AQUILLA CORSON, son of Eli and Christianna (Thompson) Corson, was born in Upper Township, Cape May County, N.J. According to the 1850 U. S. census in Indiana, he was born about 1783. He was mentioned as a grandson of Jacob Corson, II, in his will, proved Jan 31, 1803. He married, about 1812, Catherine (Totten) Giffin, the widow of Jacob Giffin, an early Ohio school teacher. The Giffins lived on a farm about ten miles above Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Little Miami River in Hamilton County, Ohio. Aquilla and his wife lived in this neighborhood until 1816, when they moved to Columbia, Ohio. They lived there until 1823, then moved to Dearborn County, Indiana, in the neighborhood of Laughery Creek. At that time the roads were bad, and the woods were full of wolves, deer, and wild turkeys. In 1822 droves of squirrels came across the Ohio River, destroying everything before them. At Lawrenceburg, Ind., there is a record that he bought Government land in 1818. Aquilla Corson died at the home of a granddaughter in Kentucky, across the river from Rising Sun, Ind. His body was taken across the Ohio River in a boat and buried in Fulton Cemetery, near Rising Sun.
The children of Aquilla and Catherine (Totten) Corson were:
121311 Mary (Polly) Corson, born 1815;
121312 A Son, died in infancy;
121313 Eli Corson;
121314 Albert Corson, born Apr. 13, 1818;
121315 Angeline Corson;
121316 Lucinda Corson;
121317 Jane Corson.
Aquilla Corson's grandfather, Jacob Corson, II, bequeathed his homestead plantation and a cedar swamp to Aquilla. As far as the compiler could learn, Aquilla never returned to New Jersey to claim this land.
