Thank you Mary Jo, Both my husband's SISSONS and SHERMANS go way back.? About? 10 yrs. ago I discovered a very helpful SHERMAN researcher who helped me connect the family SHERMANS back as far as?John SHERMAN,?(1396-1487), with Philip SHERMAN being the emigrant from Dedham, Essex, ENG in 1633, as you mentioned earlier.? The researcher's name is Art Cohan , but I don't know if he is still living.? As you said, most of this Sherman line has been well documented in the past.? An elderly SHERMAN cousin from Portsmouth, said that early on the SISSONS and SHERMANS owned land out on East End Rd. and on?West End Rd.? My husband's family lived in Portsmouth, Middletown, and Newport but most have moved or are deceased now.? Regards,? Joan Fitzsimmons in NJ PS? I just had a reply from the SHERMAN researcher and he is alive and well if anyone should need a SHERMAN contact. -----Original Message----- From: Mary Jo Sisson March <benoni@centurytel.net> To: inn118@aol.com Sent: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:04 pm Subject: Shermans in Essex Joan: I put in Essex, Dedham, England, and came up with a lot of sites. Scroll down to about the 4th one mentioned, and it is (all) about the Shermans of Essex, who migrated to America. I believe it is quoting a very famous genealogy on the Shermans. It looked so interesting, I am going to have to go back and read it too, when I have more time.? Let me know if you find the site, and if it is helpful.? Mary Jo? ----- Original Message ----- From: <inn118@aol.com>? To: <sisson@rootsweb.com>? Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 7:14 AM? Subject: Re: [SISSON] SISSON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 92? ? > Thank you so much Mary Jo!? This connects my SISSONS and SHERMANS with > Elizabeth m. to Peleg SHERMAN July 25,?1657, Portsmouth RI.? Great > information!? Regards,? Joan Fitzsimmons? >? >? > Richard > George > Richard > George > Peleg > Richard > James > George > > Charles > Warren? >> Natalie Sisson Fitzsimmons > Michael K. Fitzsimmons (and me, Joan).? >? >? >? > -----Original Message-----? > From: sisson-request@rootsweb.com? > To: sisson@rootsweb.com? > Sent: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 3:01 am? > Subject: SISSON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 92? >? >? >? >? >? > Today's Topics:? >? > 1. Emailing: Ships Passenger Lists (Mary Jo March)? > 2. Emailing: Ships Passenger Lists (Mary Jo March)? > 3. Summary of Thomas Lawton's(1) Will (Mary Jo Sisson March)? > 4. generation error (Mary Jo Sisson March)? >? >? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------? >? > Message: 1? > Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:38:57 -0600? > From: "Mary Jo March" <benoni@centurytel.net>? > Subject: [SISSON] Emailing: Ships Passenger Lists? > To: <sisson-L@rootsweb.com>? > Message-ID: <000801c84730$4cb67f50$2f01a8c0@FSYLY0JTWN>? > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"? >? > I thought perhaps you would like for me to share my research with you, so > I am? > sending this to the list. It may possibly shed some light on what > motivated? > Thomas Lawton(1) to emigrate.? > Mary Jo? >? >? > ------------------------------? >? > Message: 2? > Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:38:57 -0600? > From: "Mary Jo March" <benoni@centurytel.net>? > Subject: [SISSON] Emailing: Ships Passenger Lists? > To: <sisson-L@rootsweb.com>? > Message-ID: <000701c8472d$cbc47750$2f01a8c0@FSYLY0JTWN>? > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"? >? > I thought perhaps you would like for me to share my research with you, so > I am? > sending this to the list. It may possibly shed some light on what > motivated? > Thomas Lawton(1) to emigrate.? > Mary Jo? >? >? > ------------------------------? >? > Message: 3? > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:24:49 -0600? > From: "Mary Jo Sisson March" <benoni@centurytel.net>? > Subject: [SISSON] Summary of Thomas Lawton's(1) Will? > To: "genealogy" <sisson-l@rootsweb.com>? > Message-ID: <001101c8497e$ef17f210$2f01a8c0@FSYLY0JTWN>? > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"? >? > I don't believe I have sent this Summary of Thomas Lawton(3)'s Will to the > List.? > I am not able to send a copy of the original Will, but this hits all the > high? > spots of it.? > Thomas Lawton's Will? > dated: 1674, June 5? > proved: 1681, Sept. 27? > (proves Lawton-Sisson connection)? > In his Will, Thomas Lawton named his following children:? > 1. Daniel Lawton? > 2. Isaac Lawton? > 3. Elizabeth Lawton (Sherman)? > 4. Anne Lawton (Slocum)? > 5. Sarah Lawton (Sisson)? > He also referred, very unfavorably to his 2nd wife, Grace Parsons > Bailey? > Lawton. Stating that "she had not behaved toward him? > as a wife should a husband."? > To Daniel: Long Swamp Farm - Hunting Swamp Farm? > To Isaac: Farm lying & being at Puncatege & lands on Martha's Vineyard? > To Elizabeth: All that land of mine that is now occupied by Peleg Sherman > (her? > husband)? > On quarter share of land at Ponoganset, in the Township > of? > Dartmouth? > All that land of mine in the tenure & occupation of > Peleg? > Sherman, lying in Portsmouth & adjoing that land that Peleg? > had received from Phillip Sherman.? > All that pasture of mine in Portsmouth, known by the > name of? > Fifty Acres.? > My dwelling house, with all the land belonging to the > same.? > To Anne: The sum of five shillings, with what I have already given her > from me? > or my estate.? > To Sarah: Fifty pounds of lawful money of New England? > To my daughters Elizabeth Sherman & Sarah Sisson, all the remainder of my > real? > and personal estate whatsoever it is, or? > wheresoever it may be found, to be divided equally between them.? > Apparently Elizabeth inherited the home place. Elizabeth had married well > when? > she md into the Sherman family.? > Her father-in-law Phillip Sherman was assistant to the governor, and held > other? > high offices, and was one of the first? > settlers in Portsmouth.? > Note: Tthomas appointed his "loving friend William Wodell" & "his loving? > son-in-law George Sisson," as overseers of his Will.? > This statement proves the Lawton - Sisson connection.? > ********************************************? > Note: For anyone on the List who wishes to have a copy of the original > Will,? > they can write to the Portsmouth City Clerk's Office? > at Portsmouth. I just received a copy from there, as I had > misplaced? > my original copy, & only had my transcribed? > version? > Mary Jo Sisson March? >? >? > ------------------------------? >? > Message: 4? > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:28:14 -0600? > From: "Mary Jo Sisson March" <benoni@centurytel.net>? > Subject: [SISSON] generation error? > To: "genealogy" <sisson-l@rootsweb.com>? > Message-ID: <001a01c8497f$699250d0$2f01a8c0@FSYLY0JTWN>? > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"? >? > After sending the will summary I noticed I had erroneously put a (3) > generation? > beside Thomas Lawton's(1) name. I have been working on several > generations of? > his family, & obiously got my generations mixed up.? > Sorry.? > Mary Jo? >? > ------------------------------? >? > To contact the SISSON list administrator, send an email to? > SISSON-admin@rootsweb.com.? >? > To post a message to the SISSON mailing list, send an email to? > SISSON@rootsweb.com.? >? > __________________________________________________________? > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SISSON-request@rootsweb.com? > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of? > the? > email with no additional text.? >? >? > End of SISSON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 92? > *************************************? >? >? > ________________________________________________________________________? > More new features than ever. 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