DAVID SILAS SAMMIS
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