5. Edmund SHEFFIELD (Edmund ) was born 16 Aug 1612 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. He died 13 Oct 1705 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts.

Sheffield, Daggett and Allied Families, by Mrs. George St. John Sheffield, page 13 & 14.
     He was a wheelwright by trade, and in 1641 settled in Roxbury, MA.
     He was made a freeman, May 29 1644. About 1646 he removed to Braintree, where he was one of the first settlers, and served as selectman in 1677-78.
     He was admitted to the First Church of Roxbury before 1650.
     Married 1st in England, a wife whose name is unknown, and who probably died in England.
     Daughter Elizabeth, baptized at All Saints, Sudbury, EN Mar. 12, 1635-6, probably died in England.

C.M. Ellis: History of Roxbury, MA, pp. 31, 130.
Vital Records of Roxbury MA, Vol. I, p. 318
                            Vol. II, p. 363.
Savage: Genealogy Dictionary of New England, Vol IV, p. 68.
Vital Records of Braintree, MA, p. 894.
Bates: Records of Braintree, MA, pp. 18, 171, 638, 694. 722.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III, p. 190:
       Vol. XI, p. 190.
       Vol. XXXVI, p. 46-48, 300,
                         p. 378-379.
       Vol. LXXVII, p. 192.
Pope: Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 410.
Moore: Genealogical Register of Inhabitants of Sherborn and Halliston, MA, p. 240.
Vinton: Giles Memorial, pp. 349-350.
History of Hilgham, MA, Vol. II, p. 54.

GENEALOGIES OF R.I.FAMILIES, VOL. II, ONE BRANCH OF THE RHODE ISLAND SHEFFIELDS, by G. Andrews Moriarty, A.M., LL.B., F.S.A., page 158.
    Edmund settled in Braintree, Mass., where he died 13 Oct. 1705, "aged about 90 years". He had issue eleven children.

Edmund married Mary WOODY, daughter of Richard WOODY, on 17 Apr 1644 in Roxbury, Essex Co., Mass.. Mary died 30 Mar 1662 in Braintree, Essex Co., Massachusetts.

6. William SHEFFIELD (Edmund ) was christened 15 Nov 1619 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. He died 6 Dec 1700 in Sherborn, Massachusetts.

GENEALOGIES OF R.I.FAMILIES, VOL. II, ONE BRANCH OF THE RHODE ISLAND SHEFFIELDS, by G. Andrews Moriarty, A.M., LL.B., F.S.A., page 158.
    William settled at Cocheco (Dover, NH) and subsequently, after a short stay in Braintree, removed, shortly before 1672, to Chabboquasset (Sherborn, Mass.), where he died testate before 6 Dec. 1700/1 (Middlesex Co., Mass., Probate).  He also had eleven children and was the ancestor of the Sheffields of Sherborn and Holliston, Mass.

William married Mary WEBB about 1659. Mary died 31 Oct 1714 in Sherborn, Massachusetts.

Dau. of Christopher & Humillty Webb.

10. Ichabod SHEFFIELD (Edmund ) was christened 23 Dec 1630 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. He died 4 Feb 1712 in Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island and was buried in Clifton Burying, Ground, Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island.

GENEALOGIES OF R.I.FAMILIES, VOL. II, ONE BRANCH OF THE RHODE ISLAND SHEFFIELDS, by G. Andrews Moriarty, A.M., LL.B., F.S.A., pages 158 & 159.
    The youngest brother, Ichabod Scheffield, whose family is the subject of theis paper, settled in Portsmouth, RI.
    1. "Mr." Ichabod Scheffield, of Portsmouth, RI, baptized at St. Peter's Church, Sudbury, co. Suffolk, England, on 23 Dec. 1630, son of Edmund and Thamas=zin Sheffield, died in Newport, RI, 4 Feb. 1711/12 "in his 87th. year" (sic.),. He married in Portsmouth, in 1660, Mary Parker, daughter of George Parker of that town (cf, The Register, op.cit.; Austin's Gen. Dic. of RI, p. 175; Arnold's Vital Rec. of Rhode Island, vol. 4, p. 39).
    On 10 July 1648 he was received in Portsmouth as a Freeman and was on a committee "for the tryall of the General Officers" (Portsmouth Town Records, pp. 37-38). At this time he was actually 18 years old, lacking five months. He appears on the Roll of Rhode Island Freeman in 1655 as of Portsmouth, where his name is incorrectly printed as "Fred: Sheffield" (Rhode Island Colonial Records, ed. Bartlett, vol. I, p. 300). In 1658 he was in Cocheco, NH, with his brother William, and was taxed there that year soon returned to Portsmouth.
(Portsmouth Town Rec., op. cit., p. 133). On 3 June 1672 he was chosen Constable (ibid., p. 169). On 12:10mo.;1684 he was on a town committee regarding the town's title to its land (ibid., p. 225). This appears to have been concerned with the threatened annulment of the Colony's Charter by the Home Government. On 9 April 1686 he was on a committee to divide the town's common lands (ibid., p. 232). On 7:4mo.:1686 he was chosen a member of the Portsmouth Town Coun cil (ibid., p. 233) and on 12 Feb. 1689/90 he was elected the Deputy from Portsmouth to the Colonial Assembly to be held at Newport (ibid., p. 241; Rhode Island Colonial Records, vol. III, p. 260); on 2:4mo.:1690 he was again chosen a member of the Town Council (Portsmouth Town Records, p. 242). On 22:6:1690 he was again Deputy from Portsmouth to the General Assembly in Providence (ibid., p. 243). His ear mark was recorded in November 1667; on 5 March 1685/6 it was transferred to his son Joseph (ibid., pp. 272, 295). His land lay in the central part of Portsmouth, midway between the Middle and West Roads and considerably south of the present Meeting House Land (West's "Original Land Grants of Portsmouth", Section E). On 26 Sept.
1681 he purchased a tract of land on the west side of the Taunton River from James Leonard, Sr., of Taunton (Rhode Island Colony Deeds). This tract lay, apparently, in what is now the town of Dighton, Mass.
    Later in life he appears to have removed to the home of his son, Major Nathaniel Sheffield, in Newport, where he died. He is buried beside his son, Major Nathaniel, in the Clifton Burying Ground in the town (gravestone). Children, born in Portsmouth:
Joseph, Mary, Nathaniel, Ichabod, Amos.

Ichabod married Mary PARKER, daughter of George PARKER and Frances DARBYE, on 1660 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., Rhode Island. Mary was born 1639 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., Rhode Island. She died 1733.

Dau. of George and Frances (Darbye) Parker of Portsmouth RI

GENEALOGIES OF R.I.FAMILIES, VOL. II, ONE BRANCH OF THE RHODE ISLAND SHEFFIELDS, by G. Andrews Moriarty, A.M., LL.B., F.S.A., pages 158.
    1. "Mr." Ichabod Scheffield, ... He married in Portsmouth, in 1660, Mary Parker, daughter of George Parker of that town (cf, The Register, op.cit.; Austin's Gen. Dic. of RI, p. 175; Arnold's Vital Rec. of Rhode Island, vol. 4, p. 39).