Hi Geoff, thanks for such marvelous information! It certainly gave me a history lesson. I've obtained a few pages from the Fairfield Historical Society and here is something on Captain Matthew Sherwood: Source: A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport Connecticut, by Rev. Samuel Orcutt, Part 1, Published under the Auspices of theFairfield County Historical Society 1886.p. 541: "No. 103. The Old Stratfield Burial Ground seems to have been laid out on the Black Rock road. The first burials were made upon the high ground, now the central part of the plot, which appears to have been quite fully occupied. There are numerous field stones which mark the places of interments, many of them being marked only with initial letters, date and age, and others with initials roughly cut. These dates run from 1688 to 1712. About the oldest slate stones of the stereotyped pattern, fully inscribed, are those of Rev. Charles Chauncey, 1714, and Captain Matthew Sherwood, 1715. The ground was undoubtedly regarded as the property of the parish, for on December 29, 1772, an addition of one-half of an acre was made on the southeastern side, extending to the Training groound, securing a new entrance." Jeannie Winter