Harmon Lefferts (1730 - 1799)

Born 8 Nov 1730 in Jamaica, Queens, New York

Descendants

Died 10 Aug 1799 at age 68 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

BP: 1730 Dec. 20 Jan Hagewout & Margriet Hagewout....harreme [[Harmen??] Jan Waldrom, Raghie Waderom. ^[1]

Harmon Lefferts married Mary Huggins (stepdaughter of John Titus) around 1755, and established residence in Oyster Bay, near Cold Spring Harbor.

Children

1. Adam (1756-1831), m. 1/8/1783 Rebecca Conklin. Only one surviving daughter attested, Rebecca (m. Moses Rogers). Lived in Huntington.
2. James (1757-1818), m. 8/19/1780 Mary Walters, apparently without issue. Married 2nd Elizabeth Cornish abt. 1793; many children.
3. Titus (1759-aft. 1830), m. 8/3/1783 Sarah Doughty. Lived on the family property in Oyster Bay.
4. Margaret (abt. 1762-?), m. Downing
5. John (1765-1839), m. Charlotte Conklin. Had sons Gilbert C. (1789-1831) and George (aft. 1790-bef. 1829), who both apparently left no surviving male issue. Had daughters Mary, Experience (m. Platt Rogers), Charlotte (m. Hawley Bunce Rogers), and Naomi.
6. Samuel (abt. 1767-1838), m. Anna Fowler. One daughter, Martha, survived to be her parents' sole heir; she did not marry.
7. Mary (abt. 1769-1801), m. James Fowler (brother of Anna Fowler).Removed to Georgia with her husband and died there. Had daughters Eliza (m. Russell Comstock) and Lydia (m. Henry Baldwin).
8. Henry (1771-1844), m. Ruth Sammis (many children).
9. Leffert (abt. 1773-1828), m. Sarah Van Benthuysen (many children).
10. Abigail (abt. 1774-1862), m. Henry Titus (many children).
11. William (1779-1808), m. Rebecca Stevens (likely two sons).

Harmon Lefferts had a second marriage after 1790, to Esther Townsend, widow of William Thorne; she was evidently of Quaker provenance. This marriage had no issue, and Esther died in Charlton, NY in 1841; her tombstone identifies her as Harmon Lefferts' widow. ^[2]

(NOTE: The author himself has supplemented and emended his original text!)

Harmon removed to Guilford, CT, likely before his sixty-third birthday, when the will of Joseph Ireland of Huntington was proved. He had witnessed the will on Dec. 31, 1784, but did not prove it with the other witnesses.

Father: Jan Lefferts aka Lefford Hagewout 1683-1773 Mother: Margarieta Boerum 1691- ^[3]

9 May 1759 Baptisms at Oyster Bay of their sons Adam and James and Mary as an adult wife of Harmon Lefferts are recorded in "Adventures for God : a history of St. George's Episcopal Church, Hempstead, Long Island. " ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptismal record of the First Reformed Dutch church at Jamaica, Long Island, New York ... 1702 to .. (1912) Author-: Jamaica, N.Y. First Reformed Dutch church. [from old catalog]; Frost, Josephine C Volume: 1 Publisher----: Brooklyn, N.Y. pg. 85
2. ↑ http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lefferts/57/
3. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/99490/person/2040921879/facts
4. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/20639/dvm_LocHist006748-00151-0/279?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/99490/person/2040921879/facts

• Haughwout, Lefferd Merle Alexander, A Chart-Genealogy in Eight Generations of the Lefferts-Haughwout Family (New York, 1903)

• Findagrave #61367170

Acknowledgements

Brad McNellen's genealogical database, compiled from family and public records