Elizabeth Hartwell
(1726-1760)
BIRTH
August 31, 1726
PLACE
Stoughton, Massachusetts
DEATH
October 19, 1760
PLACE
New Milford, Connecticut
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Roger Sherman
(1721-1793)
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Elizabeth Hartwell Sherman (1726–1760) was Roger Sherman’s first wife and a daughter of Joseph and Mary Hartwell of Stoughton, Massachusetts. Their 1749 marriage appears in town records and the family Bible. She lived with him in New Milford, Connecticut, and bore seven children while he developed his surveying, mercantile and legal work. Elizabeth died on October 19, 1760, aged thirty-four; her surviving gravestone identifies her husband and father.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Hartwell was born on Aug 31, 1726 in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Hartwell is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Elizabeth Hartwell died on Oct 19, 1760 in New Milford, Connecticut. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Hartwell died on Oct 19, 1760, in New Milford, Connecticut. Elizabeth Hartwell Sherman was Roger Sherman’s first wife and a daughter of Joseph and Mary Hartwell of Stoughton, Massachusetts. Their 1749 marriage appears in town records and the family Bible. She lived with him in New Milford, Connecticut, and bore seven children while he developed his surveying, mercantile and legal work. Elizabeth died on October 19, 1760, aged thirty-four; her surviving gravestone identifies her husband and father. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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