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John Sherman

SHERMAN, John, clergyman, born in Dedham, England, 26 December, 1618" died in Watertown, Massachusetts, 8 August, 1685. He was educated at Cambridge, where he was called a "College Puritan," came to New England in 1634, and preached in Watertown in the open air. After continuing for some time in Connecticut, he was chosen a magistrate of that colony. On 27 May, 1641, and from 1644 until his death, he was pastor of the Congregational church in Watertown, Massachusetts He was a fellow of Harvard, delivered lectures there for many years, arid was a popular preacher and an eminent mathematician. In 1682 he delivered a discourse before the convention of Congregational ministers in Massachusetts, the first sermon on that occasion that. is now upon record. He published several almanacs, to which he appended pious reflections.

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