James Sherman is the son of John Sherman and Mary Launce of Watertown.
He married Mary Walker, daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Stone on 3 May 1680 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
James' career as a preacher ended when he was tired before a church court presided over by Increase Mather. He was charged with bad conduct, including preaching while intoxicated. He was convicted, deposed, defrocked and excommunicated. He later became a physician..
(source: Franklin Dexter, Extracts from the itineraties and other Miscellanies of Ezna Stiles, D.D., litt.D., 1755-1794 (New Haven: Yale, 1896), pg 249-249)
He married Mary Walker, daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Stone on 3 May 1680 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
James' career as a preacher ended when he was tired before a church court presided over by Increase Mather. He was charged with bad conduct, including preaching while intoxicated. He was convicted, deposed, defrocked and excommunicated. He later became a physician..
(source: Franklin Dexter, Extracts from the itineraties and other Miscellanies of Ezna Stiles, D.D., litt.D., 1755-1794 (New Haven: Yale, 1896), pg 249-249)
James Sherman is the son of John Sherman and Mary Launce of Watertown.
He married Mary Walker, daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Stone on 3 May 1680 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
James' career as a preacher ended when he was tired before a church court presided over by Increase Mather. He was charged with bad conduct, including preaching while intoxicated. He was convicted, deposed, defrocked and excommunicated. He later became a physician..
(source: Franklin Dexter, Extracts from the itineraties and other Miscellanies of Ezna Stiles, D.D., litt.D., 1755-1794 (New Haven: Yale, 1896), pg 249-249)
He married Mary Walker, daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Stone on 3 May 1680 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
James' career as a preacher ended when he was tired before a church court presided over by Increase Mather. He was charged with bad conduct, including preaching while intoxicated. He was convicted, deposed, defrocked and excommunicated. He later became a physician..
(source: Franklin Dexter, Extracts from the itineraties and other Miscellanies of Ezna Stiles, D.D., litt.D., 1755-1794 (New Haven: Yale, 1896), pg 249-249)
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