Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Sherman was born about 1667, in Connecticut, United States, his father, Samuel Sherman Jr., was 27 and his mother, Mary Titherton, was 23. He died in 1740, in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 74.
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1705
Colonial settlers from Fairfield, Connecticut, received approval from the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut to establish a new township....Wikipedia
Name Meaning
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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