Mary Russell married john Cornell circa 1669 in either Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony (her hometown or Hempstead, Long Island, New York Colony (his hometown).[1]
The couple settled in Cow Neck, part of Hempstead.
Children
Richard of Scarsdale b. 26 Jan 1678; d. 15 April 1757; m. Hannah Thorne 1701.[2]
Caleb, b. 1683; d. 1734; m. Elizabeth Hagner 1705[2]
Rebecca b. 1685; m. John Starr of Danbury, Conn.[2]
Research Note: In merging this file I searched Ancestry.com born in America and found Mary listed many times as married to John Cornell. When searching of Mary Russell in the English records, there were none. Therefore, I merged.
Sources
↑ Torrey, Carence A., New England Marriages prior to 1700, p. 183, viewed on ancestry.com.
Aldridge, Bertha Bortle Beal, The Briggs Genealogy, Including the Ancestors and Descendants of Ichabod White Briggs 1609 to 1953; also Other Line Descendants of His Immigrant Ancestor John Briggs, b. 1609, York, England and Some of the Descendants of Ichabod White (Victor, N.Y., 1953) p. 12:: Information: John Cornell (1637-1704) m. 1669, Mary Russell b. 1645 d/o John and Dorothy Russell, who were in Marshfield, Mass, as early as 1642/43
Acknowledgments
This profile was created in part on 21 March 2011 through the import of Martin_O_Daniels_Lorentz_Toale.ged.
Thank you to David Townsend for creating this profile, in part, in WikiTree profile Russell-5347 through the import of cornell_flakey.ged on Jun 28, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Martin, David and others.
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One imported record cited in this profile cited someone's birth in 1644-1645 in or of Saffron-, Walden, Essex, England. That may pertain to her husband John Cornell.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary: