We have a cross generation mix-up here. This Nathaniel Baker does not belong with Abigail Baker who is already shown married to the correct Nathaniel Baker, Nathaniel Baker
Hi, I inherited the tree from "Underwood" when it was abandoned, so I don't really know anything about it. But I've found a source for the Baker family and I'll try to match the tree with it: https://books.google.com/books?id=woQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA244
Thanks, Private User--great source find! It seems to suggest we've got the children of Abigail Baker and her Nathaniel mixed up with children born to another Baker in NJ. At least, as I read the text, the Nathaniel married to Abigail Conkling (who the text calls Nathaniel 5) had a son Nathaniel with his first wife, Esther Osborn, and 10 children with Abigail C, Daniel b.2/3/1767, Ananias b. 8/27/1768, Mary b.1/13/1771, Esther b. 5/11/1773, Abigail b. 3/15/1775, Catherine b. 3/30/1777, Hannah b. 4/22/1779, Henry b. 7/29/1781, Sophia b.4/26/1784, and Elizabeth b. 7/20/1786. These are not the same children currently listed for these parents. Also the dates are off. I think we are looking for the Nathaniel the Baker book calls Nathaniel 4, about whom it gives no further info. I'll do some poking around to see if I can figure any of this out, but currently, what we have is clearly wrong.
According to this, Abigail Conkling, b.3/3/1721 had only 4 children living (the first Nathaniel died), Nathaniel, b.1746 who married Rachel Clark, Abigail b. 1742, Lewis, B. 1751, and Daniel b. 1755. https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=dha...
Then there's this: http://longislandsurnames.com/getperson.php?personID=I04284&tre... Several entries for Abigail b. 3/3/1721 indicate she married Nathaniel Baker of Elizabethtown, NJ, so that family must have moved away from LI after their first children were born.
I think the correct record should be: Jeremiah Conklin[g] b. 1634 m. Mary Gardiner b. 1638 (dau. of Lion Gardiner) to son Lewis Conklin[g] b. 1672 m. Mary Stratton (remove Mary Bishop) and had nine children as shown here: http://longislandsurnames.com/getperson.php?personID=I13087&tre...
Their daughter Abigail b. 3/3/1721 m. Nathaniel Baker and moved to NJ. The children shown here http://longislandsurnames.com/getperson.php?personID=I04284&tre... seem to be correct. 1. Nathaniel Baker, b. Sep 1741, d. 9 Nov 1741, Westfield, Essex County, NJ [natural]
2. Abigail Baker, b. 29 Nov 1742 [natural]
3. Nathaniel P. Baker, b. 25 Feb 1745/46, Westfield, Essex County, NJ d. 13 Mar 1799, Westfield, Essex County, NJ (Age 53 years) [natural]
4. David Baker, b. 29 Nov 1748 [natural]
5. Lewis Baker, b. 15 Aug 1751 [natural]
6. Moses Baker, b. 1753, d. 10 Oct 1758, Westfield, Essex County, NJ (Age 5 years) [natural]
7. Daniel Baker, b. 2 Oct 1755 [natural]
8. Mary Baker, b. Abt 1757 [natural]
9. Phoebe Baker, b. 23 Nov 1759 [natural]
According to the LI surnames, there was another Abigail Conklin[g] b.1748, dau. of Ananias Conklin[g] who married another Nathaniel Baker. This is Nathaniel Baker 5 shown in the Baker book, I believe, as the children appear to be the same as shown in th Baker book. I may have moved some children around erroneously as I tried to figure this out, for which I apologize, but I think this is now correct. Can you fix?
Here is what the LI surname database has for Ananias b. 1672, father of Abigail b. 1748.
http://longislandsurnames.com/getperson.php?personID=I02529&tre...
Father: Ananias Conklin, b. Abt 1672, East Hampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY , d. 1 Mar 1740, Amagansett, Suffolk Co., LI, NY (Age ~ 68 years)
Mother: Hannah Ludlam, b. Abt 1676, Southampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY , d. 10 Jun 1752, Amagansett, Suffolk Co., LI, NY (Age ~ 76 years)
Ananais b. about 1708, christened 8/15/1708
m. 2/5/1732 East Hampton, LI, NY
Mary Miller, b. Abt 1708, East Hampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY , d. 6 Dec 1750, East Hampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY (Age ~ 42 years)
Children:
1. Benjamin Conklin, b. 14 Dec 1735, East Hampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY , d. 6 Jun 1764, Amagansett, Suffolk Co., LI, NY (Age 28 years)
2. Ludlow Conklin, b. Abt 1737, East Hampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY , d. 16 Mar 1754, Amagansett, Suffolk Co., LI, NY (Age ~ 17 years)
3. Hannah Conklin, b. Abt 1741, East Hampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY
4. Ananias Conklin, b. Abt 1746, East Hampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY
5. Abigail Conklin, b. Abt 1748, East Hampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY , d. 8 Oct 1814, Amagansett, Suffolk Co., LI, NY (Age ~ 66 years)