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(The Conkling Line).
Isabella Conkling, wife of John S. Huyck, was of the sixth generation from Annanias Conklin (Conkeline), an early settler on Long Island, New York.
(I) Annanias Conklin and his brother are mentioned in Savage's "Genealogical Diction- ary" as being early settlers of Salem, Massa- chusetts. Annanias was made a freeman at Salem, May 18, 1642. This meant that he was. of lawful age and a member of the church, none others being allowed to vote or hold office. He had three children baptized at Sa- lem. In 1650 he removed to East Hampton, Long Island, his brother John going farther down the island, settling at Southold, where he died. An old gravestone reads: "Here lieth Captain John Conkelyne, born in Not- tinghamshire, England, and died at Southold, Long Island, April 6, 1794, aged 64 years." This establishes the English home of the fam- ily, although Annanias the elder may have been born in some other part of England. An- nanias had children mentioned in East Hamp- ton and Salem records: Lewis, Jacob, Eliza- beth, all baptized at Salem. Those mentioned at East Hampton are Jeremiah, the ancestor
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of Roscoe Conkling, United States senator from New York, married Mary, daughter of Lion Gardiner ; Cornelius : Benjamin ; a daugh- ter, wife of George Miller: and Hester, who was six and one-half years old when her fath- ·er died in November, 1657.
(II) Benjamin, son of Annanias Conkling, died in 1709. He married Hannah Mulford. Children: John, Eliakim, Benjamin (2), An- nanias.
(III) Annanias (2), son of Benjamin and Hannah (Mulford) Conklin, married Han- nah Children: I. Bethiah, bap- tized January 1, 1701 ; married Joseph Hicks. 2. Henry, of further mention. 3. Nathan, bap- tized January 27, 1705-06; married Phoebe Parsons. 4. Annanias (3), baptized August 15, 1708; married Mary Miller. 5. Samuel, baptized February 27, 1711 ; married Clemens Parsons. 6. Lemuel, baptized April 5, 1713. 7. Benjamin, baptized December II, 1715: married Sarah Parsons. 8. Hannah, twin of Benjamin, married Isaac Barnes. 9. Daniel, baptized February 16, 1718. 10. Josiah, bap- tized July 23, 1721. New York Wills, vol. 13, page 568, mentions all these children except Samuel. Will was probated August 26, 1740, son Nathan, executor.
(IV) Henry, son of Annanias (2) and Han- nah Conklin, was baptized February 22, 1702. He married, November 5. 1724, Mary Jones. (The old family Bible at Rensselaerville, New York, contains her name). Children : Henry, baptized November 28, 1725. 2. Jede- diah, baptized September 24, 1727. 3. Jane, baptized December 6, 1730. 4. Edward, bap- tized August 27, 1732. 5. Mary, baptized December 22, 1734. 6. Daniel, of further men- tion. 7. Lucretia, baptized May 6, 1739. 8. Elizabeth, baptized July II, 1742. 9. Hannah, born November 11, 1744.
(V) Daniel, son of Henry and Mary ·(Jones) Conkling, was baptized at East Hantpton, Long Island, April 24, 1737, died at Rensselaerville, New York, September 25, 1816. Revolutionary war records at Wash- ington show that he served as a private in Captain Edward Dunscomb's company of the Fourth New York regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Wissenfels ; also designated as Captain William Jackson's com- pany, same regiment; also as Captain Benja- min Marvin's company, First New York regi- ment. ITis name also appears on the rolls, November 21 to September 5, 1777, and on the following rolls to December, 1780, with re- marks : "Appointed Corporal December I, 1778", New York State revolutionary archives state that he was made ensign, September 13, 1775, of Fourth Company, Second Battalion,
Suffolk county militia. Daniel settled in Rens- selaerville, New York, where he died. He married (first) Abigail Parsons. Children : I. Daniel (2), of further mention. 2. Josiah. born 1770, died May 8. 1835. 3. Mary, mar- ried Daniel Dayton. 4. Henry, settled at Johnstown, New York. 5. Abigail. He mar- ried (second) Hannah Hutchinson. Children : 6. Samuel, born September 5. 1789, died No- vember 10, 1818. 7. John T., born at East Ilampton, April 2. 1792, died at Rensselaer- ville, October 10, 1875 ; married Tirza Stone, born in Colerain, Massachusetts. 8. Clarissa, born June 14, 1795, died December 9, 1821 ; married Thomas Lloyd.
