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James Cornish

James Cornish[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]

Male 1663 - 1740  (76 years)


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  • Name James Cornish  [5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25] 
    Birth 30 Oct 1663  Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 12, 24] 
    Gender Male 
    Burial Apr 1740  Simsbury Cemetery, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [24] 
    Death 02 Apr 1740  Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 24, 25] 
    Person ID I312684223486  Oswald Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Father James Cornish,   b. Abt. 1612, Weymouth, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1698, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Mother Phoebe Browne,   b. 01 Oct 1620, Rusper, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Dec 1664, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Family ID F1860  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Hannah Hillyer,   b. 20 Dec 1681, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 02 Dec 1751, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage 15 Apr 1715  Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Gabriel Cornish,   b. 25 May 1716, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1753, Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)  [Mother: unknown]
     2. Jemima Cornish,   b. 20 Nov 1718, Simsbury, Hartford, Colony of Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 09 Oct 1791, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     3. Kessiah Cornish,   b. 12 Oct 1721, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1721, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     4. Jabez Cornish,   b. 04 Sep 1726, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1790, Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     5. Mary Cornish,   b. Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Feb 1800, Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Family ID F2515  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Family 2   
    Children 
     1. James Cornish,   b. 30 Oct 1694, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Mar 1784, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)  [Father: unknown]
     2. Elizabeth Cornish,   b. 25 Sep 1695, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1746, New London, New London, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)  [Father: unknown]
     3. Joseph Cornish,   b. 18 Oct 1697, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 May 1759, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
     4. Benjamin Cornish,   b. 28 Mar 1701, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 01 Apr 1732, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years)
     5. Phebe Cornish,   b. Abt. 1702, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Sarah Cornish,   b. 19 Apr 1709, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 05 Sep 1777, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
    Family ID F3461  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 
    • !INFORMATION:From "The Family of Auer Wi
      !INFORMATION:From "The Family of Auer Winchester Proctor, Vol. II", page524. Film #1036367 and the Ancestral File.


      VIEW BIOGRAPHICAL ITEMS IN STORY (MEMORIES) FOR THIS RECORD, 27SQ-7WS.

      Birth - Archive Record (not in Saybrook
      Birth - Archive Record (not in Saybrook 0002978, Windsor 0002983 or Simsbury Marr (1) Windsor Vital record 002983 (2) Simsbury 002979 md Hannah Humphries wid of Thomas of Simsbury, 15 Apr 1715 Death - Simsbury Vital Records 0029979-Dea James bapt - IGI-8 Nov 1932, 28 Jan 1933 ARIZO end - IGI-23 Feb 1933 ARIZO sld/p -IGI-19 Oct 1955 SLAKE sld/s -IGI-27 Mar 1936, 6 Mar 1940 SLAKE, 1 Jul 1971 LOGAN

      !BIRTH:James Cornish 1663 Records by Emm
      !BIRTH:James Cornish 1663 Records by Emma Ethel Porter Westover; Ancestrial Heads of New England. Families: Holmes. Representative Edwina Despain Archer Provo, Utah.

      JAMES CORNISH WAS MARRIED TWICE, FIRST T
      JAMES CORNISH WAS MARRIED TWICE, FIRST TO ELIZABETH THRALL AND SECOND TO HANNAH HILLIARD OR HILLYER, WHO IS OUR GRANDMOTHER. HANNAH WAS MARRIED FIRST TO THOMAS HUMPHREY.

      It seems probable that he was born in Sa
      It seems probable that he was born in Saybrook, Conn., bur no record of the date has been found; but his age given on his tombstone at Simsbury, Conn., as seventy-seven years, indates the date closely. On the Windsor (Conn.) records he is called as "of Westfield," from which place he, undobtedly, came to Windsor, and he apparently lived in Windsor from about 1690 to 1698, as records of births of his children are made there as late as 1697. He was a farmer, the almost universal occupation of the people there in those days, and was long one of the foremost men of Simsbury, Conn., and was prominent in the affairs of town and church. He was first taxed in Simsbury in 1699, having bought land there from Eleazar Hill, March 26, 1698. He represented Simsbury in the General Court of the colony many times, and held numerous other positions of confidence and trust. He was chosen Deacon of the chrch in Simsbury in 1715, which office he held until his death, he and his first wife having been admitted to the church there in December, 1698.
      He accumulated quite a property for those times, his estate inventorying £860, and was divided by will dated Feb. 8, 1740, among the children by his second wife, first giving her outright one third and the use of all the rest during her lifetime, unless she wished to pay any of the children their portion sooner, which apparently she did. He also confirmed the children by his first wife in the portions they had received from him from time to time, as he had given them their portions as they had becomre of age, deeding lands in simsbury in the cases of his two oldest sons, James, Jr., and Joseph, Feb. 16, 1717, and Dec. 21, 1719, respectively, as in full of all of their portion of his estate. 3

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