Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settler of Passaic Valley (and vicinity) above Chatham   by John Littell  1852

 

WILLIAM CONKLIN married Ruth Hedges, of Long Island, and removed from there to Basking Ridge, and had children:

1. Stephen, 1st, who married Deborah Dimon; 2. William, 2nd;  3. Abraham;  4. Isaac;  5. Jacob;  6. Thomas;  7. Mary;  8. Ruth.

 

Stephen Conklin  (lst son of William, lst,) and Deborah Dimon, had children:

1. Climena, who married Josiah Ayers, son of Elisha Ayers, of Basking Ridge.

2. Willlam, 3d, married Rebecca Whitaker, daughter of Jonathan, of Mine Brook.

3. Stephen, 2d, married Rachel Liadley, daughter of Benjamin Lindley, Esq., east of Morristown.

4. Ruth, 3d, married Stephen Whltaker, brother of Rebecca, of Mine Brook.

5. Mary, 2d, married John Runyon, son of. Richard, of Long Hill, and went to Ohio.

6. Isaac, 2d, married Comfort Pitney.

7. John married Phebe Mills.

8. Abraham married Jemima Lindley, daughter of Major Joseph Lindley, east of Morristown.

9. Deborah married John Seward, and went to Goshen, New York.

 

CLIMENA CONKLIN, (1st child of Stephen Conklin,) and Josiah Ayers, had Children:

1. Stephen Ayers, the celebrated itinerant Dr. Ayers, so emi­nently successful in curing the Cholera at Montreal, in 1832. He never married.

2. Deborah Ayers, who married Stephen Cave, shoe merchant, of New York.

 

 

WILLIAM CONKLIN, 3d, (2d child of Stephen Conklin, lst,) and Rebecca Whitaker, lived at Basking Ridge. He was a tanner and currier; had a farm, and a tan-yard, and was a Justice of the Peace. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church there. They had children:

 

I. Phebe, born 29th Sept. 1779, and died aged 6 years.

2. Stephen, 3d, born 3rd Feb. 1782, married, January 1807, let, Sally Coriell, daughter of Elias, of Long Hill. He married, 1st, Catherine Tailor, [15th August, 1809, daughter of Wilier Tailor, of Raritan.

3. Jonathan, born 28th October 1783, married Apha Colie, daughter of Daniel, of Springfield.

4. Mary, born 7th October, 1785, married, 6th May, 1809, John Littell, son of Nathaniel, of New Providence,

5. William, 4th, born 23d August 1787, married Ketara Green, and had no children. He married, 2nd, Cornelia, widow of Elias Sturges, and daughter of Thomas Goltra, near Liberty Corner.

6. Joseph, born 28th Nov. 1789, married Viletta Hampton, daughter of James, of Woodbridge.

7. Isaac, 3d, born 24th Jan. 1792, married Sarah Hall, daughter of Richard.

8. Nathaniel, born 5th March 1794, married Emily Halsey Fitch, daughter of Col. Grant Fitch, of Newton, Sussex Co.

9. Sarah, born 2d Oct. 1796, married, in New-York, James S. Rose, and has a son, James Augustus Rose, who married Caroline Drake, daughter of Reuben Drake, near Woodbridge, who lives at Amboy, is a butcher, and has children:

1.     Mary Margaret Rose; 2. Anne Eliza Rose, born 17th Nov 1847.

William Conklin, Esq., died in a fit, in his bark-house, on the 14th February 1803.

