Joel Cornish (1731 - abt. 1808)

Born 18 Jul 1731 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Seymour) Cornish — married 23 Apr 1752 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died about 21 May 1808 at about age 76 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Biography

Joel was born 18 Jul 1731 in Simsbury, Connecticut.^[1][2] He was the son of James Cornish and Amy Butler. ^[3][4]

He married Anne Seymour, of Hartford, Connecticut 23 April 1752.^[5][6]

Last seen on the 1800 U.S. Census in Simsbury in a household of 2 people, 1 male over 45 and 1 female over 45, residing next to Amaziah Humphrey. In the 1810 U.S. Census, George Cornish Jr. is residing next to Amaziah Humphrey.

He died 21 May 1808.^[7]

Research Notes

According to Jacobus^[8] Joel Cornish was born and died at Simsbury, Connecticut.

Children’s births are listed in Simsbury records.^[9]

According to the account on his son Joel’s profile, he gave his grandson Joel a knife in 1804 before the grandson left for New York, arriving the next spring. His son Joel arrived in New York April 1808. According to the Cornish genealogy the elder Joel died in May 1808. Would his son have left his very old father only a few months prior to his death? Possibly, if siblings Rhoda and George remained in the area.

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W1-QPK : 11 February 2018), Joel Cornish, 18 Jul 1731; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
2. ↑ Jacobus: Page 72
3. ↑ Entered by Tom Bredehoft, Jun 23, 2012
4. ↑ Cornish: Page 10-11
5. ↑ Cornish: Page 18
6. ↑ Jacobus: Page 72
7. ↑ Cornish: Page 18
8. ↑ Jacobus: Page 72
9. ↑ Bates: Page 191

• 1800 U.S. Census [1]

• Tom Bredehoft, information found in LDS FamilySearch User Submitted Trees.

• Cornish, Joseph Edward. The History and Genealogy of the Cornish Families in America (Geo. H. Ellis Co., Boston, 1907)

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. A History of the Seymour Family (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1939)

• Bates, Albert Carlos. Simsbury, Connecticut, Births, Marriages and Deaths (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, 1898)