BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Elisha Sherman and Lydia Ann Borden

Elisha Sherman was born February 24, 1774 in Swansea, Massachusetts, four months after the Boston Tea Party. He was the sixth of seven children of Caleb Sherman and Sarah Anthony.

Lydia Ann Borden, whose parents are unknown, was born February 03, 1783, possibly in Rhode Island.

Elisha and Lydia were married before 1804 and had eight children, all born in Pittstown, New York:

• Sally Sherman, born in 1804
• Orrin Sherman, born in 1806
• Charles Prince Sherman, born in 1809
• Lydia Jane Sherman, born in 1811
• Caroline Melissa Sherman
• Minerva Ann Sherman
• John Borden Sherman, born in 1822
• Harriet Adeline Sherman, born in 1827

Elisha died in Pittstown on November 12, 1849. Lydia died June 15, 1866.

Sources & Related Information

• "Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island" by Roy V. Sherman
• Marilyn Burton correspondence