Elder Nathan Cory

Married Feb 5, 1787

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The Cory Family Society has a website: http://www.coryfamsoc.com/genealogies/index.html
There are many Cory families in America. This branch is from John 1 Cory of Southold, Long Island, New York

There is a book with the genealogy of this branch that was written by Harry Harmon Cory. A link to a PDF of the book can be found here in geni.com on the page for Harry Harmon Cory. It should be noted that this book is reported to have an ERROR in its claim to be connected to the Bremerton Hall Cory line.

REV. NATHAN CORY was born 6/24/1767 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He was the son of Joseph Cory and Phoebe Simpson. As a young man it is said that he served in the New Jersey Militia as a Minute Man. He married Sarah Wright (2/15/1769-9/1/1813), daughter of Gabriel Wright and Deborah Ball, in 1787. In 1788 Nathan, Sarah, along with other Corys, Wrights, and Heaths, totaling 27 people, moved to Hampshire County, Virginia (present day West Virginia). By 1790 the group again moved to Nelson County, Kentucky, with other extended relatives. In 1796 the party was told of good land in Ohio. Nathan traveled with his brother Steven, father-in-law Gabriel and his brothers-in-law Jonathan Wright, David Wright, and George Heath. They came to Ross County, Ohio to inspect the area and decided that they would move. They travelled back to Kentucky to prepare the move, which began in October 1796. The majority of the family traveled up the Ohio and Scioto River in a pirogue (canoe/boat) that is said to have been sixty feet long. A few of the men travelled by land with the animals and a story goes that they encountered a Buffalo which took numerous shots to kill. Unfortunately, the boat party was ice bound and the group had to halt their journey and camped in southern Ohio through the winter. After the ice thawed, they continued to Ross County, arriving at Anderson’s Station. In 1798 he was part of a petition, seeking land grants near the Paint Creek, off of the Scioto River in present day Frankfort, Ohio. He, along with the other migration party were granted the lands. Overall, Nathan and Sarah had 12 children: David, Joseph; John; James; Abraham; Anna; Stephen; Norah; Mary; Israel; Daniel (1808-1873); and Solomon. He is said to have been involved in the War of 1812. Sarah died in 1813 and Nathan remarried Elizabeth Chambers on 7/15/1815, but she died on 2/12/1817. He remarried again to Hannah Atcheson on 12/20/1819 in Pickaway, Ohio. Nathan is said to have been a Baptist preacher and created the first church in Frankfort. Some sources claim he would travel across Ohio and even into Indiana in order to help establish churches and to preach. He was noted still living in Ross County, Ohio in 1940. Nathan made his Will in 1842 and he died on 9/3/1843 in Frankfort, Ohio.

He is descended from John Cory I (1611 or 1618?). No ancestors for John Cory I have been confirmed. The following appears to be the most authoritative background for John Cory I:

John Cory I92,93,94,95,96 was born on 9 Oct 1611 in England.97 No record of John Cory 1’s birth has yet been found.
The estimate of 1618 for his birth year is based on a 1660 deed in the Southold, New York records which mentions John1, his wife Ann, and their son John2. As he was a party to the deed, it has been assumed John2 was at least 21. If he was 21 in 1660, John2 would have been born about 1639, which is usually stated as his birth year, but without any documentation. A further assumption was made that John Cory1 was 21 when John2 was born, and thus would have been born about 1618. All of this is unsubstantiated estimation. Another birthdate often cited for John1 is 9 October 1611. The source of this date is unclear, although in his 1937 book, Lineal Ancestors of Captain James Cory, Vol. 1, Book 1, Charles Henry Cory wrote of a “rare book, of about thirty pages, published near Boston before 1815...The late James Enos Cory had a copy given him by an aged lady, whose maiden name was Cory, but unfortunately he lost it in a fire in 1883...It told...of the marriage of our JOHN CORY and of his death, ‘at the age of seventy-four years.’” If John Cory1 was indeed 74 when he died in 1685, his birth year would have been about 1611. This has not been confirmed.

He died on 7 Mar 1685 at the age of 73 in Southold, Connecticut, British America.98 Will was proved October 20, 1685
He was buried in Southold, Connecticut, British America. Just where John I came from in the old world, as of the publication date of the Second Edition of "Corys Of America", has not been proven satisfactorily or strong enough to say. He may have arrived in America on the ship Planter. Some of the first researchers of the Cory Genealogy tried to prove that he came from Bramerton Hall near Norwich, England. Through DNA research that has been shown to not be true. It is believed that he came to America about 1637. He may have lived in Salem, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The latest theory is that he was the John Cory that was in Rhode Island and left under strange circumstances. Also it has been stated that he may have been the father of William of Portsmouth. Again, DNA has shown that this is not true.

