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Sherman, Hester

Female Abt 1602 - Bef 1665  (63 years)


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  • Name Sherman, Hester 
    Born Abt 1602  Dedham, Essex. England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 01 Apr 1606  Dedham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Bef 28 Feb 1665  Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    WILL 27 Dec 1665 
    Person ID I2195  Taylor
    Last Modified 7 Jan 2004 

    Family Ward, Andrew,   b. Abt 1602, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1659, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 1 Feb 1618/1619  Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Ward, Anne,   b. 1620, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jul 1718, Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 98 years)  [Birth]
     2. Ward, Edmund,   b. Abt 1623, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1666  (Age 43 years)  [Birth]
     3. Ward, Esther,   b. 1623, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
     4. Ward, Isabelle,   b. Abt 1630, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1676, Hadley, , Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years)  [Birth]
     5. Ward, Hester,   b. Abt 1633, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
     6. Ward, William,   b. Abt 1635, Watertown, Litchfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1675  (Age 40 years)  [Birth]
     7. Ward, Mary,   b. Abt 1637, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
     8. Ward, John,   b. Abt 1639, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1683  (Age 44 years)  [Birth]
     9. Ward, Sarah,   b. Abt 1641, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
     10. Ward, Abigail,   b. 1643, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
    +11. Ward, Andrew,   b. Abt 1644, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1690, Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years)  [Birth]
     12. Ward, Samuel,   b. 1647, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Jan 1692/1693, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F968  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Andrew WARD married: by 1628 Hester SHERMAN (Dau of Edmund SHERMAN; her will dated 27 Dec 1665; her estate inventory dated 30 Jan 1665/6); will made 8 Jun 1659, estate inventory dated 18 October 1659; May be son of Richard of Gorleston, Co. Suffolk England


      Hester's will of 27 Dec 1665 (proved 28 Feb 1665/6) leaves £ 5 "to my son William", 40 shillings "to my daughter Mary Burr". "Sons Andrew and Samuell" received £ 8 each, "daughter Abigail" £ 10 and "the children of my daughter Anna Nichols nine pounds to be equally divided among them"; "my grandchild Hester Ward" received £ 9 and "son John's children" received the same amount. "My grandchildren Sarah Burr and Nathaniell Burr the children of my daughter Sarah nine pounds to be equally divided among them". Her wearing apparel was to be divided between daughters Ann, Mary, Sarah and Abigail. She appointed sons William Ward and Andrew Ward as "executors and residuary legatees and also gives "Daniell Bur and Hester Burr ten shillings apiece". And finally, "to my son William .. my great Bible and if Andrew outlive him then Andrew shall have it." The inventory of her estate, was taken 30 Jan 1665/6 and amounted to £ 139.

      Sources: The Great Migration Begins by Robert Charles Anderson - 1995; Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope - 1900; Families of Early Guilford CT by Alvan Talcott - 1984; History of Guilford and Madison Connecticut by Steiner - 1897; Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford CT by Frank Farnsworth Starr - 1915 (Family of James Boosey); Commemerative Record of New Haven County Connecticut - 1902