Silas Cornell

Adam and Anne Mott By Thomas Clapp Cornell

SARAH MOTT AND SILAS CORNELL.

Sarah Mott, the third child and the second daughter of Adam and

Anne Mott, the eldest daughter who lived beyond early childhood, was

born at her parents' residence in the Mill house at Cowbay, on the 4th

of 4th month, 1791, and died at the residence of her daughter, Sarah

Alice Walbridge, in the stone cottage on the grounds of fhe Sisters of

Charity at Mt. St. Vincent, near Yonkers, on the 17th of 3d month,

1872, having nearly completed her eighty-first year, clear in mind and

memory to the last, and well enough to be in the parlor the day before

she died. She had married, in Pearl Street Meeting House, New York,

on the 12th of I2th month, 1815, Silas Cornell, born at Scarsdale, West-

chester County, on the 29th of 11th month, 1789, died at his own residence,

Rochester, N. Y., on the 7th of 5th month, 1864, in his seventy-

fifth year, vigorous in mind and in body a week before his death ; son of

Benjamin and Alice (Sutton) Cornell of Scarsdale.

CHILDREN

1, Thomas Clapp Cornell b. 07/Jan/1819 Flushing, Queens Co., NY

born 1819 ; married, 1860, Jane E.

Bashford, born 182!), daughter of John

and Esther A. (Guion) Bashford, of

Yonkers.

   author of "Adam and Anne Mott, their ancestors and their descendants, 1890"

2. James Mott Cornell b. 13/Oct/1820

born 1820, died 1868 ;

married Eliza Leavens, of Kingston.

Canada.

3. Richard Mott Cornell b. 15/March/1822 Flushing, Queens Co., NY

born 1822, died 1823.

4. Ann Mott Cornell b. 16July/1824 Greece, NY

born 1824 ; married,

1847. Aaron Barnes, of White Plains.

5. Sarah Alice Cornell b. 11/Apr/1830 Greece, NY

born 1830, died 1874 ;

married, 1859, Ebenezer Walbridge, of

Toledo, and left Carlton H., Silas Cornell

and Ebenezer Franklin Walbridge.