The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 367
Children
456 tEleazer Mather, b. Dec. 30, 1775 ; m. 1st, Lorlnda Abbott
2d, Fanny Williams.
457 tWatrous Mather, b. May 11, 1778; m. Hannah
Thompson.
458 t Seth Mather.
459 Sterling Mather.
460 Irene Mather.
461 Betsey Mather.
462 t Samuel Sterling Mather, b. in 1786; m. Catharine
Abbott.
(Mather Genealogy, Horace E. Mather, Hartford, Conn.,
1890.)
213 SARAH STERLING (sister of the above), b. in Sterling
City, Dec. 20, 1761; m. there Sept. 28, 1783, Lemuel Lee, b.
May 3, 1760, eleventh child of Col. Benjamin and Mary (Ely)
Lee * of Lyme.
1 Ancestry of Lemuel Lee, Sb.
Thomas Lee with his father, Thomas, his mother, two sisters, Phebe and Jane
and a brother of the mother named Brown, came from England about 1641 to New
England. The father died on the voyage of smallpox. Thomas Lee, Jr., m. 1st,
Sarah Kirtlane, by whom he had John, Thomas, and Sarah; he m. 2d, Mary Dewolf
and had William, Stephen, Mrs. Joseph Beckwith, Mrs. Samuel Peck, Phebe, Hannah,
Lydia. Hannah m. John Griswold and was the mother of Gov. Matthew Griswold,
John Lee m. Elizabeth Smith and had: Sarah, m. John Lay; Phebe, m. James Elderkin;
Jane, m. Thomas Way; Mary, m. John Comstock of New London; Hepsebeth,
m. 1st, Elisha Lee, 2d, John Sill; Johannah, m. John Beckwith; John, Joseph,
and Benjamin.
(The family paper from which these minutes were taken dated "Montvillc, Conn.,
May, 10, 1807 ".)
Benjamin Lee, b. Sept. 5, 1712 ; d. Apr. 11, 1777, m. Jan. 28, 1735, Mary Ely,
b. May 8, 1716 ; d. Aug. 29, 1796. Mary Ely was a dau. of Daniel Ely, granddaughter
of William Ely, a son of Richard Ely.
(See Daniel Sterling, No. 12, and Ely Ancestry, No. 254.)
The children of Benjamin and Mary (Ely) Lee were: Mary Ann, b. Jan. 28,
1736, d. at 18 mos.; Mary Anna, b. Nov. 16, 1738, m. Benjamin Atwell, whose son
Joseph Atwell m. Ruth Perkins Sterling, Sarah (Sterling) Lee's sister (No. 218);
Benjamin Lee, Jr., b. Feb. 27, 1740, lived near Lyme, had eleven chil.: Stephen,
George, Zenas, Joseph, Charles, Benjamin, Sally, Lucy, Lydia, and two others; William
Lee, b. Apr. 7, 1742, d. June 12, 1815; Lucy Lee, b. Jan. 19, 1745, d. Sept. L8,
1767; Martin Lee, b. June 19, 1747, m. Dec. 23, 1771, Sabia Miner, d. May , 1779;
they had three children, of whom Christopher Lee, b. Oct. 23, 1772, m. Lucy Sterling,
Sarah (Sterling) Lee's sister (No. 219); Esther Lee, b. July 27, 1750, m. Samuel
Comstock; Abigail Lee, b. Nov. 30, 1752, d. Apr. 27, 1827; John Lee, 1.. Maj 1 t.
1755, m. and had Martin, John Burnham, Xerxes Ely, Erastus, Samuel, Rebecca,
and Mary Polly; Betsey (or Elizabeth) Lee, b. May 25, 1757, d. July 25, 1826, m.
Joseph Chester, b. Jan. 27, 1758, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Otis) Chester, brother