William Cornell

2004. William Cornell b. about 1667; d. 1743 (see will); m. (i) (supposed) Elizabeth Smith; m. (2) Jane White- head.

https://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/person/g5059.htm

Partner: Elizabeth Smith

1. Child: Richard Cornell Born: about 1698
2. Child: John Cornell Born: about 1700
3. Child: William Cornell Born: about 1705
4. Child: Elizabeth Cornell Born: about 1707
5. Child: Mary Cornell Born: about 1709
6. Child: Letitia Cornell Born: about 1711
7. Child: Thomas Cornell Born: about 1713

Partner: Jane Creed
Marriage: 8 April 1735, Hempstead, Queens County, New York

Notes

1742-43 "In the name of God, Amen. I, William Cornell, of Hempstead, in Queens County, gentleman, being well stricken in years but of sound mind. I leave to my two sons John and William, all my beach, marshes, and broken lands and others belonging to me at Rockaway beach, and they are to maintain the fence equally between them. After payment of debts, I give to my grand-children, Elizabeth, daughter of my son John, and Phebe Denton, daughter of my daughter Elizabeth, late wife of James Denton, each £5. To Susannah, daughter of my son William, £20. To Elizabeth Stringham, daughter of my daughter Mary, late wife of James Stringham, £10. To Mary Stringham, her sister, £100. To Elizabeth Hazzard, .daughter of my daughter Letltla, late wife of Jonathan Hazzard, £10. All the rest of my personal estate I leave to my son William and my daughter Susannah, and to my grand-daughter Mary Stringham. I make my brother, Colonel John Cornell, and my sons William and John, executors. Dated May 4, 1742. Witnesses, S. Clowes, Joseph Sackett, Jr., Johanab Clowes. Proved, September 1, 1743." [4]

Research Notes:

1725 The will of Jeremiah Smith of Hempstead, Queens County named daughter Elizabeth Smith wife of Cornell with daughters Elizabeth and Hannah, possibly this couple, if Hannah were deceased by 1742. [5] Transcribers note: Elizabeth Smith married William Cornell in 1690.

Comments

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-46981

John Cornell's wife Hannah could not have been identical with Hannah Smith, the daughter of Jeremiah Smith, as Rev. John Cornell's genealogy suggested. The 1698 Census of Hempstead shows John Cornell and wife Hannah, along with children John, Elizabeth, William, and Edward. Jeremiah Smith's daughters Hannah and Elizabeth were still unmarried and living with their father in 1698. Jeremiah's household on the 1698 census consisted of Jeremiah Smith, Hannah Smith, Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Hannah Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Ruth Smith, John Smith, Ann Smith, Richard Smith, and Thomas Smith. Obviously since John and Hannah Cornell were already married and with children in 1698 and Jeremiah Smith's daughter Hannah was unmarried and still living in her father's household at that time, they could not be the same woman.

1735 Some researchers have reported that William Cornell married Jane Creed, widow of Thomas Whitehead, on 8 April Hempstead, Queens County, New York. [6]

William Cornell “Esquire,” as he is called in the marriage record, (N. Y. Gen. Record, XII., 80), son of Richard of Rockaway, was a man of high repute, large wealth, a magistrate, 68 years old, and many times a grandfather, being the father of seven children of whom all but one were married. He would hardly be considered a suitable or desirable match for a girl hardly out of her teens, of good family, fortune, and high social position.

There are no records of any children of Thomas Whitehead, except Daniel who died in 1710. It is however certain that he had at least one child, if not more. The will of William Cornell, son of John and Abigail (Whitehead) Cornell above, (and grandson of William Cornell, who married Jane Whitehead), proved in 1798, devises to his eldest son Samuel, “all the farm and meadow which did lately belong to my said'son's grandfather Thomas Whitehead."* It is true there is an error here, for Thomas Whitehead was great-grandfather, not grandfather of Samuel Cornell, an error which may be due to carlessness on the part of the lawyer who drew the will, or of the scribe who copied it in the Records. The will is, however, in the nature of a conveyance of real estate, and it is incontestible proof that Thomas Whitehead was the ancestor of William and Samuel Cornell, ergo, he was a father of a daughter whose name is at present unknown, as to which fact no other direct evidence exists.

• Genealogy of the Cornell family : being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell. by Cornell, John, 1839-1926 Publication date 1902. Archive.Org
• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via sister Anna Smith (born Cornell) by SmartCopy: Jun 30 2015, 4:27:11 UTC