Roger Sherman

1721 - 1793  (72 years)

• Name	Roger Sherman
  Born	19 Apr 1721	Newton, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Jul 1793	New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut, USA
  Buried	New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut, USA (Grove Street Cemetery)
  Person ID	I25066	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Prescott,   b. 20 May 1742, Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 19 Apr 1813, New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut, USA  (Age 70 years)
  Married	12 May 1763	Danvers, Essex Co, Massachusetts, USA
  Children	1. Sarah Sherman,   b. 11 Jan 1783, New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 29 Aug 1866, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009
  Family ID	F10177	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000349 SHERMAN, Roger, (1721 - 1793) Senate Years of Service: 1791-1793 Party: Pro-Administration SHERMAN, Roger, (father-in-law of Samuel Hoar and Simeon Baldwin, grandfather of William Evarts, Roger Sherman Baldwin, George Frisbie Hoar and Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, great-grandfather of Rockwood Hoar and Sherman Hoar), a Delegate, a Representative, and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Newton, Mass., April 19, 1721; moved with his parents to Stoughton (now Canton), Mass., in 1723; attended the public schools; learned the shoemaker's trade; moved to New Milford, Conn., in 1743; surveyor of New Haven County in 1745; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1754 and practiced; member, Connecticut assembly 1755-1756, 1758-1761, 1764-1766; justice of the peace for Litchfield County 1755-1761, and of the quorum 1759-1761; moved to New Haven, Conn., in June 1761; justice of the peace and member of the court 1765-1766; member, State senate 1766-1785; judge of the superior court 1766-1767, 1773-1788; member of the council of safety 1777-1779; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1781, and 1784; a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the committee which drafted it; member of the committee to prepare the Articles of Confederation; the only Member of the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federal Constitution; mayor of New Haven from 1784 until his death; delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787; elected to the First Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William S. Johnson and served from June 13, 1791, until his death in New Haven, Conn., July 23, 1793; interment in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven (formerly known as New Haven City Burying Ground). Bibliography Dictionary of American Biography; Rommel, John G. Connecticut's Yankee Patriot: Roger Sheman. Hartford: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1980; Collier, Christopher. Roger Sherman's Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1971; Gerbr, Scott D. "Roger Sherman and the Bill of Rights." Polity 28 (Summer 1996): 521-540.