18750.Thomas Cornell. Born ca 1653. Thomas died in Portsmouth, RI on 11 Oct 1714.247
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1673, witness at his father’s trial.
1678, March 24, Thomas of Portsmouth conveys to George Lawton land in Dartmouth.
1679, settled with Lake his mother’s dower.
1681, Thomas, eldest brother of Edward of Hempstead, conveys deed to Gatchell.
1683, May 2, at the General Assembly held for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at Newport (Major Peleg Sanford, governor), Thomas Cornell was Deputy from Portsmouth.
1687, Dec. 13, ‘At a General Quarter Sessions and Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden in his majesty’s name at Newport, R. I., King’s Province, etc., Thomas Cornell and four others refused to take the oath in court when called thereto, all being returned by the sheriff to serve on the grand jury, fined 6 shillings and 8 pence.’
1688, Thomas and wife, Susannah, convey to R. Cadman (who m. Sarah Almy, daughter of Christopher Almy), land in Dartmouth joining Samuel and Stephen Cornell. Samuel of Dartmouth, and ‘my cousin (nephew) Thomas of Rhode Island,’ settled boundry disputes.
1696, Thomas and Susannah convey to son George ‘two parsells of land’ in Portsmouth, one being 28 acres called the Surkit, or Circuit, the other 12 acres joining the ocean.
1696, May 5, at the General Assembly for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, held at Newport (Mr. Walter Clark, governor), Thomas Cornell, Jr., admitted freeman of the colony by vote of the Assembly. (Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, Vol. III., p. 121, 311.)
1699, Samuel of Dartmouth, will, appoints executors Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, and ‘my cousin George Cadman of Dartmouth.’
1704, May 2, at the General Assembly held for the Colony of Rhode Island, etc. (Major Samuel Cranston, Governor), ‘Mr. Thomas Cornehill, Jr.,’ was Deputy.
1704, March 5, gives deed to Thomas Olney and others for 36 acres on or near Linten's Plaine in the precincts of Newport. The original deed was one of the records of Newport which was sunk in Hellgate.
1705, May 2, at a General Assembly and election held at Newport (Samuel Cranston, governor), Thomas Cornell, Jr., was chosen justice-of-the-peace for Portsmouth. (Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, Vol. III, p. 523)
1706, May, at the General Assembly for the Colony of Rhode Island, etc. (Col. Samuel Cranston, governor), Thomas Cornell, Jr., was Assistant, i.e., Senator.
1726, Governor Thomas Cranston's will gives to two sons of my deceased son Samuel, viz.: Samuel and Thomas, 300 acres in East Greenwich. They having had estate bequeathed to them by their grandfather Thomas Cornell.
Ca 1673 Thomas married Susannah Lawton, daughter of George Lawton (ca 1607-5 Oct 1693) & Elizabeth Hazard (-8 Nov 1711). Born say 1654. Susannah died in Portsmouth, RI on 9 Dec 1712.
18752.Stephen Cornell. Born in 1656 in Portsmouth, RI.247
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1673, Witness at the trial of his father Thomas.
1686, freeman.
1688, grand juror, Portsmouth.
1716, Stephen and wife Hannah to son William, and in 1755 William to son Caleb, deed of the former homestead of his father, Stephen, deceased, in Dartmouth.
1723, John Cornell buys from William Cornell land in Dartmouth. 1726, division, and 1724 William and John Cornell, C. Gifford and J. Duval, division. These three deeds suggest that William and John were brothers; Gilford and Duval were brothers-in-law, and that their father had died. In that case Stephen had two daughters not found. Stephen Cornell witness of Mial Pierce's will, dated 1764, was his brother-in-law. The will of Samuel^2 Cornell (son of Thomas^1), date 1699, names three children only, but it was not proved till 1715, in which interval he may have married again and had other children, and some authorities place this Stephen as son of Samuel. But I find no records warranting me to place Stephen otherwise than son of Thomas^2.
Stephen married Hannah Mosher, daughter of Hugh Mosher (12 Jun 1632-bef 7 Dec 1713) & Rebecca Maxson (3 Feb 1638/9-between 29 Dec 1707 and 25 Feb 1707/8). Born on 9 May 1673 in Dartmouth, MA. Hannah died after 23 Jan 1716/7.
18753.John Cornell. Born say 1660 in Portsmouth, RI. John died in Queens County, New York in 1704.
From The Genealogy of the Cornell Family:247
1673, witness in his father’s trial.
1680, among the rate payers of Hempstead were John Cornwell, 50 acres, £40, and Edward Cornwell, £60.
1684, Hannah, wife of John Cornwell, sued by Winefred Thorne for defamation of character, non suit.
Census Queens Co., 1698, John Cornwell, (wife) Hannah. Children: John, Elizabeth, William, Edward.
1689, Richard Cornell of Rockaway, and wife Elizabeth, convey to ‘John Cornell, our cousin (nephew), living in Success,’ 50 acres near Success; part east on road from Hempstead great plains — supposed land of his (John’s) brother, Edward.
1701, he buys from Daniel Whitehead 60 acres east of the path from Hempstead to Madnams (Great) Neck.
1705, survey of 100 acres south of the plains for John of Success.
1715–26, John Cornwell, vestryman of St. George's Church, Hempstead, also John Cornwell, Jr.
1738–42, John and John, Jr., petition for charter of the church. (This is doubtful, as the family of this John does not much figure in the church records.)
John married Hannah. Hannah died in Hempstead, Nassau County, New York on 23 Oct 1725.
Hannah may have been the daughter of Jeremiah Smith. From The Genealogy of the Cornell Family:247
Jeremiah Smith’s will, 1725, names his eldest daughter Hannah, who d. leaving daughters Elizabeth and Ann, also his second daughter Elizabeth Cornell, who had daughters Elizabeth and Hannah. It does not clearly appear who these were, for it is hardly probable that the father of John Cornell's wife was living in 1725.