(VI) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) and Abigail (Parsons) Conkling, was born at East Hampton, Long Island, July 19, 1765, died at Rensselaerville, New York, January 27, 1833. He married, February 16, 1791, Isabella Lusk, born February 19, 1771, died April 18. 1846, daughter of Thomas Lusk, of Stockbridge. Children: 1. Juliana, born May 6, 1792 ; mar- ried Henry Stone. 2. Daniel (3), born Janu- ary 9, 1794, died January 15, 1871 ; married Harriet Hubbell, of Bennington, Vermont. 3. Thomas L., born October 9. 1796, died June I. 1852: married Frances M. Hackley. 4. George, died in infancy. 5. Herod, born April 28, 1800, died March 18, 1847: married Wealthy Hubbs. 6. George C., died in in- fancy. 7. Guidon, born September 1, 1803, died May 8, 1874 ; married Caroline Tremaine. 8. David. born January 7, 1806, died Decem- ber 26, 1881 ; married (first) Almira A. Wat- son : (second) Caroline A. Clark. 9. Albert, born January II, 1808, died December 3. 1878; married (first) Harriet Hills, (second) Amelia Mills, (third), Sarah Ann Palmer. 10. Isabella, born July 9, 1809. died April 11. 1874; married John S. Huyck (see Huyck VIII) II. Abigail, born March 25. 1811, died July 13, 1876; married William F. Bulkley. 12. Eliza- beth, born November II. 1812, died January 21, 1833. 13. Margaret, died in infancy.
(The Niles Line).
(I) Emily H. (Niles) Huyck descends from the Niles family of Rhode Island. The first of her ancestry to settle in New York state was Nathaniel Niles, born in Rhode Island, died in Otsego county, New York, aged eighty-eight years. He continued his residence in New England until after his mar- riage and the birth of several children, when he removed to Dutchess county, New York, where he was a farmer. He lived in Dutchess county until his children were grown and settled in homes of their own. When he grew old in years he went to Otsego county, New
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York, with his son Nathaniel (2). When eighty years of age he made the trip from Otsego county to Coeymans, Albany county, coming the entire distance of eighty miles on horseback to visit his son Henry. He mar- ried Martha Nathaniel was a member of the Society of Friends and the Bible which contains the family records has the name entered in their form. He was born 25, 2 mo., 1728; died 2, 2 mo., 1816. Martha, his wife. born 24, 2 mo., 1729 : died 12, I mo., 1820. Children: William, born 14, 12 mo., 1753 : Freelove, born 25, 5 mo., 1755 ; Abigail, born 14, I mo., 1757; Elizabeth, born 24, 5 mo., 1759; Henry. of further mention ; Jane, born 15. 5 mo., 1763; Nathaniel, born 16, 8 mo., 1765. Jane married Willet Casey in Dutchess county. Being Quakers, they were much molested for their peculiar beliefs and leaving Dutchess county removed to Canada, locating at Adolphustown on the bay of Quinte, where they became wealthy and influ- ential. living both to a good old age and founding a family. Nathaniel (2) lived for a short time at Coeymans, Albany county, New York, then settled in Otsego county, New York, where he purchased land and lived the remainder of his days. ' He died after 1832. He married and bad children: Jane, born 15, 12 mo., 1788; Hannah, born 27, 12 mo., 1789: William, born 21, 6 mo., 1791 ; Freelove, born 8, 9 mo., 1792 ; Gulielma, born 25, I mo., 1794: Lydia, born 24, II mo., 1795: Alpha, born 16, 4 mo., 1799; Mary, born 30, 8 mo., 1803; Martha, born 8, 6 mo., 1805 ; Hanson, born 21. 4 mo., 1807 ; Abigail, born 26, 9 mo., 1808.
