Born in 1721 in Newton and moved to Stockington when he was two, Roger was apprenticed to a shoemaker until the death of his father. Then, at the age of 19 yers, Roger took on the care of his large family. In 1744 he sold the farm and moved the family to New Milford, Conn. where he had a brother and family.
Sherman had little formal education but as he worked at his shoemaker trade he studied, reading books of all kinds as he could find them. He was such a quick mind that he became proficient in law that he was admitted to the Bar in 1754. In 1755 he became a member of the Assembly of Connecticut and Justice of the peace.
Roger became judge of Litchfield County and moved to New Haven in 1761. He became a member of the upper house of the Connecticut Legislature at about the time of the Stamp Act
Roger became a fierce supporter of the Patriot cause and was involved even he was elected to the Continental Congress in 1774 and signed the document in 1776. Even with all his duties in Congress during the war he found time to serve with the Committee of Safety of Connecticut.
Roger was on the committee to draft the Constitution and served in the new Government until his death in 1793.
Roger Sherman fathered 15 children by two wives in his seventy three years! Medicineman!
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