This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D5D60DAB1056838E4D76097F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I know some of us are searching for Conklin's, thought I would pass this along. Sue in TN --------------D5D60DAB1056838E4D76097F Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com ([207.113.245.30]) by mtiwgwc08.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with ESMTP id <19990202130756.NIHY7862@bl-30.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:07:56 +0000 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA12428; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 05:01:55 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 05:01:55 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <s6b6b09a.022@MAIL.NYSED.GOV> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 07:59:58 -0500 From: "Honor Conklin" <hconklin@MAIL.NYSED.GOV> Old-To: Conklin-L@rootsweb.com Subject: CONKLINs in Columbia and Yates Cos. NY Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by bl-30.rootsweb.com id FAA12402 Resent-Message-ID: <"cQ1TRC.A.9BD.Cdvt2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: CONKLIN-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <CONKLIN-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/842 X-Loop: CONKLIN-L@rootsweb.com To: CONKLIN-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Errors-To: CONKLIN-L-request@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: CONKLIN-L-request@rootsweb.com X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 This was posted to GEN-NYS-L by Bonnie Bunce Honor I saw the previous messages on the Conklin family and decided to post the following. I indexed S.C. Cleveland's History and Directory of Yates Co., New York published in 1873, and three of the following biographical sketches are from that history, and the last one from another Yates Co. history just happens to appear on the same photocopied page as the one for one of my relatives, so I copied it for you here. From the earlier message posted by Marilyn & John <soper@ulster.net> there is an entry for "147. Cornelius bp. 174? mar. 1769 Lena Hileker d. Copake 1813," and perhaps he was the father of the Jacob Conklin listed below, since Jacob came from Copake to Yates County, NY in 1828, and Jacob named his firstborn son, Cornelius, but more work would have to be done to establish this, perhaps through the rent rolls for Livingston Manor, since the piece in Cleveland's History indicated the family of Jacob Conklin had lived on that land for a 100 years prior to their removal to Yates Co. I did not find a record of an Isaac who married Catharine Van Duser in the previously posted records, but there were a couple of birth records for men named Isaac Conklin born in the 1770s who may have been the father of Gamaliel D., Samuel, Shadrach, Henry and Julia, natives of Orange Co., NY. By the way, I have no Conklins in my ancestry, I'm just doing this out of a desire to help and a love of puzzles. What's below is all I have on the Conklins in Yates Co., NY. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Excerpt from HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF YATES COUNTY, NEW YORK by Stafford C. Cleveland published in 1873 in Penn Yan, New York, pages 491-95 in the chapter on the Town of JERUSALEM. JACOB CONKLIN. About twenty years later than John Race, came Jacob Conklin to the same locality, and Jacob was also a character. He and his wife Catharine Brazie were also reared under the life of the lease system of the Livingston Manor, of an ancestry moulded by generations inured to that condition of social existence. They were natives of the Copake Pond or Lake vicinity, and near the Livingston Manor seat. "Uncle Jake" was a favorite with his Manor Lord, receiving special favor and liberal bounties for obsequious compliance with his demands and attention to his wants. He made frequent visits to the Manor house with generous contributions of game and fish which his cunning craft had procured from the surrounding hills and mountains and the prolific waters of the Lake; and often accompanied the younger members of the family as guide and director in their hunting and fishing excursions. He was therefore quite a lion among the Copakes, and thus being in the good graces of both the landlord and tenantry, it seemed that he might be most content of all his associates, but such was not the fact. Like Norval in the play who had heard of wars, he had heard of the country of "the Lakes" and longed to breathe their free air and angle in their limpid waters, and own free from landlord's claim for rent the soil on which his domicile might stand and his children should sow and reap their daily bread. The title to their Copake home was fast running to its end in the uncertain lives of two old people just ready to step into the grave, and he and his good wife "Catarene" held frequent and deeply interesting consultations upon the subject of leaving their early and long cherished home and friends to seek their heart's desire in that "far distant west" among the Lakes of New York. Their first born son, "Cornalus," as the father always called him, had already accompanied some of their adventurous neighbors to that country, and sent back glowing reports