SHERBURNE, John Samuel, jurist, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1757 ; died there, 2 August, 1830. After graduation at Dartmouth in 1776 he studied law at Harvard, was admitted to the bar, and began to practise in Portsmouth. He served as brigade major on the staff of General William Whipple, and lost a leg at the battle of Butts Hill, Rhode Island, 29 August, 1778. He was elected a representative to congress from New Hampshire, serving from 2 December, 1793, till 3 March, 1797, and was subsequently appointed by President Jefferson United States district attorney for New Hampshire, serving from 1801 till 1804. From that time till his death he was United States judge for the district of New Hampshire.--His son, John Henry, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. in 1794: died in Europe about 1850, entered Phillips Exeter academy in 1809. In 1825 he became register of the navy department in Washington, D. C., and for several years was foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia "Saturday Courier." He published "Osceola," a tragedy" "Erratic Poems "; a "Life of John Paul Jones" (Washington, 1825) ; "Naval Sketches" (Philadelphia, 1845); "The Tourist's Guide in Europe, or Pencillings in England and on the Continent "; and "Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams, 1797-1801," as printed and suppressed by John Wood in 1802 (1846).--His son, JOHN HENRY (1814-1849), was a United States naval officer and served in the Mexican war.