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ford, the Stamford Home for the Aged,
and many other corporations. He is a
member of the State Bar Examining
Committee, of the grievance committee
of the Fairfield County Bar, member of
the American Bar Association, the Con-
necticut State Bar Association, and vice-
president of the Stamford Bar Associa-
tion. Mr. Taylor is a director of the
Woodway Country Club and of the Suburban
Club of Stamford, a member of the
Stamford Yacht Club, the Wee Burn Golf
Club, of Noroton, the Graduates' Club, of
New Haven, the Metropolitan, Racquet
and Tennis, and Yale clubs, of New York.
On November 5, 1892, Mr. Taylor mar-
ried Elizabeth H. Tilley, daughter of
George H. Tilley, of Darien, Connecticut,
who was for years secretary and
treasurer of the Southern Express Company.
They have two children : Harriet
Dorothy, bom December 4, 1894; Fred-
erick Heath, born September 15, 1896.
The latter left Williams College as a vol-
unteer with the American Expeditionary
Forces and served in France as a member
of the Headquarters Troop of General
Hodges, Seventy-Sixth Division. He is
now studying the textile industry at the
Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta.
Mr. Taylor and his family are members
of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, of
Stamford, of which he is a vestryman.
SHERWOOD, Stuart Wakeman, M. D.,
Specialist in Mental and Nervous Diseases.
(I) The ancestor of this branch of the
Sherwood family was Thomas Sherwood,
born in England in 1585-56, traditionally
in Warwickshire, and who, in April, 1634,
with his wife, Alice, and children, Ann,
Rose, Thomas (2), and Rebecca, sailed
from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England,
in the ship "Frances." He was for a
time at Wethersfield, Connecticut, ap-
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peared at Fairfield about 1648, and was
there in 1650. His will was dated July
21, 1655, and probated October 25 of the
same year. Among his children was
Thomas.
(II) Thomas (2) Sherwood, son of
Thomas and Alice Sherwood, was born
about 1624, and died at Fairfield, Con-
necticut, in 1697. He was a freeman at
Hartford in 1664, and was the first miller
on Mill river in Fairfield. He married
four times; (first) Sarah Wheeler, who
died before 1659; (second) Ann Turney;
(third) Mrs. Elizabeth Cable; (fourth)
Mrs. Sarah (Hide) Coley. By his second
wife he had six children, among them
Samuel.
(III) Samuel Sherwood, son of Thomas
(2) and Ann (Turney) Sherwood,
married at Fairfield, Connecticut, and
had: Sarah; Samuel (2), of whom fur-
ther; Abigail; Anne; Daniel, born April
5, 1708, died 1784.
(IV) Samuel (2) Sherwood, Esq., son
of Samuel Sherwood, was born between
1700 and 1702, and was deacon of the
Congregational church of Westport in
1747. He married, March 8, 1722, Jane
Burr, daughter of Daniel Burr; she was
baptized April 17, 1702. Among their
children was Samuel (3).
(V) Samuel (3) Sherwood, son of Samuel
(2) and Jane (Burr) Sherwood, was
born between 1722 and 1725. This is
probably the Samuel Sherwood (Connec-
ticut Soldiers in the Revolution, page 11)
who served from Fairfield, Connecticut.
He married Ann Nichols, and among their
children was Samuel Burr Sherwood.
(VI) Samuel Burr Sherwood, son of
Samuel (3) and Ann (Nichols) Sherwood,
was born November 26, 1767, and
died April 26, 1833. He graduated from
Yale College, in 1786, was admitted to
the bar in 1790, and practiced at Westport,
Connecticut. The Christian name