a Judge of the Supreme Court. He received an Honorary Degree of LL. D. from Brown 
University in 1826. He was the Founder and President of the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance in 1826. He was an Overseer of Harvard College for
 thirty years. 
 Following his brief experience as acting Governor, Morton served as Judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court between 1825 and 1840. The distinguished ability
 with which he discharged his judicial duties for fifteen years gave him rank, among the ablest judges our State has ever produced, -the associate and peer of Shaw, Story, 
and Wilde.During this time, he mounted twelve unsuccessful candidacies for Governor and was finally elected in November 1839 by the thin margin of a single vote to defeat 
Edward Everett in the popular election. His judgeship expired when he entered on his office as Governor of the commonwealth, in 1840. 

The Whig party's John Davis handily defeated Gov. Morton in 1840. Gov. Morton was an early advocate for elimination of the death penalty. In his inaugural address in 1840, Gov. Marcus Morton recommended the substitution of a milder punishment for all remaining capital crimes cases except murder. He received an Honorary Degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1840.

He challenged Davis and lost again in 1841. In 1842, Morton challenged again and received a plurality of votes in which threw the election into the Senate, which elected him. In 1843, he recommended abolition of the death penalty in all cases. However, by 1852, laws were passed limiting the death penalty only for the crime of murder in the first degree. The next term he lost to Whig candidate, George Briggs, who achieved a plurality and victory in the Senate.

Gov. Morton’s support of James Polk at the 1844 Democratic Convention resulted in his party’s nomination for and ultimate election as President of the United States. George Bancroft wrote to James Polk on July 6, 1844, explaining in polite terms, for the official record, how Bancroft had just manipulated the Democratic National Convention to get the party's nomination for Polk. He said he spoke with his friend Gov. Morton, who agreed to support Polk and “when It came to voting. You should have heard the cheers'' as the New Hampshire and Massachusetts delegations announced for Polk, and the astonished Virginia delegation changed course and voted for Polk, who now swept to victory. It was, in fact, a British ``underground'' political machine that put Polk into the Presidency, and that pulled the strings to start his administration's war against Mexico. The British point man throughout was George Bancroft, a Massachusetts-based political operative, but that’s another story involving the China opium trade and big money.

Gov. Morton was appointed by President Polk to be Collector of Customs in Boston from 1845 to 1849. He was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1853 and a member of the State House of Representatives in 1858. He died in Taunton, on February 6, 1864 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Hon. N. W. Littlefield of Providence, R.I. delivered an appreciative sketch of Marcus Morton to the Old Colony Historical Society at Taunton, on Jan. 13, 1905 that was published by the society. There is a Currier & Ives print: “Marcus Morton & the Little Fruit Girl” by Kellogg. The fine old residence of Governor Marcus Morton in Taunton, is now occupied by The Morton Hospital.

 Three sons of Governor Morton graduated with the highest honors at Brown University in 1838, 1840 and 1843. His oldest, Hon. Marcus Morton of Andover, was a 
lawyer born in Taunton, April 8, 1819, educated at Bristol County Academy, Brown University, 1838; Harvard law, school, 1840; entered Suffolk County bar in 1841. 
He was a lawyer; delegate from Andover to Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention, 1853, member of Massachusetts House of Representatives from 
Andover, 1858, Suffolk County Superior Court Judge in 1858-69. He received degrees of LL.D. from Brown University in 1869 and from Harvard College in 1882. 
He was Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Court 1869-90 and Chief Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 1882-90. He resigned Aug. 27,1890 
and died in Andover, Feb. 10, 1891. Burial location is unknown. A fine glass walking cane and a fine glass punchbowl set owned by Marcus Morton are in the

possession of Phillips Academy at Andover. 

His son, James Madison Morton was an Associate Justice of the High Court, 1890-1913. Source

Massachusetts Historical Society Boston, Mass. Marcus Morton letter books, 1845-1864; 1 box and 2 vols.; correspondence., Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil. No. XXVII. Marcus Morton of Massachusetts. [The United States Democratic review. / Volume 9, Issue 40, Oct 1841]View text

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The Shermans:

First found in Norfolk, England, where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects. The name is variously spelled Sharman, Shearman, Sheerman, Shurman. The origin of the name SHERMAN apparently comes from some early progenitor whose occupation was a sheep-shearer or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excess nap. Name, derived from the Middle English "Shereman" dresser or shearer of cloth, is one who shears worsted, fustians, etc., to even the nap, called clothiers (they dealt with cloth, not clothes), Referred to as the Shermancraft. The SHERMANS of England were middlemen who bought lengths of cloth from cottage weavers, then they dressed or sheared it, dyed it if they had a woadhouse, sorted it for quality, baled it, marked it with their Coat of Arms trademark, and sold it to the clothes makers. Many of the Sherman ancestors of England were wealthy landed Gentry and Yeomanry.

The Sherman Coat of Arms is A Demi Lion Crest on the Shield of the Sherman's of Yaxley, County Suffolk, England granted By King Henry VII (1485-1509).
The Latin Motto is "Virtute Mortem Vincere" (Conquer Death by Bravery)
The symbolic interpretation is a Lion Rampant, sable (legs elevated, black). Lion is ranked first among beasts as the most noble, heroic, symbolic of strength, courage and generosity. Argent background Silver or depicted in heraldic painting as white. Implies in the bearer purity, innocence, chastity, truth, justice and humility.
Oak Leaves Vertical (forest green) Symbolic of strength, unrighteousness and long lasting.
Gold Crown In the lower right of the shield, indicates that the shield was granted by the King.

The name SHERMAN first appeared among some Saxony people living along the Rhine River as far back as the 10th century. The Shermans could have come to England during the migration after the Norman conquest of England, under the command of William the Conqueror. Because of their profession as clothiers, The SHERMANS could have very likely come to England from Flanders during the middle 1300's. England used to export raw wool for weaving to Europe, especially Flanders, and then import the woolen cloth. As early as 1332 the crown forbade the importation of foreign cloth into England and the exportation of raw wool. Later, Edward III established duties to favor the export of wool cloth, rather than wool. The English rulers lured immigrant craftsmen, skilled in the making of cloth, from Flanders to England. Woolen cloth became the decisive specialty of England by the end of the 14th century.

