Person:Cornelius Comegys (11)

Cecil County Land Records, indicate that Cornelius Comegys purchased the tract Glasshouse from Richard Gray on 1 Feb 1678. On 22 Mar 1736/37 Paul Poulson and Randell Death transfered the property Glasshouse to Thomas Poulson saying "said tract of land & every part thereof has been legally transmitted & conveyed to Paul Poulson & Randall Death." However, since there are no records of that transfer in the Cecil County land records, one can surmise that the transfer was via inheritance and that Poulson and Randall had married Mary and Martha Comegys. Further, since there is no mention of Cornelius the grandson of Cornelius II who had inherited 1/3 of the property, one can also surmise that he is deceased by 1737. The tract Glasshouse is located near the mouth of Octoraro Creek where it joins the Susquehannah River just south of the Pennsylvania boundry.

Cornelius obtained a warrant for land from the court in New Castle County, than Pennsylvania now Delaware. Boundaries were poorly defined in this time period and the actual land could have been in what is now Delaware, Pennsylvania or Maryland. "July the 6th 1681, A Peticon being prferred in Cort by Captn Edmund Cantwell for and in ye behalfe of Cornelis Commegies Junior shereing that in the Jeare 1675 one Richard Scaggs and William Merritt did take up twoo tracts of Land Joyning boath togeather Contayning 400 acres Wch to this day Ly unsettled and ye prsons whoe tooke them up boath departed ye Countyr &as is sayed dead wth out haueing made any Improovment thereon; the Peticon therefore desiring a warrant for both parcells of Land to take up being 400 acres & Lying both together, The Cort doe Grant ye Peticonr to take up ye sd Land of Merritt & Scaggs according to his Peticon,hee makeing prsent Improovemts & Settlemt thereon, according to Lawe & ye Governors regulacons." No further information has been discovered to indicate that Cornelius II ever settled, improved or possessed this land. Instead, by Feb 1684 Cornelius had obtained the Tract Glasshouse in north western Cecil County, Maryland.

1. ↑ Moss, Ernestine Parke. Cornelius Comegys of Kent County, Maryland. (Published by the Author, 658 Stonewall Memphis, TN 38107, 1982)
   Page 13.
2. ↑ Baldwin, Jane Baldwin & Wright, F Edward. Maryland Calendar of Wills. (Kohn & Pollock +, Baltimore, MD, 1904+)
   Vol 3, page 232 which refers to Liber 13 folio 461 of Maryland wills.
3. ↑ Baldwin, Jane Baldwin & Wright, F Edward. Maryland Calendar of Wills. (Kohn & Pollock +, Baltimore, MD, 1904+)
   Vol 3 page 232 which refers to Liber 13 folio 461 of Maryland wills.
4.   Cecil County MD Land Records. (Elkton, MD)
   Liber 5 folio 296.
5.   Court of New Castle on Delaware. 1676-1681. (Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Lancaster PA, 1904)
   page 483.
6. ↑ Proven 7 Mar 1711/12. Mentions wife Mary, daughters Mary and Martha and grandson Cornelius Comegys. Daughters and grandson to receive 500 acre plantation in equal shares.