Samuel Corning (Corney, Cornish) was born about 1616; planter and husbandman; married Elizabeth -----, who died Aug. 18, 1688, aged about eighty-five; he died soon afterward; children: 1 Remember, baptized May 3, 1640; 2 Samuel, baptized March 14, 1641; lived in Beverly; married Hannah Batcheller; dies May 11, 1714, aged seventy-three; she died, his widow, Feb 17, 1717-8; 3 Elizabeth, baptized June 4, 1643. Perley 2:11