The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 405
Children, born in Adams
710 tEmeline Sterling, b. Feb. 15, 1812; m. Julius D. Morton.
711 tAdaline Sterling, b. Feb. 22, 1814; m. Ira Mayhew.
712 William Cadwell Sterling, b. June 30, 1816 ; d. unm. in
Monroe, Mich., July 13, 1848.
713 t Joseph Marvin Sterling, b. Aug. 16, 1818; m. Abigail
Clark.
714 Ethiel Bronson Sterling, b. Sept. 16, 1822; d. in Monroe,
Mich., Nov. 18, 1847, unm.
715 Emeline A. Sterling, b. June 15, 1832; d. Apr. 3, 1833.
265 PHEBE CHURCH (Phebe, Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in
East Haddam, Conn., Oct. 13, 1767; m. Nov. 13, 1787, Elijah
Crosby of East Haddam, where they lived.
Children, born in East Haddam
716 Phebe Starlin Crosby, b. Oct. 12, 1789.
717 Luinde Crosby, b. Aug. 2, 1791.
718 Calvin Crosby, b. May 10, 1793.
719 Lovina Crosby, b. May 14, 1795.
720 Elial Crosby, b. Mar. 22, 1797.
721 Elijah Crosby, b. May 20, 1799; d. young.
722 Joseph Crosby, b. May 10, 1801.
723 Levi Crosby, b. Apr. 2, 1803.
724 Elijah Crosby, b. Feb. 11, 1805.
(East Haddam Records.)
271 ELISHA PERKINS (Lydia, Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in
Lyme, Conn., July 25, 1768 ; m. Mary Ransom of Woodstock, Vt.
(No. 233), b. at Lyme, Conn., Feb. 3, 1769, dau. of Richard and
Mary (Sterling) Ransom. Elisha left Lyme with his father, when
25 years old, and settled in Vermont, where he engaged in the
tanning of hides and shoemaking. Later sold his business to his
brother Gaius and for a time kept a store and later a tavern.
In 1819 he removed with his family to what was then the remote
West, Troy, Lincoln Co., Mo., where he established an important
industry in the manufacture of hides and in the making of shoes.
The journey to Troy was then a very great undertaking and was
made with two large wagons and five horses; of these, one w as
taken as a reserve and often used by the daughters for a lit tit
pleasant variety of horseback riding.
Both Mr. Perkins and his wife d. in Troy in 1851.