SHERMAN family records have been traced back no farther than Thomas Sherman, who died in 1492, because there are very few records of people of any kind at that time. The use of surnames at all does not go too much further back. Unless someone is involved in some legal or court record, there would be nothing. It is recorded that June 8, 1274 a license to trade in wool was granted at Westminister to a Richard le Shereman merchant of Hythe in Essex near Colchester

From 1633 to 1637 at least five Sherman brothers and cousins immigrated to New England from Yaxley, England. They are the ancestors of many English SHERMANS in the United States. Philip and Samuel were brothers and Capt. John was their cousin. All three of these men were second cousins to The Rev. John Sherman and the Hon. Samuel Sherman, who were also brothers. Though it has not been proven whether William Sherman ("The Pilgrim") was related to them or not, it is probable. If so, our ancestors are among the Shermans of Yaxley

 /John Sherman d: 1 Nov 1504 (He left a Will)
  /Thomas Sherman d: 1551 (1)
  | \Agens Fuller
  /Henry Sherman b: ABT. 1515 d: 1589
  | | /John Waller
 | \Jane Waller b: ABT. 1495 d: 1573
 | \Margaret Thorolde
 /Edmund Sherman b: ABT. 1548
 | \Agnes Butler d: 14 Oct 1580
 /Edmund Sherman b: 23 Jan 1571/72 d: 14 Jan 1642/43
 |  \Anne Cleare
William Sherman b: 1613 d: 25 Oct 1679 (2)
 | /Tobias McKin b: ABT. 1548 d: 1610
 \Joan McKin
  | /Thomas Westbrome

\Katherine Westbrome b: ABT. 1552

John Sherman, Gentleman, was born, probably at Diss Norfolk County England. Conflicting data shows born 1450. John married Agnes Fuller, daughter of Thomas Fuller (1). Thomas was their first of two children.1504. John wrote his will.1504. John died in Yaxley and buried in the parish yard of Our Lady of Yaxley.

Thomas Sherman, Gentleman, was born about 1490 in Yaxley in Suffolk County England. Thomas married Jane Waller1494-1572/3, daughter of John Waller (2) esq of Wortham. Henry was their fourth of ten children. Thomas was a lawyer with a large practice in the Court of Common Pleas, Lord of several manors, church warden in Yaxley at the time of King Henry VIII, and Deputy Sheriff in 1540-46 1550. Thomas wrote his will. 1551. Thomas died at Yaxley and buried in the Churchyard of Yaxley. Jane married second to a Mr Gardner/Gardiner. 1572/3. Jane wrote her will.

Henry Sherman, Clothier, was born 1524 in Yaxley in County Suffolk England. Henry was a clothier, lived in Colchester in Essex County England. He bore the Suffolk- Sherman coat-of-arms. Henry married first to Agnes Butler at Dedham. The Church of England was founded 1533/9; before this date the Churches at Dedham, Yaxley and Diss were of the Roman Catholic religion. 1548. Henry was a landlord in Dedham in Essex County, and lived in a mansion called "Southfields," or sometimes called the Flemish House," which was built just before 1500. It included his residential quarters, a counting room, woadhouse and storerooms. September 30, 1567 Henry Sherman took surrender of the property called Hykell, this land held by later generations of the family.October 14, 1580 Agnes Sherman died, buried same day. June 5, 1581 Henry married second to Marion/Maryan Smyth (Wilson). She was the widow of Edmund Wilson. Henry married third to Margery ___ 1585/8. Henry wrote his will 1589/90. Henry died 1590 in Colchester or Dedham and is buried in the Parish Church of Dedham

Edmund Sherman was born about 1548 in Dedham, Sussex, England. April 25, 1569 he married first to Anne Pellatte. Edmund was their first of five children. June 8, 1584 Anne Sherman (Pellatte) died. September 11, 1584 he married again to Anne Clerk. Anne Sherman (Clerk) died 1609. Note: In the apex of the window above the Weber Tomb are some fragments of old glass showing the initials "E.S." commemorating Edmund Sherman. At his death he left his house opposite the church to the Governors of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth for a school to teach boys to "read, write and cast accounts." that is: to become tradesmen rather than aspire to enter university or a profession. Edmund Sherman with his elder brother Henry and their father also Henry were named Governor of the Grammar School when it was endowed in 1571 and were also nominated in the Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth four years later. At least eleven descendants of old Henry Sherman and these two sons, Henry and Edmund immigrated to New England between 1633 and 1640. (Taken from a guide book about St Mary's Church in Dedham)

Edmund Sherman (II), born: Jan. 23, 1571/72 in Dedham, Sussex, England, married: Joan McKin1598 in Dedham, Sussex, England. Children William Sherman born: 1613 in Dedham, Sussex, England Died: Jan. 14,1642/43 in New Haven, Connecticut. This line of Shermans may be the ancestors of “our” William Sherman of Marshfield.

NOTE: Richard Sherman  b: Bef. March 03, 1576/77 in Dedham  d: May 30, 1660 in Boston, MA + Elizabeth ? had son: William Sherman b: baptized October 22, 1616 in Dedham. (While Richard left no known descendants in the colonies, no further record exists about this son William.  This William might be our William "The Pilgrim", who appears in Plymouth/Marshfield in 1632.) Additional info from Art Cohen.
The Descendants of William Sherman of Marshfield, MA -- by Mary Lovering Holman, 1936, is an excellent source book for descendants of William's line. His ancestry is unproven as of this writing (2000). The book is 529 pages long and includes an index. Available on FHC film #1033727. No known copies or reprints are available.
Indexes of Shermans in the Census 1632 - 1880

