PRISCILLA STURGIS and JOEL NELSON had the following child:
866
i.
ELIZA7 NELSON. She married JOHN OUTTEN STURGIS
(III). JOHN was born 1803. JOHN was the son of JOHN OUTTEN STURGIS (Jr.) and LEAH MILLS. JOHN died after 1840.
John was named in his mother's 1837 will and appears in the 1840 census of Worcester County. He married his cousin, Eliza Nelson. (Floyd L.
Otter, Origins of the Sturgis Family in Virginia and Maryland, Ash Tree Echo, April, 1979, vol. XIV #2, p. 75-80) (Floyd C. Otter, Ash Tree
Echo, Jan. 1981, Vol. XVI, Fresno Genealogical Society)