The progenitors of the Stewart family and of the three allied families of Isom, Guess, and Wilson are: Leroy W. Stewart (1792-ca. 1865), Charles Isom (1775-1855), Henry Guess (1764-1825), and John Wilson (1730-1800).
William Boddy (1634/1635-1717) immigrated from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia during or before 1661, and married three times (probably once in England). Other early Boddy immigrants are listed. William spelled his surname Boddy, but many records in early Virginia record the surname as Body, Bodye, Bodie, etc. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere. Includes records of various ancestors in England, Scotland and elsewhere to the early 1400s.
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Henry Sherman of Colchester and Dedham, Essex, England, probably the son of Thomas Sherman of Yaxley, Suffex, England, died 1789/1790. Descendants of two of his sons, Henry Sherman (ca. 1547-1610) and Edmund Sherman (ca. 1548-ca. 1601), immigrated to America with the early Puritan immigrants. Among these was Phillip Shearman Phillip Shearman (1610/11-ca. 1686/7), who immigrated to America in 1633, settled in Massachusetts, and then moved to Rhode Island; his cousin, Capt. John Shearman (1612-1690/91), who immigranted to New England in 1637 and settled at Watertown, Connecticut; and Edmund Sherman (ca. 1572-1641), who immigrated to New England as a old man, with his children, and was living at Wethersfield, Connecticut, by 1635. Descendants of these and other early immigrants listed lived in Rhode Island, Connecituct, Massachusetts, New York, and elsewhere.