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COOLEY, ELIAKIM, Jr., of Springfield, m. Griswold Beckwith, dau'r of Mathew Beckwith 2d or Jr., by her mother Elizabeth, and by her mothers third marriage. Her second marriage was to Peter Pratt, he d. March 24, 1688. This Elizabeth was dau'r of Mathew Griswold of Lyme, who first m. John Rogers, and was divorced, Aug. 5, 1679, and had two children by Rogers.
COOLEY, RICHARD, had a son Eliakim, b. in 1648. Cooley, Simon, m. Elizabeth Gunn, of Hatfield, Mass., in May 1709.
COOLEY, BENJAMIN, of Springfield, was one of the committee to lay out the town of Suffield, in 1670, for the new plantation of Stoney Brook. Capt. Abel Cooley, d. at W. Springfield, May 26, 1807, aged 92 years. The name is yet found in Western, Mass., and in Conn.
Miss Caulkins, speaking of Wm. Cooley of New London, says he was at Southold, Long Island, with Robert Bartlett, and George Tongue, trading off their "ineons and wampum" for rum, about 1663.
Cooley, has one coat of arms ; 1 by the name of Cooley, graduated at Amherst, in 1854 and 5, at Yale College, before 1827, and 5 at Williams College. (See Coley.)
COLEY, SAMUEL, of Milford, had a house lot in Milford of more than two acres, as one of the first settlers there, an early free
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planter and voter there, where his wife Ann, d. Oct. 3, 1689. He was a free planter there Nov. 20, 1639, with liberty to act in " the choyce of public officers " in the plantation, as was Nicho. Camp, Nath'] Brisco, John "Sharman " and others. His home lot laid out at Milford, Dec. 28, 1646, was sold to Wm. Bisco. Samuel Coley, (supposed the same) is found in Fairfield, before 1700, and his dau'r Ann, m. John Kellogg, of Norwalk, Jan., 1729-30, and had two sons and two daughters, (he d. in 1740, perhaps Samuel, Jr.) Peter Coley, of Fairfield, was accepted to be made free in Oct. 13, 1664, and free there 1669. Samuel Coleys son Samuel, m. Mary Carles, Oct. 21, 1669, by John Clark commissioner. Samuel sen'r> of Milford, had a son Samuel, b. at Milford, Oct. 20, 1654; Thomas, b. April 20, 1657, perhaps others before and afterward. This appears to have been a distinct family from that of Benjamin Cooley, of Springfield and Suffield. The name is uniformly spelled on the Milford record, " Coley and Coly," while the name at Springfield is as uniformly spelled " Cooley." Coley, has 3 coats of arms; Coley or Collay, 1 ; and Cooley, 1 ; Collay or Colley, 1; Colle, 1; Colle or Coulee, 1 ; Collie, Colley, or Cooling, 1; Cooley, 1; 1 Coley, graduated at Yale College, 1816. (See Cooley.)
COOLIDGE, JOHN, an early settler at Watertown, Mass., where he had eight lots of land recorded.
COOLIDGE, OBADIAH, of Wethersfield, Conn., m. Elizabeth, and had issue, viz. : Elizabeth, b. Feb. 26, 1688 ; Obadiah, his son d. or born, Sept. 25, 1689 ; Hannah, b. March 26, 1690.
COOLIDGE, GEO., aged 18, embarked in the Assurance de Lo. for Virginia, in 1635.
COOLIDGE, AUGUSTUS, graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1813, and Valorus P. Coolidge, in 1844; Coolidge, Amos Hill, in 1853, graduated at Amherst College ; 9 of this name graduated at Harvard College, before 1848, the first in 1724 ; 1 at Yale College, in 1819.