of its rich soil, beautiful waters and game-stocked hillsides. They pondered well and long, and finally determined to cast their fortunes into the scale and try what emigration would do for them. Hence the homestead farm bordering the famed "Copake Pond," and within view of the rugged sides and tops of old "Tagconic," was offered for sale and brought the full sum of five hundred dollars for their right and title to one hundred acres of "Lease Land," with the improvements of a hundred years. This point reached and the crisis passed of selling and starting, they soon wended their way by the Erie canal and partly by wagon, with their family of eight children, to this country. Stopping for a short season on Ketchum's Point on the Keuka Lake, they soon purchased what was known as the "Father Townsend farm," on the Lake road, just two and a half miles south of Penn Yan, on lot 50, then pretty well cleared, with a double log house, orchard in bearing, with a narrow front of some fourteen rods on the Lake, and extending west to the next road, with a width to contain 114 acres, for the sum of one thousand dollars. This was 1828. Since, 25 acres has been sold and the balance is still in the family, and by will belongs to the oldest son of his son Peter, he being a namesake of the grandfather. Thus did he practice the odious system of entail, a part and parcel of the tenantry system that he so hated as to flee from at the sacrifice of early home and life long associates. And here did this old couple with their offspring plant themselves and long rejoice in their escape from the thraldom of lease land tenantry. Uncle Jacob was never suspected of having an undue attachment to the labors of the farm, and therefore contented himself to wear out the debt which he incurred in its purchase by the annual wages on hire, of his son Peter, while he and the younger members endeavored to feed and clothe the family from the products of the farm and what could be gleaned from his fishing and hunting recreations. His love for those sports clung to him through life, and nothing suited him better than to share them with his many friends. He therefore spent much time with his gun and skiff; and the old homestead shows to this day the influence of early and long established habits, descending from father to son, in its dilapidated and antiquated appearance, and it must await the promised energies and modernized views of his grandson when he shall come into possession to redeem it from the Van Winkleism of the tenantry system. Uncle Jacob was a man over six feet in his stockings, broad shouldered and rather bony than muscular in his build; his gait was that of a man never in a hurry, and in his hunting excursions he preferred to watch the runway rather than follow the track of the game. On the Lake he rejoiced in still fishing rather than trolling and well did he know the bedding places of the salmon trout and the white fish that so richly abound in the waters of the Keuka. Most heartily did he curse the splashing paddle-wheels of the first steamer that disturbed her placid bosom, for in that, to his prophetic mind was foreshadowed the dispersing of the best schools of his finny pets that he had long fed and bated in certain localities known only to himself, and from which he could promise with great certainty a splendid fry to his special friends on short notice. Penn Yan was a favorite resort and often during the week he could be found of an afternoon seated in a bar room or on the more cheery front steps of some social resort, surrounded by eager listeners as he recounted in his good-natured and rollicking style the adventures of the past, with his predictions of the future, in which would be lost as he verily believed and taught, much of the valuable knowledge of his day and generation. But Jacob Conklin's was not a murmuring spirit--far from it--for he and his good wife Catharine always seemed to think that their lives were cast in happy times and pleasant places, and that they were specially favored. They were therefore always thankful, and their anxieties for those who were to follow them were tinged rather with apprehension than envy. It was here that the mother died leaving eight children, Cornelius, Mary, Peter, John, Hannah, Elias, James and Helen. Uncle Jacob married a second wife, Hannah Anderson, widow of Beecher Anderson, of Jerusalem. She died some five years previous to his death, and he died in 1853, aged seventy-eight years, and with his wives lies buried in the cemetery at Penn Yan. Cornelius married Ann Bevins, at Copake, and preceded his father to this Country, stopping in Potter for a time but finally settling near his father in Jerusalem, where he died leaving six children, Isaac, James, Jacob, Catharine, Cornelia and John, most of whom reside out of the County. Catharine married Osborne Moore, and resides at Kinney's Corners, in Jerusalem. They have two children, Orman and Frederick. John married Jane Stevens, of Milo, and resides there. They have several children. Mary married John Benjamin, of Copake, N. Y., and settled for a time in this Country, but emigrated to Illinois with their family of nine [sic] children, Sally, Porter, George, Emily Catharine, Helen, Adelaide and Mary J. Peter married Lavina Shriner, of