The Shermans in America

WILLIAM SHERMAN (1) the Pilgrim (2), was a yeoman (planter). There was one William, baptized at Dedham, England on Oct. 22, 1616, about whom no continuous record exists. He was the son of Richard Sherman, brother of the Edmund Sherman (1572-1641) who married Joan Makin. Richard immigrated and died in Boston in1660. This may have been "our" William. Either he had a falling out with his father (and brother) or they got separated somehow. William was in Plymouth by 1632, but may have come in 1629. On Feb. 26, 1628 or 1629 The Governor and the Company of London gave a William Sherman liberty to bring his kin from Northampton, England. Indicating, he was probably about to embark in the fleet with Higginson to Salem and was in the country before 1630, but there is no other mention of him so early. On March 25, 1633 in Plymouth, he was assessed 9 shillings tax. On Nov. 17, 1637 James Davis of Plymouth, sailor, sold to William Sherman of Plymouth "all that his lot of lands lying near the lands granted to Mr. John Weeks containing by estimation five acres”.
Later records of Plymouth Colony state that: On Feb. 5, 1637 or 1638, he was granted "a garden place on Ducksborrow side & five acres of lands at Pouder Poynt (Duxbury), if it can be there had ". By 1638 he lived in Duxbury. On Jan. 23, 1638, he married Prudence Hill, born about 1617, at Marshfield. On Nov. 2, 1640 he was granted "twenty acres, his house lot to be part thereof... northward from Duxborrow Mill, towards Greens Harbor". On June 5, 1644, he was appointed to hold the office of Duxbury highway surveyor. He is listed in the Duxbury section of 1643 Plymouth list of men able to bear arms. Toward the end of the Marshfield section of this same list is an entry for "[blank] Sherman", who may be the same William who moved to Marshfield in 1643 or 1644.
He continued to reside there the rest of his life and reared up a family, among whom were John (1) and William (2). On June 7 1652, he was appointed to hold the office of Marshfield highway surveyor. He is mentioned in the records of Marshfield, Aug. 25, 1652. On July 7, 1653 he was made one of the committee with Josiah Winslow, Sr., Peregrine White, and Thomas Tilden to "agree with a workman or workmen" about building a bridge over the South River. On Aug. 13, 1657 he was chosen grand juryman for the year and, Oct. 11, 1658, paid a tax of 10 shillings. On June 3, 1662 William Sherman was one of the "servants and others that are ancient freeman" who were granted land by the General Court.: His one full share was 1/36 of the lands in Dartmouth. At town meeting held 18 May 1663, the town apportioned to William Sherman and his heirs forever twenty acres of land to be added to the head of his estate (at Green Harbor, Marshfield). On 27 Apr 1668, he was appointed to sell the wheat 'now in the constables hands.’
He was honorable, upright and secured a comfortable competency to hand down to his children.” In 1673 and 1676, he gave to his three sons all of his real estate, including land at Dartmouth. “To John: I the said William Sherman . . . have Given . . . all my right . . . unto one Share of a certain parcel or Tract of land lying and being at and near Saconett in the colony of New Plymouth. Bounded with lands formerly Granted to the Township of Plymouth on the Northerly side and on the easterly side: with the Lands of the Towne of Dartmouth; and with the sea on the southerly and westerly sides . . . unto my son John Sherman. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifth day of February; in the year of our Lord God 1673. He signed his deeds by the mark “W”.
He made no provisions for his wife in any way, so it is presumed that she predeceased him. The name of his daughter was possibly Hannah or Sarah. The records of Marshfield have the following imperfect record: "[worn] the wife of Edward [worn] was Buried ye I of October 1680."[Probably actually 7^th of Oct.] It is supposed, and probably correct, to refer to the wife of Edward Stephens as this daughter of William’s whose name cannot be found. He died at Green Harbor, Marshfield, on or before October 25, 1679, age 64. He was buried on 25 Oct 1679 or Nov.17, 1680 at Winslow Cemetery, Winslow Cemetery Rd., Marshfield.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD is a seventh generation descendant of WILLIAM SHERMAN (1) the Pilgrim.

^26th. WILLIAM SHERMAN (1) the Pilgrim\

JOHN SHERMAN (1), WILLIAM SHERMAN (3), JOHN SHERMAN (2), JOHN SHERMAN Captain, EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN, MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD.

JOHN SHERMAN (1), born: Feb. 23, 1645 in Marshfield was a prosperous farmer. He received land from his father at Saconett, near Dartmouth and lived in Marshfield, all of his life. He was admitted freeman in Marshfield, 1st Tuesday, June 1689. He was married to JANE HATCH, born: March 7, 1655/1656 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. She died Sept. 29, 1744 in Marshfield. The eighth of their nine children was WILLIAM SHERMAN (3). The Proprietors Records of 1684 indicate a John Shearman among 14 Dartmouth men who took the oath of fidelity, thus indicating our John Shearman may be different from the John Shearman appearing in Dartmouth. He died Nov. 5 1723 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts ² and was buried at the Congregational Church "old burying ground”, Marshfield.

A proclamation was made to the soldiers, in the name of the Governor, that, "if they played the man, took the fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narraganset country, which is their great seat, they should have a gratuity of land, besides their wages." GRANTEES OF THE NARRAGANSET TOWNSHIP NO. 2. NOW WESTMINSTER, MASS, WATERTOWN, John Sherman, John, nephew

John’s brother, William SHERMAN (2) born: About 1639 in Plymouth, married Desire DOTY (the sister of JOHN DOTY). At one time, he served as constable. William II Served in King Philip's War. During the war, he (with others) was captured and made prisoner by the Indians. He was compelled by the Indians to witness their curil (ritual) treatment of some of the prisoners, in consequence of which as the record says, “He fell distracted.” “Suffering so badly from exposure that he was subjected to periods of insanity during the balance of his life”. In consequence of this infirmity, On Oct. 4, 1675, Desire was awarded 20£ by the Colony on behalf of her husband, 'who fell distracted in the service of the country ...being by reason of great charges and necessities in great straightes.^28“. He died Oct. 25, 1679, age 40, in Marshfield four years after the War and is among the first Shermans to die in service to our Country. His daughter Experience Sherman married Myles Standish b: 1651 grandson of Myles Standish and also a grandson of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.

WILLIAM SHERMAN (3) William SHERMAN was born ¹ 23 Jan 1693 or 94 in Marshfield. He died ² 26 May 1724 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts and was buried in Old Burying Ground, Marshfield. William married Mary EAMES born ¹ : July 17, 1698 in Marshfield, on Oct. 8, 1719 in Marshfield. [Parents]
The life history of William Sherman is necessarily short. He lived only five years after marriage and died May 26, 1724 in Marshfield at 30 or 31 years old. He is buried at the Old Burying Ground, Marshfield. The two sons he left became men of unusual worth and left many descendants.
His widow and her second husband moved to East Bridgewater about 1735. She died before Dec. 25, 1747 in Bridgewater. Mary was baptized ² Aug. 21, 1698 in Marshfield. [Parents] Her name may have been Mercy. "Mercy," w. of William Sherman, was admitted to Marshfield Church, May 14, 1721. Mercy and Marey are often confused. In most of the records pertaining to her, she is "Mary”.
He died intestate. Administration on the estate of William Sherman, late of Marshfield, deceased, was granted to his widow Mary Sherman who gave bonds in Court with Arthur Howland, Jr., and Joseph Phillips, July 11, 1724. The first of their two children was:

JOHN SHERMAN (2) born: July 19, 1720 in Marshfield, was a farmer in Marshfield, residing on the General Warren farm there. Sometime between 1762 and 1773, he moved to Plymouth but only stayed there a few years, removing in 1774 to Plympton. He first appears in the land records after he went to Plymouth. He settled in that part of town, which was established as Carver June 9, 1790. He appears in the census of 1790 as a resident of Carver with one male above sixteen, [himself], and three females in his family [his wife and two others].

Shortly after his removal to Plympton the Revolutionary, war began and although he was fifty-five years old, he was evidently one of the local bands of Minute-men. The following service is found for him: John Shearman, of Plympton, served as a private in Capt. Nathaniel Shaw's company, Col. James Warren's regiment, which marched in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775 to Marshfield, service 2 days. He apparently had no other service but all four of his sons also served in the Revolutionary War.

