John Sammis

John Sammis is believed to have come to Huntington among the earliersettlers, by way of Southold. Both he and Nathaniel Williams were in1672 part owners of number one of ten farms, besides holding otherproperty in huntington. John married second , Mary Cornish, the widowof John Cory, Abigail's brother. The Will of John Sammis, dated 28 Nov16 93 proved 3 Jan 1694, names his wife Mary., his daughter in lawMartha Cory (also step daughter) his children John, Silas, Deborah,David, Isaac, Jerimiah, and Hanna. (Jerimiah and Hannan were probablythe children of Mary) He also mentions his brothers in law Abraham andIsaac Corey, Richard Bruch and Nathaniel Williams.

"Old Times in Huntington"
Congress seut Gov. Patrick Sinclair, a British prisoner, to the com-
mittee of Huntington, to keep, in August, 1775, at an early period ofthe war, before Long Island fell under British rule. He was boarded bythe committee, while at Huntington, at the house of Capt. John Squiersas a prisoner on parole. He had two servants with him. Capt. Squiers'bill for his board from Aug. 1775 to March 28, 1776 was £50, 10s, 7pand belonging to William W. Wood, adjacent to the Mill. That localitywas then known as "John Brush's Landing." He kej^t the Mill. Therewere also two farm houses in " Mutton Hollow " occupied by theConkling and Sammis families. On the West Neck road, there lived JesseBrush,
William and John Haviland, Alexander and Jesse Sammis,
Henry Titus, Joseph Conkling, James Long, Jonas Sammis,
Augustin Sammis, Jolm Sammis* and his son Nathaniel,
James Rogers and his son Charles, Ebenezer Gould, and
others. At Cold Spring, there resided Alexander Rogers,
Zebulon and Isaac Rogers, John Morgan, Richard and Hen-
ry Conkling, William James, Zachariah Rogers, Zebulon
Titus and son, Daniel Hendrickson and his son John, Israel
and Abiel Titus, Jonas Rogers and his son Jacob, and nume-
rous others. In and near the village proper, known as the
" Town Spot," there lived Ebenezer Brush, son of John
Brush, the miller, Timothy Conkling, Alexander Denton,
Abel Conkling, Silvanus Chichester, Amos Piatt, Thomas
Conkling, Jeremiah Wood, Peleg Wood, William Place,
Conkling Ketcham, Israel Ketcham (Quaker),- John Wil-
liams and Gilbert, (sons of Justice Williams,) Hubbard
Conkling, Nathaniel Williams, Silas Sammis, and his sons,
Phillip and David, Benjamin Gould, Ananias Conkling,
David Conkling, Henry Sammis, Ezra Conkling John Sam-
mis, William Ward, Timothy Sammis and his son Scudder,
Jacob Brush! and two sons, John Wood, John Wheeler
and his sou John, and numerous members of the Jarvis and
Piatt families.

The original founder in Huntington ot the Sammis family, whose
descendants are very numerous in this Town was John Sammis, who had agrant of land made to him, lying at the head of Cold Spring Harbor.His descendants settled m various parts of the Town, notably on
West Neck, and in the '•' Town Spot."

John Sammis had a homestead at West Neck, where
his descendant John Sammis resided as late as 1880.
He was the common ancestor of the Sammis family in
Huntington. He is believed to have come via Southold,
among the first settlers. The name is spelled in old
papers Sammons, Samivays and Samis. The first John
married a daughter of John C. Corey. His children
were John, Isaac, Silas, Jeremiah, David, Deborah and
Hannah. From http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028834848