The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 503
town. He d. in Watertown, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1877. Jerusha
Dodge d. at Gouverneur, Mar. 7, 1883.
Children
1660 Emma Sterling Dodge, b. Jan. 17, 1833 ; d. unm. Nov.
13, 1853.
1661 t William Robert Dodge, b. June 16, 1834; m. Martha
J. Noyes.
1662 tMaria Lay Dodge, b. Sept. 5, 1837; m. John Lansing.
1663 Edwin Gardner Dodge, b. Aug. 10, 1839 ; d. at Gouverneur,
unm., Oct. 28, 1887.
667 WELLIAM SILL {Jemima, William, Joseph, Daniel, Wil-
liam), b. in Lyme, Conn., Feb. 8, 1792; m. Oct. 17, 1816, Sophia
Hopkins, b. in Dec, 1791, at Waterbury, Conn., dau. of Joseph
and Ruth (Gilbert) Hopkins of Rutland, N. Y., a descendant of
John H. and Jane Hopkins in the sixth generation.
William Sill removed to Rodman, Jefferson Co., N. Y., during
the War of 1812. He carried on a general store there for a
number of years. In 1836 he bought a farm on which he lived
until his death. His wife d. there May 16, 1851 ; he m. 2d, Mar.
3, 1853, Mrs. Sarah (Burt) Isham, dau. of Moses and Sarah
(Robbins) Burt of Wilbraham, Mass. He d. Aug. 8, 1869.
Children
1664 t Mary Matson Sill, b. July 19, 1817; m. Horace Brown.
1665 tjohn Sterling Sill, b. Oct. 27, 1820; m. Arietta V.
Winslow.
1666 Edward Sill, b. Nov. 8, 1824; m. June 4, 1850, Melissa
Owen, b. in 1830 at Boonville, N. Y. He was a physician
at Boonville and Watertown. Had in 1858
Cora Sophia, b. in July, 1855. He d. in 1893.
1668 Elizabeth Sill (twin with above) ; m. May 8, 1850, Erastus
S. Kelsey, b. Oct. 3, 1821, at Lerayville, N. Y.,
son of Sylvester. A farmer at Lerayville in 1858.
Children : Henry Hopkins, b. Apr. 9, 1853 ; William
Sylvester, b. Apr. 29, 1857.
668 JERUSHA SILL {sister of the above), b. at Sterling City,
Lyme, June 18, 1794; m. in Oct., 1817, Frederick Beckwith, b.
in 1794, son of Barzilla and Livia (Griffin) Beckwith, brother
of Elizabeth, who m. Jerusha's brother Micah.
Frederick Beckwith was a fuller and cloth dresser at Lyme.