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- From FindaGrave:
William Cornwall turned Cornwell was christened May 25, born April, was an immigrant ancestor who came from England on the ship "Arbella" before 1633 via Barbados. An original settler of Hartford, Connecticut and Middletown, Connecticut where surname is sometimes "Cornell". Plaque is at the base of the Founders Rock where he is buried at Riverside Cemetery previously known as MacDonough Cem. This family is published in: Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut pp.195
1633- Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1633
1636- Connecticut as part of the "Great Removal"
https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/sergeant-william-cornwall/
1637-'51- Hartford, CT: was one of 77 men whom attacked the Pequot Indians at Mystic in May of 1637, 1639 Hartford Connecticut records list an 8 acre lot," #54, west of South Street and south from the lane"-half of his house lay in "soldier field"-a choice tract divided among veterans of the Pequot War.
March 5, 1648 moved to east side of Conn River at Hocanum
1651- Mattabesett became Middlefield, CT-moved with first settlers to Middletown, Connecticut where he was a Constable, given 5 acres for house + 19 acres across the street in the center of the village, (S.E. corner of Washington & Main, one block west of the CT River) "laid out in the right of old Sergeant Cornwell", Representative from Middletown in Colonial Legislature 1654,64,and 65. Third of 10th 1668 Sergeant Cornwell joined the recently organized church in Middletown. See transcribed Will for land descriptions, listing Indian Hill, could this be what is now a cemetery?
Acquainted with the Rev. Thomas Hooker; son, William Jr., at age 7, second son, was bound as an indentured servant of the Widow, Susannah Hooker on March 5, 1648 in exchange for his education.
Will dated 7 April 1674 in probate records Vol. IV, Middletown, Connecticut, Witnessed by Nathaniel White and Nathaniel Collins, transcribed (in attached photo) naming wife, Mary, ch: 4 sons: John, Wm Jr., Samuel, Thomas and 3 daughters; Sarah (HUBBARD), Hester (John) Willcox (sic 1. WILCOX, 2. John STOW) and Elizabeth HALL, 2nd page lists if Mary remarries, what happens to household items. Many used "Cornwall" surname.
Per Gale Thomas Cornwell:
Marriage 1:
27 Sept 1632 in Fairstead Parish, (next to Terling Parish), Essex, Eng records, to Joan RANKE, no children
"The English Origin of the Cornwell/Cornell Family by Prentiss Glazier"
Marriage 2:
Mary HYANNO, ca 1639, some speculated she was Native American, this refuted in: " The Middler, Newsletter of the Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants", Vol 6 No.1, Spring 2006 by Editor R. W Bacon.
Children:
"William Cornwall and His Descendants" by Dr. Edward Cornwall (New Haven 1909) states Joan died without issue and his second wife Mary was the mother of his 9 children (7 named in his Will), born between 1640 and 1652.
Feb 1639 records refer to him as "William Cornwall, Sergeant-at-arms." Children probably all from 2nd wife (dates of their birth would agree).
Church: listed as a member of Rev John Eliot"s church in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1633-"Immigrants to New England 1620-1633" Great Migration Project"
Military:
Believed to be one of 77 soldiers who attacked and all but exterminated Pequot Indians at their fort in Mystic, Conn in May 1637. 1638 accompanied Mr Hopkins and Mr Goodwin in an expedition sent by colony of Conn to consummate the purchase of Stratford from the Indians. The Rev. John Higginson was the interpreter and later wrote "William Cornwell of Sebrook-for he was there"-(Probably thought he lived in Saybrook but actually was Middletown then)
Per David Cornwell, who began a genealogy compilation in 1824, Wm came from Eng to New Eng in the reign of Charles I accompanied by two brothers-one of whom returned to Eng after first going to Long Island-to recover an estate which had been confiscated. One of them had been an officer in the King's guard. On Wm Sr memorial, only Thomas, b. 1598, is listed as baptized in the same church with several sisters, no other brothers.
graves still to be linked are:
Wm III, b. 6-24-1641 Hartford, CT, d. 6-18-1691, Middletown, CT, married Mary BULL, 11-30-1670, 6 children
Elizabeth (Capt John) Hall, b. 1-1652 Middletown, CT, married 1669, 8 children
Sarah (Daniel) HUBBARD, b. 10-1647 Hartford, 2nd wife, married 10-16-1675, 5 children
Cemetery and town Info:
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2004-09-20-0409200024-story.html
http://www.betweenthelakes.com/pdfs/Riverside_Cemetery_Middletown.pdf
http://dunhamwilcox.net/ct/old_riverside.htm
A youtube of cemetery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKwLwz6OTI
http://www.middletown1650.org/LocalHistory.html
http://www.middletown1650.org/SettlersOfMattabeseckforWeb.pdf
1825 map of where he lived in Middletown, CT: http://www.middletown1650.org/LocalHistory.html~Baptized at Terling, Essex, 25 May 1609, son of William Cornwall and Margaret Hayward. Came from Fairsted, Essex to Massachusetts Bay in 1633.
First settled in Roxbury; then moved to Hartford, & finally Middletown CT by 1651. Died in Middletown 21 February 1677/8.
MARRIAGE:
(1) Fairsted, Essex, 27 September 1632, Joan Ranke; she was admitted to Roxbury church as member #77, immediately following her husband; no further record.
(2) By 1640 Mary _____; apparently dead by 2 February 1674[/5?], as not named in husband's will.
The identification of William Cornwall set forth by Prentiss Glazier would make him nephew, through a half-brother, of Thomas Cornwall or Cornell of Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.
Inscription
In Memoriam
We honor our
immigrant ancestor
William Cornwell
1609-1678
Founder
Middletown CT
Stanley H Cornwell
Bristol RI
Gale T Cornwell
Redwood NY
Plaque dedicated
Memorial Day
30 May 1997
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1609 - 1678 (68 years)
