The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 341
thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked
of him.' Hebreivs xii : 5.
Surely such an alarming event unites its voice with the still
more awaking voice of our glorious Lord, directed with energy
to all '
: Be ye also ready ; for in such an hour as ye think not,
the Son of Man cometh.' "
Sill was tried for murder at Norwich, the county seat, in the
autumn. People drove from the furtherest confines of the county
to attend the trial which was one of the most famous in the State.
Sill secured as his attorney, Ex-Governor Roger Griswold of Black
Hall, who made so eloquent a plea to the jury, that, in spite of the
The Captain William Sterling House from the Rear
undoubted guilt of the defendant, he was acquitted. The strain
upon the physical and mental powers of Governor Griswold, then
a man in middle life, was so great that his health was impaired and
he died not long after. Capt. William Sterling was buried in the
Sterling City burying ground. The inscription on the grave-
stone is : " In Memory of Capt. William Starling who in hope of
a glorious Immortality Suddenly departed this life, July 22*? 1805
in the 62 d Year of his age. God's warning voice let all attend,
That he in death may them befrend."