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John SHERRARD

SAR Patriot #: P-288992

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State of Service: PA      Qualifying Service: Private

Birth: 1750 Londonderry / / Ireland
Death: 22 Apr 1809 / / OH

Additional References:
  1. Ref : Natl. No 554:33, pg 200, Volume 56. D. A. R. Lin. Rev War Graves Register
  2. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
  3. SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY,1998
  4. DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part 3, pg 2633
  5. Mrs. Orville Dailey, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster # 1 & 2, pg 332
  6. Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume II, pg 388, Second Series Volume XIV, pg 707
  7. Daughters of the American Revolution Linage Books, Volume 56, (Washington, DC: National Society of DAR), pg 200. DAR # 55433
  8. WPA Veterans Grave Registration Jefferson County, Ohio (Washington DC, Works Progress Administration.). Mary Donaldson Sinclair, Pioneer Days, pg 14, 15, 16, & 146

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Burial:
Union Cemetery (C-0372628)
Location:
Steubenville / Jefferson / OH / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
43837
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
81581333
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR



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Author: Dr. Michael Bernard Gunn
Born in 1750, in Londonderry, Ireland to parents William and Margaret Johnston Sherrard. He served as a Private in the Flying Camp of Pennsylvania and was with Colonel Crawford’s Expedition in Ohio against Sandusky. He Married Mary Cathcart (1751-1833); children: Nancy & Robert. John had one brother, James, and three sisters, Elizabeth, Margaret and Mary. When his father died, John sailed for America in August 1772 on the "Wolf". The ship landed in Philadelphia in October 1772. He spent his first winter there. John set out for land west of the mountains in the spring of 1773.  John was a farmer He Died on April 22, 1809 and first buried at Smithfield Quaker Cemetery, Main Street and Maple Avenue, Smithfield, Jefferson Co., OH 43938. Moved to Union Cemetery Sec. R – Grave lot 52, Steubenville, OH 43952, inside the Sherrand Mausoleum. The marble plaque in the Sherrard Mausoleum for John Sherrard reads, "JOHN SHERRARD, son of WILLIAM & MARGARET JOHNSTON SHERRARD, born later part of 1750 in Ireland near Newton Limavady, died on Richard Hall Farm 2 miles south of Smithfield, Ohio, April 22, 1809"  Steubenville, OH.  Ref : Natl. No 554:33, p 200, Vol. 56. D. A. R. Lin. Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993. Also SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY,1998. DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part 3, p. 2633. Mrs. Orville Dailey, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster # 1 & 2, p. 332.  Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Vol. II, p. 388, Second Series Vol. XIV, p. 707.   Daughters of the American Revolution Linage Books, Volume 56, (Washington, DC: National Society of DAR), p. 200.  DAR # 55433.  WPA Veterans Grave Registration Jefferson County, Ohio (Washington DC, Works Progress Administration.). Mary Donaldson Sinclair, Pioneer Days, pp. 14, 15, 16, & 146.   Has a mausoleum.

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