(II) Henry, son of Nathaniel and Martha Niles, was born probably in Rhode Island, 20th day, 5th month, 1761. The inscription on his tombstone in Coeymans burying ground reads: "In memory of Henry Nile who died December 18, 1812, aged 51 years, 8 months and I day." He removed to Otsego county with his father, but did not long remain there. He lived in Dutchess county until after his marriage, then settled in the town of Coey- mans, Albany county. New York, where he died. He married Hannah Hicks, a cousin of Elias Hicks, founder of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends. Her grave- stone in Coeymans reads: "In memory of Hannah Niles who died January 22, 1827, aged 61 years, 5 months, and 29 days." Chil- dren: 1. Henry, a farmer lived and died in Coeymans where he married and had Henry (2). Annie, married Noble H. Johnson. 2. Nathaniel (3), a farmer, lived in Coeymans, died in Albany, New York, aged eighty-five years. His only son John died comparatively
a young man, leaving Nathaniel (4) and John, the former a lawyer of Albany. 3. Samuel, a farmer, moved in early life to Rensselaerville, Albany county, New York, where he lived and died on the same farm at the great age of ninety-five years. He had seven daughters, who all married well-to-do farmers and had homes near or within a few miles of the old homestead. His sons Henry and Luther both had farms near by. 4. William, removed to Canada, where he sat as a member of the Dominion parliament. He was a miller and a farmer, living near a small hamlet called Nilestown. His children were Henry, Ste- phen, Nancy and Martha. 5. Sarah. died at the advanced age of ninety-two years. She married a farmer of Coeymans, Peter Van Alstyne; removed with an only son and two daughters to Palmyra, New York, where hier grandson, Pliny Sexton, is a wealthy banker. 6. Stephen, removed to Canada, was twice married and had children: Elizabeth, Cather- ine, William F., Nathaniel, Stephen P., Jane Ann, Letty, Miriam, Matilda and Sarah. 7. Martha, married Reuben Stanton, of Greene county. New York : removed to Ionia, Michi- gan, where she died very old. Children : Reu- ben, Hamilton, George and Rufus. 8. Han- nah, married Jacob Tompkins, a farmer of Rensselaerville, Albany county, New York, where she died at age of ninety years. Her children were all farmers or wives of farm- ers. 9. Lydia, married Abram Searles, a farmer ; removed with a large family to Well- ington, Prince Edward's District, Canada, where she died very old. All her children were farmers except Niles, who came to the States at age of eighteen; studied law at Cherry Valley, New York : went to California in 1849; settled in Nevada City, California, where he became a leading mining lawyer and one of the most prominent jurists in the state. He was district judge, state senator and one of the commissioners of the supreme court of California and later was elected chief justice. With the exception of the last mentioned son of Lydia Searles, the men of this family have all been farmers in good circumstances. 10. John, of further mention. The first two gen- erations mentioned were members of the So- ciety of Friends, but later generations have departed from that faith.
(III) Hon. John Niles, son of Henry and Hannah (Hicks) Niles, was born in Coey- mans, Albany county, New York, but removed early in life to Rensselaerville. where for a few years he followed the occupation of a tanner. He was well educated and studied law, and was admitted to the Albany county bar. He was supervisor
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many years, and later county judge. He was often employed to settle difficulties be- tween landlords and tenants on the Van Rens- selaer estate and transacted other legal busi- ness. After his admission to the bar, he con- fined himself entirely to the law, practicing in the various courts of New York. He was an able lawyer, of a high order of intelligence and a character beyond reproach. His great influence in the county was always exerted for good and never to promote selfish pur- poses. He died in 1872, aged seventy-five years. He married Mary (Polly) Cook. Children: 1. Laura F., died young. 2. Cor- nelia D., married (first) William W. Allen, (second) Alvin Devereux, of Deposit, New York, whom she survives, a resident of Al- bany. 3. Mary C., married Chief Justice Niles Searles, of San Francisco, California. 4. Ad- dison C., a graduate of Williams College, class of 1852, studied law with Increase Sum- mer, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and Judge Rufus King, of Catskill, New York ; settled in Nevada City, California, and be- came judge of the supreme court, later re- moving to San Francisco. His only son, Ad- dison Niles, is an artist in New York City. 5. J. Hamilton. 6. Charles M. 7. Henrietta, died young. 8. Emily Harriet, married Fran- cis Conkling Huyck, whom she survives, a resident of Albany, New York (see Huyck IX).
