Abraham Coriell of New Jersey

Origins

“The Surprising Origins of the Coryell Family of Colonial New Jersey.” Avotaynu Online: RESEARCH INTO THE ORIGINS AND MIGRATIONS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. (Monday, January 23, 2023) < link >

Jacob Curiel was born in Coimbra, Portugal, on September 26, 1587, as Duarte Nunes da Costa. … We know from the unique E-BY145801 variation that Jacob was an ancestor of Abraham Coriell of New Jersey, but the intervening generations are unknown. Given the Curiel family history, the intervening generations might well have included gentile women. Jacob’s brother David apparently fathered children out of wedlock, as the Portuguese Jewish communities in northern Europe had more than their fair share of men crossing social boundaries and having children with non-Jewish women.

In 2009, Lea formed the Correll/Coryell Y-DNA Project. Through variations in the Y chromosome unique to Coryell descendants, he sought to confirm a hypothesis first offered by Coryell family historian Emma Finney Welch (1855–1926). Welch believed that Abraham fathered four Coryell sons who appeared in eighteenth-century New Jersey records: David (1704–1779), Emanuel (1707– 1749), Abraham, and Samuel (d. 1760). In 1979, Noble Burr Coryell (1917–2006), editor of the Coryell Newsletter, wrote that the “ultimate goal” for him and his fellow descendants was to trace their lineage back to Abraham through one of those four sons. The DNA revolution would provide the tools.

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The Coryell Family Tree
Goodspeed Histories < link >
November 11, 2020

First Generation:

(1) Emanuel Coryell (1706 – 1749) & Sarah Tunison (1706 – )

The Somerset Quarterly published “Earliest American Ancestors of Somerset Families” in Vol. V p.188 et seq, which included this statement: “Elias, Emanuel (or John Emanuel) and David Coriell, perhaps with another brother Abraham, emigrated from the island of Corsica in 1663, and were French. Emanuel went to Lambertville and operated a ferry there in 1733.

Clearly there is a problem here. The Emanuel who emigrated in 1663 must be a father or grandfather of the Emanuel who settled in Amwell and started a ferry in 1733.

References

• http://neames.home.comcast.net/~neames/genealogy/emanuel_coryell.pdf (bad link)