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Notes for Nicholas Stillwell and Elizabeth Cornell

Research Notes:

1703 On December 6, Elizabeth Cornell and Nicholas Stillwell were granted a marriage license by Lord Cornbury, governor of New York. [1]

1735 Elizabeth Stillwell dated her will in Jamaica, Queens County, New York [2]:

I, Elizabeth Stillwell, of Jamaica, in Queens County, widow, being infirm in body. My funeral charges and just debts are to be paid by my daughter, Miriam Marsh. I leave all my personal and movable estate (except my negro woman Hagar and her two daughters) to my daughter, Miriam Marsh, during her life, and then what may be remaining shall go to Mary Southward, wife of Samuel Southward, of Hempstead, and Esther Sayre, now wife of John Sayre, of New York, tailor. An inventory is to be made of all my goods. And my daughter Miriam is to give 18 silver spoons out of my estate, each to weigh 2 ounces, as follows: Six of them to Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Southward; six to Elizabeth, daughter of John Sayre ; and six to Elizabeth, daughter of James Millward, sou of my daughter Elizabeth, deceased, "and they are to keep the same in remembrance of me." I leave to James Millward £10. My negroes named above are to be free, and to have their bedding and apparell. I make John Sayre and Jarvis Mudge, Jr., of Oyster Bay, executors. Dated September 11, 1735. Witnesses, Joost Lyusen, H. Lawrence, Hester Lawrence. Proved, November 1, 1753.


Footnotes:

[1] John S. Gautier, "New York Marriage Licenses," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 2 (1871), 25-28, at 26, [InternetArchive].

[2] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 4, 1744-1753 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1896), 460, citing liber 18, page 460, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].