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Facts and Events
Appears in Salem court records 6 Jul 1647. Likely from London area. Early mention in New England as John Coggswell’s farmer. Married his daughter and received house and land at Chebacco Falls soon after.[3] In 1668, sold the land and moved to Chelmsford.[5] A 1653 letter from his brother-in-law John Cogswell, Jr. says Waldo’s mother is in Berwick, Uncles John and Barrow are dead, bro Thomas in Ireland.[3]
The Middlesex probate files contain a license to him as an innkeeper, provided he didn’t allow dice, cards or other “unlawful games.”
His last property lay in both Chelmsford and Dunstable with residential buildings in both towns.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914)
453.
Waldow, Cornelys, Dea., Jan. 3, 1701. [1700, a. 75 y. G.R.1]
- Hall, Joseph Davis. The genealogy and biography of the Waldos of America from 1650 to 1883. (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 John Cogswell, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
Vol II C-F.
Married John's daughter Hannah; John Cogswell and his wife deeded their "son-in-law Cornelius Waldoe" their dwelling house in Chebacco Falls and 49 adjoining acres on 2 Jan 1651/2. [ILR 1:93]
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:389.
WALDRO, CORNELIUS, Ipswich 1654, m. a. d. of John Cogswell, had John and Cornelius, perhaps others, prob. Elizabeth wh. m. 4 Feb. 1673, Josiah Bracket of Billerica, rem. to Chelmsford, was deac. and d. 3 June 1701.
- ↑ Lincoln, Waldo. Genealogy of the Waldo Family: a Record of the Descendants of Cornelius Waldo of Ipswich, Mass. from 1647 to 1900. (Worcester, Mass.: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1902).
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