Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1876-08-31
A Curious Chapter in History.
from the New York World I

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Verify the line of the Puritans Cor the Pill
grims, it really matters not much which, has
gone out into all the earth, and their blood
into all sorts of places. A recent British
traveller in this country has just unearthed the
fact that the young Earl OF Rosebery, who
made himself so we'll and so favorably
known in this country two or three years
ago, and of whom the English Liberals are
now hoping so much and with such good
reason, is kind of Scotch cousin Of the best
Presidential candidate the Republicans could
have selected, and upon whom of course,
they have turned their backs. Mr.. William
NJ. Evarts, as everybody knows, is grand
son of Roger Sherman, and Roger Sherman
was a descendant of the Rev. John Sherman
of Watertown, a divine Of considerable STAN
ding at the end of the Seventh century. The
Rev. John Sherman, like most of his New
England clerical brethern of the olden time,
had a ''quiver full of arrows" and among
them son, Bezaleel by name, who, after
taking his college degrees, found New Eng
land dreary, and went off in search offortune
as far as Madras, of all places in the world,
certainly within half a century after the
building there by the adventurous Francis
Day, in 1889, of Fort St. George, the seed
and germ of the modern Indo- British city
Bezaleel pretty clearly prosperd in the east,
and his example was followed by other rest
less Yankees, of his time. The Rev. John
Higginson, writing to his son Nathaniel, at
Madras, in 1897, asks him what had become
of Bezaleel Sherman's wife and children.
1t is probable that Bezaleel both married and
died in India. At all events son of his,
bearing the same name, turns up as mer-
chant of credit and renOwn in the early part
of the eighteenth century; and daughter
of this Bezaleel Sherman, Mistress Elizabeth
Sherman, was married at London to Sir
Henry Vincent, sixth baronet of the name,
who died January 20, 1857.
Sir Henry's son and successor, Sir Fran
els Vincent, married Miss Howard, of
Etfingham, and by her had, among other
the 18th of July. 1776, a fortnight after the
Declaration of the Independence of these
American Colonies, became the wife of Neil,
third Earl of Rosebery, and who was the
great grandmother of the present Earl. All
the American Shermans-including, we be-
lieve the Rhode Island ancestors of fearful
Thomas, of Brooklyn, who spelled their
name Shearman no doubt to spite the Puri-
tans-seem to have come of one stock So
that when Lord Rosebery comes over here,
as it is to be hoped he dutifully may, to hear
his kinsman deliver the Centennial Grafton
at Philadelphia, he will find himself infinitely
better off in the way of 6 American Cousins :,
than Lord Dundreary. Truly the threads
of life are flung with wide and careless
sweep around the globe by the Fates! Here
is strain of English blood which strikes out
across the Atlantic from the motherland in
the beginning of the seventeent century,
shoots off to the East Indas about the Cape
of Good Hope before the end of the century,
travels back again in the eighteenth century
by the way of London and Leadenhall street
into the peerage of Scotland, and finally
turns up sparkling with life, and celebrating
the Centennial of American independence in
the nineteenth.