John Sherwin settled in Ispwich, Massachusetts, as a single man, probably in 1666. He married twice and was the father of thirteen children. He died at Ipswich in 1726. His descendant in the seventh generation, Sidney Orville Sherwin, was born in Buckland, Massachusetts, in 1848. He married Mary Adelaide Shedd, daughter of Charles and Eliza Rowell Shedd, at Denmark, Iowa, in 1871. They had nine children, 1872-1895. The family lived in Minnesota, migrated to South Dakota in 1880, and to Stockton, Missouri, in 1894. Mary Adelaide Sherwin died at Stockton in 1916. Sidney Sherwin lived with a son for awhile in Elk City, Oklahoma. He moved to a daughter's home in Iola, Kansas, in 1918. He died at Iola in 1923. Descendants lived in Missouri, Kansas, Texas, California, North Carolina, and elsewhere.

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