COOPER, THOMAS, of Windsor, was the first of the name in Conn., in March, 1636 ; he with George Chapple, and Thomas Barber, of Windsor, were put out in service to Francis Stiles, to learn the trade of a carpenter. (See Coll. Record.) Thomas Cooper inveigled the affections of Mr. Lees maid, without her masters consent, for which he was ordered to pay Mr. Lee, 20s, damages and a fine of 20s, to the court in June, 1646, and John Perkins and Thomas Cooper, engaged the payment of it by the last of March, at Hartford. He probably removed to Springfield, about this time, though his son
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Timothy, was b. in Springfield, in 1644, and son Thomas, b. 1646, it has been claimed he removed to Springfield, in 1641. He had children recorded at Springfield, viz. : Timothy, b. 2d mo. 1644 ; Thomas, b. 3d of 5th mo. 1646 ; Elizabeth, b. 23d of 12th mo. 1648 ; Mary, b. 15, ye 8th mo. 1651; John, b. 12th of 2d mo. 1654; Rebecca, b. 3d mo. 1657; 2d John, b. 1659.
COOPER, TIMOTHY, of Springfield, (son of Thomas,) b. 1644, and his wife Elizabeth, had Sarah, b. March 17, 1665-6 ; Thomas, b. 1667; John, b. Jan. 24, 1670 ; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 21, 1672, per- haps others. Thomas Cooper above, was one of the first town com- mittee at Springfield, in 1670, for the purpose of laying out the town of Suffield, to grant lands to settlers, and manage the affairs of the town, with Capt. John Pynchon, George Colton and others, and had 50 acres of land alloted to him there in 1680, and was a voter there in all town affairs, 1686.
COOPER, JOHN, was one of the first settlers at New Haven, and signed the fundamental agreement there, in 1639. He had a family at New Haven, of three persons in his family, in the list of polls and estate there, which (regulated the first division in East Haven,) division of lands. He was agent at the Iron works in East Haven, some time, and removed there from New Haven, and was an active business settler, and a man of note; he was deputy to the General Court, in April, 1665; May, 1671; Oct., 1671; Oct., 1674, and an assistant in 1676 ; John sen'r d. Nov. 23, 1689. His children were Mary, b. Aug. 15, 1631; Hannah, b. 1638 ; John, b. May 28, 1642; Sarah, b. Sept. 21, 1645; the two first b. before he removed to New Haven ; John, was charged of high treason by John Scott.
COOPER, JOHN, JR., son of John sen'r, of New Haven, m. Mary Sampson, Dec. 27, 1666, and had a dau'r b. Nov. 19, 1668, d. 1668 ; Mary, b. Nov. 15, 1669, d. 1670 ; John b. Feb. 23, 1670, perhaps others. (Perhaps John, Jr., went to Newark, New Jersey, and one of the 101 purchasers. ) The name was these.
COOPER, SAMUEL, m. Elizabeth Smith, at New Haven, Nov. 15, 1699 ; Rebecca Cooper, of New Haven, widow of Samuel dece'd, was baptized, July 28, 1728, her son Robert, bap. July 28, 1728, and her sons Samuel, and Jacob, and dau'rs Mary and Experience, all baptized Sept. 22, 1728, under their mother Mary Badurtha, a former wife of Samuel Cooper.
COOPER, THOMAS, from Springfield, settled at Middletown, Conn., where he m. Abigail Whitmore, Jan. 20, 1710; Issue
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Abigail, b. Dec. 17, 1711 ; Thomas, b. and d. ; 2d Thomas, b. 1715 ; Lamberton, b. about 1717, or 18; Thomas sen'r, of Middle- town, d. Sept. 11, 1722.
COOPER, CAPT. LAMBERTON, son of Thomas, of Middletown, b. 1717, was lost at sea, aged 30; Abigail his widow d. in 1752, aged 31, he left an only son Lamberton, d. at Middletown, Aug. 26, 1815, aged 73 years ; his relict Elizabeth, d. April 6, 1847, aged 76, a very respectable family.
