death_date death_place religion birth_place children parents birth_date spouse article_title education name occupation
1687 portsmouth , rhode island quaker dedham , essex , england eber , john , mary , hannah , samuel , benjamin , , phillip anderson 1995 1672 -lrb- austin adds two more sarah children without documentation -rrb- , peleg , edmund , samson samuel sherman and philippa ward baptized 5 february 1610/11 sarah odding philip sherman
 sufficient to be general recorder of the colony philip sherman secretary , town clerk , general recorder , deputy
philip sherman

philip sherman -lrb- 1611 -- 1687 -rrb- was a prominent leader and one of the founding settlers of portsmouth in the colony of rhode island and providence plantations .
coming from dedham , essex in southeastern england , he and several of his siblings and cousins settled in new england .
his first residence was in roxbury in the massachusetts bay colony where he lived for a few years , but he became interested in the teachings of the dissident ministers john wheelwright and anne hutchinson , and at the conclusion of the antinomian controversy he was disarmed and forced to leave the colony .
he went with many followers of hutchinson to establish the town of portsmouth on aquidneck island , later called rhode island .
he became the first secretary of the colony there , and served in many other roles in the town government .
sherman became a quaker after settling in the rhode island colony , and died at an advanced age , leaving a large progeny .
