The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 477
lived in his early life at Pitcher Chenango Co., N. Y., going there
with his father's family in 1810. Here he studied medicine with
Dr. David McWhorter and attended lectures at Fairfield, N. Y.
was licensed as a physician by the Herkimer Co. Medical Soc. in
1829; settled Feb. 28, 1829, in Hamlet, Villenova township, Chau-
tauqua Co., N. Y., a district just being settled, where he practised
medicine for 20 years. He was supervisor of his town from 183-1
to 1836, and from 1839 to 1849, and represented his district in the
Assembly of the State in the winter of 1841-42. In 1850 he was
attacked by a spinal disease which confined him to his bed until his
death, June 17, 1861. Mrs. George White in speaking of her
" She was endowed with a serenity of spirit very fav-
mother says :
orable to longevity. Her ninety-two years of untiring usefulness
place her above and beyond all praise." Mary Ann d. at Fre-
donia, N. Y., Feb. 16, 1900.
Children, born in Hamlet:
1444 t Julia M. Peirce, b. Oct. 9, 1826; m. Charles L. Mark.
1445 t William P. Peirce, b. Mar. 25, 1830; m. 1st, Mary F.
Rood, 2d, Ella Anderson.
m. George White.
1446 tEllen E. Peirce, b. Dec. 13, 1831 ;
1447 tLucius G. C. Peirce, b. Feb. 5, 1836; m. Esther Snow.
1448 tTeresa M. Peirce, b. Sept. 2, 1838; m. Fayett S. Hatch.
1449 Gurdon Lord Peirce, b. Jan. 25, 1841 ; lieutenant Co. C,
112th Regt., N. Y. Vols. ; killed in the battle of Cold
Harbor, June 1, 1864.
1450 t Henry A. Peirce, b. Oct. 11, 1843; m. Sarah E. Sessions.
1451 Austin Lamartine Peirce, b. June 9, 1848, entered West
Point Military Academy July 1, 1865; graduated
June 15, 1870; appointed 2d lieutenant fourth Cavalry;
served on frontier duty at Ft. Griffin, Texas,
from Oct. 4 to the date of his death, Nov. 30,
1870.
16.56: m. Dec. 9, 1680 Lydia Bacon, b. Mar. 6, 1656; d. Doc. 5, 1717. Samuel lived
in Woburn, then Charlestown Village, as did his father; he d. July 5, 1721. Their
son, Samuel Peirce, b. Nov. 25, 1681 ; m. June 14, 1705 Abigail Johnson. They lived
in Woburn and Wilmington, Mass., and Mansfield, Conn.; he d. Jan. 26, 1774: she
d. Mar. 16, 1787. Their son Seth Peirce, b. Nov. 30, 1716 ; m. Nov. 10, 1743 Elizabeth
Nye, b. in 1680, lived in Mansfield, Conn.; she d. May 14, 1749; he d. Dec 5, 1794.
Their son Seth Peirce, b. Sept. 12, 1744; m. April 17, 1767, Bethiah Fields, b. in 1745,
d. Sept. 18, 1807: he d. in 1835. Their son Gurdon Peirce, b. Aug. 31, 1773. m. in
1796, Thirsa Smalley, who d. in 1861; he d. Feb. 7, 1875; their son Austin Peirce m.
Mary Ann Sterling.