Giljam Pieterse Cornell (1679 - 1754)

Born 23 Feb 1679 in Flatbush, Kings, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Cornelia Van Noortwijck — married 1 Dec 1712 in Long Island City, Queens, New York

Descendants

Died 1 Aug 1754 at age 75 in Flatbush, Kings, New York

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Biography

Gilliam Pieterse Cornel(l) was born in 1679 in Flatbush, New York.

His wife was Cornelia, daughter of Simon and Folkertje Van Nortwyck, of Blanckenburg, in the Netherlands. "They remained until 1723 at Flatbush, removing from there to New Utrecht, and is said to have accompanied some of his children to Bucks County, PA prior to 1750. of which latter fact we have no proof, unless a tombstone, beside those of his sons Gilliam and Wilhelmus. in the old Dutch Reformed burying ground near Feasterville marked "Q x C," maybe considered as such. He purchased a "house and lot in Flatbush as early as 1708. His children as shown by the records of the Dutch Reformed churches of Flatbush and New Utrecht and from the Bucks county records, were: Adrien: Jacobus, baptised October 2, 1720: Wilhelmus, baptised July 29, 1722; Gilliam, baptised October 23, 1724; Johannes, baptised June 16, 1727, married May 23. 1750, Maria Lott, and remained in Flatbush; Simon, baptised July 13, 1729; and Abraham, baptised October 10, 1731. Margaretta Cornell, who married Rem Vanderbelt, of Southampton, and had a son Gilliam baptised at Southampton in 1742, is also supposed to have been a daughter of Gilliam. Of the above named sons of Gilliam and Cornelia Cornell, four (Adricn, Wilhelmus, Gilliam and Simon) came to Bucks county, and settled in Northampton and Southampton. Adrien was the ancestor of most of the Cornells who now reside in Bucks Ref. Hist or Bucks Co, PA. ^[1]

64 Calendar of Wills. 269 (C 19) CORNEL, Giliam, of Flatbush, Kings Co., farmer. April 5 1742 Children Adriaen, Cornelius, Jacobus, Wilhelmus, Giliam, Johonas Simon and Maregretie, wife of Rem vander Bilt. Real and personal property. Executors sons Adriaen and Cornelius, brother-in-law Dominicus van der Veer and Christianus Lupardus. Witnesses Johannes Waldron. Rem van der Bilt, Peter Strycker. ^[2]

Rem Vanderbilt is Vanderbilt-88 and brother-in-law Dominicus van der Veer is Van_Der_Veer-49

Church Records

Marriage

• 1710 04 Nov; Guliam Cornel, ym of Midwood; Cornelia VanNoordwyk, yd of Blankenburg, Holland liv N. Amersfort, marriage place Flatbush, NY. ^[3]

Children's baptisms

1. 1722. 29 July. Gilijam Cornel, Cornelia. Wilhelmus. Wit: Christiana Lupardus, Adriaana Lupardus.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ History of Bucks County, PA https://archive.org/stream/historyofbucksco03davi/historyofbucksco03davi_d jvu.txt
2. ↑ Calendar of Wills page 64 https://ia802703.us.archive.org/27/items/calendarofwillso01fern/calendarofwillso01fern.pdf
3. ↑ New York Transcribed and Indexed Records.
4. ↑ "Records of the Reformed Church of New Utrecht, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 112 (1981), Issue 3, page 134. An abbreviated version of this record found in Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Fonda Vol III, and New Utrecht Book 17. Handwritten transcript of church register accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6961/42037_647350_0284-00050/5360

• "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2H6-W5M : accessed 5 June 2016), Giljam Cornell in entry for Wilhelmus Cornell, 29 Jul 1722; citing REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH, NEW UTRECHT, KINGS, NEW YORK, reference ; FHL microfilm 974.7 B2N V. 73.