Philip Sherman
Baptised at Dedham in Essex in February 1610/11. He came to Massachusetts in 1633 and settled soon at Roxbury, and was made a freeman there on 14 May 1634. On 20 November 1637, in the purge that followed the Antinomian controversy, he was among those warned to deliver up all guns, pistols, swords, powder and shot, on the ground that "the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and led into dangerous errors many of the people here in New England."
He left. On 7 March 1638 he was one of the men who signed the compact at Portsmouth on Aquidneck, submitting their persons, lives and estates to Christ as king and to "all those perfect and most absolute laws of his, given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby." He was at the general meeting called on public notice that May. In 1639 he was made secretary, in 1640 one of five men chosen to lay out lands, in 1641 a freeman of the new government, and he was general recorder of the colony from 1648 to 1651. When the Assembly voted in the middle 1650s that in these troublesome times and straits it desired the company and counsel of the most judicious inhabitants, Philip Sherman was one of the sixteen named.
He married Sarah Odding, stepdaughter of John Porter of Portsmouth and Kings Town. He made his will on 20 July 1681 and it was proved on 22 March 1687, his son Samuel executor. He died in 1687.
Children
Benjamin Sherman (b. 1650)
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Cite: Heirology, "Philip Sherman (1610-1687)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/philip-sherman-1610-1687-b0d02e.