The Sterling genealogy

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" Theophilus Severns
THE STERLING GENEALOGY
In trust these
Sir these are to In form you that my Son In Law thomas Starling
and his wife are both Deseast and it is my Desir to gather with the
Rest of our Relations that my son William buis Should Administer
on the Estate there being no will from your humble Sarvant
JOHANNYS BlTIS
august ye 21 - 1749 "
(State Records, Capitol, Trenton, N. J., Will Book 6, p. 280.)
Johannes (Johan) Boos (Boyce), then aged 22, came to
Penn., from Rotterdam, in the ship " Glasgow," master, Walter
Sterling, qualified, Sept. 9, 1738. (Penn. Archives, 2d Series,
Vol. 17, p. 151.)
This Walter Sterling may have been Walter Stirling, later
Sir Walter Stirling, Admiral, R.N., of Faskine, Scotland (q. v.),
William Boyce, the above, was appointed administrator of Thomas
Sterling's estate by Jonathan Belcher, Governor of the Province
of New Jersey, Aug. 22, 1749.
William and John Boyce of Amwell, county of Hunterdon,
yeoman, became bound in the sum of £500 to administer the es-
tate, which act was brought into court at Trenton, Apr. 9, 1750,
together with an inventory of the estate, amounting to something
over £100. (Trenton Records.)
Andrew Sterling or Starling, then of Amwell, married Dec.
18, 1773, Hannah, daughter of Francis Boyce of Amwell. An-
drew was a native of England and settled in Fayette Co., Penn.
(q. V.)
MAJ. JAMES STERLING, born in Coleraine, North of Ire-
land, Jan. 6, 1742, came to America about 1754 with his uncle,
James Hunter, a merchant of Philadelphia. He was accompanied
or followed by his parents, as they died in America. He had two
sisters who married and lived in America. He was of Burlington,
N. J. {See page 1104.)
DR. HENRY STERLING, born near Londonderry, North of
Ireland, in 1726, came to America in 1756 and settled in Provi-
dence, R. I. (See page 1049.)
WILLIAM STERLING, born in the North of Ireland in 1744 ;
was accompanied to America by a brother, name unknown. He