He died Dec. 17, 1800 in Carver at 80 years old and is buried at Lakenham Cemetery, Carver.

JOHN SHERMAN Captain born¹: June 9, 1762 in Marshfield, settled in Rochester, served in the Revolutionary war as a Private in Colonel John Jacob’s Massachusetts Regiment. and Captain in? (There was a Captains Peleg Shearman's, Company within Colonel John Jacob’s Regiment. Also there was a Colonel John Hathaway's Massachusetts Regiment.) Why was John called Captain? He was married to LYDIA DOTEN born in1768, in Plympton, on Feb. 25, 1787 in Plympton. This marriage is significant to the modern Morton/Sherman descendants because it established separate links to Mayflower passengers on the Sherman side through LYDIA DOTEN to EDWARD DOTY Pilgrim, FRANCIS COOKE Pilgrim, STEPHEN HOPKINS Master and ELIZABETH FISHER. In addition, Captain JOHN SHERMAN is a fifth generation descendant of Mayflower passenger Master RICHARD WARREN Pilgrim. These lineages were explained earlier. John and Lydia had seven sons, 1 drowned @ the age of 12 and 1 died young." He died April 25, 1840 in Carver, and was buried in Lakenham Cemetery, Carver.

EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN was born April 20, 1788 in Carver (Holman book says he was born in Plympton,) and baptized Oct.30, 1796 in Carver. He was the oldest of seven sons of Captain JOHN SHERMAN and LYDIA DOTEN He was a farmer and married ABIGAIL MORTON born: Sept 3, 1831 in Carver, on April 5, 1815 in Intention in Carver. Family records indicate the marriage itself was April 15, 1815. He is listed in the 1850 census as a resident of Carver, age 62; with wife, Abigail age 57; Abigail, age 29; Marcus M., age 19; and Ebenezer, age 15. In 1860, Ebenezer Sherman, age 72, a farmer was living with Abigail Sherman, age 38, who was keeping house. Martha S. Winters has a picture of him. He served in the war of 1812. He appears in the land records several times before 1850. He is shown in the 1850 Census as: Ebenezer 185 Carver 62 MA farmer, with: Abagail 57 MA, Abagail 29 MA, Marcus M. 19 MA, Ebenezer 15 MA

EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN and ABIGAIL MORTON SHERMAN had ten children including 2 pair of twins that died at birth (no year given) and a daughter that died at approximately 1 yr., (no name or year given.) He died Dec 17, 1864 in Carver. Information confirmed by visit to Lakenham Cemetery, Linton Rd., Carver, MA. Stone reads: Ebenezer Sherman died Dec. 17, 1864 aged 76 yrs. 8 mo. (death cert says 76 yr, 7 mo. 27 days), died of “Consumption” Administration of his estate was requested Jan.4, 1865.

MARCUS MORTON SHERMAN was the sixth child of EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN and ABIGAIL MORTON. He was married to SARAH BARROWS PRATT, born June 14,1836 in Carver, on Dec.10, 1856 in Middleborough, by Reverend J.W.Putnam.  Their son FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD. later wrote referring to the Civil War Period: "I knew that my father was busy molding mostly “shot & shell” which was then taken to the Watertown Arsenal. At my Uncle Mile’s (Miles PRATT) foundry, there was great activity, and I suppose Miles Pratt & Co were prosperous”.

    Pratt Family:

SARAH BARROWS PRATT, born June14, 1836 in Carver, was youngest of the four children of DAVID PRATT and SARAH BARROWS. Her brother Miles PRATT born Sept.17, 1825, died Aug.7, 1882 was a prominent industrialist notable for his Walker-Pratt Foundry which manufactured the famous Black Crawford Stoves and shipped them all over the world.

Miles PRATT, 1875: was Co-founder of the Walker-Pratt Foundry in Watertown and a member of the Town Committee that raised money to begin the Watertown Library. The Miles Pratt House at 106 Mt. Auburn St. is still in private use. Its preservation is supervised by the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities. It is an Italianate Architecture design, listed on the National Register of Historic Places #85000980 (5/9/1985).

Oliver Shaw was manager of Pratt's Foundry on Main Street and an officer of Union Market Bank. He lived at 120 Mount Auburn Street and died in 1894. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD. wrote that: “the firm had passed through the depression of 1857 with some difficulty and I understand that John Jay BARROWS particularly had money, (perhaps was the Co. in Miles Pratt & Co.) in the business & had the faith & courage to put more into the business at that time.John Jay BARROWS was the uncle of SARAH BARROWS PRATT   and father of Tamson Barrows Monroe of Meredith New Hampshire.

      SARAH BARROWS PRATT's cousin, Tamson Barrows, graduated from Kimball Union Academy in 1862, then attended Mrs. Emma Willard's Finishing School in Troy, New York. In 1873 she married Dr. Francis Barron Monroe, a surgeon, a graduate from Harvard Medical School. Her husband was attached to the 7th Cavalry Regiment which was scheduled to go with General George Armstrong Custer into the badlands of North Dakota to punish Sitting Bull and his war-like Sioux Indians. A few months before the final order came through to start the ill-fated expedition on its journey across the country, Mrs. Monroe begged and pleaded with her husband to resign his post as surgeon. He did as his wife wished, and in the following spring the surgeon who succeeded him was massacred by the Indians along with the rest of the brave regiment

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     DAVID PRATT descended from JOSHUA PRATT born about 1600, who arrived in Plymouth in 1623 via “Anne”. DAVID was born April 21, 1795 in Carver. He was a prominent town citizen, serving as: Carver Town Clerk 1842-45, Carver Town Treasurer 1942-51, Carver Selectman 1831-1834, School Committees 1827-31-33-39-46-47-51-52.  He died May 18, 1859 in Middleborough, and was buried in Union Cemetery, South Carver, aged 63. 

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     The Pratt ancestors of David are:  <EPHRIAM PRATT, NOAH PRATT, BENJAMIN PRATT, DANIEL PRATT, BENAJAH PRATT, JOSHUA PRATT, HENRY PRATT Rev.,

     DAVID is the tenth of eleven children of EPHRIAM PRATT born: Aug. 19, 1756 in Plympton and KEZIAH WOOD born: April 9, 1758 in Carver, Married: March 16, 1780 in Plympton, died: March 25, 1821 in Carver. FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD. wrote that EPHRIAM PRATT was a fine penman and was town clerk of Carver from 1803-1810. His house is on "Henham" and still stands (1941) (1st house on right after passing Ord Road leading to Grandfather Sherman's house (EBENEZER DOTEN SHERMAN) , going toward Carver)"  He died Nov. 9, 1823 in Carver, aged 68.

    EPHRIAM was the only child of NOAH PRATT born: 1731, Married: March 18, 1755 to MARCY COLE born: July 20, 1735. He died: Aug.11. 1807, aged 76.

