POTTER, GILBERT (1725-1786). Lieutenant colonel, Suffolk County Militia. As per Huntington Town Records, Volume 3, footnote, Dr. Gilbert Potter was born in Huntington on January 8, 1725, to Nathaniel Potter, a native of Rhode Island. The Find A Grave website posting notes that his mother’s name was Martha. Gilbert married
WOOD, ISRAEL (1723-1791). Patriot leader and President of the Town Board of Trustees of Huntington; associator. Israel Wood was born on February 9, 1723, in what is now Long Island City, Queens, New York City, according to the Geneanet Community Trees Index. His parents were Joseph Wood, 1684-1747, and Penelope
POTTER, ELIZABETH (1728-1811). Patriot. Born Elizabeth Williams in Huntington, New York, on June 9, 1728, Elizabeth’s parents were Nathaniel Williams, born in 1698 in Hartford County, Connecticut, and Elizabeth Platt, born in 1694 in Huntington. When she was only four years old, Elizabeth suffered the loss of her father on
ROGERS, WILLIAM (1741-1780). Captain of a privateer. William Rogers was born in Huntington, New York Colony, on November 19, 1741, per cemetery records, including Josephine Frost’s Cemetery Inscriptions from Huntington, Long Island, New York (1911.) However, William Rogers’s activities during the Revolutionary War are less clear. Rogers may have been
POTTER, NATHANIEL (1761-1841). Privateer. Nathaniel was born in Huntington on December 23, 1761 to Dr. Gilbert Potter (1723-1786) and Elizabeth Williams Potter (1728-1811) and was baptized there at the Old First Church by Reverend Ebenezer Prime (see). His ancestors lived in Rhode Island until his grandfather, Nathaniel, moved to Huntington
TITUS, JONATHAN (1724–1808). Captain, Colonel Henry Livingston’s 2nd and 4th New York Regiments. Jonathan Titus was born to John Sr. and Sarah Platt Titus in the village of Cold Spring Harbor in the town of Huntington, Long Island. He was the oldest of four siblings, and of four half-brothers from
WICKES (or WICK, WICKS, WEEKES), JOHN (1723-1801). Captain, Colonel Josiah Smith’s 1st Regiment of Suffolk County Minutemen, Fifth Company. As per his Find A Grave page and the online family tree posted on Ancestry.com, John was born in Huntington, New York in 1723 to Jonathan (1686-1749) and Mary Brush Wicks;
PRIME, EBENEZER (1700-1779). Patriot, clergyman. According to Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, Ebenezer was born on July 21, 1700, in Milford Connecticut. The Connecticut, U.S., Church Records Abstracts, 1630-1920, document his parents as James and Sarah Prime and that he was baptized on July 28, 1700 in Milford. As
SMITH, DAVID (1750-1820). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s 1st Regiment of Minutemen, 2nd Company, Huntington Militia. David was born in 1750 in Hulse Landing, Suffolk County, to Samuel Blue Cory Smith (1706-1778) and Esther Jarvis Wickes (1714-1791), as per a family tree posted on Ancestry.com; he was baptized in 1750. That
RUSCO, SR., DAVID MATTHEWS (1723–1815). Associator; member, War Committee, Town of Huntington. David Rusco’s grandfather, William, was a child when he arrived with his family in Hartford, Connecticut from London late in the 1630s. David’s father, Amini Ruhama Rusco, died when David was five years old and living with his
SAMMIS, JONAS (1739-1784). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Captain John Wickes’s Company, Huntington Militia. Born in Huntington, New York Colony, in 1739, Jonas Sammis was a descendent of John Sammis who settled in that area in the mid-17th century, as detailed in The Refugees of 1776 from
SAMMIS, DAVID SILAS (1761-1820). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s 1st Regiment of Minutemen, 2nd Company, Huntington Militia. Frederic Gregory Mather, in The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut (1913), states that John Sammis was the original member of David’s family to settle in Huntington after a grant of land