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Samuel Dayton

Samuel Dayton

Male 1624 - 1690  (66 years)


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  • Name Samuel Dayton  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Birth From 1 Jan 1624 to 7 Feb 1624  Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Baptism 7 Feb 1623/4  Ashford (St. Mary's Church) , Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6, 7] 
    Gender Male 
    Birth 7 Feb 1624  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening 7 Feb 1624  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Jul 1690  Old Burying Ground of First Prebyterian Church, Southold, Suffolk, Province of New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 5 Jul 1690  Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 5 Jul 1690  {Fire Place (now Brookhaven), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY} Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5, 6, 8] 
    • Many sources suggest that he died at Long Island City, Queens, NY, which is not substantiated and seems very unlikely. He was know to be living "at South" on Dayton's Neck in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, NY on Long Island. It is an example of
    Person ID I13413  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 27 Feb 2024 

    Father Ralph Dayton, >,   b. 1588, Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Sep 1658, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Mother Alice Goldhatch, >,   b. Abt 1587, Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1655 (Age < 67 years) 
    Marriage 16 Jun 1617  Ashford, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 9] 
    Family ID F5854  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Dingle, ^,   b. Abt 1642, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1669, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years) 
    Marriage Abt 14 May 1666  Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 11] 
    Children 
     1. Mary Parsons Dayton,   b. Abt 1667, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Oct 1744, Easthamptom, Suffolk Co, Long Island, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    Family ID F5849  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 May 2025 

    Family 2 Medlen Wilhelmina Harcre,   b. Abt 1623, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1664, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1648  {Southampton, Suffolk, NY} Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7, 12] 
    Children 
     1. Ralph Dayton, <,   b. Abt 1649, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1693, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 45 years)
     2. Samuel Dayton, (ii) <,   b. 1651, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1677 and 1680 (Age 26 years)
     3. Abraham Dayton,   b. 12 Dec 1656, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jun 1726, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     4. Robert Dayton, <,   b. Abt 1654   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Abraham Dayton, ^,   b. 1653–6, {North Sea, Southold, Suffolk, NY} Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 21 Jun 1726, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Jacob Dayton, <,   b. 1657, Southampden, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1705, Cape May, Cape May, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
     7. Caleb Dayton, <,   b. Abt 1659, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Oct 1688, Southhampton, Suffolk, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years)
     8. Daniel Dayton, <,   b. 1661, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     9. Isaac Samuel Dayton, Sr,   b. 10 Sep 1664, Southampton, Suffolk, Colony of New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1715 and 1722, New Haven, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    Family ID F5850  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 May 2025 

    Family 3 Elizabeth Harvey, ^,   b. 1632, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1690, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 59 years) 
    Marriage 1669–1670 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Dayton, ^,   b. Aft 1669, Setauket, Suffolk, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Sarah Dayton, ^,   b. Abt 1670, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F5851  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 May 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Samuel Dayton, born in England, immigrated to New England with his parents and other family members in the first half of the 17th century. They apparently soon migrated to the New Haven colony, then to east end of Long Island—living for a while in Southampton, East Hampton (particularly brother Robert), and Southold (with perhaps brief sojourns elsewhere), before Samuel and family settling in the Town of Brookhaven more or less permanently, first in the founding settlement of Setauket on the north shore in 1668, then as perhaps the first permanent European settler on the south shore on Dayton's Neck in the Fire Place/Bellport area in 1678.

      The exact location of this homestead is unknown; some suggest it was somewhat easterly of modern Bellhaven road, but it could have been closer to the Village of Bellport. That the homestead was in the easterly portion of the neck is also suggested by the granting by the Town of a portion of Tarmen's Neck

      Just before his death, he deeded to two of his daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth, the Dayton's Neck property, with the proviso that his wife was to have it during her lifetime. These daughters no doubt married (their descendents have not yet been traced). The property did not remain long in the Dayton family; Elias Bayles owned it sometime after 24 Feb 1714/5.

      Samuel Dayton's sons removed to Connecticut and the New Haven colony, where they and there descendants had large families and were prominent in the towns of the colony, especially New Haven, North Haven and Wallingford. The Dayton family name seems to have largely disappeared from the local Bellport/Brookhaven area.