 

STEPHEN CONKLIN, (2d child of William Conklin, 3rd, Esq. lived where his father did, was a member end elder in the Presbyterian Church, at Basking Ridge. He subsequently removed to Somerville, where he died and Nov 1849. He and his wife Sally Coriell had a daughter:

I. Sarah, born 15th Dec. 1908, and married Thomas Layton, had a son, Theodore Layton, and died 28d Feb. 1842.

Stephen Conklin, byhis 2d wife, Catherine Tailor, had other children:

2. Wilier Tailor, born 6th October, 1810, who married Emeline Heath, 21st Dec. 1836  daughter of Daniel Heath, and had children:

1.William Wilson; 2, Catherine Jane; 3. John  Tailor; 4. Stephen;

3. Jane, born 15th August, 1815, married John Littell, at the south branch of the Raritan River, Somerset County, and had children:

1. Margaret Sydam Littell. 2. Catherine Elizabeth Littell. 3. Mary Conklin Littell.

4. William, born 11th April, 1818, married Mary Tums, daughter of Charles Toms, Esq., of Somerville, and had children:

1. Harriet. 2. Albert.

5. John Tailor, born 25th Jan. 1821, married Elizabeth Higgins, daughter of Ellas T. Higgins, of Rahway, and had children:

1. Nathaniel.

6. Nathaniel, born 20th Oct. 1823. He graduated at Rutgers' Col­lege, New Brunswick, and became a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and is preaching in Monmouth County. He married, 24th Oct. 1848, Elizabeth Woodruff, daughter of Archibald Woodruff', of Newark, and has children:

1. Catherine.

7. Mary Elizabeth, born 13th August,

 

JONATHAN CONKLIN, (3d child of William Conklin, 3d,) and Apha Colie, had an only child:

1. Mary, born 9th Feb. 1803. He died September. following. Mary married, 31st, Dee. 1848, John Faulks, of Elizabethtown, an Englishman, who died 4th March 1849.

 

WILLIAM CONKLIN, 4th, (5th child of William Conklin, 3d,) and Cornelia Goltra, had children:

1.        William, 5th.

2.        Mary Elizabeth.

3.        James Alonzo.

4.        Stephen, who died 9th July, 1849.

5.        John Littell.

6.        Sarah Agusta.

Note.--Mrs. Conklin, by her first husband, had one son, Elias Sturges.

 

JOSEPH CONKLIN, (6th child of William Conklin, 3d,) and Viletta Hampton, lived several years in New-York, and from thence removed to Woodbridge. He was an elder of tho church there.

They bad children, besides two who died young: 1

1.        Eliza Hampton, born 3d August, _____

2.        Joseph W., born 29th July, _____

3.     Margaret Anne, born 17th Nov., _____

4.     Nathaniel, born 19th Sept. 1832,

 

ISAAC CONKlIN, 3d, (7th child of William, lst,) lived at Basking Ridge; was a shoe manufacturer and farmer. He and Sarah Hall, had children:

       1.ElizhaWhitaker, born 2d August, 1819, and married, 27th March, 1843, Margaret Hibler, born 8th Feb. 1824 daughter,
                of Jacob Hibler, of Danville, Penn. He was a graduate of Princeton College; is now a bookseller in Danville.

      2. Mary Elizabeth.

      3. Emily Halsey, who died at about 16 years.
      4. Oscar.

 

NATHANIEL CONKLIN, (8th child of William 1st,) graduated at Princeton College, and studied theology at the Princeton Semi­nary; became a minister of the gospel, preached some years in Sussex County, from there removed to Coshocton, Ohio; preached there; there his wife died, and he removed to Covington, Indiana; after preaching there several years, he returned, with his children, to New Jersey. He and his wife Emily H. Fitch had children:

1.        Emily Halsey, born 30th July, _______

2.        2. Charles Fitch, born 9th August______

3. Mary Littel, born 12th Jan. 1831, married, 12th Feb. 1850, Capt. Robert Evans, a member of the bar, son of Thomas J. Evans, of Covington, Indiana, and resides there.

4. Millecent Rebecca, born 2d May, _____

5. Nathaniel Whitaker, born 21st December 1885.

 

STEPHEN CONKLIN, 2d, (3d child of Stephen Conklin, lat, son of William,) and Rachel Lindley, had children:

1. Sally, who married the Rev. Aaron Condit, Presbyterian minister, of Hanover, Morris County, as his 2d wife; she had no

children.

2. Betsey, who never married. She was a milliner, and kept a milliners store at Morristown. She brought up and educated several of the children of her brothers, Stephen and Benjamin.

