Person:John Cornwall (2)

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m. Bef 1640
  1. Sergeant John Cornwall1640 - 1707
  2. William Cornwall1641 - 1691
  3. Samuel Cornwall1642 - 1728
  4. Jacob Cornwall1646 - 1708
  5. Sarah Cornwall1647 - Aft 1705/06
  6. Thomas Cornwall1648 - 1702
  7. Esther Cornwall1650 - 1733
  8. Elizabeth Cornwall1651/52 -
  • HSergeant John Cornwall1640 - 1707
  • WMartha PeckEst 1648 - 1707/08
m. 8 Jun 1665
  1. Mary Cornwall1666 - 1742
  2. Martha Cornwall1669 - Aft 1731
  3. John Cornwall1671 - Bef 1742
  4. William Cornwall1673 - Aft 1731
  5. Paul Cornwell1675 -
  6. Hannah Cornwall1677 - 1736
  7. Captain Joseph Cornwall1679 - 1742
  8. Thankful Cornwall1682/83 - 1684
  9. Thankful Cornwall1685 - 1758
  10. Benjamin Cornwell1688 - 1754
Facts and Events
Name[1][3] Sergeant John Cornwall
Alt Name[2] Sergeant John Cornwell
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] Apr 1640 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesRecorded at Middletown.
Marriage 8 Jun 1665 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Martha Peck
Will[2][4] 17 Sep 1707
Death[2] 2 Nov 1707 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[2][4] 26 Dec 1707 £317-17-00. Taken by Samuel Doolittle and Zacheus Cande.
Probate[2][4] 5 Jan 1707/08 Will proved.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 William Cornwall, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    1:483.

    "John (Cornwall), b. (Hartford) [blank] April 1640 [MidVR Barbour 124]."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Hale, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    258.

    "Sergt. John Cornwell, b. at Hartford (recorded at Middletown), Apr. 1640, d. at Middletown, 2 Nov. 1707, son of William and Mary (_____) Cornwell. His will, dated 17 Sept. 1707, proved 5 Jan. 1707/8; Inventory, 26 Dec. 1707."

  3. John Cornwall, in Cornwall, Edward E. William Cornwall and His Descendants: A Genealogical History of the Family of William Cornwall, One of the Puritan Founders of New England, Who Came to America in or before the Year 1633, and Died Middletown, Connecticut, in the Year 1678. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1901)
    11.

    "John2 Cornwall (William1), born April, 1640; died Nov. 2, 1707; married June 8, 1665, Martha, daughter of Deacon Paul and Hannah [error for Martha] Peck of Hartford. He lived in Middletown. His house stood next to his father's, near the corner of the present Main and Washington streets. He was sergeant in the militia. In his will he mentions nine children and his wife, for the possibility of whose second, and even third marriage he provides. His estate amounted to £317."

  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Cornwall, John, Sen., Middletown, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:47-48.

    "Probate Records. Vol. VII, 1700 to 1710. Page 182-3-4.

    Cornwall, John, Sen., Middletown. Invt. £317-17-00. Taken 26 December, 1707, by Samuel Doolittle and Zacheus Cande. Will dated 17 September, 1707:

    I, John Cornwell, Sen., of Middletown, being infirm and weak, do therefore make this my last will and testament: I will that my wife Martha shall have the use, benefit and improvement of all my homelott whereon my dwelling house stands (excepting what is in this will given to my son William), together with the eastward end or rooms, both higher and lower, of my dwelling house, with the barn and orchard and all the clear meadow that lies in my lot at Goose's Delight, half the breadth of my Boggy Meadow lot, called Ko-Lot, next the river. Also, I leave unto her all the moveables, within doors and without; all which land and moveables may be improved by her for her comfort and subsistence so long as she remains a widow. I give unto my eldest son John Cornwall 1-3 part of my Proper Lott in the Boggy Meadow Quarter, reckoning that I have given 1-3 part thereof to my son-in-law Samuel Doolittle, and part of the other third is given to Joseph. Also I give unto my sd. son John half the breadth of my Ko-Lott next the upland, and at his mother's death or marriage the whole Ko-Lott unto John: also ½ of my lands or rights on the east side of the Great River, and the other half to Joseph and Benjamin, my sons. I give to my son William Cornwall the west end or rooms, both higher and lower, of my now dwelling house, with the yard that lies to the west and north, and what fruit trees are therein, and the garden plott. And the other half of my homelott, next my Brother Jacob's, I give to my daughters, Martha, Hannah and Thankfull, equally. I give unto my son Paul the westward end of that lott of land that lieth beyond my brother Samuel's houselott, where now Paul's house stands, unto the middle row of apple-trees in the orchard there. Also, I give unto Paul ½ of my lott in the westernmost range of lotts; the other half of that lott I give unto my daughters, Martha, Hannah and Thankful. It is my will that my son-in-law, Richard Hubbard, shall have one acre of it, to be laid out from the highway to his boggy meadow, on that side next Mr. Southmayd, and the remainder to be equally divided betwixt Paul, Joseph and Benjamin, so that their bredths be equal without respect to the length of either. It is my will that what moveables shall be extant of household goods shall be equally shared amongst my four daughters. My will is that my wife Martha shall be sole executrix. I desire Mr. John Hamlin and Mr. Noadiah Russell to be overseers.

    JOHN CORNWALL, LS.

    Witness: Thomas Stevens, John Lane, Alexander Rollo.

    Court Record, Page 101—5 January, 1707-8: Will approved.

    Page 107—4 March, 1707-8: The widow Martha Cornwall, now deceased, this Court grant letters of Adms. to John Cornwall, son of John Cornwall, late of Middletown, deceased, with the will annexed."