    NOAH was the youngest of five children of BENJAMIN PRATT born: 1707 in Plympton married Feb. 27, 1728/29 and MARGARET RICKARD born: April 5, 1708 in Plympton. MARGARET RICHARD descended from Mayflower passengers FRANCIS COOK and STEPHEN HOPKINS,

    BENJAMIN PRATT was a colonial soldier from Plympton during the French and Indian Wars and his name is on a list of men at Fort Edward, N. Y. on July 26, 1756. His age is given as 48 years. see: "Massachusetts Officers & Soldiers in the F & I Wars, 1755-1756" edited by K. David Goss and David Zarowin. Taken from the Mass. Archives. He mentions in his will that he was "bound out to war in the present expedition at Manass" (? Manassas Battlefield,1861- 1862) He died in 1757aged 50.

   DANIEL PRATT,born about 1680 in Plymouth, was first married in 1700 and had two children before his wife Esther Wright died. Esther was descended from Mayflower passengers FRANCIS COOKE and GEORGE SOULE. He then married MARY WASHBURN on October 1,1706 in Plymouth. Their second and last child was BENJAMIN PRATT. Her father PHILLIP WASHBURN, born about 1624 in England, immigrated to Boston April 13, 1635 on the ship "ELIZABETH & ANN". He owned land in Duxbury and Bridgewater. He was living in 1700. Her grandfather JOHN WASHBURN II, born 1597,was a tailor in Duxbury, taxed 1632; bought house and land March 1634-35, able to bear arms 1643; freeman June 2, 1646. He moved to Bridgewater. After 1708 DANIEL married Martha and they had children. Sometime after 1709 he married Annie and had two more sons. He died May 8, 1739 in Plymouth, aged about 59.

    DANIEL was the youngest of nine children of  BENAJAH PRATT born about1630 in Plymouth and PERSIS DUNHAM born 1635 in Plymouth, Married: Nov. 29, 1655 in Plymouth. He died March 17, 1681/82 in Plymouth, aged about 51.

    BENAJAH was the only son of JOSHUA PRATT born about 1600, who arrived in Plymouth in 1623 on the ship “Anne” and BATHSHEBA born Jan.1, 1592/93 in Donyat, Somersetshire, England. They were married sometime after July, 1623. Joshua had previously been married to Eunice Jackson. JOSHUA died Feb. 16, 1647/48. His wife BATHSHEEBA was granted administration of his estate on Oct. 6, 1656. BATHSHEEBA remarried to John Doggett  on Aug. 29, 1667 in Plymouth. She died in 1673 in Plymouth, aged about 81.

   Barrows Family:

    SARAH BARROWS PRATT's mother was SARAH BARROWS. Her great grandfather PELEG BARROWS II born: 1748 in of Plympton was a Revolutionary War Soldier . Frank Morton Sherman, MD states "the Revolutionary marker is at his grave" MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS & SAILORS IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION Vol. 1, p. 700 lists: Barrows, Peleg -Plympton, Private in John Bridgham’s Company, Colonel Cottons regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 to Marshfield. Service 3 days. also: Barrows, Peleg - Corporal in Capt. George Hammond's Company, commanded by Lieutenant. Joshua Perkins, Col. Thomas Lothrop's regiment Brigadier General Joseph Cushing's brigade; service 14 days, marched to Bristol, RI on an alarm. Roll dated Plympton. He was a yeoman per Delano Book.

    The grandfather of PELEG BARROWS II was GEORGE BARROWS Born: 1670 in Plymouth. He married PATIENCE SIMMONS born about 1676 in Duxbury, on Feb. 14, 1694/95 in Plymouth. PELEG BARROWS born 1708/9 was the youngest of their four children. He married HOPESTILL DARLING, born 1710, on Nov. 26, 1733. PELEG BARROWS II was the youngest of their two children

    George was known as "Captain George" for his success in negotiating business affairs between the English and the Wampanoag Natives. For his services to the Massachusetts Colony, he was granted a tract of land in Carver. He was a large landowner and had a large family. George resided in Plymouth until 1711, when he sold his house on Mill St., Plymouth, to Joseph Mitchell for 90 shillings and moved to Plympton, where he was already the owner of considerable land. In 1790 was Carver was set off from Plympton as a separate town.

     He seems to have been a very great and enterprising young man, brought up by a respected large family, which appear to have inter-married with the most respected families of that vicinity. On Oct 30, 1723 PATIENCE died and GEORGE remarried to Anna Dunham, born about 1670, on June 25, 1724. She died March 11, 1735 in Carver and GEORGE remarried to Hannah ROBINSON born about 1685 on Dec. 2, 1736.

      The early farmers in Carver who settled around Sampson's pond soon discovered the rich layers of ore lying just below the marshy surface of their swamplands. In desperate need of iron tools and equipment, in 1732 the first of eight iron blast furnaces in Carver, Pope's Point Furnace, was built and operated for a century using the resources of the bogs as well as Sampson's Pond. of which was to flourish near the richest source of ore, Sampson's Pond.

    At first, landholders were permitted to mine the ore abutting their land. When this became an unruly scramble, the town assumed title to the pond's resources. This too proved unworkable and by 1760 the two major landowners petitions for exclusive mining rights were approved. The town fathers set a line roughly between McFarlin Park and Bowman's Point. George Barrows mined the western coves, supplying ore to several of the furnaces in that area. Bartlett Murdock mined ore to the east of the line. In 1750, George Barrows gave deeds to each of his sons, of land near him and near to each other, on which most of them resided. One deed conveys to his sons and sons-in-laws the rights to take iron ore from Sampson's pond in Carver for which they are to pay him two shillings pence per ton.

    As early as 1757; Murdock, and later Benjamin Ellis established the Charlotte Furnace at the pond's outlet, the largest and longest-lasting foundry in Carver. About 1762, the first iron tea-kettle made in this country was cast here. The hollow iron-ware of these furnaces is of excellent quality, and widely known. The owners estates were built gracing the corners now known as South Carver, then called "Furnace Village";

     The descendants of George still live in this town, and occupy lands that have been in their families for generations. He must have been quite wealthy. His will disposes of added quantities of land among his sons, and the grandchildren and directs the payment of small legacies to his daughters.

the will of George Barrows of Plympton was made Sept. 4, 1750. He died March: 23, 1758 in Carver, aged 88   

The 1860 Census of Watertown list Marcus Sherman as: 28 year old Moulder (also called an iron molder or foundryman) with $1,000. personal estate and family members Sarah R. age 25, Frank M. age 3, Sarah L. age 2 and John M. Pratt age 26 Moulder. His death certificate gives his occupation as “pattern finisher.”

