The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 357
140 ELIZABETH STERLING {possibly sister of the above),
b. Feb. 23, 1766; m. John Elmore, 1 b. in Sharon, Conn., Aug. 3,
1765, son of Col. Samuel and Sylvia Elmore of Sharon, later of
Elmore, Vt. " John Elmore, Sen., was a native of Sharon ; he
settled as a lawyer in Canaan about 1793. He had no great emi-
nence at the bar but was a great favorite with his associates for his
genial humor, pertinent anecdotes, and witty sayings. The last
years of his life were zealous in the cause of temperance." (Hist,
of Litchfield Co.) He d. Dec. 16, 1849 ; " was taken with a shock
of the palsy on Friday Morning, died about 3 o'clock Monday
Morning." Elizabeth d. June 22, 1837, " a few moments after
9 O. C. A. M., very sudenly."
Children
353 Philimon Elmore, b. Nov. 20, 1784.
354 Julia Elmore, b. Oct. 18, 1786; m. Watson; descendants
live near Torrington, Conn.
355 t John Elmore, b. Dec. 17, 1792 ; m. Phebe Sterling. {See
No. 675.)
141 SAMUEL STERLING {Samuel, William, Richard, Wil-
liam), bapt. in Wilton Parish, Norwalk, Conn., June 21, 1746;
m. Mary Gregory, b. in 1752.
1 Elmore Ancestry
Edward Elmer arrived from England in the ship Lion, Sept. 16, 1632, settled
first at Cambridge, Mass., removed to Hartford, Conn., where he was an original
proprietor, later removed to Northampton, then to Windsor. He was killed in King
Philip's War, in 1676. The second of seven children was Samuel Ehner, bapt. at
Hartford, Mar. 21, 1647, who m. Elizabeth , b. in 1654. He d., probably at
Hartford, about 1691. She m. 2d. Sept. 8, 1693, at Enfield, Conn., Simon Booth, and
d. Jan. 26, 1727. The third of five children was Dea. Jonathan Elmer, b. in 1685,
who m. Mary , b. in 1690, who d. at Sharon, Conn., Jan. 22, 1783. He removed
to Norwalk, Conn., about 1712 and to Sharon in 1746, where he d. Jan. 5,
1758. (Savage's Gene. Diet, and Stiles Hist, of Ancient Windsor.) Col. Samuel
Elmer b. June 19, 1720, one of ten children of Jonathan, was an officer in the Revolution.
He was appointed a maj. in Col. Hinman's Regt., in 1775; next year was
appointed a Col. in the U. S. Line. Col. Elmer's name was by mistake spelt Elmore
in the commission he received from Congress and from that circumstance he adopted
the latter method of spelling it. He m. Sylvia Pardee, b. June 28, 1736. (Hist, of
Sharon, Chas. T. Sedgwick.) Samuel removed to Elmore, Vt., about 1801, where he
d. Aug. 23, 1805. She d. at Sharon, Aug. 9, 1792. Col. Samuel's children wore:
Samuel, b. Aug. 7, 1752, killed Apr. 28, 1777; Mary, b. Apr. 26, 1754: Mahatabel,
b. Jan. 14, 1756; Martin, b. Jan. 16, 1764; John, b. Aug. 3, 1765. who in. Elizabeth
Sterling; Jesse, b. June 26, 1767; Rachel, b. May, 1769; and Nathan, b. Aug. 19.
1770.