Deborah (Unknown) Corson

Born [date unknown] in New Netherland [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1695 in Cape May, Cape May, New Jersey, British Colonial America

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Biography

Deborah was born in 1660 Deborah Townsend ... She passed away in 1695. The Corson's were Quakers

Note: No documentation found as of yet to attest to birth date. Estimated birth date by calculation of proven birth dates dates of her children as an alternative method presumably done by previous contributors. Also have found no documentation that Deborah's maiden name is "Townsend".

These entries below are from research conducted by Orville Corson and published in 1939.

Page 11: Peter’s wife, Deborah, it can also be assumed that her parents were English and probably Quakers. The names of the sons and grandsons of Carsten and Barbara, Jan (John) and Peter, Andries or Andrias (Andrew), Jacob and Christian are probably more typically Scandinavian than English, but the names of the granddaughters, Hannah, Martha and Abigail, are Scripture names and certainly indicate English Quaker parentage. The names in the several following generations were names that were commonly used by the pioneer families of Cape May. https://archive.org/details/threehundredyear00cors_0/page/10/mode/2up?view=theater

Page 20: Peter Carstensen, Carsten, or Corson married Deborah-. Her parents’ name or the probable date of her marriage to Peter was not found in the records. She was identified by the conveyance record found in Gravesend Book VI, p. Ill, under date of Sept. 23, 1693, to which she made her mark to her signature written by the clerk as “Deborah (X) ye wife of Peter Carsten.” Peter, no doubt, married Deborah about the same time that John (Corson) married (about 1680), as their daughter was a widow with five small children in 1709. John Corson, it seems, was the eldest son of Carsten Jansen and Barbara, and was born probably not later than 1660, as he had married Maria Eliase Daas or Daws about 1680. He baptised a son, Andries, under date of Jan. 23, 1681. This baptism is found in the records of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church; the parents were recorded as “Jan Karsten” and “Maria Elias Daas” and the witnesses were Elias Daas (Daws) and Barbara Karsten. Barbara Karsten (patronymic name meaning Carsten’s Barbara) was the paternal grandmother, and Elias Daas or Daws was the maternal grandfather of the child, Andries. https://archive.org/details/threehundredyear00cors_0/page/20/mode/2up?view=theater

Page 21: That Peter Corson was still living in Gravesend on Sept. 23, 1693, and had moved to Cape May County, N. J., during the following year is shown by two conveyance records by which he disposed of his property in Gravesend. The first found in Gravesend Book VI, p. Ill, and dated Sept. 23, 1693, begins by reciting as follows: “This present writting wittnesseth thatt I Petter Carsten living att gravesend in Kings County on Long Island in ye province of New York doe hereby ---—” etc. It was to this same deed that his wife signed with her mark as “Deborah Carsten.” The second deed by which Peter Corson conveyed two allotments of his Gravesend property to Cornelis Williamsen and Dirck Brower establishes clearly that Peter now lived in Cape May County, N. J., and is the record that proves that the John and Peter Corston or Corson of early Cape May history were the John and Peter Carstensen, Carsten, or Corson of Gravesend, Long Island. This deed is dated Sept. 25, 1694, and is recorded in Gravesend Book VI, p. 136. https://archive.org/details/threehundredyear00cors_0/page/20/mode/2up?view=theater

Page 27: The children of Peter Corson and his wife, Deborah, whom he had married in Gravesend, L. I., were sons, Christian and Peter, Jr., and daughters, Abigail and Mary. The sons were identified by three conveyance records in the Office of the Secretary of State, in Trenton, N. J., and the daughter by the will of her husband, Shamger Hand, Jr. https://archive.org/details/threehundredyear00cors_0/page/28/mode/2up?view=theater

Sources

• Three hundred years with the Corson families in America ... by Orville Corson. by Corson, Orville, 1883- Publication date 1939 Topics Corson family Publisher [Burlington, Vt., Free press interstate printing corporation] c1939
• https://ia902806.us.archive.org/33/items/threehundredyear00cors_0/threehundredyear00cors_0.pdf

• Ancestry Family Trees