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William Sterrett (17761850)

Role

Sterrett collected rents on Washington family lands in Kanawha County, present-day West Virginia.

Description

William Sterrett was born on 5 February 1776 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was a lawyer, real estate agent and county clerk in present-day Mason County, West Virginia. Sterrett and his wife Agnes "Nancy" Bell (17721863, m. 1800) had six children. He died in 1850.

Citations

 Inventory of the William Sterrett Papers, 17821881, Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (Archival Resources of the Virginias). 

Sterrett Family Records, 18071884, Special Collections Department, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.

William B Sterrett in Merle Silverman Family Tree (Ancestry.com).

Agnes "Nancy" Bell in Bill Latham Family Tree (Ancestry.com).

William Sterrett in U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 18501880 (Ancestry.com).

William Sterritt in Virginia, U.S., Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 16391850 (Ancestry.com).

William Sterrett at Find a Grave.