Sherman, Tom, - 1801

Tom Sherman was from the Pootatuck community.  In 1755 he and John Chops, a Paugussett-Pootatuck, served in a New York regiment under Captain Samuel Dimmock.  Upon their return, the men deeded away their land at Pootatuck, wed Pequannock women, and removed to Golden Hill.  Sherman married Eunice Shoran and had at least five children: Tom, Eunice, Sarah, Tabitha, and Ann.  In late summer of 1764, neighboring colonists from Fairfield trespassed onto Golden Hill while Richard Hall destroyed the Sherman family's wigwam and drove them off their land.  That same year, Sherman with his wife and sister in law, Sarah Shoran Chops, petitioned the Connecticut General Assembly successfully for redress.  In 1774, the family once more petitioned the Assembly, showing that Daniel Morris, their guardian, had abused them by taking away their firewood, imprisoning them without cause and leaving them sick and almost naked.  By 1798, Sherman was living in a wigwam near the house of Captain Daniel Sterling on Golden Hill.  He died there in 1801.  Rolls of the Connecticut Men in the French & Indian War, 1755-1762, 75. Papers of the Algonquian Conference, vol. 30, 1999, 303, 310.  Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, CT, 42.  Woodbury Register of Deeds 12:118a.  IP 1.2.147-148. IP 1.2.156. IP 1.2.160.  Summary Under the Criteria for the Proposed Finding on the Golden Hill Paugussett, 20-21, 30-31.