The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 373
Capt. vice Samuel Sterling, moved." (Council of Appointment,
State of N. Y., Military Records, 1903.)
Livingston county was erected from parts of Ontario and
Genesee counties by an act of the Legislature, Feb. 23, 1821.
Samuel and his brave wife necessarily endured all the priva-
tions and vicissitudes of a primitive pioneer existence. Samuel
d. at Lima Aug. 27, 1836. She d. there Feb. 15, 1864. Both are
buried at Lima.
Children
484 f William Burrows Sterling, b. Dec. 27, 1793; m. Isabel
Kelso.
485 tAlphonso Sterling, b. July 28, 1795; m. Mary Horton.
486 tAzariah Whittlesey Sterling, b. June 29, 1797; m. 1st,
Miranda Leach; 2d, Mrs. Lydia Hughes.
487 t Eliza Sterling, b. July 18, 1799; m. the Rev. Joseph
Badger.
488 t Almira Sterling, b. Apr. 5, 1801 ; m. Aaron Frost.
489 t Samuel Perkins Sterling, b. Feb. 2, 1803; m. 1st, Araminta
Leach; 2d, Maria N. Whittlesey; 3d, Mrs.
Jane Shulters.
490 Fanny Sterling, b. Jan. 16, 1807; m. Richard H. Lee;
d. at Honeoye Falls, N. Y., in July, 1885, without
issue.
491 tMercia Mehitable Sterling, b. Jan. 8, 1809; m. the
Rev. Amasa Stanton.
492 t George Pickney Sterling, b. Apr. 22, 1812; m. Miranda
Bond.
216 ELIZABETH STERLING (sister of the above), b. at Ster-
ling City, Nov. 3, 1768; m. at Lyme, Oct. 10, 1790, William
Ross, b. in Scotland Parish, Windham Co., Conn., Mar. 29, 1761,
son of Jeremiah and Ann (Paine) Ross. 1 (The Church Record of
1 Ancestry of William Ross
Joseph Ross, one of the proprietors of Ashford, m. Sept. 6, 1716, Sarah Utley,
probably dau. of Jeremiah Utley of Scotland Parish, Windham Co., Conn. Their
third son was Jeremiah Ross, b. July 26, 1721. Joseph removed to Pomfret in 1718.
He was selectman several times and was twice elected to the General Assembly. Jeremiah
m. Oct. 3, 1744, the first cousin of his brother Joseph's wife, Ann Paine, dau.
of Mr. Samuel Paine. They removed to Scotland Parish where their children were b.,
later removing to Montville, Conn. Their children were Aleph, b. Dec. 22, 1? t."> ; Ann,
b. Feb. 1, 1747; Perran, b. July 10, 1748; Mary, b. Dec. 23, 1753; Jeremiah, b. Jan.
14, 1759; William, b. Mar. 29, 1761. Jeremiah, Sr.'s, brother Joseph was the intimate
friend of Gen. Israel Putnam, and held the rope attached to Putnam's waist when