The Sterling genealogy

412 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
781 tEzra Gregory Sterling, m. Sarah E. Burr.
782 Julia M. Sterling, m. Dr. Pinckney W. Ellsworth, Apr.
27, 1841. He was b. Dec. 5, 1814, son of Gov. William
Wolcott and Emily Schotten (Webster) Ells-
worth, grandson of Noah Webster, the lexicographer.
She d. Mar. 18, 1854. He m. 2d, Dec. 9, 1856, Julia
Townsend Dow of New Haven, Conn. No issue by
first marriage.
325 DAVID SHERMAN (Mary, Stephen, Jacob, William), b.
in Stratfield, Jan. 22, 1757 ; m. Jan. 18, 1775, Rebecca French,
b. Feb. 25, 1755, dau. of Lieut. John and Elizabeth (Nichols?)
French of Trumbull. Capt. David Sherman d. Aug. 22, 1810.
Mrs. Rebecca Sherman d. Mar. 4, 1825.
Children
783 t Sterling Sherman, b. Mar. 1, 1776; m. Anna Kirtland.
784 Mary Sherman, b. June 12, 1777.
785 Ellen Sherman, b. July 10, 1780 ; m. Oct. 3, 1805, Samuel
Porter, b. Mar. 1, 1771, son of Samuel and Abiah
Porter, who m. 1st, May 3, 1803, Sally French, b.
in 1781, d. Apr. 3, 1805. Samuel, Jr., d. Sept. 9,
1842. Ellen d. Apr. 12, 1867.
786 Isaac Sherman, b Jan. 14, 1783; d. Mar. 19, 1784.
787 David Sherman, b. Mar. 9, 1785. The inscription on his
father's gravestone to David, Jr.'s memory states
that he " was supposed to be lost on his passage from
Washington in North Carolina to New York with
his whole crew in the schooner Recovery about the
20 th of Decem b ? 1800 [1810 probably] in the 25 th
year of his age."
788 t Isaac Sherman, b. Sept. 25, 1788; m. Maria Burroughs.
327 HULDA SHERMAN (sister of the above), b. in Stratfield;
m. Oct. 20, 1789, James E. Beach, M.D., of Cheshire, Conn., b.
in 1763.
Dr. Beach resided for many years in Bridgeport, where he
conducted a dry-goods store and ran boats to New York City,
which did a general freight and passenger business. He was senior
member of the firm of Beach & Sterling (David) from 1794 to
1804; of Beach & Sterling (Jesse) from 1804 to 1815, and of
Beach & Sterling (Sylvanus, Jr.). Dr. Beach furnished the capi-
tal for these enterprises but took no active part in their manage-