The ancestry of Judge In- INGALSBE galsbe, of Hudson Falls most notable. It leads on both the paternal (until 1910, Sandy Hill), is and maternal sides to the early Puritan set- tlers of New England, and through them to a long array of distinguished and royal ances- tors in England and on the Continent, which have been traced along different lines for more than a thousand years. He married Franc E. Groesbeck, of Dutch, English and Quaker de- scent, so that in their son, Grenville Howland Ingalsbe, mingled the blood of the Swede, the Dane, the Saxon, the Frank, the Norman, the Welsh, the Hollander, the Englishman and the Quaker.
(I) Ebenezer Ingoldsby (Ingalsbe) was born February 10, 1730, in the vicinity of Bos- ton, Massachusetts. lle married Susanna Robbins, born October 18, 1729. They had fourteen children. He was an English soldier in the French and Indian wars as private, en- sign and second lieutenant, under the name of Ebenezer Ingoldsby. He was with Sir Wil- liam Johnson and Lyman at Lake George in 1755; with Amherst and Wolfe at Louisburgh in 1758, with Amherst at Ticonderoga in 1759
and with Haviland to Montreal and at the. surrender of Canada in 1760. He then set- tled as a farmer in the north parish of Shrews- bury, Massachusetts, where he held various. positions of trust, including that of justice of the peace. At the breaking out of the war of independence he changed his name to. Ingalsbe. He was a sergeant of the minute- men upon the Lexington alarm, became cap- tain, and after arduous service in the North- ern Department was discharged November 29,. 1777, with his health permanently impaired. All of his sons who were of military age, Ebe- nezer, Jr., John and Joseph, served in the con- tinental army. In 1790, having been preceded by several of his sons, he moved to Hart- ford, New York, where he died August 17, 1802. His wife died September 17, 1804. He. was the great-grandson of John Ingoldsby, who emigrated from Lincolnshire, England. to Boston in 1640, and became a freeman or voter in 1642. John Ingoldsby was of the thirteenth generation from Sir Roger In- goldsby, Knight, Lord of the Manor of In- goldesby in the county of Lincoln, England. In England and in America the Ingoldsbys have been of warrior blood. They were prom- inent in the civil wars, and were the adher- ents and among the closest confidants of Oliver Cromwell. In America they were par- ticipants in various of the Indian Border wars, including that of King Philip.
(II) Aaron, fifth son of Ebenezer Ingals- be, was born at Boylston, Massachusetts, June 10, 1765; married Polly Hicks, born Jan- uary 5, 1773; was one of the pioneer settlers. in Hartford, New York, in 1780, and died January 17, 1850. His wife died January 4, 1853. They had eleven children.
(III) James, eldest son of Aaron Ingalsbe, was born in Granville, New York, July 18, 1789. He married, December 8, 1813, Fanny Harris, born August 26, 1795, and settled in Kingsbury, New York. In a few years he moved to Hartford, where he became a sic- cessful farmer and an influential citizen. He died December 3. 1880, and his wife died May 17, 1868. They had five children. Fanny (Harris) Ingalsbe on her paternal side was of the fifth generation from Thomas Harris, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1636, and his wife, Martha (Lake) Harris, who was the daughter of John Lake, a descendant of the Lakes of Yorkshire, England, deriving their descent through a long royal line from Pip- pin of Heristal, Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian Kings. On her maternal side she was of the sixth generation from Thomas Tracy, who was born in 1610, and' who emigrated to America in 1636, settling in:
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Salem, Massachusetts, removing to Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1639, and to Norwich, in 1660, and taking a prominent part in civil and mili- tary affairs. He was the son of Sir Paul Tracy of the Manor of Stanway, who was created a baronet by King James I, and a descendant on his father's side through Al- fred the Great, from Ecgberht, King of the West Saxons, and Lord of all England, and on his mother's side through Sir Thomas Lucy, of Warwickshire, from the Emperor Charlemagne.
