Henry sherborne

Henry Sherburne of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, arrived June 12, 1632 from London. Sherburne was a lineal descendent of the illustrious "Sherburne" family of England (his great great grandfather built Stoneyhurst Hall in Lancashire, England. After his great grandfather fled Stonyhurst for Oxford, England, where he built Beam Hall, Sherburne's father Joseph moved to Odiham, where Henry was born. In the New World, Sherburne's classical education quickly proved useful. By 1640 he was a warden of the Church of England in Portsmouth, and was thereafter selected as town clerk (1656 - 1660), treasurer, and commissioner of Portsmouth. In 1644 he was appointed judge at Portsmouth the General Court of Massachusetts appointed him associate judge. He was a large landowner in Portsmouth. He married twice; first to the daughter of New Hampshire pioneer Ambrose Gibbons, by whom he had many children who have since spread about the New World.