The Sterling genealogy

368 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
Lemuel is called " Colonel " by his descendants. He probably
gained this title in the Conn. State Militia. According to the
Conn, and Lyme records Lemuel was a soldier of the Revolution,
although at the date of his enlistment he was but two days past
his fifteenth birthday.
He enlisted as a private May 5, 1775, in the 4th Co., 2d Regt.,
Conn. Vols., and was discharged from service Dec. 19, 1775. This
regiment, recruited mainly in the eastern part of the Colony of
Connecticut, was raised in response to the first call for troops by
the Legislature made in April and May, 1775. It marched by
companies to camps around Boston, took post at Roxbury, and
served during the siege until expiration of term of service. De-
tachments served at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, and in Arnold's
Quebec expedition, Sept. to Dec, 1775.
Lemuel enlisted a second time in June, 1776, as a member of
Capt. Eell's Co. This battalion, the third of Wadsworth's Brigade,
was raised to reinforce Washington at New York. It saw service
in New York City and on Long Island. Was caught in the retreat
from the city Sept. 15, 1776, and suffered some loss.
Engaged in the Battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776, Lemuel
was discharged from service Dec. 25, 1776. Lemuel and Sarah,
in company with their sons Samuel and George and their daughter
Sarah, migrated, in 1817, to New Lyme, in the Western Reserve,
Ohio, including what is now Ashtabula Co. Their son Lemuel,
Jr., and daughter Betsey (Lee) Champlin, had preceded them by
a few years. On this journey they stopped at Pitcher, Chenango
Co., and at Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y., where Sarah's brothers
and sister and other relatives had settled.
of Mabel Chester, who m. James Sterling, Sarah (Sterling) Lee's brother (No. 217)
Lemuel Lee, b. May 3, 1760, m. Sally Sterling; David Lee, b. July 5, 1762.
Daniel Lee, the last named, youngest brother of Lemuel Lee, m. Feb. 5, 1784,
Lydia Ann Elliot, b. July 15, 1760. Their children were: William Elliot, b. Nov. 5,
1784; Nancy Atwater, b. Apr. 30, 1787; Sophia, b. Feb. 20, 1789; Harriet, b. Jan. 7,
1791; Fanny, b. Oct. 20, 1792; Sophronia, b. Aug. 25, 1794; Benjamin Franklin, b.
May 9, 1796; Daniel Matthew, b. June ; Allen Campbell, b. Oct. ;
Charlotte, b. Aug. , and Sally, b. Mar. . Daniel Lee, the father, d.
Sept. 10, 1803.
(The family Bible in which are preserved these records of the Lee family, back
to Benjamin, 1712, was in the possession of a dau. of Eusebius Lee, at Ashtabula,
Ohio, in 1902.)