Robert Sterling (son of Abraham Starling and Elizabeth Smelley) was born 1760 in Northampton County, North Carolina, and died April 1841 in Johnston County, North Carolina. He married Unknown.
Notes for Robert Sterling: Robert could not read or write. His name was always spelled STERLING while his siblings and most of his children went by the name of Starling.
Robert was a Patriot veteran of the Revolutionary War. He received a pension in 1832 from a "Court of Pleas and Quarter Session" in Johnston County, North Carolina.
Children of Robert Sterling and Unknown are:
+Abraham Starling, b. Bet. 1790 - 1800, Wayne County North Carolina, d. Bet. 1840 - 1850, Wayne County North Carolina.