  • Sources 
    1. [S13] Long Island Genealogy Surname Database, online [http://longislandgenealogy.com ], http://longislandsurnames.com/search.php?mybool=AND&nr=50&tree=-x--all--x-&mylastname=dayton&lnqualify=contains&myfirstname=samuel&fnqualify=contains&mydeathyear=1690&dyqualify=.
      Samuel Dayton is said to have been the first white resident of Bellport,LI, NY then called Ashford.
      While this source indicates that he was the first European resident of Bellport, NY, more properly he should be considered the first European resident of Brookhaven hamlet. At the time of his residency, both future communities were very sparsely settled. His homestead was situated on the "neck" of land along the Great South Bay which became known a Dayton's Neck. The neck is the next neck eastward of the section then known as Occumbomock, which was to become the village of Bellport.

      I find no source that indicates that Bellport was ever known as "Ashford." On the other hand, the original settlement of what was to become the Town of Brookhaven, situated on the Long Island Sound on the north shore of Long Island, was sometimes called Ashford, but more frequently was called by it native name, Setauket. While Samuel Dayton apparently resided for a while in Setauket, he was far from being an original founder of that community.

    2. [S649] Ancestry.com. Miscellaneous references, Pearce Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12419681/person/27664074.

    3. [S1436] Ancestry.com. Samuel Dayton Biography. Public member story, Samuel Dayton. Submitted by "tuckermuck." http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2064295/person/-1865664339/story/f8da66bc-0c24-467a-8d6c-315eed259d91?src=search, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2064295/person/-1865664339/story/f8da66bc-0c24-467a-8d6c-315eed259d91?src=search.

    4. [S1044] Genealogy information submitted to WMGS by Bobbi Schirado, "Tree: Schirado," members database, Western Michigan Genealogical Society, (http://trees.wmgs.org/index.php: accessed ), ., Accessed; 22 October 2011; http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I26547&tree=Schirado.
      In 1645 Samuel was in New Haven with his father. He lived briefly in Flushing, LI, before he settled in Southampton, where, on 6 May 1648, the town “ordered that Samuel Dayton shall be accepted as an Inhabitant, & hath A fifty pound lot granted unto him provided the said Samuel (being a stranger to us) weare of good approbation in ye place wehre he last lived at Flushing, and do demeane himself well heare for ye time of approbation namely six months next to come.”

      Several accounts of the early Daytons mention a fourth wife “Wilhemina,” by tradition an Indian, but Jacobus could not find evidence for her.

    5. [S28] Osborn Shaw, History of Brookhaven Village: A paper written by Mr. Osborn Shaw of Bellport for the Fireplace Literary Club, and read by him at the Brookhaven Free Library, October 5th, 1933. (Unpublished manuscript (transcription this site). 1933), p. 5. https://brookhavensouthaven.org/historical-sketches/osborne-shaws-history-of-brookhaven-fire-place/#1617950825594-c84d42e9-b73f.
      Dayton's Neck is the next neck to the west.  It lies between the Head-of-the Neck and the Bay and from Fire Place Creek on the east to Dayton's or Osborn's Brook on the west.  It was in later years sometimes called West Fire Place.  The neck was named after Samuel Dayton who on 13 Sept. 1678, had 40 acres laid out to him by the Town in lieu of some other land he did not get in a former allotment.  At the same time he received "another adition of land aloyning to it of the nor est corner from a lot that was part munces where the tarr mens hous stoode", hence it is evident that Samuel Dayton owned a part of both Tar-men's Neck and the neck that bore his name.  However, he did not own the fifteen acre lots with their adjoining meadow shares which extended also along the south of his neck as they did along the south of fire Place Neck as I have previously told you.  Dayton came from Southampton to Setauket and finally removed to his neck here on the South Side, probably about 1678 and from an entry in Book B of the town records, it appears that he gave the name of "West Hampton" to some part of the section.  On 4 July 1690, the day before he died, he deeded his land to his two daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth, with the proviso that his wife was to have it during her lifetime.  He was probably the first white man to live in this section.  Just where his house stood is not known, but it probably was somewhere in the vicinity of Clam Hollow, (which some of you may not know is the name of the hollow east of the George Washington property), possibly even nearer to Bellport and he may thus properly be claimed by both villages.  As the Bellport School District and Fire District boundary line is at Arter's or the Hollow Road, the western part of Dayton's Neck is consequently in Bellport.

