Beriah Dayton (1674 - 1746)

Born 1674 in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Miller) Dayton — married 1677 in Hampton, Charlotte, New York

Descendants

Died 30 Apr 1746 at about age 72 in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York

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Biography

Beriah Dayton was born in 1674 at East Hampton, Suffolk, New York^[1]

He wrote his will on 18 April 1746, he identified his wife Jane, sons: Jeremiah, John, Beriah; and daughters: Rachel Dymond, Martha Brown, Esther Brown, Marah Conkling, and Jane who was single.^[2]

Beriah died on 30 April 1746 and was buried at South End Cemetery, East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York.^[3]

Children of Beriah

1. Rachel bapt. 8 Dec. 1700 married John Diamond, or Dimon or Dymond.
2. John bapt. March 1702 married (1) Joanna Parsons and (2) Abigail Parsons.
3. Maria bapt. 1704 married Mr. Terrill.
4. Martha bapt. 13 May 1705 married David Brown.
5. Beriah bapt. 23 Oct. 1708 married Susannah Sanford.
6. Esther bapt. 14 June 1713 married Sylvanus Brown.
7. Jeremiah bapt. 22 April 1716 married Mary Conklin.
8. Jane bapt. 5 June 1720 died unmarried.
9. Mary bapt. 10 March 1723 married Cornelius Conklin.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Author: Dayton, Edson C. Title: Record of a Family Descent from Ralph Dayton and Alice (Goldhatch) Tritton Publication: Name: Privately Printed; Location: Clifton Springs, New York; Date: 1931; Page: p. 78
2. ↑ Beriah Dayton Record of Wills, 1665-1916; Index to Wills, 1662-1923 (New York County); Author: New York. Surrogate's Court (New York County); Probate Place: New York, New York
3. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 60114643 Beriah Dayton
4. ↑ Virgil W. Huntley. John Huntley, Immigrant of Boston & Roxbury, Massachusetts and Lyme, Connecticut 1647-1977 and some of his Descendants. Books I, II, III. 1978, 1993, 1996. Vol. 1. p. 7. Material from the books used with written permission of the author. Collection of Phil Smith.

See Also

• Jacobus, Donald Lines,. The early Daytons and descendants of Henry, Jr.. New Haven, Conn.: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1959. Available at Ancestry.com.
• Woodruff, Ceylon Newton. Woodruff Chronicles (Arthur H. Clark Co., Glendale, California, 1967)
• Lee, Francis Bazley. Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910)
• Seversmith, Herbert Furman. Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut (Washington, D.C., 1939) Vol. 2, Page 882
• Harris, Edw. Doubleday. Ancient Burial-Grounds of Long Island, N.Y., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1900) Vol. 54, Page 305
• Howell, George Rogers. The Early History of Southampton, L. I., New York, with Genealogies, 2nd ed. (Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany, 1887) Page 230
• Ackerly, Orville B., Early Easthampton Wills. Abstracts from New York Surrogate's Office, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1901) Vol. 55, Page 202.
• Hedges, Henry Parsons. Records of the Town of East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk Co., N.Y. (J. H. Hunt, Sag-Harbor, 1905) Vol. 5, Page 582. Death record.