COOPER, JOHN, of Southampton, Long Island, with Capt. Tap- pin, Mr. Halsey and Mr. Stanborough, in behalf of Southampton, being dissatisfied with the boundaries of the town, and Mr. Baker, and Mr. Mulford, in behalf of ye town of East Hampton, Long Island, " agreed that the bounds between the two plantations shall forever be and remain at the stake set down by Capt. How, an hun- dred pole Eastward from a little pond, the said stake being two miles or near there abouts from ye east side of a great pond com- monly called Sackaponock ; and so to run from ye south sea to the stake, and so over the Island by a strait line to ye castern end of Hog neck, according to yo true intent and purpose of what is expressed in the grant and deed subscribed and allowed by Mr. James Forret, agent for ye Right Hon. Earle of Sterling," &c. It was ordered, " that ye towne of East Hampton," should pay Capt. Topping and his co-partners towards their charges in trans- acting this case at this court, (May, 1661,) the sum of 20 nobles. John Cooper, of Southampton, Long Island, in May, 1652, appealed from a verdict of a jury at Southampton, to the General Court of Conn., in the case of Mr. Stanborough, plaintiff, vs., John Cooper sen'r defendant, the court sustains the right of appeal, and considered the bill presented of Cooper to Peter Tallman the Dutchman, and assigned by Tallman, to Stanborough, as not authentic. Mr. Cooper resided on Long Island, in 1655, and probably afterward, where he was a man of reputation. Jo. Cooper, aged 20, embarked for Vir- ginia, in the Alice, Orchard, Master, in 1635 ; Richard Cooper, aged 18, embarked in the Merchant, Bonaventure, for Virginia, in 1634-5 ; Thomas Cooper, aged 18, embarked for New England, in the Christopher de Lo., John White, Master, March 16, 1634; Peter Cooper, aged 28, came to New England, in the Susan and Ellen, or Increase, in 1635; Richard Cooper, aged 28, embarked in the Transport, for Virginia, in 1635 ; John Cooper, aged 41, of Oney, in Buckinghamshire, with his children, Mary 13, Jo. 10, Thomas 7 and Martha 5 years old, embarked in the Hopewell for New Eng-
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land, April 1, 1635 ; Thomas Cooper, aged 18, embarked to be transported to New England, March, 1634, with certificates from justices of peace and ministers of the parish of St. Egyd, Cripple Gate &c., and in the Christopher de Lo[ndon,] Elizabeth Cooper, aged 24, came to New England, in the Planter ; John Cooper, was repre- sentative, May, 1659, and afterward ; Anthony Cooper, of Hingham, 1635 ; John Cambridge, 1636; Thomas, of Hingham, 1636, (Far- mer.) This has been a highly respectable name at New Haven, Middletown, South Hampton, Springfield and Suffield. John Cooper sen'r and Jr., were in the list of freemen at New Haven, Oct., in 1669. Cooper has 24 coats of arms, and Coopers has 3.
COOPER, TIMOTHY, of Lynn, in 1652; Thomas Cooper, buried at Boston, 1637, aged 80 ; Deacon Cooper buried in Massa- chusetts, Sept. 1, 1691, (Sewall's diary.) Mary, an English captive of Yorke, by Mathew Cary, in Oct. 1695, from Lubec ; Boyer Cooper, a Canada prisoner brought in from Louisburg, to Boston, taken at Capt. Bradbury's fort by ye Indians of Gorges; Thomas, overseer of the will of Robert Martin, (Rehoboth,) Inventory, June, 1660 ; Thomas, also one who made the inventory of John Brown, Jr., of Rehoboth, in 1662, also of John Brown, sen'r will, dated April 7, 1662; Deacon Thomas, overseer of the will of Rev. Samuel New- man, of Rehoboth Inventory, taken July 31, 1663. He was active in settling estates at Rehoboth. Lieut. Samuel Cooper, (of Conn.,) killed in Capt Hanchett's company, in the expedition against Quebec, 1775. (See His. Reg.)
