The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 329
and is buried back of the house occupied by Samuel in Sterling
City, near a little brook. The inscription on the stone once over
her grave is " : In Memory of M r ? 5 Elizabeth, Wife of M " Samuel
Starlin who died of Small Pox, March 18 th A.D. 1777 in the
40 th year of her age." She is buried near Stephen Sterling, son
of John, who died of the same disease on the first of the same
month. Their headstones are now in the Sterling City Cemetery.
The Captain Samuel Sterling House from the Rear
" I hereby Certifie to whome it May Consearn, that M? Sam 11
Starlin of Lyme & Mrs. Annah Dudley of Saybrook were Joyned
in marriage February 2 nd 1779 by me, William Hart, pastor of
proved Feb. 14, 1726. Abraham Perkins, 2d, son of Isaac, b. in Chebacco Parish,
Ipswich, Mass., Sept. 5, 1671 ; m. Abigail Dodge, Nov. 6, 1701, dau. of Joseph and
Sarah Dodge, b. in Beverly, Sept. 12, 1681.
James, 2d child and eldest son, b. in Ipswich, Mass., in 1705 ; m. Margaret Andrews
of Chebacco, Dec. 14, 1732, dau. of Dea. John Andrews and Elizabeth his wife, b. in
1711. They removed to Lyme, Conn., in the spring of 1736. The inscriptions on
their tombstones in Lyme read: " Mrs. Margaret, wife of James Perkins, died Nov. 20
1781 in the 70th year of her age." "James Perkins died Sept. 27, 1789 in the 84th
year of his age."
Elizabeth Perkins, b. in Lyme, Oct. 14, 1737, 3d child and 2d dau. of James
Perkins; m. Samuel Sterling. (Essex Institute Historical Collections, vols. xix. and
xx.)