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Syria Sherman (Captain)

BIRTH: 23 Dec 1801, Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island
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TITLE: Captain

Father: Asahel Sherman (12 Mar 1758 - 21 Jun 1830)
Mother: Rowena Ballou (28 Jun 1773 - 17 Oct 1859)

Family 1: Maria Wood (13 Feb 1809 - 2 Apr 1864)

MARRIAGE: 14 Feb 1828

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                       _Elkanah Sherman ____|
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 _Asahel Sherman _____|
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|                     |_Margaret Sewall ____|
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|--Syria Sherman 
|  (1801 - ....)
|                                                                                        _Maturin Ballou _____
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|                                                                  _James Ballou _______|_Hannah Pike ________
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|                                            _Samuel Ballou ______|
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|                                           |                     |                      _Valentine Whitman __+
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|                                           |                     |_Susanna Whitman ____|_Mary _______________
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|                      _Eleazer Ballou _____|
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|                     |                     |                                            _Eleazer Arnold _____+
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|                     |                     |                      _Eleazer Arnold _____|_Eleanor Smith ______
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|                     |                     |_Susanna Arnold _____|
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|                     |                                           |                      _William Hawkins ____+
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|                     |                                           |_Sarah Hawkins ______|_Lydia Ballou _______
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|_Rowena Ballou ______|
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                      |                                            _John Lapham ________|_Mary Mann __________
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                      |                      _Thomas Lapham ______|
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                      |                     |                     |_Mary Russell _______|_____________________
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                      |_Phebe Lapham _______|
                        (1734 - 1775) m 1750|
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                                            |_Abigail Wilbur _____|
                                              (1711 - 1785) m 1729|
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Notes

!SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in _Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodicals_ (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:107.

!OCCUPATION: Stone mason. --C.W. Farnham

!SOURCE: Adin Ballou, An Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous in America (Providence, R.I.: Ariel and Latimer W. Ballou, c1888), p. 247.

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