    The 1870 Census lists him from Fairhaven as 37 year old "Moulder in furnace", family members Sarah B. age 34 keeps house, Frank M. age 12 in school and Geo. B. age 2 male.

    The 1880 Census lists him a 49 year old "pattern maker" from Watertown with family members Sarah B. wife age 43 keeping home, Frank M. son age 23 at school and George B. son age 11 at school.

The children of Marcus Morton Sherman and Sarah Barrows Pratt were:

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD born: Nov. 27, 1857 in "Rocky Nook", Kingston,

Sarah Chandler SHERMAN born: Dec.17, 1858 in Watertown, Charles W. SHERMAN born: Dec.31, 1863 in Watertown,

Lucy Marian SHERMAN born: Dec.31, 1863 in Watertown, and

George Barrows SHERMAN born: Aug.17, 1868.

Their older son, FRANK MORTON SHERMAN MD wrote the following in West Newton, on Jan 7, 1942:

”Marcus Morton Sherman was born in that part of Carver, Mass, then called Wenham (now East Carver) on Sept 3, 1831 and died in Watertown, Mass. Oct 7, 1885 of Typhoid fever. His father’s (Ebenezer Doten Sherman) farm was on the shores of Wenham Pond.

From before I was born (1857) until I was old enough, it is obvious that all I know about my father is what I have been told by him or others. This is not very much. He went to school and he worked on his father’s farm. One kind of work, of which, I remember he told me was “cutting wood” in the winter (for the home fires) and for market in Plymouth. He has told me that he would sometimes see deer while at his work.

He has told me that at the age of 17, he wished to leave home, and, as was the custom of the times, arranged with his father to “buy his time” - that he did so, and went somewhere, and I suppose as an apprentice learned the trade of iron-molding. I have the impression that he learned the trade in Plymouth. I have some reason to believe that at that time, however, cupola foundries were in use. (Griffith, “History of Carver”) If my father left home at 17 years old, the year would be 1848. Married in 1856 would be 8 years for the time spent in learning his trade saving enough to pay his father, and enough to start his married life. I believe he had on hand then $1000. - And I suppose worked at Benj. Cobb’s foundry in Kingston as my mother and father have told me that they lived in Kingston with my Aunt Lavina SHERMAN, born Nov. 20, 1815 in Carver, my father’s oldest sister and wife of Benjamin COBB born March 2, 1810 in Carver.

It was there at my Aunt Lavina’s house that I was born; my parents then were house keeping in the upper rooms there. From this date (Nov. 17, 1857) I do not know, but believe he lived here in Kingston perhaps several years before moving to Watertown, Mass. where my uncle Miles had started a foundry (Miles Pratt & Co). This was before the Civil War (1861), as I can now remember some few things that must have happened at that time.

It is now about the time when I begin to remember or think I do. One of the first was being held up to the window to see the “Wide Awakes” parade. This was probably before or at the beginning of the Civil War. Another thing I remember was my father eating lunch, or what was then called dinner, on a very hot day, and of his being covered with sweat. This made a considerable impression on me---and it seems to me I can remember attending school. I have been told that I began when 4 years old, and (I remember) “picking lint” which was used for surgical dressings in the war. I believe I learned in this school (Watertown, Mass) to read & some simple spelling, perhaps something about numbers.

Of the beginning of the Civil War & of the preceding Presidential Campaign, I have no recollections.

He continues: "We come now to the end of the Civil War. I remember the great excitement of Lincoln’s tragic death and of attending church on the Sunday following. The star of the place which was given in the theatre that night when President Lincoln was shot was Laura Keen, and she is buried in Fairhaven in the same cemetery where George H. Taber & some of his forebears, and also, where H.H. Rogers are buried. During the war and while I was beginning my school life my parents had children born there, (they are in their proper places in this genealogy). Marian died in Middleboro, Mass in 1866. We had moved from Watertown. I believe we lived in Middleboro about 2 years. During a part of this time my father worked in a foundry in Taunton, and I recollect his walking on Saturday from Taunton to Middleboro (10 mi).

Also I remember a visit from my Uncle Eben, (Ebenezer Thomas Sherman) and of his showing us a $1,000. bill that he had lately received for his crop of cranberries. Eben Sherman was one of the pioneers in the cultivation of cranberries in Carver. It is now a large business in the town. *I have a copy of this in his own handwriting.” Eben was married to Lucy Morton Burgess born on Feb 26, 1847 in Plymouth. Her father, Capt. Winslow Burgess, was master of the new 593-ton ship “S.H. Talbot”; shipping grain to Australia from 1854 till he died at sea on August 24, 1860. Headstone is at Plymouth.

In Frank Morton Sherman’s writings he states that during Ebenezer Doten Sherman’s life this family lived in the following places: Carver, Plymouth, Watertown, Middleboro, Fairhaven, New Bedford and back to Watertown, all in Massachusetts. Marcus Morton Sherman died Nov. 7, 1885 from Typhoid Fever in South Carver.

The Shermans in Dartmouth

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN, MD born Nov.27, 1857 in “Rocky Nook”, Kingston was the first child of Marcus Morton Sherman and Sarah Barrows Pratt. Betty Warberg says that the record of his birth incorrectly said the 29^th, and that he wrote the office of vital statistics with the correction of the 27^th. Regarding his recorded birth date, he said “Perhaps this is a good place to mention that a few years ago, while we were at our place in Duxbury I asked Mr. Everson (then town clerk of Kingston) if he would find my birth record (Nov. 27, 1857) on the records of Kingston. He searched and did not find it, so at my suggestion he entered it under date of Nov. 27, 1857. A few days afterward I had a letter from him, in which he said that he had found it under date Nov. 29. So, I suppose my birth date is now recorded in the Vital Records of Kingston, twice. As he had told me that a town clerk was not allowed to take anything off the records but might add (if he believed it true)”.

He resided in Watertown, Middleboro, Fairhaven and New Bedford. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1881. He was a Medical Doctor and Surgeon, between July 1881 and 1935 in Dartmouth and Newton. He lived in Dartmouth June 1881 to June 20, 1882, before marriage. He was married to ANNIE ELMA SISSON on June 20, 1882 in New Bedford, by William J. Potter, Minister, 1^st Congregational Society of New Bedford. In 1882, He was admitted as a member from Dartmouth, of the Bristol South District Society, of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and is a past Councillor of that Society. He was a member of the American Medical Association and the Newton Medical Club, and is a past President of the last.
     During World War I he served as a Surgeon on the Medical Advisory Board although he strongly opposed the entrance of the United States into that conflict. Religion: Unitarian, Member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, which he joined through Stephen HOPKINS primary and he had a supplemental line through John ALDEN. Rec'd from MA Society of Mayflower Descendants June 7, 1999 the State # 1666, and the General #5111 for Frank M. Sherman. The letter is signed by Kim M. Rivera, Executive Secretary. FMS was actively interested in genealogy and left his descendants his work to follow up on.