3. Rachel, who died in youth.

4. Stephen, 3d, who ma vied Libby Cook, daughter of James Cook, of Morristown. They lived in New. York, and had children.
        1. Elizabeth, who married in Illinois.
        2. Edgar married in Cincinnati, Ohio.
        3. Henry married in Ohio.

4 James is a lawyer, married ____________, and lives in Springfield, Illinois.

 

          Stephan's wife, Abby, then died, and he married Margaret Dunlap, of Newburg, and removed to Illinois, and had several other children.
          5. Benjamin married Mary Johnson, of New York. He lived in New York; was a grocer; and died there, leaving 4 children:
                1. Eliza, who married John Landen, of  New. York, and died, leaving2 children:

                                1. Marietta Landen; 2. Frederick Landen.
                2. Mary.
                3. Jane Kipp, who married Philip W. Crater, merchant at Morristown, and bad children:   

                                1. Margaret Elizabeth Crater.
                4. Henrietta

 

ISAAC CONKLIN, 2d, {6th child of Stephen, son of William, and Comfort Pitney, had children.

1.        Sally, who married Sineus Baker, of Littletown, Morris County, and had children:

a.        1. Isaac Conklin Baker; 2. Harriet Baker.

2.        Damon, who married Sally NeviIl, daughter of Charles NeviIl, of Basking Ridge, and had children:

1. John Neviil.

3.        Elizabeth, who married Abraham P. Jones, son of Edward of Newark, and had children:

a.        1. Edward; 2. John NeviIl, who died 23rd September 1848, at 3 years.

3.     William.

4.     Charles married, 7th January 1851, Lydia A. Bird.

5,     James;

6.     Frances,

                  

Mr. Damon Conklin died when on a visit to Rochester, New. York, in August 1842. His family lives in Newark.

 

Note:.-- No relation exists between William and Joshua Conklin.

 

 

JOSHUA CONKLIN

 

JOSHUA CONKLIN lived at Williams Farms, near Elizabeth-town. He had children:

 

1.        Joseph, born 29th July 1755, married Miss Crissy, sister of Moses, of Elizabethtown. 

2.        William, born 10th March 1757, married, 6th March 1780, Sarah Halsey, daughter of Joseph.

3.           Joshua, Jun., born 3rd May 1759, married Polly Johnson, sister of John Johnson, New York.

      4. John, twin to Joshua, Jun., married Jerusha Haines.

      5. Sarah, born 16th September 1766, married John Mort.

      6. Abigail, born 26th November 1768, married Mr. __________    Pangborn of Rahway, and by his 2d wife Joshua Conklin had children:
      7. Benjamin, born 28th August 1777, married Mary High, daughter of Jacob, of Sterling Valley.
      8. Keziah Bonnel, born, 12th October 1779, married Mr. Garthwaite, of Elizabethtown.
      9. Temperance, born 2d February 1781, married John Totten, son of David.
     

      Mr. Conklin was accidentally killed by the fall of a tree in the great swamp.
     

 

JOSEPH CONKLIN, (let child of Joshua,) and his wife, Miss Crissy, had children:


      1. James; 2. Joseph,  3. Betsey;  4. Phebe
     

 

WILLIAM CONKLIN, (2d child of Joshua,) and Sarah Halsey, had children:

 

I.                     Sarah Halsey, born 16th June 1781, married William Crane, brother of Captain Isaac Crane, of Chatham, and had four children, three of which died young; the other died at 19 years. 

II.                   William Pierson, born 29th March 1786, married Nancy .8 Crane, delighter of Norris.

III.                  Ahijah, born 24th December 1786, and died 24th Sept.; 1791. 

IV.                 Caleb, born 26th February 1789, married Lucy Hoagland, and died 3d June, 1826; --left no child. 

V.                   James, born 6th February 1792, married, 1st, Susan Vredenburg, and had a daughter Susan; 2d, Lucy French, daughter of Anderson. She had no child. 

