Individual Details
Joseph Sherwood
(1 Dec 1702 - 1791)
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XO8nAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA668
See "A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport CT" by Rev. Samuel Orcutt Part I dated 1886 pages 1292-1293 from Heritage Quest under Joseph Sherwood #48 showing his wife and children. This shows his birth as 1 Dec 1702 which may be a christing date.
See "The history of Fairfield: Fairfield County, CT" by Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck dated 1889 pages 408-409 found at Heritage Quest Online.
Ancestry.com
Check per wikitree: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Events
| Birth | 21 Nov 1702 | Fairfield, Connecticut, British America |  |  | |
| Birth | 1 Dec 1702 | Greenfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British America | | | |
| Christen | 31 Jan 1703 | Fairfield, Connecticut, British America | | | |
| Marriage | 17 Feb 1730 - 1 | Fairfield, River, British America - Sarah Osborn | | ||
| Death | 1791 | | |||
| LDS Family Tree ID | LQB2-8LQ | ||||
| WikiTree | Sherwood-212 |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Osborn ( - 1793) |
| Child | Grace Sherwood (1731 - 1805) |
| Child | Eleazer Sherwood (1733 - 1808) |
| Child | Joseph Sherwood Jr. (1735 - 1813) |
| Child | Jehiel Sherwood (1739 - 1807) |
| Child | Grizzel Sherwood (1743 - 1820) |
| Child | David Sherwood (1745 - 1817) |
| Child | Abel Sherwood (1750 - 1837) |
| Child | Reuben Sherwood (1753 - ) |
| Father | Benjamin Sherwood (1669 - 1737) |
| Mother | Sarah ? ( - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Sherwood (1692 - 1770) |
| Sibling | Mindwell Sherwood (1696 - ) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Sherwood II (1700 - 1763) |
| Sibling | Noah Sherwood (1707 - 1734) |
| Sibling | Sarah Sherwood ( - 1738) |
Notes
Birth
In Donald Lines Jacobus book History and genealogy of the families of old Hairfield, dated 1932 page 553, found at Heritage Quest Online, Joseph, son of Benjamin and Sarah Sherwood, was born 21 Nov. 1702 and recorded at Fairfield or born 1 Dec 1702 recorded at Greenfield, baptized 31 Jan 1702/3.Birth
In Donald Lines Jacobus book History and genealogy of the families of old Hairfield, dated 1932 page 553, found at Heritage Quest Online, Joseph, son of Benjamin and Sarah Sherwood, was born 21 Nov. 1702 and recorded at Fairfield or born 1 Dec 1702 recorded at Greenfield, baptized 31 Jan 1702/3.See "A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport CT" by Rev. Samuel Orcutt Part I dated 1886 pages 1292-1293 from Heritage Quest under Joseph Sherwood #48 showing his wife and childern. This shows his birth as 1 Dec 1702 which may be a christing date.
Christen
In Donald Lines Jacobus book History and genealogy of the families of old Hairfield, dated 1932 page 553, found at Heritage Quest Online, Joseph, son of Benjamin and Sarah Sherwood, was born 21 Nov. 1702 and recorded at Fairfield or born 1 Dec 1702 recorded at Greenfield, baptized 31 Jan 1702/3.Endnotes
1. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the families of old Fairfield (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), Vol I, page 553; digital images, Heritage Quest Online, My E-Books: Old Fairfield by Jacobus 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3 ( : accessed .
2. , Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (The Barbour Collection) (n.d.), Vol. Fairfield page 97; connecticut vital records to 1870 (online database: americanancestors.org, new england historic genealogical society, 2011.) from original typescripts, lucius barnes barbour collection, 1928, AmericanAncestors.org ( : accessed .
3. William Richard Cutter, A.M., Historian of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol II (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911), page 668; digital images, Google Books and Famliy Search, ( : downloaded 14 September 2012.
4. Gene Chamberlain (chamberg925@gmail.com), "Fourth Generation Joseph (1) Sherwood of Greenfield (1702-1791," , Second Edition: Januray 5, 2016 (my efile Sherwood): page 3.
5. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the families of old Fairfield (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), page 553; digital images, Heritage Quest Online, My E-Books: Old Fairfield by Jacobus 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3 ( : accessed .
6. William Richard Cutter, A.M., Historian of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol II (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911), page 668; digital images, Google Books and Famliy Search, ( : downloaded 14 September 2012.
7. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the families of old Fairfield (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), Vol I, page 553; digital images, Heritage Quest Online, My E-Books: Old Fairfield by Jacobus 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3 ( : accessed .
8. Rev Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport Connecticut: Part I (Published under the auspices of the Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886), page 1293; digital images, Heritage Quest Online, ( : accessed .
9. , Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (The Barbour Collection) (n.d.), Vol. Fairfield page 97; connecticut vital records to 1870 (online database: americanancestors.org, new england historic genealogical society, 2011.) from original typescripts, lucius barnes barbour collection, 1928, AmericanAncestors.org ( : accessed .
10. Gene Chamberlain (chamberg925@gmail.com), "Fourth Generation Joseph (1) Sherwood of Greenfield (1702-1791," , Second Edition: Januray 5, 2016 (my efile Sherwood): page 3.