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Note: According to the "Ancestors of Hugh Alfred Haury and Flora Amelia Switzer" on Internet Family Finder, Henry Sherman and Susan Lawrence are 10th great-grandparents to Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, and 11th great-grandparents to George Bush, 41st U.S. President.
In his will, dated August 21st, 1610 and probated September,1610, Henry leaves his wife, Susan, "all m house wherein I now dwell and the land with the Oadhouse and all the appurtenances thereunto now belong holding of the Manner of Dedham Hall by estimate 20 acres more or less which I had the surrender of my father...that my wife shall keep the said houses in good lawful and sufficient reparacons as conveniently as she may during all her said terme and that she make to strippe nor waste upon the pmises and that she leave at the end of her terme in the dewllinghouse the pannes and leads and in the Oadhouse the leads to them and to eyther of them fastened and belonging and yff my sd wife shall not keep the sed houses in reepacons as aforesd and shall make strippe and waste upon the sd houses and lands at any tyem above and veyond the valewe of 20s, then my will and meaning is that my son Henry Shearman shall enter upon said houses and lands..." Susan also received six "of my best silver spoones" and "the summe of three score pounds in lawful English money, as well as a "tapestrie coverlett, my best silver salt, 8 of my best milch kine, the bedstead in the parlor on which I used to lye with the bes on it and all things thereunto belonging with the cubboard in the same parlour and 2 chest in the same place, the one a Danske chest and the other a joyned chest with a little cofer 2 needlewroought cushions in the hall and one silver cup." She also received "fower seames of rye", a yearly allotment of six loads of wood, half his hogs, and half of all househood goods not otherwise bequeathed. Son Samuel is mentioned only in that he and son Henry are to "sell my 8 acres of land in the Hallfeild to the best advantage of my Children's children as afore bequeathed within 2 years after my decease." (Roy V. Sherman, "Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman..., pp. 14-18).
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