It is precisely at Eliz(s)beth vi. where we have a problem,
since in my records she was born 29 Nov 1761, dau. of Joseph &
Naomi (CONKLING) LEWIS as you have them, but she married
according to a family record probably vintage 1860s James
SANDFORD, M.D., b 25 Apr 1757 Southampton LI, d. 20 Oct 1795,
a surgeon in the Army of the Revolution, a founder of the
Huntington Academy, etc. Both generations are in the same
hand and I take them as just about as authoritative as a Bible
record, though not on sacred paper--they're pretty clearly not
a genealogist's thing but a family record thing, if you know
what I mean. I have no idea who FURMAN was or how FURMAN
intruded here; it's certainly extraneous to what I have.
On the other hand, I see there are several further e-mails
from you, so I'llsend this and read the rest and see where we
wind up.
Bob
On Sat, 17 May 1997, David Roberts wrote:
> Bob:
> As I wrote to you last night by private e-mail, I have information on this
> line. I'm posting this also to the Conklin and New York lists for others
> to look at and share their comments and corrections.
> Naomi^5 was born 1740 in Huntington, but I don't have her death date. She
> married 7 November 1759 at Huntington to Joseph LEWIS, the son of Joseph
> LEWIS and Abigail SCUDDER.
> Joseph and Naomi had these children [per Seversmith's "Colonial Families"]
> i. Azel LEWIS bapt. Huntington 30 July 1764 m. Smithtown 12 April 1784 to
> Susanna CONKLIN [daughter of Israel CONKLIN and Deborah SMITH]. I have
> a line of descendant from this couple.
> ii. Joseph LEWIS bap. Huntington 6 July 1766 died Huntington 7 January
> 1797
> iii. Conklin LEWIS b. ca. 1767 d. 4 October 1791 age 24
> iv. Richard LEWIS b. ca. 1773 d. 18 May 1805 age 32
> v. Abigail LEWIS bap. Huntington 28 Sept. 1760 m. 2 DEc. 1781 Ebenezer
> PLATT
> vi. Elizabeth LEWIS b. Huntington 1761 m. Huntington 27 April 1778 Daniel
> FURMAN of Hempstead. I have a line from this couple too. A
> second-cousin marriage in 1830 between Epenetus FURMAN [1805-1879] and
> Susan Amelia LEWIS [1813-1842] .... these are my g-g-g-grandparents.
> vii. Amelia LEWIS bap. Huntington 9 Sept. 1770
> viii. Naomi LEWIS bap. Huntington 7 January 1776
> I really don't like the way Seversmith divides the boys and girls. You get
> a garbled birth order.
> There's a problem with #vi. Elizabeth .... she's given no data in
> Seversmith's LEWIS section, but is identified in the FURMAN section as the
> daughter of Joseph and Naomi. Given the fact that I have seen nothing to
> say otherwise and the fact that this Conklin-Furman-Lewis cluster seem to
> inter-marry I'm accepting this....and have for over 20 years, but would
> change if anyone had proof, one way or the other.
> David
>