The Sterling genealogy

310 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
Benjamin Burton's land, West on a brook, East on a run of
water. Also a tract of land on Walnut tree Hill, West of Long
Hill, about twelve acres " east of the highway. " Also Another
parcel of 4 acres."
The reference to the " Shop " in this deed may indicate that
John was a carpenter or a blacksmith. The same day this last
paper was written, the Abner Booth therein named sold to John
and his brothers for £2400 a tract of land in Newtown. The
deed states that " John Starling & Joseph & Stephen Starling
all of Stratford " in consideration of " 1600 pounds money
[payed by] John Starling, the other brothers each of them paid
400 pounds." Booth conveyed to them " my farm on which I
now dwell, lying in the town of Newtown on both sides of the
County road, on y e Bare Hills, togeather with my dwelling house
& barn Standing thereon, the said farm being in quantity about
300 acres of land . . . And the said John Starling is to have %
of the whole & Joseph & Stephen Starling each of them one sixth
part of the whole and ye whole is bounded, North on Common
land & Pototuck Brook, east on Common land, west on common
land & Capt. Touseys land and highway, South on Canfield's land
& Nathaniel Booth's land." This property appears to have been
near that bought in Newton in 1730 by Jacob Sterling, as they
both adjoin land owned by Captain or William Tousey.
John now removed from his old home in Stratford to Newtown
with his family. May 25, 1757, Joseph and Stephen Sterling
sold their share in the farm to John for " 100 pounds York
money." By his father's will John received a sixty acre farm
on Beebe's Hill " about a mile westerly of his dwelling house "
and a field of twelve acres near by, through which ran the Poto-
tuck Creek. Mar. 6, 1769, John bought of John Sherman seven
or eight acres adjoining his own land and " on the south eastered
side of the road that leads up Pototuck brook hill to Stratford,"
and on May 12 of the same year John bought of Gershom Sum-
mers thirty acres of land in Newton " at Cranbury Pond, so
called," and near his other property.
John Starling now had a farm of over four hundred acres.
He d. between Dec. 16, 1774, and Aug. 7, 1780, the dates of