Captain
Josiah
Cornish
I
Born in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Cornish
and Anne (Bates) Cornish
Brother of
Elizabeth (Cornish) Clark, Thomas Cornish, Anna (Cornish) Bartlett, Abigail Cornish, Samuel Cornish and David Cornish Sr.
Husband of
Abigail (Clark) Cornish
— married
15 Dec 1786 in Plymouth, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Grace (Cornish) Morey, Allen Cornish, Josiah Cornish II, Aaron Cornish and Abigail (Cornish) Nye
Died
at age 83
in Taberg, Oneida, New York, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Jan 2018
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Biography
Private Josiah Cornish I served with Plymouth County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.
Josiah Cornish I is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A026173.
Josiah was born in 1760. He was the son of Thomas Cornish and Anne Bates.[1]
He married Abigail Clark at Plymouth in 1760[2] and they had five children.[3]
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F46D-DRH : 15 January 2020), Josiah Cornish, 1760.
- ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQR-YWT : 24 January 2020), Josiah Cornish, 1786.
- ↑ Cornish, Joseph Edward. The history and genealogy of the Cornish families in America. Boston, MA: Self-Published. Page 143. https://archive.org/details/historyandgenea00corngoog/page/n162/mode/2up?q=Deborah+Pope
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