The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 421
845 Major Sterling, m. Peggy Newton; lived east of Hamilton,
Can. ; d. leaving no issue.
846 Loretta Sterling, m. Boynton Ten Eyck ; had one daughter.
All are dead.
847 t Eliza Sterling, b. Feb. 25, 1806; m. John G. Kimball.
848 Ellen Sterling, m. 1st, John Beach, 2d, Simeon Morrell
lived at London, Can., where her second husband was
a tanner; d. without issue.
849 Orilla Sterling, m. John Green of Waterford, Can., d.
without issue.
850 tCyrena Sterling, b. May 8, 1811; m. William McCool.
851 tKeziah Sterling, b. in 1816; m. John Sill.
852 Daniel Sterling ; m. Catherine McGill ; lived at Toronto,
Can. Had: George, traveling representative of a
Canadian Insurance Co., with headquarters in Toronto
; Frederick, of Toronto, William, Alice (m.
E. P. Park of Brantford, Can., and d. leaving a
dau.), Edith (m. Roy Yielding of Chicago, 111.),
Mary, and Catherine.
357 MAJOR DANIEL STERLING {brother of the above) , b. in
Wilton, July 8, 1776; m. 1st, June 26, 1799, Betsey Jones, who d.
within seven months, Jan. 6, 1800 ; m. 2d, in the same year, Nov.
17, 1800, Sarah Sutton, b. 1780, dau. of James and Sarah Sutton,
who d. two days after the birth of her youngest child, June 12,
1812. She is buried in Black Walnut cemetery, Wyoming Co.,
Penn. Daniel m. 3d, two months after his second wife's death,
Aug. 19, 1812, Rachel Brooks, b. July 10, 1791, dau. of James
and Mary (Johnson) Brooks. James Brooks b. in 1729, removed
from Huntington Co., N. J., to Tioga Co., N. Y., in 1791. He d.
at Pipe Creek (now Tioga Center), Jan. 7, 1812. Mary Johnson,
his wife, d. at Mechanicsburg, Ohio, May 21, 1831.
Daniel Sterling migrated to the Wyoming Valley, Penn., with
his parents when in his eighteenth year. He was an active business
man and an employer of many men in lumbering and in work
upon government contracts. He possessed a great deal of land
in the vicinity of Sterlingville (now Meshoppen), Wyoming Co.,
Penn., and had other large interests. He was called "Major
Sterling," although he saw no military service, the title merely
indicating the important position he occupied in the community.