Roger Sherman statement concerning the new meeting house, 1756 Apr. 27.

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Roger Sherman statement concerning the new meeting house, 1756 Apr. 27.

Statement of Roger Sherman, society clerk, to the county court sitting at Litchfield on the 4th Tuesday of April 1756, certifying that the first society in New Milford has done nothing toward finishing the new meeting house since the previous December. Includes a brief printed biography of Sherman.

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Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793

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Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an early American statesman and lawyer, as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to have signed all four great state papers of the United States: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, and also signed the 1774 Petition to the King. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Sherman established a legal career in Litchfield County, Connecticut despit...