History

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

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,

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

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

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

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,

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

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