(IV) Milo, eldest son of James Ingalsbe, was born in Kingsbury, New York, May 29, 1818. From 1820 until his death, Novem- ber 29, 1893, he resided in Hartford, New York. On June 5, 1842, he married Laura Cook Chapin, born August 21, 1817, in Chi- copee, Massachusetts. They had one child. Laura Cook (Chapin) Ingalsbe, on her father's side was of the seventh generation from Deacon Samuel Chapin, one of the founders of Springfield, Massachusetts, whose statue, by St. Gaudens, in that city, represents the typical Puritan. The Chapins were of Welsh ancestry. On her mother's side Laura Cook (Chapin) Ingalsbe was of the seventh generation from Henry Cook, who emigrated from England, and was a freeholder in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1638, and of the third gen- eration from Samuel Cook, who after various short terms of service in the patriot army, during the revolutionary war, with the Con- necticut troops, became a member of Captain Warner's company, January 1, 1777, and served throughout the war, receiving his dis- charge, January 1, 1781. He settled in Gran- ville, New York, and in 1793 moved to Hart- ford, New York, where he died.
Milo Ingalsbe early distinguished himself as a student. When sixteen years of age he commenced teaching, meeting with great suc- cess. Later he attended the Castleton Acad- emy in Castleton, Vermont, winning the highest rank. In 1840-41 he took a course in medicine at the Albany Medical School. When in Albany a fine position as teacher was offered him, in the present middle-west, carry- ing great opportunities for advancement, and he chose teaching as his life work, but his father urged him to return to the farm to as- sist in the education of his younger brothers. As a result he renounced a career which would have resulted in a high measure of suc- cess. He did not repine. Wherever he was, whatever he did, he was born to be a leader. For many winters he continued to teach. He became, successively, school inspector and school superintendent of his town. He was a staunch supporter of the public school sys-
tem and of the free district library during their early and critical days. He was a lover of good literature and sought, by the circula- tion of such periodicals as the Cultivator, the New Yorker and the Tribune, and later Har- per's Magasine, and the Atlantic, to all of which he was a subscriber from their first issues, to raise the standard of public intelli- gence. He was district clerk of his school district for fifty years. Mr. Ingalsbe never sought public office, but he was a justice of the peace of his town for several terms and was its supervisor during the years of the civil war, and upon him fell largely the burden of filling the quotas and adjusting the accounts of the town. A large portion of his time was thus occupied during the last years of the war, without compensation, but the town quota was always full, its accounts were un- impeachable, while the burden of war taxa- tion was not only reduced to a minimum, but was entirely removed, while war prices for farm products prevailed. The war over, and the town's war debt paid, he declined a fur- ther nomination for supervisor, and while often besought by his fellow citizens, per- sistently refused to allow his name to be used as a candidate for any district or county office.
In the early forties he assisted in the or- ganization of the Washington County Agri- cultural Society, and his name appeared on its official lists for over fifty years. For twenty years he was its secretary. He held the office of president for several terms, and for the twenty-eight years preceding his death was a member of its board of managers. Af- ter holding various subordinate positions in the State Agricultural Society he was chosen a member of its executive committee. He held this position five years, and in 1871 was chosen president. He continued as a member of the board of managers until 1876. The ad- dress, which according to custom he delivered upon his retirement as president, was widely circulated, and for beauty of diction, breadthi of thought and masterly grasp of the agricul- tural situation will remain a classic among the agricultural addresses of the time. Upon the establishment of the Bureau of Agriculture in 1860 he became its correspondent in Wash- ington county, and he continued to act in that capacity until his death. For forty years he was the conveyancer, the drawer of wills, the pacificator, and the legal adviser of his neigh- borhood, and he bore the test of this confi- dence so truly that almost the entire town was his clientele.
