The Sterling genealogy

400 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
gational church at Champion, N. Y. (adjoining Rutland), May 21,
1807, and there he passed his life. He m. 1st, at Champion, Feb.
15, 1808, Sally, dau. of Josiah Ward of Middlebury, Conn. ; m.
2d, at Canaan, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1830, Elizabeth F. Bostwick. He d.
at Champion, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1852. (Hist, of Hartford, Vt., 1889.)
Mrs. Clarissa Dutton d. at Springfield, 111., Aug. 13, 1865.
Children by first marriage:
685 t Eliza Ann Fish, b. Sept. 11, 1804; m. Henry Moore.
686 tAbbie Maria Fish, b. June 30, 1806; m. 1st, Lyman
White, 2d, Capt. Harry Boardman.
687 t Clarissa Sterling Fish, b. Jan. 21, 1808;
bard.
m. Ward Hub-
688 Benjamin Fish, b. in Lyme, July 10, 1809; living in
Oswego, N. Y., in 1858, unm.
m. Joel A. Matteson.
689 tMary Fish, b. July 10, 1811 ;
690 t Elizabeth Bronson Fish, b. May 13, 1813; m. Hervey
Lowe.
691 t William Sterling Fish, b. July 6, 1816; m. 1st, Elender
Blitch, 2d, Nancy Romaine.
692 tErama Fish, b. July 2, 1818; m. William A. Boardman.
693 t Henry Fish, b. Dec. 19, 1819; m. Mary V. Manning.
694 Charles Fish, b. at Rutland, N. Y. in July, 1824 ; d. unm.
in Panama, Central America, in July, 1850.
261 THE HON. JUDGE ANSEL STERLING (brother of the
above), b. at Sterling City, Feb. 3, 1782; m. Oct. 8, 1804, Isabella
Canfield, b. in 1781, seventh dau. of the Hon. John and Dorcas
(Buell) Canfield of Salisbury, Conn., sister of Alma Canfield, who
m. Ansel's eldest brother, Elisha. Ansel Sterling studied law in
the office of his brother Elisha and was admitted to the bar in 1 805.
He removed in 1808 to Sharon, Litchfield Co., Conn., where he
passed his life.
He was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives
for the May session, 1815, October session, 1818, May sessions,
1819 and 1820, and one of the two clerks for the House for these
terms. Was again member of the House in 1821-25-26-29-35-36
and 37. Judge Sterling was a member of the seventeenth and
eighteenth Congresses of the United States, being elected to the
National House of Representatives for 1821-23, and re-elected for
the following term, 1823-25. During his first term at Washing-