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
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,
(1752-1829). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Suffolk County; associator, Huntington, New York.
(1758-1814). Corporal, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Suffolk County Militia; associator, Huntington, New York.
(1731-1812). Corporal, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Suffolk County; associator, Huntington, New York.