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Photographs of the images found in
"Portrait and Biographical Record of Suffolk County" 1886
All the information printed here is also found within that book.

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Judge James H. Tuthill
Born: February 19, 1826, Wading River, NY
Died: January 18, 1894
Married: Maria F. Foster, daughter of Herman D. and Betsey (Woodhull) Foster on January 16, 1850.

Daughter: Ruth H. Tuthill

Father: Capt. Nathaniel Tuthill
Mother: Clarissa (Miller) Tuthill

Ancestors settled Southold, NY, 1640

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Hon. Henry P Hedges
Born: October 13, 1817
Died:
Married: Gloriana Smith, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Smith on May 12, 1843
Gloriana died February 1, 1891, he married Mary G. Hildreth February 23, 1892, the children were all products of his first marriage.
Son: Samuel O
Son: Edwin Died 1881
Son: William


Father: Zephania Hedges Born: December 1768 Died: September 16, 1847
Mother: Phebe P. Osborn Born: October 12, 1781 Died March 12, 1864
Brother: Thomas S. Born: February 22, 1810
Brother: Edwin Born: December 29, 1811
Sister: Maria P Born: August 13, 1815
Brother: Jeremiah O. Born: August 29, 1819
                                                          Sister: Phebe P Born: August 23, 1822



Of English decent, William Hedges immigrated to East Hampton , NY in 1639
William Hedges
Son of William: Stephen Hedges
Grandson of William: Daniel Hedges
Great Grandson of William: Daniel Hedges Jr.



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Samuel B. Nicoll M.D.
Born: May 31, 1825, Flushing, Queens County, Moved to Shelter Island when he was 7 years old.
Married: Hannah M. Mulford of Sag Harbor, 1865
Maggie Duncan, Died 1892
Johanna Nicoll, married on: May 15 1894

Father: Samuel B. Nicoll
Mother: Sarah (Payne) Nicoll

Paternal Grandfather Samuel B
Early settler of New York. 
Served as Supervisor of Shelter Island.

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Hon. Wilmot M. Smith

Born: March 21, 1852, Hauppauge, NY
Married: Lizzie L. Mott, daughter of Alfred C. Mott ( Patchogue, Good Ground(Hampton Bays)) She is an accomplished musician in vocal and instrumental.
Daughter: Ethel
Son: Wilmot M.
Daughter: Elsie
They lived on Ocean Avenue in Patchogue.
Father: Moses R. Smith (Islip)
Mother: Mary H. Wood (Smithtown)
Maternal Grandfather: Theophilus Wood, Southampton
Maternal Great Grandfather: Theophlius , Southampton
Both grandfathers enlisted in the Revolutionary War.

His paternal ancestors were among the first to settle the island, and Smithtown was named for one them.
 
He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Suffolk County

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Edwin Forrest Preston, M.D.

Born: April 19, 1841, Patchogue, NY
Married:  Lucilla O. Gillette (lived in Patchogue) December 1, 1864, she died while he was employed at the Mexico Academy of Oswego County, January 25, 1865
Married: Ermina McRoberts, of Brooklyn.
Daughter with Ermina: Maud
Lived in Amityville, NY

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Capt. George F. Tuthill

Born: February 4, 1830, East Marion, LI
Married: Hannah M. Webb, Daugher of David D. Webb, Greenport
Daughter: Anna M Phillips married to Frank L. H. Phillips her children are Ella and Georgiana
Son: G. Frank. he married Helen M. Case of Elgin, Ill his child is Hattie
Son: David W who married Zora Young of Greenport
Father: James G. Tuthill, East Marion, LI Born March 25, 1803 Died: October 26,1871
Brother: B.C. Tuthill
Half-Sister: Louisa N, Born May 27, 1838, she married George Cartwright of Shelter Island and died two years after her marriage.
Half-Brother: Samuel J, Born: May 27, 1838, Died: May 11, 1839
Half-Sister: Lucinda A. October 13, 1840 married Nathaniel Skilenger, East Marion
Grandfather: Samuel Tuthill, Olean, NY
Uncles: George, Harmon and Maxon Tuthill
Great Grandfather: John Tuthill, Southold, NY
Ancestors settled Southold and were originally from England.


