Family of Thomas CORNELL and Rebecca BRIGGS

Husband:	Thomas CORNELL (1595?-1655)
Wife:	Rebecca BRIGGS (1600?-1673)
Children:	Thomas CORNELL (1627-1673)
	Sarah CORNELL ( - )
	Rebecca CORNELL (1629-bef1713)
	Ann CORNELL ( - )
	Richard CORNELL (1625?-1694)
	John CORNELL (1637?-1704?)
	Joshua CORNELL ( - )
	Elizabeth CORNELL ( -1708)
	Samuel CORNELL (bef1642-bef1715)

Husband: Thomas CORNELL


	Thomas CORNELL, "1606_UnionFlag"

Name:	Thomas CORNELL ¹
Sex:	Male
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1595 (app)	Essex County, England ²
Occupation		innkeeper ²
Death	1655 (age 59-60)	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island ²

Wife: Rebecca BRIGGS

Name:	Rebecca BRIGGS ²
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1600 (app) ²
Death	8 Feb 1673 (age 72-73)	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island ²

Additional Information

Death

Cause: murdered in her bed by her son, Thomas Jr.

Child 1: Thomas CORNELL


	Thomas CORNELL, "1606_UnionFlag"

Name:	Thomas CORNELL ³
Sex:	Male
Spouse 2:	Sarah EARLE ( - )
Birth	21 Oct 1627	Saffron Walden, Essex, England
Death	23 May 1673 (age 45)	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island ⁴

Additional Information

Death

Cause: hung for murder of his mother to keep her house

Child 2: Sarah CORNELL


	Sarah CORNELL, "1606_UnionFlag"

Name:	Sarah CORNELL ⁵
Sex:	Female
Spouse 1:	Thomas WILLET ( - )
Spouse 2:	Charles BRIDGES ( -1682)
Spouse 3:	John LAWRENCE (1644?-1697?)

Child 3: Rebecca CORNELL


	Rebecca CORNELL, "1606_UnionFlag"		Spouse: George WOOLSEY, "1606_UnionFlag"

Name:	Rebecca CORNELL ^6,7,8
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	George WOOLSEY (1610-1698)
Birth	31 Jan 1629	Saffron Walden, Essex, England ^6,7
Death	bef 5 Feb 1713 (age 84)	Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA ^7,9

Child 4: Ann CORNELL

Name:	Ann CORNELL ²
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Thomas KENT ( - )

Child 5: Richard CORNELL

Name:	Richard CORNELL ¹⁰
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Elizabeth UNKNOWN ( - )
Birth	1625 (app)	Essex County, England ¹¹
Death	1694 (age 68-69) ¹¹

Child 6: John CORNELL

Name:	John CORNELL ¹²
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Mary RUSSELL (1645- )
Birth	1637 (app) ¹³
Death	1704 (app) (age 66-67) ¹¹

Child 7: Joshua CORNELL

Name:	Joshua CORNELL ²
Sex:	Male

Child 8: Elizabeth CORNELL

Name:	Elizabeth CORNELL ¹⁴
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Christopher ALMY (1632-1713)
Death	1708 ¹⁵

Child 9: Samuel CORNELL

Name:	Samuel CORNELL ¹⁶
Sex:	Male
Birth	bef 1642 ¹⁷
Death	bef 1715 (age 72-73) ¹⁷

Note on Husband: Thomas CORNELL

from http://www.zorki1c.com/roots/roots.htm

Thomas Cornell

b. March 24, 1593/94, Fairstead Manor, Essex, England, Married Rebecca Briggs, d. 1655, Portsmouth, Newport, R.I.

When the Cornells arrived in the New World in the late 1636, they landed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But like a lot of others who came after the initial Pilgrim settlers they discovered the Puritans were, well, a little too Puritan from a religious point of view. In 1638 the family packed up and followed a woman named Ann Hutchinson and other dissenters to the area that became Rhode Island. The Cornells helped establish Portsmouth, Rhode Island, the second town in the colony. On Sept. 6, 1630 Thomas Cornell Sr., was grated a license to operate an inn in Portsmouth.

When Thomas Cornell Sr. died about 1655, the family continued to run a boarding house. Rebbeca lived there with son Thomas and his family. Thomas Jr. was well known in the community and a deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly.

On February 8, 1673, Rebecca Cornell was found burned to death in her room. The coroner initially ruled her demise as "an unhappie accident," possibly caused by the careless smoking of her pipe.

On the February 12, 1673, John Briggs, Rebecca Cornell's brother, who also lived in Portsmouth, had a dream. The next day he went to authorities and said the ghost of his sister had come to him and showed him a wound in her stomach that didn't match up with the accidental death verdict. In those days, dreams carried more weight as evidence than they do today. So authorities dug up Rebecca's body. Sure enough, there was a stomach wound that had been overlooked.