COOPER, BENJAMIN, of Salem, in 1637, and mention is made of Ester Cooper, Laurence, son of Benjamin, and his sister Rebecca, John Cooper, was freeman at Scituate, soon after 1634; he was at Scituate, as early as 1634, and had an Island laid out to him there, in 1638 ; he sold the Island in 1639, and removed to Barnstable in 1639.
Thomas Cooper, (spelled Cowper, Ensign, ) of Springfield, grants land at Warranoke River, to George Sexton, resident of Windsor, dated June 10, 1663. John Cooper, sen'r, of New Haven, being one selected to settle the bounds between New Haven and Walling- ford, he made his mark to the agreement, but objected to that part embracing the meadow, between Mill River and East River, north- . ward, above the Blue Hills, going to New Haven, dated 28th, Ist mo. 1673. 6 of this name had graduated at Harvard College, in 1827, and 4 at Yale College, before 1843 ; 1 at Dartmouth, in 1845.
Coats of Arms. Cooper, has 23 coats of arms ; Coopers, has 3; Cowper, 13.
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COPELAND, MR. AMASA, of Pomfret, Conn., a soldier of the Revolution, d. aged 94 years, Aug. 18, 1851, or 2. This name was early at Ipswich, Mass., and late in Connecticut; this name has 1 coat of arms and Coupland, has 3. At a late period this name is found at Hartford.
COPLEY, THOMAS, removed from Westfield, to Suffield, in the early settlement of Suffield. He m. when he resided at Westfield, Ruth Denslow, Nov. 15, 1672. He with Thomas Hanchett, Edw'd Allen, sen'r, and Edw'd Smith, were fence-viewers at Suffield, in 1685 ; Thomas Copley, surveyor of highways in Suffield, in 1681, and 1689; Constable, in 1688; Thomas Copley, John Burleson, Wm. Holleday, and James Lawton, of Suffield, were sent to keep garrison at Deerfield, April 12, 1697.
Copley, Thomas, now or late of Northampton, deeded land to Praisever Turner, which he bought of Edward Griswold, of Wind- sor, Conn., dated April 20, 1664. Thomas Copley, Feb. 4, 1680, had eleven acres of land alotted to him, and 42 acres at Tyler's brook, in Suffield ; (he probably removed about this time or soon after; he d. at Northampton, Nov. 29, 1712;) June 26, 1683, he had four acres of meadow alotted him ; also 66 acres over Stoney River, in Suffield, &c. His grant of 60 acres was confirmed to him in 1677, and 30 acres in 1688. He m. Ruth Denslow, Nov. 15, 1672, and had a son Mathew, b. in Westfield, Nov. 11, 1673; Thomas, b. July 28, 1675; Mathew, b. April 14, 1679; Samuel, b. Sept. 20, 1682. His wife Ruth, d. Oct. 5, 1692, and he m. widow Ruth Taylor, May 25, 1693. He d. Dec. 3, 1712. His widow Ruth d. Nov. 3, 1724. He may have had other children. He was selectman and constable at Suffield, as late as 1686-8, and surveyor of highways, in 1689.
NOTE .- In Monument Office at Frankfort, on the Maine, in Germany, is a pedigree of the faniily of Comstock, there spelled indifferently, Komstohk and Comstohk, which gives nine gener- ations previous to 1547, when Charles Von Komstohk, a baron of the Roman Empire, was implicated in Von "Benedict treason," and escaped into England with several noblemen of Austria and Silesia.
The arms are or (gold,) two Bears rampant, sable (black,) muzzled, gules (red,) in chief; and in base, a sword issuing from crescent, the point downwards, all the last (red.) Upon the arms a Baronial helmet of the Gerinan Empire mantled or and gules (red and gold,) surmounted by a Baron's coronet jewelled proper, issuing therefrom an Elephant proper, and rampant.
The Bears imply courage, the sword issuing from the crescent, shows that the family had fought against the Turks. The Elephant rampant, in the crest was given as an indication of personal prowess and sagacity.
MOTTO .- Nid cyfocth ond boddloudeth. Not wealth, but contentment.
