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- From FindaGrave:
Sarah ODDYN or ODDING, daughter of William ODDYN or ODDING and Margaret (___) (parents from England). Details on vitals still being confirmed: Birth 05 Feb 1609 in Madron, Cornwall, England; Death 05 Feb 1681 in Kingston, Washington Co., Rhode Island.
In the year 2000 a CENOTAPH memorial headstone was commissioned with the local pastor of Portsmouth Friends Churchyard. Currently checking if the project was completed / GJOT 04 Oct 2014.
Sarah married Phillip Sherman (Shearman), son of Samuel Sherman and Philippa Ward.
Mr Phillip Shearman was one of the 23 signers of the Portsmouth Compact dated 07 March 1638 (13th signer) ... a document 138 years older than our Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Sarah and Phillip had perhaps 12 children (other source says they had 11 children and all survived to adulthood):
Eber Sherman*1634 – 1706
Sarah (md Mumford) Sherman*1636 – 1718
Peleg Sherman Sr. 1638 – 1719
Mary Sherman*1639 – 1700
Samson Sherman*1641 – 1718
Edmund Sherman*1641 – 1718
Sarah Sherman*1641 – ?
William Sherman*1643 – 1646
John Sherman*1644 – 1734
Hannah Sherman*1647 – 1717
Samuel Sherman*1648 – 1717
Mary (2nd one) Sherman*1652 – 1729
Philip Sherman*1652 – 1731
*Source: Ancestry.com
References to Phillip Shearman and his wife Sarah Odding (Oddyn) being Quakers:
• "After Phillip Shearman went to Rhode Island he left the Congregational Church and united with the Society of Friends." (Representive of Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Volume 1, publisher Jeff Beers & Co, Chicago c1908, page 210).
• "In the meantime, Phillip Shearman, became a member of another religious order, the Society of Friends (Quakers)." (Going to Palmyra: Sherman Deeds, by Margaret Sherman Lutzvick, 1997, page 38).
• "Philip and Sarah Sherman joined the Society of Friends as did their children and their children's children for two hundred years." (A New England Heritage, by Frederick Barreda Sherman, c1969, page 64).
• "After he removed to Rhode-Island he left the Congregational Church and united with the Society of Friends." (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol 24 Jan 1870 page 66: Article titled The Sherman Family, By Rev David Sherman).
*SOURCE: Alonzo Sherman (descendant)
Family and descendants:
While still living in Roxbury, in the Massachusetts colony, Sherman married Sarah Odding, the daughter of William and Margaret Odding.[9] He and Sarah had a large family of at least 11 children, most of whom survived childhood, married, and had large families.[2][10]
Sherman's mother-in-law, Margaret Odding, married secondly John Porter, another signer of the Portsmouth Compact. With Margaret, Porter had one child, Hannah, who married Samuel Wilbur, Jr., whose father, Samuel Wilbore was another signer of the compact.[11]
Among the many descendants of Philip and Sarah Sherman are former United States Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.[12] Other descendants include James S. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony,[13] Janis Joplin, Sir Winston Churchill, Lyndon LaRouche, Conrad Aiken, Mamie Eisenhower,[14] and possibly Marilyn Monroe.[15]
*Source: Wikipedia summary of sources.
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Married in Roxbury about 1633 Sarah Odding, daughter of Margaret (_____) (Odding) Porter.
They had 11 children: Eber, Sarah Mumford, Peleg, Edmund, Samson, John, Mary Wilbore, Hannah Chase, Samuel, & Philip.
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1610 - 1682 (72 years)
