The Sterling genealogy

312 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
Joseph Sterling was a farmer and lived during the greater
part of his life in that part of the township of Stratford, now
Hunt, who was mother of all his children; m. 2d, in Wethersfield, Conn., about 1646,
Elizabeth Foote, dau. of John Deming of England. She d. July 28, 1683. He d.
Jan. 14, 1659-60. Mary, his dau., m. Apr. 14, 1646, Thomas Thompson, probably
the youth of 18 who embarked in the ship Abigail at London, July 1, 1635.
Ephraim, son of Joseph Hawley, was b. Aug. 7, 1659; m. Dec. 4, 1683, Sarah,
dau. of Capt. Samuel and Elizabeth (Hollister) Wells of Wethersfield, Conn.; b.
Sept. 29, 1664; d. June 29, 1694. Ephraim lived in New Stratford (now Trumbull).
He d. Apr. 18, 1690.
Samuel Hawley, son of Joseph, had Thomas Hawley, b. July 30, 1678 ;
m. October,
1701, Joanna, dau. of Ephraim Booth and Mary Clark of Stratford, b. Sept. 10, 1678;
d. Jan. 28, 1761. Thomas was a tanner and clothier at Pequonnock (now Bridge-
port), Conn. He d. May 6, 1772.
Joanna Booth and Bethia Booth, who m. Thomas Hawley's brother Samuel, were
daus. of Ephraim Booth, b. Aug. 1, 1648, who m. Mary, perhaps the dau. of Robert
Clark. She probably m. 2d, in 1692, Thomas Bennitt, afterwards of Newton.
Ephraim was the son of Richard Booth, b. in Eng., in 1607; m. Elizabeth,
sister of the first Joseph Hawley, b. in England ; he probably m. a second time.
Thomas Hawley's dau. Esther, b. June 13, 1717; m. Joseph, son of Jacob
Sterling.
Samuel Hawley, Jr., son of Samuel, grandson of Joseph, b. May 14, 1674; m.
May 14, 1702, Bethia Booth, b. Aug, 7, 1680; d. Sept. 7, 1780. He was a farmer at
Stratford and Derby, Conn., d. in 1744 or 1754. His son, Capt. Francis Hawley, b.
Feb. 24, 1711 ; m. 1st, Ann, dau. of John and Sarah (Titterton) Clark ; m. 2d, Rachel,
dau. of John and Sarah (Chatfield) Davis of " Great Hill," Derby, Conn. ; b. July 5,
1716; d. Feb. 20, 1808. Francis was a farmer of Huntington, Conn. He d. Feb. 24,
1799. By the 2d wife Francis had Joseph Hawley, b. in 1749; m. Dec. 29, 1774,
Anna, dau. of Nathaniel and Ruth (Beardsley) Lewis of Ripton, b. in 1753 ; d. Nov. 18,
1S33. Joseph was a farmer at Huntington, Conn., d. Oct. 27, 1791. His son Augustus
Hawley, bapt. July 16, 1782 ; m. 1st, Nov. 13, 1803, Martha Blackman of Huntington;
m. 2d, Feb. 10, 1817, Sarah Webb, who d. Feb. 29, 1838. He lived at Amenia, N. Y.
d. Mar. 4, 1852. His son by first m. Harmon Hawley, b. Sept. 11, 1807; m. July 4,
1835, Emma, dau. of Salomon and (Chamberlain) Freeman of Dover, N. Y.,
b. Mar. 8, 1813 ; d. May 5, 1869. He lived at Wilton, Conn. ; d. June 18, 1857. Their
dau., Josephine Dikeman Hawley, b. Mar. 20, 1850, m. Elisha Sterling, son of William
C. Sterling of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (No. 1609).
Thomas Hawley, son of Samuel, grandson of Joseph, had Capt. Ezra Hawley of
Bridgeport, Conn., b. May 15, 1717; m. Jan. 30, 1735, Abigail Hall, b. in 1715; d.
Apr. 18, 1786. Ezra d. Apr. 27, 1773. His son Thomas Hawley of Bridgeport was
bapt. Dec. 7, 1738; m. Anna Gregory of Fairfield, b. in 1743; d. Dec. 24, 1810. He
d. Nov. 19, 1797. Their son, Capt. Abijah Hawley of Bridgeport, sea captain, was
b. Jan. 26, 1769 ; m. Mary, dau. of Capt. Stephen and Mary (Holburton) Summers,
b. Sept. 4, 1771; d. Sept. 6, 1841. He d. Nov. 28, 1818. They were the parents of
Emeline Hawley, b. Dec. 5, 1804, who m. George Sterling, son of Philip Sterling
(No. 765), and of Monson Hawley, b. Apr. 10, 1803, who m. Susan M. Hubbell (No.
806), dau. of Levi and granddau. of Eunice (Sterling) Hubbell, dau. of Stephen Sterling,
son of Jacob.
Thomas Hawley, son of Samuel, grandson of Joseph, had Capt. Ezra Hawley,
before mentioned, whose son, Ezra Hawley, Jr., farmer of Bridgeport, was b. August,
1747; m. 1st, Apr. 4, 1771, Abigail, dau. of Abraham and Mary (Wheeler) Brinsmade,
b. Nov. 13, 1748; d. Sept. 2, 1772; m. 2d, in 1774, Ruth, dau. of Samuel and Ruth