The Sterling genealogy

318 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
four and one half acres near by, Mar. 9, 1767, and another par-
cel, in the neighborhood, of nine acres, from William Merwin,
Apr. 11, 1768.
Together with the widow, Jane, he was administrator of the
estate of his brother Isaac, who d. in 1771. As executors, they
sold to James Penfield for £30 15s. fifteen acres of land on
Paul's Neck, Mar. 19, 1773, and the same day Penfield trans-
ferred the land to William. Andrew Rowland had an interest
in Isaac's homestead, adjoining, which he sold to William on Mar.
9, 1773. Feb. 16, 1775, he bought a small parcel of land on
Paul's Neck of Job Bartram and Sept. 19, 1786, he bought of
the widow of Isaac, then Mrs. Andrew Buckley, for £35, an acre
and a half of land on Ash House Creek, on Paul's Neck, with a
house and other buildings. Samuel Belden sold him ten acres
in Wilton Parish, Feb. 1, 1794 (Land and Probate Records,
Fairfield and Norwalk), and John and Thomas Belden sold him
land there, Apr. 21, 1796, for £25 18s. He was a storekeeper
at Wilton in 1756. (Conn. Quart., May., Vol. IV, p. 219.)
William Sterling d. in Wilton, May 12, 1801, in his eighty-
fifth year; he is buried in the Sharp Hill burying ground. His
only child as far as known was:
139 t William Sterling, b. July 9, 1755; m. Rhoda Hurlbutt.
He may have been the father of
140 tElizabeth Sterling, b. Feb. 23, 1766; m. John Elmore.
(No authority for the above connection exists
and the supposition is only advanced because of the
failure to determine her parentage otherwise. Wilton
and Canaan are not far from each other and
this connection is made wholly because of the geographical
proximity of the two places.)
48 SAMUEL STERLING (brother of the above), b. in Fair-
field, Conn., Apr. 20, 1721 ; m. in Wilton Parish, May 1, 1746,
Eleanor Westcoat (Westcott).
Samuel removed from Fairfield to Wilton Parish, Norwalk,
when a young man. He bought of Obediah Wood of Fairfield
for £128 nine acres of land at Pimpewang, between the river
and the highway, with a house on it, Sept. 6, 1744. Jacob War-