When Ester Sherman was born on 6 February 1763, in Pomperaug Plantation, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Sherman II, was 40 and her mother, Sarah Benham, was 31.
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English (London): occupational name denoting someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from Middle English sherman, shirman, sharman ‘shearman’.
Americanized form of North German Schürmann (see Schuermann ) and of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schermann .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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