Friday, March 8, 2019

STERRETT – Descendants of Nutfield Settler James Sterrett



STERRETT / STARRATT / STARRET

[NOTE:  I have been publishing a series of genealogical sketches of the first sixteen families to settle in Nutfield (Londonderry, New Hampshire in advance of the 300th anniversary for Founders Day, April 12 – 14, 2019 in Derry, New Hampshire.  If you have additional notes on the first few generations of the STERRETT or STARRETT family, please comment below or send me an email at vrojomit@gmail.com and I will edit this sketch. These sketches will be used and distributed to the public and to the descendants at the Founders Day activities]

Very little is known about James Sterrett.  He was one of the sixteen settlers who followed Rev. James MacGregor to Nutfield, New Hampshire in 1719.  He was granted an additional 80 acres next to his original home lot in 1729. Most of his children all removed to Maine.  His wife was “Catherine” and he had four children:

      1.       James Starratt, died 1729 when his ship was lost at sea near Ipswich, Massachusetts. He married first to Lois Curtis, and second to a Woodside. He lived in York, Maine

      2.       Mary, married James McCartney in November 1723 in Kittery, Maine.

      3.       John Starratt, married Martha and lived in Chester, New Hampshire

      4.       Peter Starrat, was married first in Ireland, and married second to Eleanor Armstrong in 1742 in Falmouth, Maine. Children:  Joseph b. 1743 married Mary and removed to Granville Township, Nova Scotia;  John, born 11 February 1745/6 at Falmouth, Maine and died 4 October 1829 in Paradise, Nova Scotia, married Hannah Bancroft; George, born 1747 in Falmouth, Maine and died 20 April 1820 in Paradise, Nova Scotia, married Sarah Balcom; William, born 1749 in Granville, Nova Scotia, died 23 April 1777 in Boston, Massachusetts; Mary, born 1751, died in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, married first to Thomas Spencer Brown on 1 June 1767, married second to Daniel Wade on 24 December 1776 in Granville, Nova Scotia; Anna Starratt, born 1753, married Zaccheus Phinney; Eleanor Starratt, born 1757 married John McGregor 1773 in Granville, Nova Scotia.

One of the four speakers at the Founders Weekend (April 12 – 14) in Derry, New Hampshire will be Robert Starratt, a history instructor for the city of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and a well- known Ulster-Scots migration researcher.  His talk will be “From Londonderry to Londonderry… the Sterret(t) Saga”.  https://www.nutfieldhistory.org/300th/founders-weekend/conference  

There is another Scots Irish STERRETT family in Maryland and Virginia.  You can read about them in the book The Stewart Sterrett Family Tree, 1740 – 1979, by E. S. Shearer, 1979.

See all sixteen genealogical sketches of the first settlers to Nutfield at this link:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/p/nutfields-first-16-settlers.html 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "STERRETT – Descendants of Nutfield Settler James Sterrett", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 8, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/sterrett-descendants-of-nutfield.html: accessed [access date]).

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  1. My mother was Margaret Ann Sterritt Parker, daughter of Merrill Davidson Sterritt born in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Removed from Toledo, Ohio to Hollywood, Florida in 1933. Was Florida's most traveled salesmen. My 3x great granduncle was Charles Leverett Luce of Toledo, Ohio, brother of George Lester Luce, grandfather of Indiana Rep. Charles A. Halleck, the face of the Republican Party in the 1960s. Afterall, Gen. David Atwood was a founding member of the Republican Parker. See Gen. Rufus King history in Wisconsin. Rev. Edward Lutwyche Parker of Londonderry, N.H. was a brother in law of Rev. Abishai Alden of Stafford, Connecticut. Rev. Alden was mentored by Dr. Rev. John Willard, brother or kin to Joseph Willard, president of Harvard. Willard descended from Major Simon Willard, a co-founder of Concord, Massachusetts, with Rev. Peter Bulkeley, father in law of Sarah Chauncey, daughter of Rev. Charles Chauncey, second president of Harvard. Major Simon Willard was associated with Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard. Dunster married the widow of Joseph Glover, who imported the first printing press into New England. Grover lived in Sudbury, next to Edmund Rice on the Old Connecticut Indian Path from Sudbury to the Connecticut River Valley, which is the route Rev. Thomas Hooker took, when he founded Hartford, Connecticut. The Marvin and William Parker were founders of Hartford, Ct. Rev. Thomas Parker (b. 1700) was a grandfather in law of Rev. Abishai Alden, third minister of the Willington, Connecticut, which is located near the old Indian path. Rev. Jared Sparks, president of Harvard College was born in Willington. The second minister of the Willington, Connecticut Congregational Church was Rev. Gideon Noble, a 3x great grandson of Mary White Terry. Rev. Noble solemnized the marriage of Capt. Jonathan and Betsey Johnson Parker, who are interred in Pioneer Cemetery in Windsor, Ashtabula County, Ohio, home of Mormon Migration history. Mary White Terry was the rootball of the Kellogg's family. Joseph Smith's family lived next to Willis Johnson, an ancestor of Betsey Johnson Parker. Mary White Terry's nephew was Rev. Nathaniel Cook, an ancestor of Zera and Chloe Loomis Cook, in-law of Nehemiah Holt Parker, grandson of Capt. Jonathan Parker, who served on the general staff of Gen. George Washington, who hired Florida Governor William D. Bloxham's grandfather from England, to manage one of his plantations. My ancestor Edward Coburn managed Sir Richard Saltonstall's plantation in Watertown, Massachusetts. Coburn removed to Dracut, Massachusetts. Rev. Jared Sparks wrote George Washington's biography from the Longfellow house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Florida Governor William Bloxham's lieutenant governor was Livington Wellesley Bethel. Bloxham was Catherine Willis Gray Murat's attorney. He bought the Belleview or Bellevue Plantation from Murat, wife of Prince Achilles Murat, nephew of Napoleon. Catherine Murat was married twice, to John Gray and Murat. Murat met Ralph Waldo Emerson at the Saint Augustine, Florida government house. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Prince Murat are considered to be the father's of Florida tourism. Emerson and Murat met in 1822. Some same Harriet Beecher Stowe was the mother of Florida tourism, much later. Stowe's son met with Commodore Ralph Monroe in Coconut Grove, Florida. Invariably, Commodore Ralph Monroe is buried in Sleepy Hallow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. Commodore Monroe's grandfather William Monroe, patented the the lead pencil, whereas John Rand invented the metal tube, first used for oil paints.

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