He was a master of a pure and forcible lit- erary style. He prepared a large number of addresses and monographs upon educational,
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historical, biographical, meteorological and agricultural subjects. At the time of his death he had matured plans for the preparation of a local history, for which his remarkable mem- ory, wide acquaintance with men and affairs and large stores of collected material especi- ally fitted him.
The keynote of Mr. Ingalsbe's life was contained in his utterance only a few hours before his death, "I have always tried to stand close by the nearest duty. I have known no other way." The rich fruitage of such living was revealed in that other remark made by him, in the presence of death. "I do not know as I have a grudge against any one."
(V) Grenville Mellen, only child of Milo and Laura Cook (Chapin) Ingalsbe, was born in Hartford .. New York, July 26, 1846. He studied at home under his father's personal instruction until he was fourteen. During the next four winters he attended the district school, and then spent a year at the Fort Ed- ward Collegiate Institute. In 1866 he entered Union College as a junior in the class of 1868. He remained in college only a year, but his record was such that in 1870 the college con- ferred upon him, in course, his Bachelor's, and three years later his Master's degree. For three years, commencing in 1867, he was the principal of the Argyle Academy at Argyle, New York. He was a student with his stu- dents, was deservedly popular, and placed the school in the front rank of country academies. In 1870 he resigned the principalship and commenced the study of law with the firm of Hughes & Northup in Sandy Hill. Up to this time he spent his vacations working on the farm and his love of farm life has always re- mained intense.
After a year of unremitting office study, he entered the Harvard Law School. There he performed two years work in one, graduat- ing with honor as a Bachelor of Law in the class of 1872. During this year he formed a wide acquaintance in Boston and vicinity and took courses of lectures in History under Samuel Eliot, Natural History under Louis Agassiz, Life and Living under Ralph Waldo Emerson, and pursued the study of botany under Asa Gray, and of literature and Ger- man under equally illustrious masters. Im- mediately upon his graduation he re-entered the law office of Hughes & Northup, this time as managing clerk. This was during the presidential campaign of 1872, and he flung aside the most flattering prospects of political preferment to aid the cause of his personal friend, Horace Grecley.
Mr. Ingalsbe was admitted to the bar in 1874, and in 1875 he opened a law office in
Sandy Hill. In 1874 he was elected secre- tary of the Washington County Agricultural Society, a position which he held for four years. During this time the field of the So- ciety's operations was more than doubled. the prize list was revised, the premium number system was introduced, which has since been adopted by all well-managed societies; Me- morial Hall was erected, the attendance at the annual fairs was largely increased by the addition of legitimate attractions, and the in- debtedness of the Society was reduced nearly four thousand dollars. Upon his retirement the Society showed its appreciation by elect- ing him a life councilor. In 1875 he was elected clerk of the Village of Sandy Hill, a position which he held, with the exception of one year, till 1894, when he resigned. In 1877 he was appointed a justice of the peace and was twice elected, retiring after nine years of service, as the office interfered with his pro- fessional work. In 1885 he was elected su- pervisor of his town and was twice re-elected. During his last year as supervisor he was chairman of the board. As supervisor he was an uncompromising reformer and an unspar- ing critic in the direction of economy and faithful public service. When first elected he had vigorous opposition at the polls. Upon his first re-election he had no opponent, at his second re-election he received the nomination of both political parties, and at the expiration of his third term he was offered by both par- ties a further unanimous renomination. He refused, however, to hold the office longer, as his law practice and other personal interests engrossed all his time. In 1894 he retired from all official work to devote his energies wholly to the practice of his profession, and to his various business enterprises and society activities.
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