William Sherman
(1692-1741)
BIRTH
June 28, 1692
PLACE
DEATH
1741
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Roger Sherman
(1721-1793)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
William Sherman (1692–1741) was a Massachusetts shoemaker and farmer, father of Declaration signer Roger Sherman. He married Rebecca Cutler, then Mehetabel Wellington in 1715, and moved from Watertown to Stoughton. His probate inventory lists shoemaking and farming tools, books and household furnishings, documenting his working life. Roger witnessed the widow’s bond and helped support the family after his death. Family records disagree on the precise June birth day.
EARLY LIFE
William Sherman was born Jun 28, 1692. The external genealogical record identifies Joseph Sherman and Elizabeth Winship 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 William Sherman 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. William Sherman died 1741. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
William Sherman died in 1741. William Sherman was a Massachusetts shoemaker and farmer, father of Declaration signer Roger Sherman. He married Rebecca Cutler, then Mehetabel Wellington in 1715, and moved from Watertown to Stoughton. His probate inventory lists shoemaking and farming tools, books and household furnishings, documenting his working life. Roger witnessed the widow’s bond and helped support the family after his death. Family records disagree on the precise June birth day. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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