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- Ricard is the son of Rebecca Briggs & Thomas Cornell.
. 1663 May 4: Hendrick Janzen, cooper, of the ship Purmerland Church, now a prisoner, acknowledged that he with Jasper Abrahamzen, committed great violence at Rendel Huit's house & forced his wife to give them to eat; they proceeded to Joris Wolsey's house & demanded drink, so that Wolsey & Ely Douty & Ritzert Cornewell had enough to do to put them out, then they went to Carel Van Brugge's house & demanded drink & continued their violence in a manner indecent to be mentioned, so that Carel & Douty & Ritzert Cornewell [Richard Cornell] had enough to do before they could get them out, not without tearing a flap or fall of his unmentionables, which they removed in the shoving out of his body.
Ref: The records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 anno Domini, Vol. 4 p. 233-4, 1887, by Berthold Fernow.
. 1663 - In the same year, the Town Clerk of Flushing informed the Governor that Richard Cornell [Cornhill] had been sent to agree with him about tithes. He was authorized to offer 100 Schapel of grain, 1/2 of peas & 1/2 of wheat.
Ref: Waller's History of Flushing.
. 1665 - he was delegate from Flushing to the Hempstead Convention that framed the 'Dukes Laws," the first code made in the Colony. ... This Convention was assembled under the rule of Governor Nicholls. Long Island, Staten Island & Westchester were united to form the District or County of Yorkshire & many of the provisions were evidently applicable to Yorkshire alone.
Ref: Waller's History of Flushing.
. 1666 Feb 16 - Justice of the Peace in 1666, also Feb. 16, patentee of Flushing from Governor Nicholls with 17 others among whom were John Lawrence & William his brother, Charles Bridges, etc. Feb. 10, 1666, he bought from Thomas Hicks, land on Madnan's Neck, which in 1687, he conveys to Palmer. 1667 - appointed by Governor Nicholls to enroll the Militia. 1670, appointed by the Governor & Council to lay out roads in Newtown & the following year was appointed to adjust the boundary between Bushwick & Newtown, but did not serve. He was permitted to sell liquors & powder to the Indians.
. 1673, appointed by the Council to arbitrate between Roger Townsen & the Westchester people, also to arbitrate between Richard Smith & the inhabitants of Huntington. General Lovelace paid him a visit at his house just before the capture of New York from the Dutch. His sisters Sarah & Rebecca appoint him their attorney to collect legacies under their mother's will. This power he transfers to his brother John & brother-in-law William Earle.
. 1676, he had a survey of 180 acres on the south side of Fresh Kill (Staten Island). In 1684, he petitions to be put in possession of this land. In 1679-80, William Haviland filed a petition reciting that his brother-in-law Capt. Thomas Hicks who had in 1660, obtained from Governor Nicholls a patent for Madnan's Great Neck in the town of Flushing, which was divided equally between him & Richard Cornhill & Elias Doughty, that petitioner bought Doughty's interest, that Cornhell & Hicks had settled their son-in-law on one of the three lots & Mr. Cornhell is settling his other son-in-law John Lawrence on a part of said tract. Petitioner prays that they may be stopped. Commissioners were appointed to divide the tract in three parts & to lay out the 300 acres for Richard Cornhill, Thomas Hicks & William Haviland.
In 1679, Richard Cornhill bought from Abraham Smith 100 acres of woodland in Hempstead, northwest of Little Success Pond, on the road to Madnan's Neck.
In 1680, appraiser of the estate of William Lawrence forced to resign a patent for land; owed the estate of Cornelius Steenwyck 247 guilders 10 stivers in wampum.
. 1684 Apr 14, Takapousha & other Indians sold to Richard Cornhill & others all the lands called Flushing, bounded west by Flushing Creek, south by Jamaica line, east by Hempstead, north by the Sound. Richard Cornhill, Sr. & others buy 966 acres adjoining the rear of Cow Neck, deed on record in Land Office, Albany.
Ref: Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I., by John Cornell.