They lived together in Dartmouth after marriage till January 1890 except for 9 months in New Bedford; Newton Lower Falls, 1890 to 1894; Berlin, Germany for advanced medical studies and other cities in Europe from March 1894 to October 1894; Haverhill, MA 1894 to October 1895; then West Newton, MA 1895 till he died. They lived at a summer place in Duxbury in 1916. Martha S. Winters has a picture of the house. The 1920 census of Newton lists 62 year old Frank and 58 year old Annie living with 20 year old daughter Sarah L. Warburg, 26 year old son in-law Sophus J. P. Warburg from Denmark, 5 year old grandson Henrik S. S. Warburg and 73 year old mother in-law Lydia W. Sisson. The 1930 census lists 72 year old Frank and 68 year old Annie living by themselves in Newton in a $20,000. home. MSW has a picture of him taken with son Frank Morton Sherman, Jr. and grandson Frank Morton Sherman III “Tertius”, when Tertius was about six years old.

He died Sept.14, 1944 11 Fairview Terrace in West Newton. “Grandfather had taken the dog for a walk, and came back into the house, laid down and died.” Eyvind Warberg wrote this on July 10, 1976. Aged 86 years 9 months, 18 days, died @ 1:30 p.m. and had been a resident of this community 55 years. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage (duration 7 hours) due to general arteriosclerosis of several years duration. He had Carcinoma of the prostate and an operation for Removal of prostate (Prostatectomy) on May 27, 1944. His burial was after Sept.14, 1944 in Rural Cemetery, 149 Dartmouth St, New Bedford, MA 02740 (508) 991-6191. He is in Lot #3 Section D. Position #3.

ANNIE ELMA SISSON was born Sept 6, 1861 in Dartmouth, She was the only child of CHRISTOPHER GIFFORD SISSON a carpenter, b: July 12, 1835 in Dartmouth and LYDIA ALMY CORNELL b: Dec.19, 1836 in Dartmouth. MSW has a picture of Christopher where he appears to be about 30 y.o. and a copy Annie's birth certificate.

     They moved from Dartmouth to New Bedford about 1880. She graduated from Friends' Academy in New Bedford July 1, 1881. She was married to Frank Morton Sherman M.D. on June 20, 1882. Frank and Annie’s children were FRANK MORTON SHERMAN Jr b: Feb. 25, 1883, Sarah Lydia SHERMAN b: May 5, 1885 in Dartmouth and Max Christopher SHERMAN b: May 11, 1887 in New Bedford.

     In 1887, Five years after her marriage and four years after the birth of her first child, Frank Morton Sherman Jr, Annie E. Sherman acquired a 1/32 share of the Whaling ship, the Bark Kathleen, which she held for 12 years till 1899. On March 17,1902, about 1,000 miles east of Brazil, a large Sperm Whale struck the Kathleen and the ship sank in just a few minutes with no loss of life. Annie Sherman’s uncle, Warren G. Sisson, at age 19 - 22, served from May 4, 1852 to Feb.17, 1855 as Kathleen’s carpenter and keeper of the ships logbook, receiving 1/125 share of earnings on Kathleen’s first voyage to the Indian Ocean whaling grounds . During her lifetime, Annie Sherman acquired several whale ship logs and other whaling artifacts that were passed down to her descendants. Many were donated to the New Bedford Whaling Museum and some are still owned by family members.

     In 1897 Annie Sherman Joined Daughters of the American Revolution , Lucy Jackson Chapter, Newton, Massachusetts.  
note: Martha S. Winters has a picture of this certificate and DAR liquidation and Endowment Certificate Nat'l No 16206. Martha S. Winters also
has many pictures of her from a young woman to old.

    She died at age 87 yr. 1 mo. 11 days on Oct. 17, 1947 at 583 Washington St., Fairhaven at 6:50 a.m. of a Cerebral Thrombosis (duration 5 days) due to: hypertension and generalized arteriosclerosis (duration 3 yrs+) Signed by Joseph R. Frothingham, M.D., 59 James St., New Bedford. Reporter: Frank M. Sherman, Jr. (son) of Dartmouth, MA. It states her home residence as 11 Fairview Terrace, West Newton, MA and that she has been in this community (Fairhaven) for 1 mo. She is buried in Rural Cemetery, 149 Dartmouth St, New Bedford, MA 02740 (508) 991-6191, Lot 3 Section D, space 4.

Annie Sherman’s grandfather JOSEPH WING CORNELL born: Oct. 26, 1804 in Dartmouth, was a first cousin of Joseph WING, born on Oct. 5, 1810 and William Ricketson WING, born on July 5, 1830, managing owners of the Kathleen, who were also born and raised on a farm in Russell’s Mills, Dartmouth. Their close association as cousins of similar ages growing up together in the small village of Russells Mills undoubtedly resulted in close social and business contacts of the families in later years. Pardon WING and Almy SLOCUM were the parents of the Wing brothers and are buried together at South Dartmouth/Padanaram Cemetery, Elm Street between Bush St and Memorial Dr., South Dartmouth, MA. This is a private cemetery, early known as the "Sherman Burial Ground". Annie’s grandparents, Joseph and Nancy Cornell, are both buried at Buried in the Apponegansett Meetinghouse Burial Ground, 856 Russell Mills Rd, Dartmouth.

JOHN WING Lt. was a grandfather of the Wing brothers Joseph and William R. ,and great-great grandfather of Annie Sherman. He was born: April 17, 1755, lived in Dartmouth and served during the Revolutionary War as a 2nd Lieutenant on the privateer "America". (? under ship AMERICA, commanded by Capt. William Coffin ; descriptive list of officers and crew sworn to in Suffolk Co., Oct. 11, 1780., "Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War") In the war of 1812, her successor, The Privateer “America” earned quite a reputation for the more than  twenty five British ships she plundered, the high value of the cargo seized and the $1,100,000. profit she brought to her owners. The marauding work of the America was so devastating to the British merchant marine that the British government built a frigate, the Dublin, for the express purpose of chasing the America from the seas.

     Long after the war ended, the captain of America and the captain of the Dublin met in Valparaiso, Chile. Neither knew the other's identity. In the course of a conversation the Briton remarked: "I was once almost within gun-shot of that infernal Yankee skimming-dish, just as night came on. By daylight, she had outsailed the Dublin so devilish fast that she was no more than a speck on the horizon. By the way, I wonder if you happen to know the name of the beggar that was master of her." "I'm the beggar," smiled the American master and they drank a toast to each other's health.

