The Sterling genealogy

366 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
447 Anna Starlin.
448 Ebenezer Starlin.
449 William Starlin.
450 Eliza Starlin.
451 David Starlin.
452 Stephen Starlin.
453 Hannah Starlin.
454 Lucy Starlin.
197 SIMON STARLIN (brother of the above), b. in East Haddam,
Conn., Sept. 21, 1779; m. Elizabeth Gibbs. Lived in Wash-
ington Co., Ohio.
His wife may have been that Elizabeth Starlin whose estate
was administered at Marietta about 1852.
Child (undoubtedly there were others) :
455 t Deborah Starling, b. Jan. 10, 1796; m. John T. Deming.
212 IRENE STERLING (Samuel, Joseph, Daniel, William), b.
at Sterling City, Lyme, Conn., Oct. 17, 1758 ; m. May 29, 1775,
Eleazer Mather, b. in Lyme, June 22, 1753, sixth son of Dr.
Eleazer and Annie (Watrous) Mather 1 of Lyme.
Four of Eleazer, Jr.'s brothers were physicians, three in Con-
necticut and one in New York. Eleazer Mather practiced his pro-
fession in Lyme. Irene d. about 1818. Eleazer d. in 1837.
1 Mather Ancestry
The Rev. Richard Mather of Lowton, Winwick Parish, Lancashire, Eng., the
distinguished minister, b. in Lowton in 1596 ; d. in Dorchester, Mass., Apr. 22, 1669
m. 1st, Sept. 29, 1624, Catharine, dau. of Edmund Holt of Bury, who d. in 1655 ; m.
2d, Aug. 26, 1656, Sarah Story, wid. of Rev. John Cotton, dau. of Richard Hankridge
of Boston, Eng. She m. 1st, William Story; d. May 27, 1676. The Rev. Richard
Mather was the son of Thomas Mather of Lowton, grandson of John Mather of Lowton.
Richard's son, Timothy Mather, b. in Liverpool, Eng., in 1628 ; m. 1st, Catharine,
dau. of Gen. Humphrey Atherton; m. 2d, Elizabeth, dau. of Amiel Weeks, Mar. 20,
1678-79. He was a farmer at Dorchester; d. Jan. 14, 1684. His son Richard, b. in
Dorchester, Dec. 22, 1653; m. July 1, 1680, Catharine Wise of Dorchester. He
removed to Lyme, Conn., where he was a farmer and where he d. Aug. 17, 1688, on
the 53d anniversary of the landing of the family in America. His second son, Lieut.
Joseph Mather, of Lyme, was b. June 29, 1686 ; m. Phebe , and d. Sept. 30,
1749. Their son, Elezer Mather, M.D., of Lyme, b. there Nov. 17, 1716; m. Annie
Watrous, Nov. 15, 1741. He was a graduate of Yale in 1737, an eminent physician
and a large landholder on the east side of the Connecticut river. He d. Nov. 21, 1798.
His son Elezer, b. June 22, 1753 ; m. Irene Sterling. Richard, 1st, of Lyme, also had
Capt. Timothy Mather of Lyme, b. Mar. 20, 1681 ; m. Sarah Noyes and d. July 25,
1755. Their dau. Catharine, b. Jan. 11, 1717, m. Elisha Marvin and d. Dec. 4, 1799.
(See No. 252.)