Penn Yan. They reside on and have a life interest in the homestead, and have eight children, Jacob, Henry, John, William, Charles, Catharine, Emma and Mary. Jacob, the eldest son, is sole heir by will to the homestead from the grandfather. John died single. Hannah married Jeremiah Conklin, and went to Flint, Michigan, where they now reside and have three children, Walter, Elias, and George H. Elias married Lydia Finger, of Penn Yan, and both are dead, leaving two children, James and Frank. James married Lydia Carr, of Jerusalem, and resides in Penn Yan. They have two sons, Charles O. and William H. Charles married Mary Mantel, of Milo, and resides there. They have one child. Helen married John Whitbeck, of Copake. He died in the hospital of the Federal army in Virginia, and she has since died leaving two children, Foster and Conklin. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Excerpt from HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF YATES COUNTY, NEW YORK by Stafford C. Cleveland published in 1873 in Penn Yan, New York, pages 1063-64 in the chapter on the Town of STARKEY. GAMALIEL D. CONKLIN Was a native of Orange County, and was born in 1791. He was a son of Isaac Conklin and Catharine Van Duser his wife. In the War of 1812 he enlisted in the regular army for five years, and served the full term. In 1817 he came to Phelps, and there married in 1819 Elizabeth, daughter of Moses Ellsworth. He was a chairmaker, and soon after his marriage established a shop at Starkey Corners. After thirteen years residence there he moved to Tyrone, and died there in 1860. His wife is still living. Their children were George, Catharine, William E., Martha J., Aaron B., Joseph G. and Orilla. SAMUEL CONKLIN. Was born in Orange County in 1800, and was a brother of Gamaliel D. Conklin. He married in 1823 Esther, daughter of Robert Ferrier. He was a stone mason and wrought at his trade in Eddytown, where he located soon after his marriage. Some years later he bought a farm on the old Pre-emption line, in the northwest part of the town. There he died in 1868. His wife survives him, at the age of seventy-four, in 1872. Their children were Robert F., Thomas J., Mary Ann, Wilmore and Sarah. Robert F., born in 1824, married Emily A., daughter of David Semans, and is a farmer in Milo, on the Charles Lee farm. [From pp. 987-88: "Emily A., born in 1825, [daughter of David Semans, Jr. of Kent Co., Md., and his second wife, Mary Starkey, sister of John Starkey] married Robert F. Conklin, a farmer of Milo. They have a daughter Frank, wife of Theodore Ross."] Thomas J. born in 1826, married Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Titsworth. They reside on and own the Calvin Huson place near Dundee. Mary, Ann, born in 1828, married John C. Shannon. [From pp. 942-43: "John C. born in 1825, [son of John C. and Anna (Martin) Shannon of Starkey] married in 1847, Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel Conklin. She was born in 1827. They own and reside on his paternal homestead. Their children are Samuel W. and Mary E."] Their daughter, Mary E., is the wife of Lucius P., son of George Wagener. Wilmore, born in 1830, married Amelia Wilcox, of Orange County. They reside in Starkey, and their children are William, Hester and Emma. Sarah, born in 1836, married William T. Beaumont. Henry Conklin, a brother of Gamaliel D. and Samuel, lived many years a bachelor in Starkey, a wagon maker, finally moving west. He was born in 1795. Shadrach, another of the brothers, married Jane Clark of Tyrone, and lives in that town. He was born in 1798. Julia, a sister of these, born in 1807, lives single in Starkey. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Biographical sketch from p. 574 of History of Yates County, New York edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich, D. Mason & Co., publishers, Syracuse, New York 1892 Conklin, Thomas J., one of the wealthiest farmers of Starkey, and a native of Yates County, was born in Barrington, February 20, 1826, a son of Samuel and Esther (Ferrier) Conklin. The parents settled in the county in 1823 and had six children, three surviving: Mary A., wife of John H. Shannon; Sarah, wife of William T. Beaumont; and Thomas J. The parents were members of the Baptist Church of Himrods. The father, who was a stone mason in early life, afterwards a farmer, died in 1868, aged sixty-eight. The mother died in 1890, aged ninety-two. Thomas J. married, in Starkey, April 17, 1853, Mary A., daughter of Martha Titsworth, by whom he had one daughter, Charity, born July 22, 1855. She married December 21, 1876, B. F. Allen, a native of Buffalo, son of Ralph and Sophronia (Jenney) Allen. He was born March 9, 1848. Mr. Allen is largely engaged in the oil and lumber business in Pennsylvania. Mr. Conklin is one of the prominent farmers of Yates County and owns 320 acres of land adjoining . . . [One short sentence continues onto the next page, and part of the page was cut off when I made the copy and it says something about Mr. and Mrs. Conklin making their home with their daughter.] ---------------------------------------------- Bonnie Bunce Aurora, CO email: bmbunce@juno.com ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. 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