Came to New England 1n 1634157 pg 246
643 Purchased property from Richard Hull
184 pg 787
Met Roger Williams in Rhode Island, purchased Aquetnet Island. He bacame a member of the Society of Friends.


Philip Sherman joined the great Puritan migration to the Massachusetts Bay Colony when he was in his early twenties. He settled near Boston in Roxbury in Suffolk County. He was a member of the Congregational Church. The established church in 1600 & 1700s, which was supported by township taxes, and the township buildings were used for both government and church functions. There were about 20,000 English who migrated to the New England Puritan colonies between 1630-1640. Philip became a Quaker later in Rhode Island. 196