This motto is in the Welch language, from which country it is understood the family came to America.
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COPLEY, SAMUEL, son of Thomas, m. Abigail Kent, of Suf- field, Feb. 4, 1713-14 ; issue, Samuel, Jr., b. Jan. 16, 1715-16 ; Daniel, b. July 23, 1718; Abigail, b. April 26, 1723; Elisha, b. Aug. 26, 1728 ; Samuel, was constable in Suffield, in 1715.
COPLEY, MATHEW, son of Thomas, m. Hannah Huxley, of Suffield, Feb. 20, 1701-2; issue, Nathaniel, b. Nov., 1802; Mathew, Jr., b. March 8, 1703 ; Thomas, b. July 27, 1706, and d. Sept. 9, 1706 ; Hannah, b. Nov. 8, 1707; 2d 'Thomas, b. Oct. 19, 1710; Moses, b. Dec. 28, 1712; Noah, b. Feb. 12, 1714-15, d. same month ; Sarah, b. Aug. 19, 1715 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 16, 1718-19 ; 2d Noah, b. Nov. 28, 1721 ; the father d. Feb. 18, 1763.
COPLEY, MATHEW, Jr., m. Rebeckah Owen, April 28, 1736 ; issue, Rebecka, b. Jan. 28, 1737 ; Ann, b. June 30, 1739, perhaps others.
COPLEY, THOMAS, of Suffield, m. Mary Marshall, Oct. 24, 1717; issue, Thomas, b. Jan. 9, 1718; Mary, b. Oct. 6, 1720; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 22, 1722-3 ; Mary his wife, d. Aug. 15, 1751; Mr. Copley, d. Aug. 30, 1751.
COPLEY, DANIEL, of Suffield, m. Mary Wright, of Long Island, 1744-5. It is said Copley, painted many pictures yet extant. James Copley, aged 22, embarked for Virginia, Aug. 7, 1635, in the Globe of London, Blackman, Master. The Copleys of Suffield, were of the best families there as appears by the offices they held.
Nathaniel Copley, of Suffield, m. Hannah Huxley, in 1704 ; Samuel, m. Abigail Kent, 1713; Elizabeth Copley, m. Praisever Turner, of Northampton, Jan. 26, 1664 ; Thomas Copley, of Suf- field, drowned at Hartford, 1745, aged 25; Daniel Copley, of Suffield, m. Mary Wright, of Long Island, 1744-5. COPLEY, has 12 coats of arms.
Thomas Copley, now or late of Northampton, deeds land to Prai- sever Turner, which he purchased of Edward Griswold, of Windsor, dated April 20, 1664, bounded south on Geo. Sexton, and north on Benedictus Albard.
COPP, COP, JOHN, was a school-teacher, at Norwalk, Conn., in 1701; Dec. 30, 1701, the people of Norwalk, voted to have a school- master for the next year, also voted to employ Mr. John Copp, if he could be procured on reasonable terms ; he was surveyor and deacon. In 1718, he was seated in the second pew from the pulpit; he was also some years town-clerk of Norwalk from 1708 to 1740, and better educated than most men of the town, and was recorder of the town as early as Feb. 24, 1708-9. He m. Ruth Belding, of Nor-
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walk, widow of Lieut. John, Dec. 30, 1701. In 1705, the select- men of Norwalk, recommended him for a license as a physician. Farmer says, Wm. Copp, a shoemaker, was the earliest proprietor of Copp's Hill, Boston ; made a freeman 1641 ; he had a son Jonathan, b. 1640. David Copp Elder, d. at Boston, Nov., 1713, aged 78 years. Mr. Jonathan Copp, was elected deacon of Mr. Hillhouse's church, at Montville, Nov. 19, 1722, which he accepted. He was appointed to go to Boston, and accompany the Rev. James Hillhouse, to his then future home at Montville, where he was installed, Oct. 3, 1722. Jonathan Copp, was from Boston to Stonington, and thence to Mont- ville, in 1713; David, was the son of Deacon Jonathan Copp, and was made deacon of Mr. Jewett's church, July 4, 1746, and was succeeded by deacon Joseph Otis. Miss Calkins says, "Copp's Hill derives its name from a branch of this family." Jonathan Copp was a teacher in the New London grammar-school, in 1747. Two of this name are now found in Conn. (See Hall, Caulkins, New London Col. Rec.) Cope, has six coats of arms; COPPIN, 3. John Copp, d. May 16, 1754, aged 78 years. 2 by the name of Copp, graduated at Yale College, between 1744 and 1847 ; 4 at Dart- mouth College, before 1844.
