On January 25, 1849, at
Boston, Massachusetts, Sherwood was married to Mary Hitchcock (1828–1852), the youngest daughter of Judge
Samuel Johnson Hitchcock, the President of
Yale Law School who was also the
Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut from 1839 to 1842. Before her death in
Brooklyn on October 13, 1852, they were the parents of: • George Spencer Sherwood (born 1850) In May 1858, Sherwood was remarried in New York City to Frances Anna "Fanny" Fitch (1835–1868), a daughter of
Jabez S. Fitch, Esq., a wealthy dry goods dealer from
Marshall, Michigan. Before her death in New York on August 9, 1868, they were the parents of: • Catherine Fitch "Mai" Sherwood (1860–1947), a sister of the
Vedanta Centres of Boston. • Frances Anne Fitch Sherwood (1868–1951), who married Philip Leverett
Saltonstall, a son of
Leverett Saltonstall and Rose Smith ( Lee) Saltonstall (a daughter of
John Clarke Lee), in 1890. After his death in 1919, she married Dr. Joel Ernest Goldthwait in 1936. Justice Sherwood died, aged 51, on May 25, 1875, at the
Gramercy Park Hotel in
New York City. He was buried at Brookside Cemetery in
Gilbertsville, New York.
Descendants Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of Philip Leverett Saltonstall Jr. (1899–1964), who married actress
Maxine Jennings; Nathaniel Saltonstall (1903–1967); Katherine Leverett Saltonstall, who married Philip B.
Weld; Frances Sherwood Saltonstall, who married George von Lengerke Meyer Jr. (son of
George von Lengerke Meyer) and Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool; who married, as his second wife,
William Chapman Potter, President of the
Guaranty Trust Company of New York. ==References==