. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. TOWN OF WEST UNION. 439 BIOGRAPHICAL c^. ..^c/'tAl^ ^yix^ii-T^V^^^'f--'^ DAVID SHERMAN was born in Norway, Herkimer Co., N. Y., Jan. 10, 1800. His father, Samuel Sherman, was a native of Tiverton, R. I.; was of German descent, his ancestors jBrst going to England, and thence to America. He was born in 1756 ; was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and most of the time acted as minute-man
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. TOWN OF WEST UNION. 439 BIOGRAPHICAL c^. ..^c/'tAl^ ^yix^ii-T^V^^^'f--'^ DAVID SHERMAN was born in Norway, Herkimer Co., N. Y., Jan. 10, 1800. His father, Samuel Sherman, was a native of Tiverton, R. I.; was of German descent, his ancestors jBrst going to England, and thence to America. He was born in 1756 ; was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and most of the time acted as minute-man in Rhode Island. He afterwards went out privateering; was taken prisoner, and after several weeks was exchanged. He married Sarah Sawyer, a native of Little Compton, R. I.; settled on Prudence Island; afterwards at Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y., where he lived for some fifteen years, and removed to Norway, Herkimer Co., where he died at the age of sixty-five. His wife also died there, in 1832, at the age of seventy-two. Their children are Mrs. Joshua Benjamin, of Norway; Wright, of Norway, afterwards of Oswego ; Humphrey, of Wayne County ; Antrace; Cynthia; Mrs. Phineas Randall, of Pennsylvania; George, of Alfred, Allegany Co., N. Y.; Samuel, of Norway ; David, subject of this sketch ; Josiah, of Alfred; and Mrs. James Baker; of whom only two are living in 1879,—Josiah and David. Mr. Sherman remained at home until he was twenty-six years of age, and received a fair common-school education. At that age he married Minerva, daughter of Luther and Clarissa H or ton, of Norway, Herkimer Co. He carried on farming on his father's farm until 1841, with the exception of a few years spent working at the carpenter and joiner trade, at which time he removed with his family and settled in the town of Greenwood (now West Union), purchasing two hundred and seventy-five acres of land, mostly timbered, to which he has made additions since of several hundred acres; and his. farm now compri
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