Mary (Unknown) Cornwell (abt. 1618 - aft. 1678)

Born about 1618 in England

Descendants

Died after 1678 after about age 60 in Colony of Connecticut [uncertain]

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Mary (Unknown) Cornwell migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

MERGE WARNING: Please do NOT merge her with Mary Bull. Mary Bull was the wife of the next generation's William Cornwell.

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Biography

Married no later than 1639, she was in Hartford where most of her children were born before accompanying William to Middletown in 1650. While most details of her life are not known, she survived William as he provided for her in his will. She is remembered on a plaque attached to Founders Rock in Middletown commemorating the First Settlers and their wives.^[1][2]

Name

Mary, last name at birth unknown. ^[3]

Birth

Born: About 1615. (Likely between 1610 and 1620).

Estimate based on marriage by 1639 and an assumption that she was slightly younger than her husband.

Details of birth date, place and parentage unknown, presumably born in England.

Communion

Church Abstracts show 'Mary, w. W(illia)m, adm. full communion Feb 23, 1678' and led a Cornwell descendant to further research the church records and surmise that William was the only one in town whose wife was not included in church records and that all of William's children are also in church records but not Mary until her communion - it appears two days after her death if the death date is correct. Notation Source is pg. 157 of Church Abstracts Index, Original at Vol. 1, pg 13.

NOTE: this record far more likely refers to the next generation. William Cornwell "Jr" married Mary Bull in early 1670s. It is more likely HIS wife who joined the church in 1678.

Marriage

Married to William Cornwall as his second wife, b. May 25, 1609 d. February 21, 1677/78 by 1639, probably in Hartford.^[4][5]

Children of William and Mary Cornwall:

1. John Cornwall b. April 1640 at Hartford d. November 2, 1707, m. Martha Peck June 8, 1665 at Hartford, 9 children^[6][7]
2. William Cornwall b. June 24, 1641 at Hartford, d. June 18, 1691 at Middletown, m. Mary Bull on November 30, 1670, 6 children^[8][9]
3. Samuel Cornwall b. September 1642 at Hartford, d. December 6, 1728 at Middletown m. Rebecca Bull on June 13, 1667, 7 children^[10][11]
4. Jacob Cornwall b. September 1646 at Hartford, d. April 18, 1708 at Middletown, m. Mary White on January 16, 1677, 10 children^[12][13]
5. Sarah Cornwall b. October 1647 at Hartford, m. as 2nd wife, Daniel Hubbard on October 16, 1675, 5 children^[14][15]
6. Thomas Cornwall b. September 1648 at Hartford, d. 1702 at Middletown, m. Sarah Clarke November 14, 1671^[16][17]
7. Esther Cornwall b May 1650 at Hartford, d. May 2, 1733, m. 1) as 4th wife John Wilcox, Jr. about 1671,^[18] m. 2) John Stow in 1677, ^[19]3 Wilcox children and 3 Stow children^[20]
8. Elizabeth Cornwall b. January 1652 at Middletown, m. Capt John Hall about 1669, 8 children^[21][22]

Death

Died: After 4 Feb 1674/5 when she was named in her husband's will and so was still living.

Notes

Indian princess? The story that her identity is “Mary Hyanno,” a supposed Indian princess was started in the late 1990s with the publication of a CD-Rom of compiled genealogical information, Family Archive CD-100: 1500-1990 Family Pedigrees by United Ancestries, a now-defunct company. This identity is totally unsupported by any original sources despite diligent research by qualified genealogists. See The Middler, Newsletter of the Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants, Vol 6 No.1, Spring 2006 by Editor R. W Bacon for an in depth discussion of this topic. See also http://hindskw.com/KennethHinds/1474.html

Immigration: Unknown

Genealogical Questions

• Actual name at birth
• Parents
• Vital statistics, except marriage

Sources

#S2 Cornwall, Edward E., 1901, William Cornwall and His Descendants, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co., New Haven, Connecticut

#S4 Hall, Rev David B., 1883, The Halls of New England, Genealogical and Biographical, Joel Munsells's Sons, Albany, New York

#S5 Torry, Clarence A., 2004, New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

#S7 Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants homepage

1. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
2. ↑ #S7 SMFSD Website
3. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
4. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700 page 184
5. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
6. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700 page 184
7. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
8. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700 page 184
9. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
10. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700 page 184
11. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
12. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700 page 184
13. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
14. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700 page 396
15. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
16. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700 page 184
17. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
18. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700 page 815
19. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700' page 716
20. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants
21. ↑ #S5 New England Marriages Prior to 1700 page 334
22. ↑ #S2 William Cornwall and His Descendants