Johann Adam Stahring (Staring)

Johan Adam Staring, born ca. 1675 in the Palatinate of Germany; died ca. 1759 (probably in New York). Johan left Germany with his two brothers, Johan Nicholas II and Johan Valden, in 1709, and traveled to New York. It is not known by researchers who he actually married. However, we do know that he had a son, Frederick Staring, that was born ca. 1700 in Alzey.

Once Johan Adam, his young son Frederick, and his brothers reached New York, they immediately went to work in search of fertile lands to raise crops and their families (for more details, see the section under "Our Story"). Our name, Starn, is first documented when Adam Staring takes the "Allegiance ond Supremacy Oath" on January 31, 1716 in Albany, New York. This naturalization act was passed in July 1715 and its intent was to help secure titles for the large land owners of foreign birth. Johan Adam took full advantage of this act in order secure his land patents/purchases.

This is where our name is first seen as Starn. "At a Mayor's Court held at ye city of Albany on the 31st day of January 1715/16 the following person to witt Adam Starn." This spelling of our name was found for our Staring ancestors in New York until after the Revolutionary War, about 1790.

Johan Adam married Anna Maria (Marcheroth?) and together they had a daughter named Maria Catherina, born September 28, 1715.

Johan Nicholas STARING (private). Parents: . Parents: Fredrich STARNS and Mrs. Barbara STARNS.

Spouse: Anna Elizabeth BARCKEY. Children were: Frederick STAHRING Sr., Fredrick STAHRING-STARNS, Valentine STAHRING-STARNS, Catherine STAHRING-STARNS, Joseph STAHRING-STARNS, Adam STAHRING-STARNS, Peter STAHRING-STARNS, Nicholas STAHRING-STARNS, Fredrick STAHRING-STARNS, Valentine STAHRING-STARNS, Catherine STAHRING-STARNS, Joseph STAHRING-STARNS, Adam STAHRING-STARNS, Peter STAHRING-STARNS, Nicholas STAHRING-STARNS.

From "The Mohawk Valley Sterlings and Allied Families" by Sterling O. Kimball

Joseph's name first appears on a baptismal record dated 11 April 1714, most likely by a traveling minister from the Albany Reformed Church, his sister Catryna baptized at the same time.

In 1723, at about the age of ten, he was assigned lot 41 in the Burnetsfield Patent, adjacent to his father Nicholas.

A payment to Joseph Stahring for transporting cargo around the cascade of the Mohawk River was recorded in 1755.

Joseph Stahring's name is on a list of 26 Feb 1757 militia of Capt. Marx Petry, the year the French invaded German Flatts. Later, he appears in Captain Conrad Frank's Company on 8 May 1767 in Tryon New York.

A Joseph Stahring is listed in The Book of Names as enlisted in Colonel Frederick Fisher's 3rd Regiment in Three Rivers in the Revolutionary War, (He would have been in his 60's).

http://www.threerivershms.com/names3regiment.htm

Enumerated in the Federal Census of 1790 in German Flatts, Montgomery County

31 March 1794, Joseph and wife Maria sold 200 acres to grandson Nicholas Stahring. On 5 August 1794, Joseph alone sold land to grandson Adam Stahring. (Maria probably deceased).

Last deed recorded in Oneida, NY on 2 March 1798 and thus spared the Herkimer Fire.