     An Ensign John Wing served in the SUFFOLK REGIMENT, Major Thomas Clarke, 5th BOSTON COMPANY under Capt. Daniel Henchman and Lt. Hugh Drury. Also Wing, John.Corporal, served :Capt. Samuel Briggs's 2d (3d Rochester) co., are these our John Wing? Lt. John Wing was descended from two lines of Wings originating from the prominent Reverend John Wing:

Wing Family History and His grandson and Annie Elma Sherman’s grandfather, Joseph Wing Cornell, has three lines of descent from Rev. John Wing shown below:

 /PARDON CORNELL b: 1774 
 | \GIDEON CORNELL b: 1745/46

| \DELE GIFFORD b:1727

 |                              \JONATHAN GIFFORD b:1704
  |                                          \JEREMIAH GIFFORD b:1681    |  \SARAH WING b: 1658

JOSEPH WING CORNELL >STEPHEN WING b: 1614

 | /MATTHEW WING b: 1670       \
 | /JOSEPH WING b: 1706                 \                 
 | /JOHN WING b. 1731  >JOHN WING Rev b: 1584/85
 | /JOHN WING Lt. b.1755                        /
 \LYDIA WING b:1871       \JEMIMA SHEPHERD b:1730 /
 \DORCAS WING b: 1695 /
 \DANIEL WING II b.1664    /
 \DANIEL WING b:1616 

STEPHEN WING, born 1614, a lad of eighteen when he arrived in this country in 1632 became a scholar and man of affairs. MSW copied the following from the monument in front of the Wing Fort House, Spring Hill Rd, Sandwich: ”STEPHEN WING Son of the Rev. John & Deborah Wing, came to Boston in 1632 with his mother and brothers, John, Daniel and Matthew, with whom he settled in Sandwich in 1637. He lived upon this land and built this house in 1641. He was an original member of the first Friend's Meeting in America, established at Spring Hill in 1658 and suffered great persecution at the hands of the Plymouth Government in the cause of religious liberty. He died in 1710 and lies buried at Spring Hill.”
Lt. John Wing descended from MATTHEW WING (also), born 1 March 1674, the youngest son of Stephen and his second wife Sarah Briggs. Mathew Married ELIZABETH MOTT born: Aug. 5, 1659 on Sept. 4,1696. Elizabeth's second marriage before 1691 was to N. RICKETSON.

      Of interest is Mathew’s older brother, Stephen Wing, born Jan.5, 1657, who was killed in King Phillip's War in the massacre of Captain Pearse's (sic) company of Seekonk on March 26, 1676. The facts are told in Bodge's Soldier's of the Colonial wars, pages 331-2. The story of young Stephen, the first to perish in defense of his home and country, is well worth preserving. The five recruits from Sandwich joined Captain Pearse's company, consisting of 50 whites and 20 friendly Indians all from Cape Cod. Captain Pearse was ordered to pursue the enemy who were under the personal leadership of the famous Narragansett Chief Cnoenchet. He came up with them at Seekonk and immediately made an attack. The fighting on the first day resulted in no loss to the whites, who rested that night in the village. The next day, Captain Pearse prepared for the second engagement. At a short distance from the town, four or five Indians were discovered limping along as if wounded. Suspecting no treachery, the whites eagerly followed them and soon found themselves in the presence of an overwhelming force. To escape was impossible; to retreat was desperate. A furious attack ensued, and a fresh body of Indians appearing to the gallant band like the Spartans at Thermoplae, were completely surrounded, and after a brave resistance of two hours, in which Captain Pearse and his men fought in a double ring, the company was annihilated, and of 50 white, 46 were slain. Young Stephen Wing thus perished in his twentieth year of age.
DANIEL WING, born 1616 in Sandwich, Kent, England died March 10, 1697 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts "Daniel at twenty-two, already an idealist (cont) and religionist" speaking about when he came to this country with his mother and two brothers. He became a Quaker and suffered persecution like his brother Stephen, in the cause of religious liberty. His burial place is Spring Hill Meeting, Barnstable.
The records of Monthly Meeting of Friends shows that the Sandwich Monthly Meeting was the first established in America, and this was before the year 1660. The families of Daniel and Stephen Wing were among the first eighteen to embrace the new religious teachings, demanding freedom of conscience and a separation of the church and state

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN Jr, born: Feb. 25, 1883 in Dartmouth, married VIOLA HEISE, on Sept. 6, 1911 in West Newton.

FRANK MORTON SHERMAN Jr, was born: Feb. 25, 1883 in Dartmouth. The 1910 Census lists him as single 26 year old agent for a concrete company living in Newton with his parents. He married VIOLA HEISE on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1911 in West Newton. They first met in Germany in 1894 when both of their fathers were there for medical studies. Their only child was FRANK MORTON SHERMAN III. FMS Jr. served in WWI, worked for Gulf Oil Co., was a semi-pro golfer and later was self-employed as an antique furniture restorer and refinisher for their thriving “Up The Lane Antique Shop” from the barn on Drumlin Farm, the old family property at 1192 Russells Mills Rd., Russell’s Mills, South Dartmouth. The 1930 U.S. Census lists F. Morton Sherman Jr. as a 47 year old antique dealer working at home with home value of $5,000., living with wife Viola H. age 41 and son Frank M. age 9, family not living on a farm. They lived most of their married life there in the oldest house in Dartmouth and attended the Quaker Meeting at Apponegansett Meetinghouse. He died of emphysema on Oct. 27, 1965 in Barnstable at age of 82 yr. 8 mo. 2 days. He was buried in Lot #3, Section D, listed as the sixth person buried in this lot. Per Rural Cemetery, 149 Dartmouth St, New Bedford, MA (508) 991-6191.

VIOLA HEISE, born June 2, 1888 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, was the only child of OSCAR N. HEISE b: 1861, a practicing dental surgeon of Cincinnati, and AMELIA LILLIAN MARQUA also of Cincinnati. She married FRANK M. SHERMAN JR. on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1911 in West Newton. They first met in Germany in 1894 when their fathers were there for medical studies. VIOLA was an antique dealer, operating the thriving “Up The Lane Antique Shop” from the barn on Drumlin Farm, the old family property at 1192 Russells Mills Rd. Russell’s Mills, South Dartmouth. She died of Parkinson's Disease on April 27, 1971 in Barnstable, age 85. and is buried at___________New Bedford.

      AMELIA MARQUA was the daughter of VALENTINE MARQUA b: 1821 in Bavaria. His parents were both born in France. He Married ELIZABETH MOEGLY in Cincinnati, August 3, 1848. VALENTINE MARQUA became a US citizen September 15, 1856. His daughter, AMELIA MARQUA d: 1932/3, married OSCAR N. HEISE, M.D. who had a brother Walter, and sister Ida. AMELIA a