Notes for Ananias CONKLIN: FROM "New York City Wills, 1730-1744", page 434:
"In the name of God, Amen. I, ANANIAS CONKLING, of East Hampton, in Suffolk County, being in health. I leave to my wife Hannah 1 feather bed, a negro man, and 1/3 of household goods, and the use of that part of the house I now dwell in, and 1/3 of all lands and meadows, during her life. I leave to my son, Henry Conkling, all my houses and lands after my wife's decease, and all my right on Montauk and my Commonage; And he shall grind all the grain and bind all the firewood that my wife stands in need of. I leave to my daughter, Bethia Hicks, my great brass kettle and iron pot. To my daughter, Hannah Barnes, my warming pan. To my sons Ananias and Lemuel, 6 shillings each. To my son Nathan, €18. To my son Benjamin, €18. To my son Daniel, €18. To my son Josiah, €18. I make my son Nathan, executor.
FROM "New York City Wills", 1760-1766, page 420: An Ananias Conkling had once owned a meadow (presumably on S.E. Long Island, NY):
"In the name of God, Amen, January 26, 1761. I, ELISHA OSBORN, of East Hampton, being sick. I leave to my wife Elizabeth 1/3 of all movables, as dower, also the use of 1/3 of all lands and meadows ... I leave to my son Zebidee ... 1/2 of my upper woodland in East Hampton, and 1/3 of my right on Montauk, and all the meadow I bought of Annanias Conkling ..."
Children of Ananias CONKLIN and Hannah LUDLAM are:
+Daniel CONKLIN, b. February 16, 1717/18, d. October 26, 1800, Long Island, NY.