Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III
Waddell-Smith Family
Francis Filkin, born, Flatbush (now Brooklyn), New York, October 24, 1704, was long one of the prominent merchants and magistrates of New York City. He received the commissions of a Judge and a Justice in Dutchess county, New York, in 1733, and resided there until 1748, when he removed to New York City. He was an Alderman from the South Ward, New York City, 1752 to 1769, and from the Dock Ward, 1770 to 1773; and one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace in New York City, as early as 1754 (New York Gazette, No. 573, January 21, 1754); he was the sixth of ten children of Lieut. Col. Henry Filkin, of the Colonial Wars, born May 26, 1651, and his wife, Catryina Vonck, born March 9, 1669-70, and died 1758 (daughter of Cornelius Vonck and his wife, Madeline Rixe or Hendricks, of Southampton, Long Island--see Howell's Southampton, new Ed., p. 440; also N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record, July, 1903), both of Flatbush before 1684. Henry Filkin was member of Assembly for Kings county, 1693-96; Justice of the Peace, 1693; heads the list of census of Flatbush, 1698, as of English descent (Bergen's "Register Early Settlers Kings Co., Long Island"); Lieutenant Colonel, Kings county regiment (Cal. Hist. MSS. N. Y. lvi, p. 47); one of the Trustees of Flatbush (ibid li, p. 118); Sheriff Kings county (ibid lxxiv, p. 177); Elder in Reformed Dutch Church, Flatbush, etc. (Stile's Hist. Brooklyn 1, 179). He was also one of the grantees of the "Great Nine Partners" patent in Dutchess county, granted in 1697 to Caleb Heathcote, Henry Filkin, etc., "nine men of wealth and high social standing" (P. H. Smith Hist. Dutchess Co., p. 129). He died October 24, 1713, will dated September 22, 1713, recorded Lib. 8, p. 273, New York City.