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Hon. Nathen D. Petty
Born: January 6, 1842, Good Ground (Hampton Bays)
Married: Cornelia Raiman, on January, 29, 1865, her father is William Raiman (Newtown, LI)
Son: Charles W.
Son: N. Orcutt
Son: Raiman


Father: Charles Petty, Moriches, Died: December 28, 1876
Mother Harriet Dickerson, Red Creek, LI  her father is John Dickerson, they have English ancestors.
Sister: died in infancy
Brother: died aged 9 years

His ancestors are of English decent.

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Daniel Terry Latham

Born: September 3, 1815, Orient

Married: Lydia Webb, born February 22, 1817 her father was Silas Webb of Cutchogue born December 22, 1777, Died: December 27, 1851 in Greenport her mother was Melinda Sherrill of East Hampton she was born January 18, 1786, died in Greenport February 13, 1867

Daughter: Lydia Born: march 5, 1840, married Thomas D. Fordham
Daughter: Fannie W. died at three years of age
Son: Edward Webb, born May 23, 1847
Son: Rev. Frank Terry, born November 29, 1849
Son: Howard Sherrill, born April 28, 1852
Daughter: Emma B, born April 27, 1855
Son: Arthur Daniel, born November 15, 1860
Father: Jonathan F, Born: May 233, 1779, Groton, CT, Died: April 5, 1853
Mother: Mehitable (Terry) Born: January 11, 1790, Died: September 24, 1838
Brother: Moses Andrew
Sister: Rhoda Tuthill
Sister: Mrs. Daniel Lyon, CT, now deceased
Paternal Grandfather: Joseph Latham "Uncle Joseph" born in CT
His ancestors resided in New England

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Jonathan B. Terry

Born: may 26, 1831, Southold
Died: 1875

Married: Martha J. Corey, she was born July 28, 1833 her father was John O. Corey, he was a soldier in the War of 1812.
Daughter: Minnie E.
Daughter: Carrie C, wife of Rev. Daniel H. Overton, their child is Jonathan Terry
Father: Albert B. Terry, born, 1800 in Orient
Paternal Grandfather: Jesse Terry, Died: February 3, 1831
Paternal Grandmother: Hannah Brown (they had eight children)
Paternal Great Grandfather: Jonathan Terry

Mother: Ester T. Barnes born October 4, 1803 in Amagansett, died, July 28, 1879 she had three brothers: Charles, Erastus, Jonathan.

Brother: William L., died when he was 16, in 1844.
Brother Jonathan B.
Brother: Benjamin H. Soldier in the Civil War.

Original settlers of Long Island, originated in England

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James H. Doxsee

Born:  July 31, 1825

Married: Almira Smith (Islip, NY)
Son: Henry married Carrie Peters (of Poughkeepsie )in 1873 they had five children: Charles O., James H., William H., Mabel and Helen
His son Milton and the other two died in infancy

Second wife: Almira Smith Jennings, she is the daughter of Henry S. Jennings, their children are John C., Robert Lennox, Frank Cooper, Sarah Elsie, Elmira Bell, James H., Frederick Allen, Grace Eliza, Anna Jennings

Father:  Archelaus Doxsee, born August 31, 1778 moved to Islip when he was a boy.
Archelaus's first wife was Phoebe Ruland they had Moses, Henry, Mary, Charlotte and Pheobe
Archelaus's second wife was Sarah Smith, she lived to be nearly 82 years old her son from a previous marriage was Whitman. they had four children, James, Elsey 
                                                            C. Cook of Brooklyn, Phoebe and Scudder

Proprieter of Doxsee's Pure Little Neck Clam Juice

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Hon. Benjamin Reeve

Born: March 11, 1857,Mattituck, NY

Married: Carrie M. Young, lineal descendant of Rev. John Young, first pastor of the Southold Presbyterian Church.
Daughter: Ila Frances
Son: Frank Youngs, died in infancy
Son: Harry Huntting
Son: John Youngs
Father: Thomas H. (only child)
Mother: Eliza Francis Tuthill her father was Silas Tuthill, her brothers were Seymour H. and Warren L.

Sister: Ila F., died in 1877, in her teens
Brother: died  infancy
Brother: William Betts, born 1870
Great Grandfather Benjamin Reeve, Soldier in the War of 1812 

Grandfather: Harry
Grandmother: Betsey Clark, she is a granddaughter of John Clark of Franklinville, NY who was a soldier in the Revolutionary and French and Indian War

His early ancestors settled Southold, were originally from England, near the Welsh border. They say the name is of Welsh origin. The paternal linage seems to be: Thomas Reeve, Luther, Thomas, William, Benjamin, Harry, Thomas, Benjamin 

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William A. Hulse, M.D.

