Jeremiah Conkling

Abt 1634 - 1712  (~ 78 years)

• Name	Jeremiah Conkling  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt Feb 1634  [3]
  Baptism	Feb 1634	Oldswinford, Worcestershire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Mar 1712	East Hampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York   [4]
  Burial	East Hampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York   [4]
  Person ID	I38954	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Ananias Conklin,   b. Abt 1605   d. Between 7 Apr 1657 and 5 Oct 1657, East Hampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York (Age ~ 52 years)
  Mother	Mary Launder   d. Bef 1659
  Marriage	23 Feb 1631	St. Peter's, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F22867	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Gardiner,   b. 30 Aug 1638, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 15 Jun 1727, East Hampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1658  [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Conkling,   b. 20 Aug 1658   d. 14 Jun 1743, East Hampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York (Age 84 years) + 2. Capt. Cornelius Conkling,   b. 1664   d. 30 Oct 1748 (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F22864	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2025

  
  

• Notes

  His marriage to a daughter of Lyon Gardiner, the lord of the manor of Gardiner's Island, jumped him up several levels of social status. He reinforced this by skillful land acquisitions and the holding of many public offices. Conklin Mann's 1944 article (citation details below) contains this revealing passage: "He and his brother Benjamin set in motion the system of nepotism by rotation in civil offices that the East Hampton Conklings practiced most successfully for well over 100 years. Among his sinecures was that of 'sweeping the church' which he received well over a pound annually for more than 30 years in which he was succeeded by his son Cornelius for an equally long period. Since slaves appeared in the family at an early date, one wonders if either of them ever touched hand to broom for actual performance of the work."

  
  

• Sources

  [S6866] East Hampton History: Including Genealogies of Early Families by Jeannette Edwards Rattray. Garden City, New York: Country Life Press, 1953. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S6755] John C. Brandon and Janet Ireland Delorey, "Lawrence1 and Cassandra (Burnell) Southwick of Salem, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 71:193, Oct 1996. [S6870] Conklin Mann, "The Family of Conckelyne, Conklin and Conkling in America." The American Genealogist 21:48, 21:133, 1944.