    6. [S13] Long Island Genealogy Surname Database, online [http://longislandgenealogy.com ], http://longislandsurnames.com/search.php?mybool=AND&nr=50&tree=-x--all--x-&mylastname=dayton&lnqualify=contains&myfirstname=samuel&fnqualify=contains&mydeathyear=1690&dyqualify=.

    7. [S1044] Genealogy information submitted to WMGS by Bobbi Schirado, "Tree: Schirado," members database, Western Michigan Genealogical Society, (http://trees.wmgs.org/index.php: accessed ), ., Accessed; 22 October 2011; http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I26547&tree=Schirado.

    8. [S1437] , Early Long Island wills of Suffolk county, 1691-1703.: An unabridged copy of the manuscript volume known as "The Lester will book"; being the record of the prerogative court of the county of Suffolk, New York, with genealogical and historical notes ., pp. 55-57.
      By the Honoble Col. William Smith Judge of their Matyes Perogative Court within the County of Suffolk on Long Island in ye Province of N. York in America.  To all whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that whereas Samuel Dayton late of Brookhaven in ye County of Suffolk abovesd Husbandman departed this life the fifth day of July Anno Dom 1690 leaving no Executor & Ralph Dayton ye eldest son of the deceased for certain causes him thereunto justly moving hath prayed that ye administration of the goods & chattels of ye sd deceased may be granted unto him ye sd Ralph Dayton—I therefore by virtue of ye power & authority to me given reposing special trust and confidence in you Ralph Dayton abovesd have nominated constituted & appointed & and be these presents do constitute & appoint you Ralph Dayton abovesd administrator of all and singular goods & chattels & credits of sd Samuel Dayton deceased with full power to ask receive demand & recover all & singular ye goods chattels & credits whatsoever to ye deceased aforesd belonging or in anywise appertaining by all lawful ways and means whatsoever in the first place paying those debts whereby sd deceased stood obliged in ye time of his death as far as ye lawful goods & credits of ye sd deceased may to this Extend, you taking your oath truly to administer the same and to make or Cause to be made a true & perfect inventory of all & singular the goods & chattels debts rights & credits to ye sd deceased belonging which shall or may come to your hands possession or knowledge & further to give a just & true account in & concerning the sd administration before me or such Judge or Judges as may be thereunto appointed at or before the first day of June next ensuing the date hereof.  Witness my hand & seal at Brookhaven this nineteen day of November Anno Dom. 1691

      William Smith

      Thomas Helme Cler.



    9. [S1044] Genealogy information submitted to WMGS by Bobbi Schirado, "Tree: Schirado," members database, Western Michigan Genealogical Society, (http://trees.wmgs.org/index.php: accessed ), ., Accessed; 22 October 2011; http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I26550&tree=Schirado.
      "Ralfe Drayton and Alice Tritton widowe both of this p[ar]ish were mar"

    10. [S1436] Ancestry.com. Samuel Dayton Biography. Public member story, Samuel Dayton. Submitted by "tuckermuck." http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2064295/person/-1865664339/story/f8da66bc-0c24-467a-8d6c-315eed259d91?src=search, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2064295/person/-1865664339/story/f8da66bc-0c24-467a-8d6c-315eed259d91?src=search.
      Abt 14 May 1667

    11. [S1044] Genealogy information submitted to WMGS by Bobbi Schirado, "Tree: Schirado," members database, Western Michigan Genealogical Society, (http://trees.wmgs.org/index.php: accessed ), ., Accessed; November 2011; http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I33136&tree=Schirado.
      14 May 1666 (license) 

    12. [S649] Ancestry.com. Miscellaneous references, Pearce Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12419681/person/27664075.


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