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Sarah CORNELL, .1

Female 1623 - 1690  (66 years)


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  • Name Sarah CORNELL 
    Suffix .1 
    Born 30 Mar 1623  Saffron Walden, Essex Co., England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 1690 
    Person ID I2663  Richard Patterson NJ & ON
    Last Modified 13 Aug 2017 

    Father Thomas CORNELL
              b. 1595, Saffron Walden, Essex Co., England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Aft 7 May 1655, Port Mouth, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 60 years) 
    Mother Rebecca BRIGGS
              b. 25 Oct 1600, St. James Clerkenwell, Islington, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 8 Feb 1672, Portsmouth, Newport Co., Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Married 1617 
    Family ID F1911  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family JOHN LAWRENCE, .Verify Idenity
              d. 27 Sep 1712, Flushing, Queens, Long Isl., New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married c 1655 
    Last Modified 13 Aug 2017 
    Family ID F1912  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Sarah.1 is the daughter of Rebecca Briggs & Capt. Thomas Cornell.

      . Sarah Cornell married first 1 Sep 1643, New Amsterdam Reformed Church, NY to Thomas Willnett. Children Wm & Thos. Willett.

      . Sarah Cornell Willet married 2nd. on 3 Nov 1647 NY to Charles Bridges.

      . Sarah Cornell Willet Bridges married 3rd (before 9 Jan 1679), John Lawrence.

      . 1662 - Witness at the 1662 baptism of her neice Elisabeth, daughter of Richard Cornell.
      . 1673 - Sarah and Rebecca make their brother Richard, attorney, to collect moneys under their mother's WILL.
          It may be well to mention here, that Cornell's Neck, which was a grant to Thomas Cornell from Gov. Kieft, July 21, 1646, was occupied for a number of years by him, but that being driven away by the Indians he returned to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he had a grant from that town of over 100 Feb. 4, 1646, & here he lived & died and was hurried in the family cemetery as before mentioned. He seems to have left all his landed estate to his wife, Rebecca.
      She gave Cornell's Neck to her daughters, Sarah & Rebecca, & the latter conveyed her interest in it to her sister, Sarah, who thus became the second whole owner of the property. She seems never to have occupied the place, but have preferred the security of city life in New Amsterdam, & Flushing was probably the summer residence of her first husband, Thomas Willett, also of her third husband, John Lawrence.
      After the law suit she conveyed Cornell's Neck to her eldest son, William Willett, who occupied this place, but died unmarried; his nephew, Col. Thomas Willett, was his successor as owner of the estate.
      The Willetts were a family of considerable prominence in the early history of the colony & filled many political & military offices. Cornell's Neck remained in the possession of the Willett family for over one hundred years. It was however afterwards divided, & in the absence of male heirs, passed out of the family & Cornell's Neck is now [1902] owned by the families of Ludlow & Beach, some Roman Catholic institutions, and others
      . Sarah third married John Lawrence, son of John Lawrence (ca 1618-1699) & Susannah (-aft May 1699), in Flushing, Queens County, New York. Born ca 1644. John died ca 1697
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  • Sources 
    1. [S25] Rev. John Cornell, Ny. Press of T A Wright, 1902.

    2. [S70] T A Wright, NY, 1902.