The Sterling genealogy

408 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
Fairchild of Pitcher. He was a tavern keeper in
Pitcher; d. in the tavern May 9, 1838. (Hist, of
Chenango Co.)
313 EPHRAIM STERLING (Ephraim, Joseph, Jacob, Wil-
liam), b. May 16, 1780; m. Jan. 19, 1804, Lucy Buck, b. Mar. 18,
1781, dau. of Samuel Beebe and Hannah (Fairchild) Buck x of
New Preston, Conn. Ephraim removed from Stratford to New
Milford, Conn., when a young man and located at Chestnut Land,
near the schoolhouse, east of New Milford village. He was a
man of great physical strength, often helping the weaker ox at
a heavy load by grasping his end of the yoke. He d. at New
Milford, Jan. 6, 1854; Lucy d. Jan. 21, 1859; both are buried
in the old cemetery at New Milford.
Children
747 t Samuel Beebe Sterling, b. Jan. 30, 1805; m. Minerva
Beard.
748 Joseph Hinman Sterling, b. in 1807; d. Jan. 13, 1828,
unm.
749 t Cyrus Curtis Sterling, b. Oct. 3, 1808; m. 1st, Sarah
A. Beers, 2d, Julia E. Weaver.
750 David Sterling, b. Nov. 30, 1811; m. June 14, 1854,
Adaline Castle, b. Mar. 9, 1814, dau. of Wildman
Castle of New Milford. David was a farmer near
his father. He d. May 10, 1875. Adaline d. Apr.
25, 1883. No issue.
1 Ancestry of Lucy (Buck) Sterling
Emanuel Buck, b. 1623, came from England in 1647 and settled at Wethersfield,
Conn. He m. 1st, in 1648, 2d, 1658; d. about 1705. Had Ezekiel Buck, b. Jan. 15,
1650; d. Mar. 3, 1713; m. Mar. 18, 1675, Rachel Andrews, b. in 1652. Their son
Enoch, b. Apr. 5, 1683 ; m. May 2, 1717, Mary, dau. of Samuel Beebe of Milford, Conn.,
b. Sept. 26, 1699, d. abt. 1747. Enoch d. in 1745. Their son James Buck was b. Mar.
24, 1726; d. Jan. 28, 1793; m. Feb. 25, 1749, Elizabeth Sherman, b. July 17, 1723
d. Jan. 9, 1793, sister of Roger Sherman. Their son Samuel Beebe Buck was b. Sept.
21, 1751; a farmer at New Preston, Conn.; m. Aug. 31, 1775, Hannah Fairchild, b.
Feb. 20, 1753, who d. Sept. 26, 1825. Samuel B. Buck d. Mar. 26, 1834. Their dau.
Lucy, m. Ephraim Sterling. Elizabeth Sherman was the dau. of William Sherman,
b. June 28, 1692; m. 1st, Rebecca Cutler of Charlestown, Mass., m. 2d, Sept. 13, 1715,
Mehitable, dau. of Benjamin Wellington; son of Joseph Sherman, b. May 14, 1650;
d. Jan. 20, 1730-31; m. Nov. 18, 1673, Elizabeth Winship. A son of Capt. John
Sherman, b. Feb. 8 1630-31, came to America with his father in 1634, settled at Watertown,
Mass.; m Martha, dau. of William and Grace Palmer. He was town clerk,
surveyor, and selectman, representative, steward of Harvard College, and captain of
Militia ; d. Jan. 25, 1691 ; a son of Samuel Sherman. (The Buck Genealogy, Orcutt's
Hist, of Bridgeport.)