Ancestors

Jeremiah Conkling

Jeremiah Conkling was a yeoman of East Hampton, born about 1634 or 1635. He was the eldest son of Ananias Conklin, the Salem glassmaker, and probably of Mary Launder, whom Ananias had married at Nottingham in 1631. About 1658 he married Mary, the eldest daughter of Lion Gardiner, and they set up house in the dwelling her father had built on his own East Hampton home lot. He was still living on that ground in 1707, when he conveyed the meadow belonging to it to two of his sons.

The town rated him on 8 September 1683 at heads 3, land 28, oxen 4, cattle 31, horses 2, swine 4, sheep 35, and an estate of 247 pounds 3s 4d. He sat on the jury that viewed John Talmage's body in 1670 and witnessed John Scott's bond in 1659 beside David Gardiner.

For nearly thirty years he cleaned the meeting house, and the town's account books carry the payments at about a pound seven and six a year. His will of 8 November 1703 settled on his five sons all the East Hampton lands that had come to the family from Lion Gardiner.

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Cite: Heirology, "Jeremiah Conkling (d. 1712)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/jeremiah-conkling-1712-a61ea1.