VI.                 Ezekiel, born 241h December 1797, married Polly Berry, daughter of Charles, of Long Island.

 

      WILLIAM PIERSON CONKLIN, (2d child of William, son of Joshua,) and Nancy Crane, had children:

 

1.   Sarah Anne, born June, 1811, married, 1829, John M. Dodd, who was born Jan, 1806, and had children

                1. Louisa Dodd, born 15th August, 1829, died 2d February, 1835

2.Sarah Anne Dodd, born 4th July, .832, and died 31st Jan. 1835.

     3. John C. Dodd, born 18th June 1834, died 5th February
4. Elizabeth W. Dodd, born 7th April 1836.
5. Anne Marsh Dodd,  born 19th April 1838.
6, Helen M. Dodd,  born 7th April 1840.

2.Mary, horn 13th June, 1823, and died July, 1823.

3.William, born 16th July 1824, and died July 1824.

 

EZEKIEL CONKLIN, (6th child of William,) and Polly Berry, had children: I. William, who died at 18 years, 2. George;  3. Henry;  4. John;  6. Harriet;  6. Charles

Sarah, the wife of Joshua Conklin, died 17th May 1770.

William Conklin, son of Joshua, died 20th January 1806.

Sarah H., his wife, died 27th August 1802:

William Pierson Conklin, son of William, died 15th September 1836.

James Conklin, son of William, died 21st October 1835.

Ezekiel Conklin, son of William, died 28th July 1821.

Sarah Ann, wife of John M. Died, died 11th April 1840.

 

 JOSHUA CONKLIN, Jun., (3rd child of Joshua Conklin,) and Polly Johnson, lived in Spring Valley, and had children:

1.John Johnson Conklin married Hannah_and had children:

1.        Joshua.

2.        Caleb married Margaret Williams, daughter of Abner, son of Noah, of Long Hill.

3.        William.

4.        Eveline.

5.        Mary, married ______.

6.        Abigail married William Fairchild, of Morristown.
Sarah, or Phebe.

2.Polly married Brooks Sayre, son of Isaac.
3. Phebe, in unmarried.
4.  Benjamin Crane Conklin.
5. Abigail,
6. Betsey married Mr. Miller.

 

 

JOHN CONKLIN, and Jerusha Haines, had children:

1. Catharine, who married Isaac Conklin, son of Isaac, had anon who died in infancy.

2. John married Abby Woodruff; had but one son, who died at t8 years in 1849.

3. Abby married William Garthwaite, son of Jeremiah, and had a son Isaac.

        4. Hannah is unmarried; lives in Elizabethtown,

5. Mary married David Merril, of Staten Island; had no chil­dren.

 

SARAH CONKLIN, (5th child of Joshua,) and John Mott, had children:

  1. Jeremiah Matt, who married Polly Hand, daughter of Benjamin.

       2. Sally Mott married Mr. Smithson.

          3.. Polly Mott married Mr. Smithson, (brothers.)

                               

ABIGAIL CONKLIN, (6th child of Joshua,) and Mr. Pangborn. had children:

 

          1.  Sarah Panghorn, who. Married _____________ and went to the Lakes.

          2. William Pangborn went to the Lakes, end married there.

 3. Isaac Pangborn went to New Orleans, and died there unmarried.

 

BENJAMIN ~ CONKLIN, (7th child of Joshua,) and Mary High, had children:

 

1.        David, who married Lavina Pollard, daughter of Joshua, of Green Village, and had children: 1. Debby Jane;  2. Mary Elizabeth;  3. Benjamin Francis: 4. William;   5. Hannah Mariah.

2.        Deborah married William B. Crane, son of Joseph, Jun., and had children: 1. Elias Crane, 2. Mulford Crane;  3. Jerusha Crane.

3.        James D., went to Ohio, and married, and lives there.

4.        William P. married Harriet Roberts, daughter of Samuel, and had children: 1. Sophia.

5.        Anna, who died at 16 years.

6.        Mary, who married James Weir, of Ohio.