The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 397
William was a prominent citizen of Lyme, Conn. ; he lived at
Sterling City on the opposite side of the valley from his father's
home near the old cemetery and nearly opposite the Capt. Daniel
Sterling house. He was a colonel in the Connecticut Militia. He
d. May 10, 1827, and is buried in the Sterling cemetery. His
wife d. at Gouverneur, N. Y., May 27, 1839.
Children, bom at Sterling City:
660 Robert Ely Sterling, b. Mar. 29, 1796 ; d. Mar. 6, 1806.
661 t Thomas Sill Sterling, b. Apr. 5, 1798; m. Mary P. Falconer.
662 t William Erastus Sterling, b. June 4, 1801 ; m. Octavia
Parsons.
663 t Jerusha Lay Sterling, b. May 25, 1803 ; m. Edwin Dodge.
664 Maria Ely Sterling, b. Oct. 15, 1807 ; m. May 23, 1832,
Rev. Barach Beckwith, b. in Lyme, Mar. 29, 1805,
son of George and Patience Beckwith. He graduated
from Williams College, 1827, and from the
Theological department of Yale, 1831. Settled at
Athol, Mass., 1831, removed to Castine, Me., and to
Gouverneur, N. Y., 1843, where he was pastor of the
Presbyterian church. She d. in 1881. No issue.
365 Phebe Hubbard Sterling, b. Oct. 2, 1809; d. unm. July
20, 1830 ; buried by her father and brother Robert
in the Sterling City cemetery.
256 JEMIMA STERLING (sister of the above), b. in Sterling
City, July 3, 1772; m. there June 21, 1789, William Sill, b. in
Lyme, Dec. 6, 1760, third son of Joseph Sill and his first wife,
Ruth Matson. (See No. 110.)
William Sill was a storekeeper at Sterling City, Lyme, occupy-
ing a house still standing on the lower road a few steps from the
house of his father-in-law Capt. William Sterling. He d. in Lyme,
Mar. 1848. Jemima m. 2d, Benjamin Towne, b. at Belchertown,
Mass., Aug. 4, 1765; settled at Granville, N. Y. He m. 1st, Mary
Shumway (b. May 27, 1771 ; d. 1804) ; 2d, in 1806, Lois Kenney :
3d, Mrs. Jemima Sill, and d. in 1852. Mrs. Jemima Towne d. at
Watertown, N. Y., about 1860.
Mary Noyes. He d. 1760. His son, Amrai Ruhama Ely, b. 1731 ; m. Martha Peck,
and d. 1799. Their son Zelophehad Ely, b. 1765; m. Elizabeth M. Sterling. (.See
No. 178.)