1Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 544-545 (1930).
"Sherman, Benjamin, s. of Samuel. Deputy (Stratford), May 1711.
Born at Stratford, 29 Mar. 1662.
Married (rec. Stratford) 6 June 1683, Rebecca Phippen.
Children, recorded at Stratford:*
Abigail, b. 10 Apr. 1684.
John, b. 30 Nov. 1685, d. y.
Wilmet, b. 21 Jan. 1688; m. (rec. at Newtown) 15 Sept. 1714, Jeremiah Turner.
Job, b. 7 Apr. 1690, d. at Newtown, in 1750; m. at Stratford, 28 May 1713, Sarah Seeley.
Nathaniel, b. 1 Dec. 1692, d. in Stratford in 1767; will 28 Aug. 1766, proved 13 Oct. 1767; m. (1) 22 [Nov.] 1720, Ruth Curtis, who d. 9 Nov. 1726; m. (2) 2 May 1728, widow Eunice Patterson. She was dau. of Abraham Nichols, d. 7 Dec. 1698.
Martha, b. 20 Dec. 1695.
Mary, b. 24 Feb. 1696/7.
Enos, b. 15 Apr. 1699; m. 28 Jan. 1724/5, Abigail Walker.
Rebecca, b. 18 Jan. 1700 [1700/1]; m. (1) at Stratford, 28 Mar. 1723, dau. of John b. [? at Windham, 15 June 1726], d. at Stratford, 23 Sept. 1783; she m. (2) 27 Oct. 1765, Abraham Judson.
Benjamin, b. 23 Jan. 1702 [1702/3], bapt. at Stratfield, 11 Apr. 1703; m. at Trumbull, 20 Nov. 1740, widow Obedience Fairchild. She was widow of Nathan Fairchild and previously of Edmund Curtis, and dau. of John Mallory, b. at New Haven, 11 Apr. 1704. She m. (4) 25 Dec. 1763, Robert Bassett, and was living 1785.
Samuel, b. 10 Feb. 1705, bapt. 29 Apr. 1705, d. at Stratford, in 1764; will 19 Oct. 1759, proved 21 Mar. 1764; m. abt. 1748, Sarah Hurd, dau. of John, b. [? at Windham, 15 June 1726], d. at Stratford, 23 Sept. 1783; she m. (2) 27 Oct. 1765, Abraham Judson.
James, b. 15 Dec. 1706, bapt. 2 Mar. 1707, d. at New Haven, 19 Jan. 1786 ae. 79; m. at Stratfield, 17 Jan. 1733/4, Sarah Cooke, dau. of Rev. Samuel, b. at New Haven, 8 June 1713, d. at New Haven, 18 Feb. 1802 ae 89.
Timothy, b. 4 Jan. 1709, d. at Stratford, in 1788; will 24 Sept. 1787, proved 5 Jan. 1780; m. (1) Elizabeth -------, who d. 10 Dec. 1766 in 52 yr. (g. s.); m. (2) 22 Mar. 1767, Naomi, widow of james Lewis, and dau. of Nathaniel Sherman, b. 5 May 1712, d. 27 Jan. 1797 in 85 yr. (g. s.).".