Person:Rebecca Cornell (1)

NOTE: BIR-MARR-DEATH: A Woolsey Family of America Film# 1036595 FHL

!Married in Reformed Dutch Church New Amsterdam Rhode Island Genealogy Reg. Jan 1980 !New York Genealogy Bio Record VI 6 1875

Father: Thomas CORNELL b: in Terling, Essex, Fairstead Manor, England Mother: Rebecca BRIGGS b: in England Marriage 1 George WOOLSEY b: 1610

• Married: 9 DEC 1647 in Reformed, Dutch Church, New Amsterdam

Children 1. Jemima WOOLSEY 2. Sarah WOOLSEY b: ABT. 1650

Rebecca Cornell was born between 1620 and 2 in Saffron Waldon, Essex, England.(219) She was baptized on 31 Jan 1629 in Saffron Waldon, Essex, England. She died on 4 Feb 1713 in Jamaica, Queens, NY.(220) She was buried on 5 Feb 1713 in Oyster Bay, Queens, NY.

Eardeley, William A. D. "Records in the Office of the County Clerk at Jamaica, Long Island, New York, 1680-1781 : Wills and Administrations, guardians, and inventories." Filmed by G. S. of Utah 1940. Microfilm of typed manuscript at the Queens Borough Public Library in Jamaica, New Uork. Includes index. p. 79.

WILL of THOMAS WIGGINS : Liber C: ___. Thomas Wiggins of Jamaica, Queens County : yeoman : who made his will 21 Apr 1728 : proved 21 Feb 1728-29 : to his wife Rebecca Wiggins, twenty acres of land in Jamaica, "near the place where I live, and which I bought of William Foster, except the part which I sold to Isabella Wiggins : also eight and one half acres, adjoining the heirs of John Smith : to my two nephews, viz., William Wiggins and Josias Wiggins, the sons of my brother Josias Wiggins, lately deceased, and they are to pay all my debts and my funeral expenses : to my two nieces, viz., Rebecca Williamsen and Mary Williamsen, being daughters of my sister-in-law Mary Williamsen, five pounds each : to my brother Gresham (?Gershom?) Wiggins of New Jersey, five shillings : to Nicholas Flattery ten pounds : executors my wife and two nephews : witnesses Benjamin Smith and Mary Williamsen and Joseph Smith " : the widow resigned in the presence of Daniel Whitehead and Benjamin Taylor : [Whereas Isabella Wiggins of Jamaica, in Queens County, died intestate, Letters of Administration are granted 3 Sep 1731 to her son William Wiggins : Rip Van Dam, Esq., President, etc.]

REBECCA WIGGINS' WILL: Liber C:129. Will of Rebecca Wiggins : of Jamaica : a widow : "to my sister Mary wife of ______ (Charles) Williamson" and her two daughters, viz., Mary Williamson and Rebecca Williamson : dated 15 Aug 1731 : proved 18 May 1733 : bequest to Nicholas Bettery (?Battey?) : executor John Foster : witnesses Gabriel Luff, Jr. and Elizh. Roe (She made her mark an "A":) and "Jos." Smith : Note: She was the widow of Thomas Wiggins of Jamaica.

It appears that Rebecca Woolsey and Thomas Wiggins had no children, at least none that survived them. There is an Elizabeth (chr. 1707) in the Asa Bowlin Family of Greene Co. TN