125 Sherwood Family Papers
Sherwood Family Papers
Collection, Ms 7
1654 – 1941
This collection centers around descendants of Thomas Sherwood who settled in Fairfield, CT in 1648. Members of this family were land owners with large farms, tradesmen, sea captains and part owners of boats, general store owners and bankers. The Fairfield Museum and History Center holds extensive genealogy records of this family. This collection contains 9 boxes and 18 oversize items. The original part of the collection was processed in 1981 with additions made in the early 2000's. The number 1980.JL1 on some items indicates a Fairfield History Society Library accession number. The original part of the collection makes up Boxes 1-7 and contains bills, business and personal correspondence, promissory notes, estate and probate papers, wills, estate bills, and distributions arranged alphabetically. Deeds, legal papers and writs are arranged by date. School notebooks, diaries, account books and journals are also in alphabetical order. Many of these items were donated by Royal Everts. A series of Bradley, Mixter and Sherwood family papers (photocopies only) were added to the collection in 2004 and were processed and arranged differently than the original items. They are in Boxes 8 and 9 and have the accession number L2002.3 and were donated by Laura Wilbur. This part of the collection contains Bradley, Mixter and Sherwood family letters, diaries, photography and genealogy for Sherwood family members and allied Bradley and Mixter (Couch) families. Of particular note is the correspondence and diary of Abigail Sherwood (1809-1862) daughter of William Sherwood. Abigail never married, spending her entire life on the family's Hulls Farm Rd. farm. There is a letter in the series in which Abigail discussed the growing of Mulberry trees for the cultivation of silk worms to make silk material. Brother sea captain Aaron Moses Sherwood's letters to Abigail are in the series. Abigail's sister Elizabeth married David Bradley.
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