The Sterling genealogy

INDEX OF EMIGRATIONS TO AMERICA 217
HENRY STERLING. " Probably the first settlement made
by a white person in the territory now embraced by the County of
Orangeburg (So. Carolina), was made on what is now known as
Lyon's Creek, in 1704, by Henry Sterling, who is supposed to have
been an Indian trader. Prior to 1735 but few white inhabitants
had settled in this section and these were mostly English, Scotch
and Irish." (Hist, of Orangeburg Co., Salley, 1898, p. 18.)
" The first white inhabitant who settled in this section of coun-
try was named Henry Sterling ; his occupation, it is supposed,
was that of a trader. He located himself on Lyon's Creek in the
year 1704 and obtained a grant to a tract of land at present in
the possession of Colonel Russell P. Mc Cord." (Hist, of German
Settlements and the Lutheran Church in No. and So. Carolina,
Bernheim, p. 99.)
" A trader, Henry Sterling had located himself and obtained
a grant on Lyon's Creek in 1704." Settled after 1735 by Germans
and Swiss. (Hist, of the Presbyterian Church in So. Caro-
lina, Vol. I, p. 216.) See also " History of South Carolina under
the Royal Government," M'Crady, 1899, p. 128.
JAMES STERLING. A member of the Keir house of Stir-
ling, Scotland, in what way is not clearly determined. He was a
ship master, arriving in Boston, Mass., Sept. 20, 1716. (See page
75.)
THE REV. ANDREW STERLING. A native of Ireland. 1
He was a member of a settlement of Scotch-Irish in Upper Octorara,
1 Emigrations of the Scotch-Irish. After the beginning of the 18th century a
great majority of those of Sterling name who came to the shores of America and made
settlements in the various colonies were from the North of Ireland, members of that
sturdy, progressive, independent race the Scotch-Irish.
The first emigrations of this race to America began about 1710. Between the
years 1729 and 1750 there was an annual arrival of 12,000, mostly from the Province
of Ulster, a large percentage of whom settled in Pennsylvania, west of Conestoga Creek,
in Lancaster county. Boston, Charlestown and Is ew Castle, Delaware, were the three
ports of entry open to the Scotch-Irish, the bulk of them arriving at the latter point,
from which they pushed on into Pennsylvania, which state received a large proportion
of this class.
Among the places settled was Portland, Maine, where a colony established itself
prior to 1730. In 1735, twenty-seven families settled at Warren, Maine and in 1753
sixty adults and many children from Scotland settled at Warren.
One of the earliest settlements of the Scotch-Irish in America was at Octorara, in