1703 On December 6, John Cornell and Letitia Printz were granted a marriage license by Lord Cornbury, governor of New York. [1]
1742 Colonel John Cornell was named as a brother in the will of William Cornell of Hempstead. [2]
1745 By his will dated January 16th 1741, John Cornell of Rockaway, Colonel of Queens County militia, who died in 1745, left a life interest in his estate to his widow Letitia with a reversion to their daughter Gloriana. On August 1st 1748, the widow gave a bond for the value of the estate, gave her late husband's eight slaves their freedom and next day married Captain John Brown. [3]
[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. 3, 1730-1744 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1895), 402, citing liber 15, p 93, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[3] Alfred Henry Bellot, History of the Rockaways from the year 1685 to 1917 (Far Rockaway, New York: Bellot's Histories, 1917), 18, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].