Exhibits

PHILIP (or PHILLIP) JARVIS (or JERVIS)

JARVIS (or JERVIS), PHILIP (or PHILLIP) (1723-1786). Associator, Town of Huntington. His online family tree posted on Ancestry.com shows that Phillip was born in Huntington in about 1723 to Stephen Jarvis and Ann Susan (Susannah) Kellum Wheeler. A brother, Austin, was born in 1735. Find A Grave, which also spells

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SILAS SAMMIS JR.

SAMMIS, JR., SILAS (1731-1803). Associator. A prominent Huntington landowner, farmer, and revolutionary signatory, Silas Sammis was born in Huntington, New York Colony, on September 13, 1731, to Silas Sammis Sr. (1700-1779), a farmer, and Ruth Alexander Bryan (or, in some records, Ruth Platt Bryan (1703-1780)). Silas’s paternal grandfather was also

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EBENEZER GOULD

GOULD, EBENEZER (1724-1804). Associator, Town of Huntington. Although there are Connecticut birth and church records and postings on Ancestry.com and Find A Grave, the information about Ebenezer’s birth place, birth year and parentage differ, making it confusing to analyze accurately. According to his family tree posted on Ancestry.com, Ebenezer was

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TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

WILLIAMS, TIMOTHY (1756–1811). Associator, Huntington, New York; private, Captain Benjamin Coe’s 3rd Company, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment, Suffolk County Minutemen. Timothy was born in Huntington, Long Island, to Nathaniel and Rachel (Fleet) Williams, followed nine years later by a sister, Rachel (1765-1799), according to Find A Grave.com. Frederic Mather’s Refugees of

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NATHANIEL WILLIAMS SR.

WILLIAMS, SR., NATHANIEL (1721-1781). Associator, Huntington, New York. Three generations share the name Nathaniel Williams: our subject, his father, and his eldest son. In addition, the Nathaniel Williams who was born in 1721 is not listed consistently with the suffix “Sr.” He is sometimes referred to with the suffix “Jr.”

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GILBERT POTTER

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

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ISRAEL WOOD

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

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ELIZABETH POTTER

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

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WILLIAM ROGERS

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

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NATHANIEL POTTER

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

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JONATHAN TITUS

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

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JOHN WICKES (or WICK, WICKS, WEEKES)

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;

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