Mehetabel Wellington
(1687-1776)
BIRTH
February 26, 1687
PLACE
DEATH
April 12, 1776
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FAMILY
HUSBAND
William Sherman
(1692-1741)
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Mehetabel Wellington Sherman was born at Watertown in 1687 or 1688 and married William Sherman in 1715. Their family lived in Massachusetts before moving to Connecticut after his 1741 death. She was the mother of Roger Sherman, later a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and of minister Josiah Sherman. Roger’s family Bible preserves her birth-year uncertainty and records her death at New Haven on April 12, 1776. The Bible distinguishes her from later namesakes.
EARLY LIFE
Mehetabel Wellington was born Feb 26, 1687. The external genealogical record identifies Benjamin Wellington and Elizabeth Sweetman as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Mehetabel Wellington is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Mehetabel Wellington died Apr 12, 1776. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mehetabel Wellington died on Apr 12, 1776. Mehetabel Wellington Sherman was born at Watertown in 1687 or 1688 and married William Sherman in 1715. Their family lived in Massachusetts before moving to Connecticut after his 1741 death. She was the mother of Roger Sherman, later a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and of minister Josiah Sherman. Roger’s family Bible preserves her birth-year uncertainty and records her death at New Haven on April 12, 1776. The Bible distinguishes her from later namesakes. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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