A new investigation began. It was learned that Thomas didn't always treat his mother kindly. She had told others she planned to sell the property and move in with another son in the spring. If she had done that, Thomas and his rather large family would have been out of a place to live. So Thomas was brought to trial for the murder of his mother. Although the evidence was primarily based on heresay and a brother-in-law's bad dream, Thomas was found guilty. On May 23, 1673 he was hanged in front of the Colony House in Newport, Rhode Island.

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from http://footprints.org/8-100250.htm

Genealogy of the Cornell Family.

By: T.A. Wright, New York, 1902, 468 pp (17-24)

Thomas Cornell

The Cornell Emigrant of England

A. Cornell, Rev. John Genealogy of the Cornell Family.

FIRST GENERATION

"Thomas Cornell, born about 1595 in Co Essex, England*, (*He was from Essex as his daughter Sarah is so described in her marriage record.) married Rebecca Briggs (sister of John Briggs); died about 1655; she was born 1600; February 8, 1673 died aged about 73 years. Children:

1. Thomas, died May 23, 1873; married (1) ---; (2) Sarah Earle.

2. Sarah, married (1) 1 Sep 1843, Thomas Willett; (2) 5 Nov 1847 Charles Bridges;

(3) John Lawrence, Jr., Marriage license 20 Nov 1682.

3. Rebecca, buried February 5, 1713; aged 91 (Onderdonck say aged 93);

married 9 Dec 1647, George Woolsey.

4. Ann married Thomas Kent.

5. Richard, died 1694; married Elizabeth.

6. John, died 1704; married Mary Russell; lived at Cow Neck, Long Island.

7. Joshua. His mother conveyed to him, 21 Oct 1664, land in Plymouth,

Massachusetts, which he conveyed, 21 Nov 1664 to Samuel Cornell.

No further account of him.

8. Elizabeth, married Christopher Almy of Newport, Rhode Island.

9. Samuel, died 1715 (will proved).

"Thomas Cornell came to America about 1638, with his wife and most, if not all, of his children. He is first found in Boston, where by a vote of the Town Meeting, 20 Aug 1638, he is permitted to buy 'William Baulstone's house, yard, and garden, backside of Mr. Coddington, and to become an inhabitant.' This property was situated in Washington Street, between Summer and Milk Streets (see map). He sold it in 1643 to Edward Tyng, who had a warehouse and brew house, and constructed a deal there 6 Sep 1638.

Sources

Rev. John Cornell, M.A, "Genealogy of the Cornell Family" (http://archive.org/details/genealogyofcorne00corn). p. 17.
Text From Source: Thomas Cornell came to America about 1638, with his wife and most, if not all, of his children. He is first found in Boston, where by a vote of the Town Meeting, Aug. 20, 1638, he is permitted to buy " William Baulstone's house, yard, and garden, backside of Mr. Coddington, and to become an inhabitant." This property was situated in Washington Street, between Summer and Milk Streets (see map). He sold it in 1643 to Edward Tyng, who had a warehouse, and brew house, and constructed a dial there. Sept. 6, 1638, "Thomas Cornhill was licensed upon tryal to keepe an inn in the room of Will Baulstone till the next General Court." June 4, 1639, he "was fined ^30 for several offences selling wine without license and beare at zd. a quart.*" Two days later he was abated ^i^io of his tine, and allowed a month " to sell off his ware which is upon his hand, and then to cease from keeping intertainment, and the town to furnish another."

Internet Archive, http://archive.org Internet Archive 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118 info@archive.org. Tel: 415-561-6767.

²	Ibid. p.17.

³	Ibid. p.17 & p.25.

⁴	Ibid. p.25.

⁵	Ibid. p.17 & pp.28-30.

⁶

Yates Publishing, "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004;). Text From Source: Online publication - Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.

www.ancestry.com.

⁷	Ancestry.com, "One World Tree (sm)" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;). Text From Source: Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
	www.ancestry.com.

⁸	Rev. John Cornell, M.A, "Genealogy of the Cornell Family" (http://archive.org/details/genealogyofcorne00corn). p.17 & pp.31-32.
	Internet Archive, http://archive.org Internet Archive 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118 info@archive.org. Tel: 415-561-6767.

⁹	Ibid. p.31.

¹⁰	Ibid. p.17 & pp.143-148.

¹¹	Ibid. p.143.

¹²	Ibid. p.17, 143 & pp.267-268.

¹³	Ibid. p.143 & p.267.

¹⁴	Ibid. p.17 & pp.33-34.

¹⁵	Ibid. p.33.

¹⁶	Ibid. p.17 & pp.353-354.

¹⁷	Ibid. p.353.

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