We believe that John was one of the men who assisted John Youngs on 21 October 1640 in the organization of the First (Presbyterian) Church at Southold, LI, New York. John Cory is mentioned as being from Southold and as the Whale Commissioner on 7 March 1644.
The Will of John Cory I, dated 1 February 1685, was proved 2 October 1685.

I give to Son John, Iron Kettle, Great Bible,Chest and its contents, a Cloke and half e a debt of 12 pounds, half my Weaving Takell, my Bell Mette Skillet, Beds Rugs and Bolsters..I give my son Jacob half e my Land in Ye Oyster ponds, Upper Neck, to be paid by son Abraham, 2 Cows, half e my Sheep, Weaving Cloaths and half e my Weaving Takell, half e my Husbandry Tools, with half e my Lumber and 14 acres of Land to his son. To son Abraham my lot in Ye Oyster Ponds, upper Neck, he paying half e ye price to his brother Isaac, half e my Sheep, a debt of 12 pounds, half e my Husbandry Tools and half e lumber.
Abraham my son to pay all my debts and to pay his brother Isaac 5 Shillings and to satisf y William Tuthill f or what trouble he is at about, my will. To Daughter Hannah Lot by Mill and her Daughter Hannah an Iron pot and one Heif er. Daughter Abigail an Iron pot, 1 Iron Kettle, Blankets and pillows, chest and whats in it.

Ann Salmon and John Cory I were married on 2 Jul 1638 in New London, River, British America.99

92. Ibid.
93. Publication date 1914
Topics Cory family (Eliakim Cory, 1772-1861), Cory family (John Cory, d. 1686)
Publisher New York, T.A. Wright.
94. FHL, film 1928014 item 3, page 190.
95. Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, 1939-- Long Island (N.Y.).
96. FHL, pages 4, 17, and 26, film 1698200 item 1.
97. FTM Update 7-6-2007.ged.
98. Copy of Sessions No. 1 Suffolk County Clerks Office, microfilm 1928014 item 3, page 190, at the Family History
Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
99. Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700.

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The book, "A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio" was published in 1917 and that book was scanned by Google books. I copy of that scanned edition, with bookmarks relating to the Corys, is attached to this profile. Here is an excerpt:
"The Corys have not only helped to clear and develop the land of
Ross County, but have impressed themselves in many ways upon the
county's institutions and civic affairs. Mr. Cory's great-grandfather,
Elnathan Cory, was born in New York State, moved from there to New
Jersey and thence to Kentucky, where he spent his last days and died
in 1791. Thus it is apparent that the Corys were identified with the
first movement of civilization beyond the barrier of mountains which
so long hemmed in the colonial settlers along the Atlantic coast.
Elder Nathan Cory, grandfather of Oliver A., was born in New
Jersey in 1766. From New Jersey he moved to Virginia and thence
crossed the mountains into what was a Virginia province and was sub
sequently organized as the State of Kentucky. In 1797 Elder Nathan
Cory crossed the Ohio River and penetrated the Northwest Territory,
locating in what is now Concord Township of Ross County. The follow
ing year he bought a tract of land three-quarters of a mile northeast
of the present site of Frankfort. One of the remarkable things about
the early pioneers was their courage in undertaking the heavy task of
settling in a new country with practically no capital or resources except
those contained in their own resolute will and physical manhood. When
Nathan Cory arrived in Ross County his only possessions were $1 in
cash and a pony that stood thirteen hands high. With the dollar he
bought a peck of salt. As there were no mills in Ross County, he used
a mortar and pestle to reduce his corn to meal. The nearest mill was
sixty-five miles away, near Maysville, Kentucky. Occasionally four or
five of his neighbors combined for the purpose of protection and com
panionship and each carried a bushel of corn in a sack over one shoulder
and a rifle over the other, and then walked the entire distance to the
mill in Kentucky, and after getting their corn ground would return
to their families with the meal. This is only one item out of many that
might be mentioned to show the primitive conditions that surrounded
the Corys and other early families in Ross County. Nathan Cory built
a log house on his land, and in the course of time had improved a good
farm, upon which he resided until his death, on September 3, 184:5.
Another fact that should be mentioned concerning his early residence
in Ross County is that he assisted in raising the first two-story log house
built in Chillicothe. Nathan Cory was a minister of the Baptist Church,
and was one of the leaders in establishing that denomination in this
part of Ohio. In 1802 he was one of a company of twelve persons ..."