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WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 325<br />

regiment took post at Roxbury in Gen. Spencer's Brigade and<br />

remained until its discharge. Jacob enlisted again in Capt.<br />

Jewett's Co., Col. Huntington's Regt., the 17 th Continentals,<br />

which participated in the battle of Long Island Aug. 27, 177G.<br />

In this engagement Jacob was taken prisoner. With two hun-<br />

dred others he was brought from New York to Milford, Conn.,<br />

Jan. 1, 1777, for exchange. Of this number twenty died during<br />

the short passage from New York and twenty more within a<br />

week after landing. This high mortality was probably due to<br />

the unsanitary condition of the horrible prison ships used by the<br />

British in New York harbor. (Adj. Gen. Report, Conn. Men in<br />

War of Revolution.) Jacob fortunately escaped fatal disease<br />

and returned to Lyme, where he lived for many years thereafter.<br />

He received a pension in his later years. He and his wife are<br />

buried in the old cemetery at <strong>Sterling</strong> City. <strong>The</strong> inscription on<br />

his gravestone is : " In memory of Jacob Starling who died Oct.<br />

9, 1818 aged 74 " Mrs. Edey <strong>Sterling</strong>'s stone reads: " Eed wife<br />

of Jacob <strong>Sterling</strong> died Feb y 11, 1834 Aged 94 years "<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir children were:<br />

177 Hepzibah <strong>Sterling</strong>, b. Feb. 19, 1767.<br />

178 t Elizabeth Marvin <strong>Sterling</strong>, b. July 4, 1769; m. Zelophehad<br />

Ely.<br />

179 Edey <strong>Sterling</strong>, b. Aug. 19, 1771 ; d. Mar. 16, 1777.<br />

180 Abigail <strong>Sterling</strong>, b. Aug. 30, 1773 ; d. Aug. 24, 1775.<br />

181 Abigail <strong>Sterling</strong>, b. Dec. 16, 1775; d. Mar. 27, 1777.<br />

182 Deborah <strong>Sterling</strong>, b. Oct. 3, 1778.<br />

183 Alice (or Ellis) <strong>Sterling</strong>, b. Sept. 10, 1782; m. Nov. 12,<br />

1815, Eliab Ely, b. 1779, son of Elisha and Ann<br />

(Ely) Ely; he d. Aug. 29, 1859, and is buried in<br />

the Old <strong>Sterling</strong> cemetery, being the last person<br />

buried there. No issue.<br />

(Lyme Records. As usual the name in all instances is<br />

'<br />

spelled "Starlin.")<br />

98 JANE STARLING (sister of the above), b. in <strong>Sterling</strong> City,<br />

Apr. 23, 1746. " James Markham of East Haddam and Jane<br />

Starling of Lyme ware Joyned in Marriage November the 17 th<br />

AD. 1763." <strong>The</strong>y resided at East Haddam.<br />

Children<br />

184 Stephen Markham, b. Sept. 20, 1764.

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