Exhibits

SOLOMON KETCHAM JR.

KETCHAM (or KETCHUM), JR., SOLOMON (or SOLOMOND) (1757-1851). Privateersman, Sloop Montgomery (William Rogers, Captain). Solomon was born in Huntington, perhaps the third of at least nine children of Solomon Ketcham Sr. (see) and Hannah Platt Conklin, according to a family tree on Ancestry.com. Solomon’s father, who signed Huntington’s Declaration of

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SOLOMON KETCHAM SR.

KETCHAM, SR., SOLOMON (1724-1781). Associator, 1775 Huntington Articles of Association. Solomon Ketcham was born in Huntington, New York Colony, on June 8, 1724, the son of Philip Ketcham (1691-1770) and Phebe Smith (1690-1738). Ketcham’s ancestors first arrived in America from England in 1637, migrating to New England during the Puritan

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JOHN R. MORGAN

MORGAN, JOHN R. (1731-1787). Private, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Suffolk County Militia; signer of the 1775 Huntington Articles of Association. John Morgan was born in 1731 and was the husband of Abiah “Abigail” Rogers, who was born in 1733 in New York. They married on January 16, 1751, in Huntington,

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STEPHEN LEVERETT KETCHAM

KETCHAM (or KETCHUM), STEPHEN LEVERETT (1727-1792). Enlisted man, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment, 1st Regiment of Minutemen; associator, Huntington, New York. As per his family tree on Ancestry.com, Stephen was born in Huntington, New York on January 1, 1727, to Nathaniel Ketchum and Abigail née Bassett. The posting shows that the

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CORNELIUS CONKLING

CONKLING, CORNELIUS (1727-1791). Captain, Suffolk County Militia; associator, Huntington, New York.  Cornelius Conkling was born on May 28, 1727, in Huntington, New York. Family genealogical records show his parents as Captain John A. Conkling II (1704-1757) and Mary née Platt (1710-1759.) His father’s parents were John Conkling (1672-1751), who was

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THOMAS CONKLIN

CONKLIN (or CONKLING), THOMAS (1731-1802). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Suffolk County Militia, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Captain John Wickes’s Company; associator, Huntington, New York. The name Conklin, or Conkling, was widespread on Long Island in British Colonial New York. According to a family tree on Ancestry.com, Thomas Conklin of Huntington

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CHRISTOPHER MENG

MENG, CHRISTOPHER (1750-1833). Lieutenant colonel, Continental Army. Born on June 8, 1750, and named John Christopher Meng per Family Search genealogical records, Christopher Meng was a native of Germantown, Pennsylvania. His father, Johann Melchior Meng, or Melchior “John” Meng, was born in 1726 in the city of Mannheim, Rhineland, Prussia,

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MATTHIAS DAVIS

DAVIS, MATTHIAS (1761-1849). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Suffolk County Militia. The son of Elnathan Davis and Elizabeth or Sarah Hannah Mills, Matthias Davis was born on October 12, 1761, in Southold, Suffolk County, New York Colony, as shown in cemetery and online family records (although

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ISAAC CARLL KETCHAM (or KETCHUM)

KETCHAM (or KETCHUM), ISAAC CARLL (or CARLE, CARIL, CARL ISAAC) (1751-1808). Lieutenant, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment, 1st Regiment Suffolk County Minutemen, Huntington Militia. According to the United States Revolutionary War Burial Index, Isaac was born in 1751. This differs from a family tree on Ancestry.com which details that Isaac was

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Liberty 250

TIMOTHY CONKLIN JR.

CONKLIN, JR., TIMOTHY (1754-1831). Lieutenant or lieutenant colonel, Suffolk County Militia, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment. As per Timothy’s timeline on the Geneanet website, he was born on January 1, 1754 in Hashamomack, (a part of Southold in Suffolk, New York), to Ruth Ketcham and Timothy Conklin,

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