NEHEMIAH SHERWOOD, son of NATHANIEL SHERWOOD and MARY______ was born 30 Jan 1755 and he had by MARY SHELLEY, the daugh of GILBERT SHELLEY:
 
                                    NEHEMIAH SHERWOOD b 1796 m Mary Wilson
                                    ABSALOM SHERWOOD b 1797 m Harriet Brown
                                    WILLIAM SHERWOOD b 1798 m Dorcas Tyler
                                    LEWIS SHERWOOD b <1799>
                                    GILBERT SHERWOOD b <1800> m Annar ______
                                    OLIVER SHERWOOD b <1802> m Betsy King
                                    MARY SHERWOOD b <1803>
                                    NATHANIEL SHERWOOD b <1804>
                                    JOHN SHERWOOD b <1806> m Amanda Jane Barrett
                                    BETSY SHERWOOD b <1807>  m Eli Reynolds
                                    GLORINER GARRETS SHERWOOD b <1808> m Daniel Fitzgerald
                                    SARAH SHERWOOD b <1810> m Robert Jamison
                                    PHEBE SHERWOOD b <1812> m John wilson
                                    HANNAH SHERWOOD b <1816> m John Griffin
 
ABSALOM, above, and Harriet Brown had issue:
 
                                    WILLIAM HENRY SHERWOOD b 4 Jan 1833 m Catherine Reynolds
                                    SARAH JANE SHERWOOD b  25 Jun 1842 m Oscar Young Smith
                                    FRANCES HARRIET SHERWOOD b <1844> m William Barnes
                                    MARY ELIZABETH SHERWOOD b <1846> m Thomas Place
                                    CHARLES WESLEY SHERWOOD b <1848> m Mary Elizabeth White
                                    GEORGE E. SHERWOOD, died in childhood
 
 
Sources thus far:     GREENWICH CONN (1911) p 649, by Mead
                            W. L. SHERWOOD COLLECTION, box #1 @ New York Public Library, NYC, NY
                            CORRESPONDENCE: HARRY MACY Junr (dated June 1982)
                            BIOGRAPHY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY Vol 2, pp 534-5
 
My line continues down through SARAH JANE SHERWOOD's children by Oscar Young Smith
The above generations are of Fairfield County, Conn, then Greenwich, Frfrld, Conn and finally Bedford, Westchester County, NY
 
SARAH JANE SHERWOOD is my 2nd great grandmother.
 
                                                    Sincerely,
 
                                            Alan R. Tompkins
                                                   of
                                            Poughkeepsie, NY
                                          lesdelice@msn.com