Ananias ‘the Glassblower’ Conkling

Ananias Conkling

• Birth: before 1607, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England
• Death: between 7 Apr and 05 Oct 1657 East Hampton, Suffolk Co., New York, burial unknown
• Brother of John ‘the Glassblower’ Conklin
• m 1) Mary Launder, 23 Feb 1630/1 d [date and burial site unknown]
• m 2) Susan , ca 1639 07 12 month 1650 First Church of Salem d [prior ca 1652]
• m 3) Dorothy ( ) Rose, [between 1652-54] m 1) Robert Rose of East Hampton d [by 10 Jun 1652]

Ananias & his brother John were the first glassblowers in the New World. Ananias Conklin migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Family

Ananias Conkling was born in 1610 at Kings Swineford, Stratfordshire, England. [He was the son of William Conkling and Ruth Hedges - not proven]. Ananias Conkling married Mary Launder on 23 February 1629/30 at St. Peter's Church, Nottinghamshire, England. Ananias Conkling died on 1 October 1657 at East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States. He was buried in 1657 at Old South End Burying Ground, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States.

Children of Ananias Conkling and Mary Launder

1. Mary Conkling b. 11 Dec 1631, d. a 1653. Married George Miller.
2. Jeremiah Conkling+ b. 1634, d. 14 Mar 1711/12. Married Mary Gardiner.
3. Cornelius Conkling b. 1636, d. 21 Mar 1667/68. Married Mary.
4. Benjamin Conkling+ b. 1 Feb 1637/38, d. 3 Feb 1708/9. Married Hannah Mulford.

Child of Ananias Conkling and his 2nd wife, Susan

1. Lewis Conkling bap 30 Apr 1643 dy

Child of Ananias Conkling and his 3rd wife, Dorothy

1. Hester b abt 1654 d. 2 Oct 1716. Married Samuel Mulford.

Source: http://www.stonehouse.ca/tree/p456.htm

From http://longislandgenealogy.com/Conklin%28G%29.pdf (a less modern interpretation)

The children of Ananaias Conkling were: Jeremiah, Cornelius, Benjamin, Lewis, Jacob, Elizabeth, Hester who married George Miller, and perhaps Joan.

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The Family of Conckelyne, Conklin and Conkling in America - Conklin Mann - The American Genealogist, July 1944, V. XXI, N.1, pp. 48-58.; Oct 1944, V. XXI, N.2, pp. 133-147 - Page 53:

Children of Ananias Conckelyne and Mary Launder: MARY, "Mary daughter of Annyas Konklyn and Mary his wife, baptized 11 Dec. 1631." Kingswinford Parish Register; JEREMIAH, b. ca. 1633, g.s. EmIt Hampton; CORNELIUS, b. say 1635/36, remained at Salem, Mass. Benjamin b. say 1637/1638: LEWIS, bap. 30 Apr. 1643, Salem, d. y. He may have been a son of a second wife, Susan ______. Child of Ananias Concklyne and Dorothy Rose: HESTER, b. ca. 1654, m. Capt. Samuel Mulford, d. 24 Nov. 1717, ae. 63.[2]

Biography

Ananias Conklin (1600-1657) & Ann Launder (1600-1657)

Ananias Conkling b: 1607 - a glassmaker in King Swinford, Co. Stafford - Emigration:(bet) 03Jul1637-25Apr1638 - Eng-Mass & Mary (Susan) Lavender (Lauder) - b: 1614 a spinster of St. Peter's Parish d: Nov1657 in Salem, Ma
Annanias worked as a glassmaker in King Swinford, County Stafford, England when he married Mary Lauder, a spinster of St. Peter's Parish in Nottingham, England. The marriage is recorded in that church on February 23, 1631. Their first son, Jeremiah, was born in 1634. Between 1634 and 1636 Ananias, his brother John, and their families came to America and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. It is believed that Mary Lauder died in Salem (now Peabody), although her grave has not been located. Her death was probably between 1638 and 1639 after the births of Cornelius and Benjamin but before Ananias's marriage to Susan in 1639. Ananias and John were granted house lots in Salem in June 1638.The following info taken from various books on early American glass. In 1638 Lawrence Southwick, a Quaker, and Obadiah Holmes formed a partnership to build the first glass factory in New England with Ananias and John Conkling, practical glassmakers. Each were granted land adjoining their homes for the glass house

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Ananias Conkling was made a freeman at Salem, May 18, 1642. He removed to East Hampton, in 1650; and his brother John, to Southold, where he d. in 1694, aged 64. (Savage's "Gen'l Dict.," I. 441) It is probable that this Ananias was the one who m. Feb 23, 1630 - 1, Mary Launder. (Register of St. Peter's, Nothingham, Eng.) Ananias 1 removed to East Hampton, in 1650. Probably he did not tarry long in Southold. We follow, for the most part, the N.Y. Gen'l and Biog'l Rec., 27, I52; which is condensed in Hedges "East Hampton," pp. 251-253. Ananias 1, d. in 1657, had: Jeremiah 2, b. in 1634, m. Mary, dau. of Lion Gardiner, d. Mar. 4, 1712; Cornelius 2, no dates given; and Benjamin 2, m. Hannah Mulford, d. in 1709. (Refugees of 1776 from LI to CT)

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Ananias Conklin (1) Concklin/Concklyne/Concline

Removed to America between 03 Jul 1637 (OLDS) and 25 Apr 1638 granted land in Salem (MANNJUL44).
Marriage license, Nottingham -"23 Feb. 1630/31, Annanias Conckelyne of Kings Swinford, County of Stafford, glasse maker and Mary Lander, Parish of St. Peter's Nottingham spinster : at St. Peter's (bond by John Concklyne of Nuthall glassmaker)" (MANNJUL44)

Citations

• A chronicle of everyday people : being as far as can be obtained the American ancestry of George Schuyler Gardiner and his wife, Catherine Larison Marshall, with their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren born before 1929, Catherine Marshall Gardiner, [S.l.] : UMI; out-of-print books on demand, [199-?]. Book #929.273 G168gc, 17, Cornelius Conkling, son of Ananias and Mary Launder Conkling, born in Salem, Massachusetts, died 21 Mar 1668 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.

Links

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LKV5-P31
• http://longislandgenealogy.com/index.shtml [copied 1/4/2004]