. 1665 Mar 1 - Elias Doughty & Richard Cornell [Cornhill], as representatives of Flushing, Long Island, met with the governor of New York at Hempstead for a 3 day conference. The deputies signed, a letter to the Duke of York expressing gratitude for being given a share in self-government.
Ref: Civil List & Constitutional History of the Colony & State of NY, 63-64, by Stephen Edgar Albert Werner.
. 1666 Feb 16 - Richard Cornell, justice of the peace, was one of 21 patentees named in a patent of confirmation from Governor Nicoll for the town of Flushing, New York. -. - [1]
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. 1693 Nov 7th day - WILL, of Richard Cornell, of Rockaway in Queens County, In the Name of God, Amen, being sicke, do make this my last will & testament." I do bind & make over all my lands & meadows at Rockaway upon the south side of the Island of Nassau, for the paying & satisfying of a certain debt, owing by me to the children of John Washburn, deceased. If my executors do not pay the said debt when due, then I direct the overseers of this will to sell the same for that purpose, & give the overplus to my 4 sons, William, Jacob, Thomas & John.
. I bequeath to my son William a certain part of my lands & meadows situate at Rockaway, bounded north with the old fence upon the south side of the last years wheat field, & so running east to Hempstead line, & south by the sea. Including all lands & meadows, excepting my now dwelling house & orchard & the pasture thereto adjoining with the barn & the land in tillage about it.
. I bequeath to my dear & loving wife Elizabeth Cornell, during her widowhood, & then descend to my son William.
. to my son Thomas, all that portion of land & meadow bought by me of John Smith of Hempstead, commonly called Little Smith. Also another part of my land & meadow, bounded south by my son William's line; north by the middle of the Fresh Cove that Robert Beadell's meadow was laid out in, & so running east to the three rail fence, & further if it shall happen.
. to my sons Jacob & John, all my lands and meadows adjoining the wells to the north of Thomas Cornell's line, situate at Rockaway. Bounded north by the Great river or Cove, east by the 3 rail fence, to be divided equally between them.
. to my son Richard 10 acres of meadow joining to wells his line, to run north & south upon an equal line.
. to my son William 10 acres of meadow joining the above, & to run in the same manner.
. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Lawrence, ten acres of meadow joining to my son William Cornell's meadow, & to run in the same manner.
I leave to my daughter, Mary Cornell, £100 NY currency, one third to be paid to her when of age 18 y, the rest in yearly payments. Also one half of the indoor movables.
Leaves to his wife the use of the house & lands during her widowhood.
Leaves 12 heifers to his 12 grand children, namely the children of his son Richard,
the children of my son Washburn," & the children of my son John Lawrence.
. to his daughter Sarah Arnold, 2 cows.
. If my wife remarry then she is to have 100 & one half of the movables. Directs his lands at Cow Neck & Crabmeadow to be sold, & the money to go to all his children. Leaves all his rights in the undivided lands in Hempstead to his 5 sons.
His four sons, Richard, Thomas, Jacob & John, are to have the right to put horses on the beach, & they are to assist in making the fence. If his sons Jacob & John see cause to build by the path side to the eastward of my dwelling house, & on the land purchased of Little Smith, I give to each of them two acres of said land. All the money in my house, & all the debts due to me, shall be employed for the payment of the children of the deceased John Washburn & Captain Charles Lodwick.
. To Jacob & John, liberty to put horses on heather.
. To sons Thomas & William, liberty to put swine on beach.
Revokes all former wills. Signed & (red) seal, Richard Cornell.
Executors: His wife Elizabeth, & sons Richard & William executors, & his friends Colonel Thomas Willett, Lieut. Colonel Thomas Hicks & Captain Daniel White, overseers." Not witnessed.
Proved before Governor Fletcher, October 30, 1694.
Ref: NY Abstracts of Wills, Liber 5-6 &, History of the Rockaways from the year 1685 to 1917, Alfred H Bellot, 1917.
Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg, Thank you. - - - [2]
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