Samuel Cornell

Citations

1. [S461] M.A. Rev. John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Being An Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, page 33 - SAMUEL,' of Thomas, b. 1642 or earlier; d. before 1715; m.     ____;
   Children:
   400= Thomas, b. 22.9, 1685; d. 1763; M. (1) Catharine
   Potter, March 5, 1716; m. (2) Mary Russell, 1755.
   4002 Samuel, b. 11.1, 1688; d. 1740; m. (1) Deborah , about 1713; m. (2) Rebecca, 1730.
   4003 Comfort, a daughter, b. Dec. 4, 1691.
   In 1664, Nov. 21, Joshua Cornell (8) of " Accookset in New Plimouth," conveys to Samuel Cornell of the same place, for £24, two parcels of land at "Acookset, Acushnet and parcels adjacent, one parcel being a sixt part of a share of land in the afores" Purchase land with all ye privileges comonages meadows and all other Immunityes thereunto belonging which said sixt part was given me by my Mother Mrs. Cornell. The other parcel being twenty acres more or Iess which I bought of William Earle as by his deed cloth appear," to be holden as of the Manor of East Greenwich. 1669, March 21, " Rebecca Cornell, widow to the late deceased Mr. Thomas Cornell (1) of Ports-mouth on Rhoad Is]and, to my loving sonn Samuel Cornell, now an inhabitant in the town of Dartmouth,* in New plimouth, do freely willingly and of my own voluntary mind really and fully give grant enfeoff and confirm unto my said sonn Samuel Cornell, a certain parcel or tract of land (by me purchased since the decease of my aforesaid husband) contcyning the one-sixt part of a lot or share or proportion of land within the aforesaid town of Dartmouth, part whereof is already laid out at the place commonly called Cookset, and now in the possession of my said son Samuel." Witnesses: Joshua Coggeshall, Thomas Cornell (2), Philip Allin. 1670, May 29, he appears in the census of the inhabitants of the town of Dartmouth, Mass. In 1682, he was constable there. In 1684, he took the oath of fidelity. In 1685, there was a law suit against Thomas Cornell, Samuel Cornell, David Wilcox and John Russell. In 1688, May 17, there was an agreement between Samuel and his cousin (nephew) Thomas,' (Thomas,' Thomas.') as to the boundary line between them, there having been "a great difference between us." His will is dated May 3, 1699, and was proved April 5, 1715. He calls himself of Dartmouth, and Ieaves to his eldest son Thomas, his dwelling house and adjoining land, "with all my meadows upon three little Islands, with six acres at the point called Pottoswatuxet," all in Dartmouth. Samuel received land lying between James Sisson and James Tripp, with 5o acres of undivided lands; To his son Thomas a chest and a box and a small bible which was his mother's, feather bed and andirons; to his daughter Comfort Loo in New England silver, to be paid Ls when she became 18, and L5 each year thereafter until paid. Executors: "my loving coson [nephew] Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth and my coson George Cadman of Dartmouth."
   * Dartmouth lies across the bay from Portsmouth. It was purchased from Wesamequen or Massasoit and his son Wamsutta by a deed dared New Plymouth, Nov. 29. 1652. The tract embraced all the shore for three miles east from the Acushnet River, extending "from the sea upward to go so high that the English may not be annoyed by the hunting of the Indians in any sort." This tract was divided among the original patentees in shares of many hundred acres.
2. [S1288] Jean E. Maack & C. Clair Cornell, Unraveling One Massachusetts-To-Iowa Cornell Line, page 78 - Will of Rebecca Cornell dated: 2 September 1664 [Note: see The American Genealogist Volume 19, page 132].