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History of Bradford County 1770 - 1878 The Reverend Mr. David Craft
OVERTON  TOWNSHIP

Henry Sherman, a native of Mifflin, Pa.., born in 1801, of Pennsylvania-German parentage, came into the township from Columbia County, in 1824.  He started from that county on foot, by the way of Kizer's and Ellis's with his wife and one child, and a sister.  He carried the gun, and his wife the baby, and vice versa.  In 1825 he took up the land be now occupies, which was then a dense forest of huge pines, hemlocks, and other timber.  He built him a log house, like those of the pioneers generally, with a puncheon floor and bark roof, furnished with domestic articles of his own manufacture.  He brought with him a cow and eight sheep, and the first night after moving into his new home saved the latter from destruction by wolves by a timely watch and protection.  He took possession of two hundred acres, which he began clearing, but being alone, could not make very rapid progress, but managed to clear up about five acres per year.  Mr. Sherman was married in 1823 to a Miss Hunsinger, who died in 1834, leaving a family of seven children.  He married again the following year, and is now the father of twenty-three children, seventeen of whom are living at the present time.
Page 23 of History of Forks Twp., Sullivan Co.. by Streby. Also, History of Bradford County 1770 - 1878 The Reverend Mr. David Craft , OVERTON TOWNSHIP .  Appears in 1850 census of Albany Twp., Bradford Co., Pa..