Sterling Waters

Sterling (aka Starling) Waters, son of Samuel Waters and Jemima Howard, was born in Hebron, Tolland Co., Connecticut on Sept. 9, 1757. He married about 1781 in Charlotte (renamed to Washington Co) with ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, dau. of Thomas Reynolds and Elizabeth Hopkins. She was born Nov. 3, 1764 in Connecticut. His name has been recorde almost equally as Starling and Sterling. On one hand, his wife's gravestone does say she was the wife of 'Starling.' But one should be inclined to think it was Sterling, because that wass the name of his paternal grandmother, Anne Sterling. He was born in Hebron, Tolland Co., Conn. on Sept. 9, 1757. When Sterling was very young, the family moved to Dutchess County, New York and settled in the Amenia area. At the beginning of the Revolution, he volunteered with Capt. Job Wright's Company of the First New York Regiment, and fought at Lake George. He served from February to December of 1776 and was discharged at Saratoga, New York.

Child: Thankful (1792-1850; m. Barton).

After the Revolution, Dutchess County was renamed Washington, and about 1784, he married with Elizabeth Reynolds. They moved into that part of Washington County which was later broken off to become Warren County. Settling in Horicon Township, they had at least eleven children between 1786 and 1805. Sterling served as a Town Justice there, and presided over several of the marriages listed in Alvin Barton's Diary. On June 10, 1809 Sterling died, unexpectedly, and his wife, along with her two brothers, were forced to give a bond of Three Thousand Dollars in order to settle his estate, because he left no will. Sterling Waters is doubtless buried in the Bolton Cemetery in Warren Co., New York, next to his wife, Elizabeth. There is an empty space next to her gravestone, probably his gravesite.

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