1698 Richard Cornell was listed in the 1698 census of Flushing with his parents Richard and Sarah, and his sisters Sarah, Elizabeth, and Mary. [1] [2]
1698 Miriam Mott was listed in the census of Hempstead with her parents Joseph and Miriam and her siblings Jeane, Joseph, and Samuel. "Queens County. A list of all ye Inhabitants of hempstd, old and young, fremen and servants, black and white taken by strict Inquary, yt ye nams of all ye Inhabitants old and young, white and blacke taken by ye order of ye ye Justises of ye Peece, and to ys being a true List by strict Inquiry we have given it under oure hands agust ye 31---1698 ... Joseph Mott, Miriam Mott, Miriam Mott, Jeane Mott, Joseph Mott, Samuel Mott, and Daniell Williams." [3]
1706 Richard Cornell, of Flushing, gent, sold to Richard Cornell, his son, deed, land partly in Flushing and partly in Hempstead, bounded south by Jacob Cornell, and John Hicks, west by Hicks, north by a swamp, east by Success Pond with reversions, etc.. This was probably part of the survey, Aug. 26, 1685, of 837 acres in Flushing and Hempstead, southeast of Little Neck or Cornbury. 1687, Richard, of Flushing, gave his son Richard, one-half of a piece of land at Success. In 1752, Richard, conveys the land by the same description as in the deed of 1706, to Whitehead Hicks, 150 acres. This deed is among the papers of Hallett Cornwell a descendant. [4]
1712/13 "This is to certify whom it may concern, that Richard Cornwell and Miriam Mott, both of Hempstead, were thrice published for Matrimony in th Parish of Hempstead, pursuant to the Law in that Case provided. By me, John Thomas, Hempstead, February ye 8th, 1712." [5]
1712/13 "Richd Cornel & Miriam Mott of Hempstead Feb. 8, 1712 with Certificate from Mr. Thomas Rectr of yt Parish" were married at Jamaica, Long, Island, New York. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
1735 On 27 June, Richard Cornell Jr, and other members of the Cornell family, signed a Petition of the Inhabitants of the Parish for the Corporation of St. George's Church, which was presented to the Governor. [11]
1738 Richard Cornell witnessed the will of brother Samuel. 1740(?), Commissioner of Highways (Printed Records, 3-262). [12]
1747 Richard Cornell deed to son James land at Success (gift). [13]
1752 Richard Cornell of Flushing, yeoman, to son James, deed one-fifth of all my lands in Flushing, Hempstead or elsewhere. Deed to Whitehead Hicks, 150 acres at Success. [14]
1754 Richard Cornell and wife living. (Letters of James.) [15]
1760 Samuel, Stephen, Obadiah and Isaac Cornell to their brother James, deed land at Success near the dwelling of our father Richard, west side of Joseph Cornell's house. [16]
Research Notes:
1715 25th of 12th mo. - The Friends on Cow Neck and Great Neck desire to be transferred from the Flushing to the Westbury monthly meeting. - 1715, - "Wm. Mott and Ri. Cornwell are chosen to take care how the meetings at the two Necks are kept and how Friends are in reality." [17]
1719 28th of 9th mo. - "Concluded that it is needful that a meeting house be built at Cow Neck. The place and dimensions to be left to Joseph Latham, Wm. Hutchins, James Jackson, Wm. Mott, Jeremiah Williams and Ri. Cornwell." [18]
1722 Richard Cornell was the "Fence Viewer". [19]
1725 Richard Cornell, Jr., of Flushing from Van Hoff, deed £300, land on road from Hempstead Plains to Washburn's Point, 70 acres with houses, orchards, etc. [20]
1731 Richard Cornell and wife Mary of Flushing to Benjamin Cornell of Flushing, deed, south by Stephen, deceased, north and east by Isaac, deceased, 6 acres. [21]
1731 Richard Cornell witnessed the will of Nicholas Eurie, of Westchester Co. [22]
1733 Richard Cornell, Jr., Hempstead, yeoman, from Wilson, deed, £336, 60 acres in Hempstead on road from Hempstead to Great Neck joining John Cornell. [23]
1735 Richard Cornell, Jr., petitions for incorporation of St. George's Church, Hempstead. [24]
1739 Richard Cornell Jr witnessed the will of Cornelius Polhemus in Hempstead. [25]
1740 Richard Cornell was commissioner of Highways [26]
1772 Barak Cornell conveys land at Success, south by Richard Cornell now living and land late of Richard, deceased, some part of which belongs to the posterity of said Richard and some part to Stephen and Cornelius Van Wyck, east by Benjamin Cornell, deceased. Again in 1788, he describes the same land as bounded south by Richard, deceased, and land of Richard now in possession, west partly of Obadiah and partly upon Van Wyck, east by Benjamin, deceased, now in possession of Uriah Mitchell and George Cornell. [27]
Apparently Richard Cornell died between 1772 and 1778. [28]
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[3] Edward Doubleday Harris, "The Hempstead census of 1698," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 45 (1914), 54-68, at 58, [HathiTrust].
[4] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 158, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[5] William H. Moore, History of St. George's Church, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1881), 39, [InternetArchive].
[6] Thomas Poyer, "Rector Book of the Parish of Jamaica 1710-1732," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 19 (1888), 5-12, 53-59, at 54, [HathiTrust].
[7] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), [AncestryImage].
[8] Alfred Henry Bellot, History of the Rockaways from the year 1685 to 1917 (Far Rockaway, New York: Bellot's Histories, 1917), 15, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[9] Horatio Oliver Ladd, Origin and History of Grace Church, Vol. 1 (Shakespeare Press, 1914), 280, follows entries for the year 1712 and the next record is dated May 1, 1713, [InternetArchive].
[10] Henry Onderdonk Jr., copied by Josephine C. Frost, Record Kept by Rev. Thomas Poyer, Rector of Episcopal Churches at Jamaica, Newtown & Flushing Long Island (New York: 1913), 33, [InternetArchive].
[11] Martha Bockée Flint, Early Long Island, a colonial study, 156, noting that the charter then given is still in the possession of the church, [HathiTrust].
[12] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[13] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[14] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[15] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[16] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[17] Henry Onderdonk, "Friends Meeting Houses on Long Island" The American Historical Record, and repertory of Notes and Queries 2 (1873), 73-76 at 75, [GoogleBooks].
[18] Henry Onderdonk, "Friends Meeting Houses on Long Island" The American Historical Record, and repertory of Notes and Queries 2 (1873), 73-76 at 75, [GoogleBooks].
[19] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 158, of 158-159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[20] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 158, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[21] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 158, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[22] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 3, 1730-1744 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1895), 33, citing liber 11, p 143, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[23] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[24] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[25] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 3, 1730-1744 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1895), 342, citing liber 14, p 124, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[26] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 158, of 158-159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[27] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[28] John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell family: being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth R.I. (1902), 159, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].