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Benjamin resided in Portsmouth R. I.

Benjamin married Mary LAWTON about 1696 in Of, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Benjamin was a farmer in Portsmouth, R.I. and a land owner in Kings Towne, R.I.

Benjamin married Hannah MOWRY on 3 Dec 1674 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Planter, 1st Secretary of RI, Deputy Governor of RI
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in 1634 he emigrated to New England. Settled in Roxbury, Mass. In the Anne Hutchinson trouble in Boston he took the popular side, but as Gov. Winthrop finally prevailed, he with others found it convenient to emigrate to Rhode Island. In Providence they met Roger Williams who advised them to purchase the island of Aquetnet, now Rhode Island, of the Indians. The purchase was completed March 24, 1638. On July 1, 1639, they established a regular government, with Wm. Coddington, Governor, and Phillip Sherman, Secretary.
After this he often held office in the Colony, and in critical periods. He was a man of intellignece, wealth, and influence, and frequently consulted by those in authority. The early record prepared by him still remains in Portsmouth, and show him to have been a neat and skillful penman, as well as an educated man. After he emigrated to Rhode Island he left the Congregational Church, and united with the Society of Friends. Tradition affirms he was a devout as well as a determined man.

Phillip Sherman (Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III)
In his will, dated 31 July 1681 and proved 22 March 1686/7, “Philip Shearman, yeoman, age seventy-one years, of the Town of Portsmouth,” bequeathed to “Sarah my loving wife the use and her dwelling in the first room at the west end of my now dwelling…”, “my son, Samuel my sole executor” and to provide “my loving wife with food and raiment and all necessaries whatsoever during her natural life and at her decease decently to bury her”, to “Sarah my wife ten good ewe sheep”, to Eber my eldest son that which I have already given him, ten acres of land in the bounds of Portsmouth…. At a place called Briggs swamp…and all my horse flesh in the Narragansett country excepting one mare, the second best, such excepted mare , I give to Thomas Mumford and Peleg Mumford my grandchildren”, to “my son Peleg five ewe sheep”, to “my son Edmund a quarter share of meadow and a sixteenth part of a share of upland lying in Ponagansett within the township of Dartsmouth

Phillip married Sarah ODDING in 1633 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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