Born: June 27, 1858, Brooklyn


Married: the daughter of Rev. D. O'Ferris
Daughter: Hilda Louise
Daughter: Cornelia
Father: Van Buren Hulse
Mother: Frances Wells
Sister: Josephine, wife of Dr. Schofield
Brother Freeman

Supervisor of Islip town.

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George F. Stockpole
Married: Mary A. Hayes on July 28, 1886, daughter of Caleb and Harriet Hayes of Castle Creek, Broome County, NY Mary graduated Valedictorian of her class at Oswego Normal School.  

Daughter: Syrena H
Buried three sons

Great Grandfather: Absalom Stackpole Born abt 1750 in South Berwick, enlisted in the Revolutionary War when he was 27. Died 1849 in South Berwick, ME

Grandfather: Samuel Stockpole, born in 1780, settled in Lebanon, York County, ME died there in 1854.

Father: Isaac Stackpole, born, Lebanon, ME 1806, died 1866 had six children, George is the eldest son.

George was the Principal of the Union School in Riverhead
His ancestors came from England and settled South Berwick, ME


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William Conklin Albertson
Born: June 22, 1850, three miles east of Southold at their homestead "Arshamomoque"

Wife: Jennie Wells (Bergen County, NJ; her parents were Thomas and Mary (Brower) Wells (Thomas is a direct descendant of William Wells of LI, NY) (M. October 2, 1879)
Son: W. Corey
Son: Storrs Lester
Son: Albert Wells

Father: William Albertson
Mother: Lucy S. Vail (Southold), married on October 11, 1842 she died October 12, 1873

The name Albertson is of Dutch origin, and appears frequently in the early settlers of New Amsterdam in farming towns in Kings County.

Ancestors: William, born: November 27, 1726,died: April 17, 1764, married Mary Parker (B: October 10, 1731,D: December 21, 1821) daughter of Dr. John Parker; William (the eldest son) B: December 21, 1752, first wife was Polly Halsey, second wife was Sarah Conklin (B. June 27, 1755 D. December 25, 1756) daughter of Capt. Joseph Conklin. She married William 14, 1780 (There is more, but space here is limited, please email me if you are interested in more information)  

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Timothy M. Griffing
Born: November 22, 1842, Riverhead

Father: Hubbard Griffing B. 1792, Riverhead D. July 5, 1863
Mother: Polly Miller (Miller Place) b. May 31, 1806 d. September 30, 1895

Wife: Caroline A. Perkins
Son: Frederick
Daughter: Grace
Daughter: Angeline 
Daughter: Mabel
Son: Robert

Grandfather: William Griffing, Riverhead, B. March 18, 1770 D. October 6, 1848

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Harry G. Clock

Wife: Jennie P. Woodend (Huntington, NY) daughter of Dr. W.D. Woodend.
Son: Herbert Woodend

Father: Lorenzo D. Clock (Islip, NY)
Mother: Eliza J. Jarvis
Sister: May


Ancestors are of Holland- Dutch decent.

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Benjamin K. Payne

Born: April 10, 1828, Wading River

Wife: Mary A. Bishop, married on November, 1852 her father was Hiram Bishop, she died August 31, 1857
Daughter: Mary Adelaide (Terry)

Married: Ellen Doane, died January 13, 1888
Son: passed away at just over a year old.

Father: Hallock Payne
Grandfather: John Payne
Great-Grandfather: John Payne
 Great- Great Grandfather: John Payne (Southold, NY)

Payne family was originally from England, settling in Salem, MA in 1637, Thomas Payne was probated in 1650, his sons were Peter and John- they settled in Southold 

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Capt. Marcus B. Brown

Born: February 7, 1817, Orient
Wife: Cynthia A. Taber, m. 1840
Son: David
Son: John

Father: Capt. John Brown
Great-Grandfather: Walter jr
Direct decendant of Richard Brown, born in England, immigrated in Watertown, MA then Southold, NY, he died October 16, 1655

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Capt. Albert M. Darling

Born: May 11, 1840, Smithtown Branch

First Wife: Sarah d. 1881
Son: William Furman
Son: Albert M. JR
Second wife: Jennie M. (Mills)
Son: Harold Raymond
Father: Albert
Mother: Tabitha Hart

Grandfather: George (Nantucket, MA)
Great Grandfather: Capt. John Darling (North of Ireland)
Maternal Grandfather: Lemuel Hart


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