Below is the text & notes from my current treatments of Joseph
LEWIS and Naomi^5 CONKLIN(G). I hope formatting is not
toobig a problem. It's supposed to be an ASCII text file.
I don't have a transcription of our MS. family record ready to
send. I'm beginning to think it should be sent somewhere for
publication if it contradicts a published source. David, I
don't have access to Seversmith out here. Might you trade
copies of the relevant pages if you have/can make them for
copies of the relevant parts of my family record?
Bob Leutner Iowa City IA
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Notes on Joseph LEWIS Jr and Naomi CONKLING, Huntington LI.
Please credit Robert Leutner, 227 Friendship St., Iowa City
IA.
318 LEWIS, Joseph, Jr. Merchant in Huntington, Long Island.
His will dated 10 Sep 1781, proved 19 Oct 1781 is a perfect
match for a handwritten family record of mid-1800s date:
names eldest son Azel (born 9 Jul 1760 by family record),
third son Concklin (30 Apr 1768), second son Joseph (2 Jun
1766), fourth son Richard ( 29 Mar 1772), daughters Abigail
(6 Aug 1760), Elizabeth (29 Nov 1761), Amelia (3 Aug 1770),
Naomi (12 Nov 1775). In the account books of John Avery,
schoolmaster of Huntington, he appears as a storekeeper from
whom Avery bought linen, sugar, nails, rum, and gloves, and
as responsible person for a number of Avery's students
including Abbe/Abigail (1766, -8, -78--no doubt the earlier
dates refer to his daughter Abigail, born 8 Aug 1760); Platt
Conkline (1776-7, unidentified); his brother Henry (1766;
probably the Henry Scudder LEWIS, 1752-1832, of a Lewis
genealogy, called "my brother Scudder" in his will, 1781));
Alexander (1768, unidentified); schooling his sister's
children (1768; the will of a David CHICHESTER of
Huntington, dated 7 Feb and proved 14 Mar 1764, mentions
children Abraham and Mary, wife Sarah, brother-in-law Joseph
LEWIS, Jr.); Conkling (1775-8, no doubt his son as above);
Amelia (1775-8, presumably daughter); Richard (1776-7,
prseumably son); Azel (1776-7, presumably son); Joseph
(1777-9, presumably son); and 4 unnamed children (1779).
Perhaps "Platt Conkline" of 1776-7 is the same as son
Conkling if the naming pattern was the same as with "Henry
Scudder;" this might lead toward a PLATT family connection,
perhaps a direction to pursue in looking for the mother of
Naomi (CONKLING) LEWIS. [1]
Born 18 Nov or 1 Jan 1738 ?Huntington LI. Died 24 Sep
1781.
319 CONKLING, Naomi. Baptized 21 Sep 1740, Huntington LI.
Descent shown here is probably correct but needs
corroborating sources. See father and associated notes.[2]
Born 23 Aug 1740. Married 7 Nov 1759 Huntington LI.
Died 1 Oct 1776.
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[1] The 18 Nov birth date is from a handwritten Lewis-
Sandford family record probably of the 1850s ; the 1 Jan
date is either from the records of the First Church,
Huntington (see following note on Naomi CONKLING), in which
case it is probably a baptism, or from a multivolume work
entitled Lewisiana, whose bibliographical details I do not
know; death date appears both in the ms. record and in a
gravestone inscription cited in "Inscriptions taken from the
Old Cemetery at Huntington, Suffolk Co., L. I.--1701-1850,"
contributed by John H. Jones, in NYGBR 31 (1900): 144, where
Joseph is called "MERCH." Will: Liber 34, Abstracts of Wills
on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, X: 144-
45. New-York Historical Society Collections, 1901.
[2] BDM from a handwritten Lewis-Sandford family record
probably of the 1850s; baptism and marriage (CONKLINE)
appear in Records of the First Church in Huntington, L. I.,
1723-1779 [from records kept by the Rev. Ebenezer Prime]
(Huntington, N. Y.: Moses L. Scudder, 1899). (In the library
of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.)
Notice of the marriage bonds of Joseph LEWIS, Jr. and Naomi
CONKLING, date 1 Nov 1759, appears in New York Marriages
Previous to 1784 (reprint of the 1860 ed. with additions and
corrections, Baltimore, 1968), II:485. The marriage date of
7 Nov 1759 is from a family record. The baptism does not
name her parents; perhaps they can be deduced from other
entries. Death date is duplicated in a gravestone
inscription in Huntington for "Naomy," wife of Joseph LEWIS,
source as in the preceding note. This Naomi has been
tentatively identified with the Naomi named among his
unmarried daughters in the will of John CONKLING of
Huntington, dated 17 Aug 1757.
On Sat, 17 May 1997, David Roberts wrote:
> Bob:
> You may have blown a great big hole in my family tree! But, THANKS !!!
> Seversmith assigned my ancestor Daniel FURMAN to this Elizabeth LEWIS,
> daughter of Naomi ^5 CONKLIN LEWIS in the Furman section of his "Colonial
> Families." The marriage is recorded in the Huntington Presbyterian church
> marriages, but BOTH the bride and groom are listed as being "of
> Hempstead." Your info is the first SOLID thing I've seen to point that I
> have a mistake ... it may well be that my Elizabeth LEWIS is indeed a
> member of a Hempstead family .... I had thought for some reason she might
> have lived in Hempstead and gone back to Huntington to be married. Some of
> this stuff was done so long ago that it all needs to be re-checked step by
> step. Although this Daniel Furman came from Hempstead, the line ended up
> in Huntington, living in the mid-19th century in the Half Hollows area
> near the present Huntington-Babylon line.
> ANY SUGGESTIONS FROM ANY OF YOU CONKLIN RESEARCHERS??
> Thanks, Bob, for your information.
> David
>
> On Sat, 17 May 1997, Bob Leutner wrote:
>
> > David:
> >
> > 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
> > >
> >
> >
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