Roger Sherman (1721-1793)

Boardman, Roger Sherman. Roger Sherman: Signer and Statesman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1938. Written by a descendant, this is a pleas­ant but not always accurate sketch of Sherman's life. It is easier reading than either Boutell or Collier, below. Despite the university sponsorship, this is not a scholarly study.

Boutell, Henry Lewis. The Life of Roger Sherman. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1896. Done by a professional historian, this is a very competent work, one that gives emphasis to Sherman's legal career not found in Collier, below.

Collier, Christopher. Roger Sherman's Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. This work was de­signed to supersede Boutell, and in most respects does. It is much more than a biography, however, and tells a good deal about late-eighteenth-century Connecticut politics as well.

—Roger Sherman: Puritan Politician. New Haven: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1976. A pamphlet written for a popular audience that digests the above work.

Rommel, John G. Connecticut's Yankee Patriot: Roger Sherman. Bicentennial pamphlet XXXIV (1979).