Rebecca married Capt. Samuel Sherwood on 30 Nov 1704. Samuel (son of Capt. Matthew Sherwood and Mary Fitch) was born in 1681; died on 10 Nov 1732 in Stratfield, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Sherwood was born on 22 Sep 1705; died on 17 Sep 1779 in Stratfield, Connecticut.
2. Nathaniel Sherwood was born on 15 Sep 1707; died on 2 Oct 1784.
3. Sarah Sherwood was born on 23 Oct 1709; and died.
4. Mary Sherwood was born on 1 Jun 1710; died on 1 Jan 1790.
5. Abigail Sherwood and died.
6. Samuel Sherwood was born before 21 Nov 1714; and died.
7. Rebecca Sherwood was born on 2 Oct 1715; died in 1749.
8. Esther Sherwood was born on 23 Nov 1716; and died.
9. Thomas Sherwood was born on 11 Mar 1719 in Weston, CT; died on 15 Sep 1798.
10. Andrew Sherwood was born on 1 Mar 1721; died on 23 Nov 1767 in Stratfield, CT.

Nathaniel + Sarah Ward. Sarah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:58:59 -0400
From: "Julie Hesson"
To: NYORANGE-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [NYORANGE] Deed for Jehu BURR

> Jehu BURR
> was born ca. 1730 in CT and died April 1808 in Greenbrier Co., WV. H was
> married November 22, 1755 to Sarah GRIFFIN

Mona,

Thinking it for my own interest, I copied a page from The Register (NEHGR),
without noting which volume--shoot me! It had to be one of the first 16
volumes, because those were the only ones I purchased. Anyway, the page was
261, and reads:

THE BURRS OF FAIRFIELD, CONN.
(communicated by Sylvester Judd, Esq.)

"The late Aaron Burr, once Vice President of the United States, was the son
of Rev. Aaron Burr, President of Princeton College, and the latter was a son
of Daniel Burr, of Fairfield. Farmer, Savage, and Allen, are all in error
in regard to the parentage of Rev. Aaron Burr. In Hildreth's History of
the United States, the late Aaron Burr's grandfather is said to have been a
German. This is also erroneous, though the statement is found in the life
of the vice president, and was doubtless derived from him. He seems to have
disowned his worthy puritan ancestors, whom he had dishonored by his
profligacy. The ancestors of those Burrs, in this country, were as
follows: ---
1. Jehu Burr, who was in Massachusetts in 1630, and was admitted
freeman in 1631. This christian name in the record can hardly be
distinguished from John, and is often copied John. Jehu Burr belonged to
the church at Roxbury, and settled at Springfield with William Pynchon and
others, in 1636. In a few years he removed to Fairfield, where he died
before 1650. He had sons Jehu and John; and probably Nathaniel and Daniel
Burr, of Fairfield, were his sons also.
2. Jehu Burr, son of Jehu, died in Fairfield, 1692. He left sons
Daniel, Peter, Samuel, and five or six daughters. Peter graduated at
Harvard College in 1690, and was a distinguished man in Connecticut.
3. Daniel Burr, son of the second Jehu, died in Fairfield in 1722,
leaving ten children, viz.: Jehu, Stephen, Peter, David, Moses, Aaron,
Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane.
4. Aaron, the sixth son of Daniel, was born Jan. 4, 1716, according to
the inscription on his monument at Princeton, N.J. Rev. L.H. Atwater, of
Fairfield, informs me, that he was baptized March 4th, 1715-16, and was
recorded as "son of Mr. Daniel Burr, of Upper Meadow." He graduated at Yale
College, 1738. He was pastor of a church in Newark, N.J. and president of
New Jersey College. He died Sept. 24, 1757, in his 42nd year. He married
Esther Edwards, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, and had two children,
Sarah and Aaron, who was vice president.
Samuel Burr, H.C. 1697, was not a grandson of Rev. Jonathan Burr, of
Dorchester, as stated by some, but a son of John Burr of Fairfield, and a
grandson of the first John Burr. He was master of the Grammar School at
Charlestown, Mass., twelve years, according to his monument in Fairfield.
He died Aug. 7, 1719.
Rev. Isaac Burr, Y.C. 1717, is said in Farmer to have been son of Judge
Peter Burr, and father of Rev. Aaron Burr. He was neither of these, nor did
he belong to the Fairfield family. Nathaniel Goodwin, Esq., of Hartford,
informs me that he was a son of Thomas Burr, of Hartford, and a grandson of
Benjamin Burr, one of the early settlers of that town. He was pastor of the
Church in Worcester, from 1725 to 1744. He died in Windsor, Conn., in 1751.
His wife, Mary, was a daughter of John Eliot, Esq., of Windsor."

Hope this helps further your tree, when you get your Jehu pinpointed.

Julie Hesson, author, "Mason County, WV, Marriages, 1806-1915"