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probably as an indentured servant. RESIDED: in
Talbot County. MARRIED by 1677 Mary. CHIL-
DREN. SONS: Daniel Sherwood (ca. 1669-1738);
Philip (?-1717/18), who married Frances (last name
unknown); Hugh, who probably married Eliza-
beth Skinner; Francis (?-1737), who married
Joanna (last name unknown); and Capt. John (ca.
1678-?), who married first, in 1698, Lucy Mann,
second, in 1702, Elizabeth Pitt Berry (?-1717),
and third, in 1718, Penelope Skillington. DAUGH-
TERS: Catharine, who married Ralph Rice; Mar-
garet (?-1755), who married William Hambleton
(?-1725), son of William Hambleton (ca. 1636-
1677). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RE-
LIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES: probably arrived as a servant to
William Browne. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: prob-
ably servant on arrival; planter by 1668; attorney.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower
House, Talbot County, 1692-1693. LOCAL OF-
FICES: justice, Talbot County, 1692-1697; St. Mi-
chael's Vestry, Talbot County, 1693-1697. STANDS
ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: Opposed the Revo-
lution of Protestant Associators in 1689. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: at least
150 acres in Talbot County. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: will probated on March 22, 1710/11, in Tal-
bot County. PERSONAL PROPERTY. TEV, £143.5.0
(including 5 slaves and a parcel of books); FB,
estate overpaid £1.3.7. LAND: at least 150 acres.
SHERWOOD, HUGH, OF HUNTINGTON (ca.
1752-1807). BORN: ca. 1752 in Bay Hundred, Tal-
bot County; possibly only child. NATIVE: fifth
generation. RESIDED: at "Huntington," District
2, Talbot County, by 1783; probably moved to
his father's homeplace in Bay Hundred, District
1, Talbot County, by 1798. FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER: Thomas Sherwood (by 1736-by 1798).
MOTHER: Mary (ca. 1732-1810). BROTHERS/SIS-
TERS: none who survived their father. In 1798
Hugh stated that he was the only child and heir-
at-law of his father. MARRIED ca. 1795 Elizabeth
(?-1846). CHILDREN. SON: Hugh. DAUGHTERS:
Elizabeth T. (1799-1831), who married in 1816
Dr. Edward Speddin; Mary, who married (first
name unknown) Hambleton; and Susan, who
married (first name unknown) Banning. PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILI-
ATION: Anglican, St. Michael's Parish, Talbot
County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Esq., by
1787. Sherwood is described in a gossipy letter
written in 1785 by Molly Tilghman to a friend as
"the serene Hugh of Huntingdon..... what the
Philosophers have so long been in search of, a
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perfect vacuum." OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower
House, Talbot County, 1781-1782 (elected dur-
ing the 1st session to fill vacancy; did not qualify
until the 2nd session), 1782-1783, 1786-1787,
1787-1788, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791-1792, 1792.
LOCAL OFFICES: justice, Talbot County, 1779, 1780,
1782-1789, 1791-1801 (resigned); St. Michael's
Parish Vestry, Talbot County, elected 1787, 1789,
1792, 1794, 1799, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1807; justice,
Orphans' Court, Talbot County, appointed 1796;
commissioner of the tax, Talbot County, ap-
pointed 1798; trustee, Easton Academy, Talbot
County, in office, 1800; sheriff, Talbot County,
commissioned March 1802, served until October
1803 (defeated in the election of 1800, but com-
missioned in place of the deceased incumbent;
defeated in bid for reelection in 1803). MILITARY
SERVICE: major, by death. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed Value
£239.0.0, including 6 slaves, 1783; at least 22 slaves,
1798. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: probably 230 acres
in Talbot County (gift from his father by 1783).
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST
ELECTION AND DEATH: bought 4 acres adjoining
his father's land in St. Michael's, Talbot County,
1794; probably inherited all of his father's six tracts
of ca. 854 acres in Talbot County prior to selling
two of those tracts in 1796; purchased 75 acres in
Talbot County in 1796, and sold 10 acres in Talbot
County in 1797; charged with 1,062 acres in Tal-
bot County, 1798; patented 4 acres in Talbot
County (surveyed by his father), 1798; purchased
228 acres adjoining "Huntington" in 1799 and 18
acres in 1800, all in Talbot County; sold the 4
acres in St. Michael's, 1802. A few months before
his death, Sherwood mortgaged 300 acres in Tal-
bot County with the stipulation that the land was
to be sold if the mortgage was not redeemed within
two weeks. There is no evidence of the release
of this mortgage and presumably the land was
sold. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: on September 21,
1807, in Talbot County, after a two-week illness.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, at least $10,079.87
(including 40 slaves, 6 oz. old silver and silver
flatware valued a $72.50, 1 old yawl, one-half
share of a hauling seine, more than 24 books, and
$620.00 in cash). LAND: probably ca. 1,000 acres
in Talbot County.
SHERWOOD, THOMAS (by 1736-by 1798).
BORN: between 1732 and 1736 in Talbot County;
only son of father. NATIVE: fourth generation.
RESIDED: in Bay Hundred, District 1, Talbot
County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Hugh
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