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1789 Job Sherman


Born:       1789 in Dutchess County, NY

Died:       1860, probably in Masonville, Delaware County, NY


His father was 1770 Abraham Sherman

His mother was 1773 Mary (last name unknown)


He was married to (unknown first marriage), likely about 1810 - 1814.
It is believed that these children were the issue of this marriage:

  Lewis Sherman       born    1814  (NOTE: may have been born 1820).
  Diantha Sherman     born    1815
  Harriet Sherman     born    1817  (NOTE: this has not been confirmed).
  Caroline Sherman    born c. 1830
  Gitty Marie Sherman born c. 1847  (NOTE: this may not be correct!).
  Charlotte Sherman   born c. 1847  (NOTE: this may not be correct!).
  
Job was married c. 1852 to 1819 Polly Ann Mills in Delaware County, NY.

The 1820 census for Masonville lists Abraham Sherman and Job Sherman 
as heads of households.

The 1830 census (for Masonville?) lists Job, Harry and Abraham 
Sherman, and Aaron Green Broad, who married Job's daughter Diantha.

The 1850 census for Masonville, NY has him listed as a farmer 61 years 
of age, with 1000 acres of land.  Info taken from his will and the will 
of his daughter Diantha Sherman Broad.  

NOTE: the 1850 census does not list daughter 'Gitty Marie', 
allegedly born in 1847.  It is probable therefore that this
birthdate for Gitty Marie is not correct.

The 1855 census for Masonville NY shows him born in Dutchess County 
and lists him at 66 years of age; it also says he had lived there for 
44 years which would mean he had moved to Masonville at the age of 22.

The 1855 census also lists:

  Wife Polly, age 36, born in Delaware County, NY
  Daughter Caroline, age 25
  Daughter Charlotte, age 8
  Daughter Zillah, age 1
  Step-daughter Sally Mills, age 15

All three daughters presumably were born in Masonville, NY
according to this data.  It is quite likely, given the dates above,
that Gitty Marie and Charlotte were the children of Polly Mills,
rather than the children of Mary.  If they were the children of Mary,
then Mary was bearing children for more than thirty years altogether!

Job's second wife was Polly Mills and after Job died, the 1865 county
census for the Township of Tompkins lists her and her children living
with Alanson and listed as sister-in-law.

Here is a transcription of Job's Last Will and Testament.


Research by Mildred Faith Sherman Lockwood aka Millie Lockwood