CORBE, WILLIAM, (See Corbin.)
CORBIN, or CORBE, WILLIAM, d. at Haddam, 1674, and left children, William, aged 18; John, 16 ; Mary, 12; Samuel, 9; and Hannah, 6 years old. Inventory, Oct. 10, 1674, £150, 13s. 7d. Wm. Corbe and Ab'm Dibble, of Windsor, were original proprietors of Haddam, 1662.
CORBE, SAMUEL, of Haddam, d. April 10, 1694; estate £60; children, Mary, 17 months old, " and a posthumous son three months old, named Samuel." He d. when a young man. Inventory of his property offered in court at Hartford, by his relict May 16, 1695.
CORBIN, JAMES, an original settler and proprietor of South Woodstock, in 1686. He drew house lot No. 2, of 20 acres, with 20 acre rights, located in Woodstock, on the west side of Chain Hill. He was one of the first 38 proprietors ; he was not from Roxbury, but was admitted into the company of proprietors by the selectmen of Roxbury, and by the company approved as a member, to settle New Roxbury. He took a division in addition to his first in 1690. He drew No. 32, in the division of the good meadow. He m. Hannah Eastman, April 7, 1697.
JABEZ CORBIN, had a 15 acre home-lot in May, 1690, at Woodstock. He drew No. 19, in the division of good meadow in
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1690, at Woodstock ; Robert Corbit, (Corbin,) for lot No. 38, (for lot 31.)
CLEMENT CORBIN, had No. 45; most of those who drew a share of the good meadow, also had a share of the poor meadow in 1694. JABEZ CORBIN, was allowed 12 square rods of land, joining his father's lot, for a shop in 1693 ; Jan. 7, 1688, the plant- ers of New Roxbury, granted Clement Corbin, a 20 acre home lot with 20 acre rights, which he had before possessed on the northwest side of the highway to Muddy Brook. Corben, Corbin, or Corbyn, (Staffordshire and Suffolk,) has 1 coat of arms ; Corben, 2; Corbin, 1; Corbyn, 2, and Corby, 3.
CORBEE, SAMUEL, of Saybrook, m. Mary Crippin, at Haddam, Jan. 28, 1691-2. Wm. Corbee or Corbin, was an original settler at Haddam. The name of Corbee, has been found in Simsbury and Wind- sor ; James Corbin, and Peter Aspinwall, were two of the signers to settle Woodstock, in 1683 ; Edward Ainsworth, d. there in 1740-1, aged about 89 years. Mary Corby gave a deed of land situated in. Haddam, to Thomas Shaylor, Jan. 10, 1674. William Corbe, sold the same land to Shaylor, in his lifetime, and the General Court of Con- necticut, confirmed the deed in Shaylor, in 1676 ; Wm. Corby, freeman of Haddam, 1669 ; Wm. Corbit (the same Wm. Corbe, Corby) was a defendant in two actions in favor of Geo. Steel, at Hartford, in 1647; James Olmsted, in his will in 1640, says, "I do give my searvuant Will Corby, five pound, to be paid when his tyme comes forth," and directed his son " Nehemya to pay it," and willed that Corby should serve the remainder of his time with his son, aforesaid.
CORBET, (CORBE,) WILLIAM, of Farmington, propounded for a freeman, Oct., 1664. (See Cobbett.) Armorial, " Sir Andrew Cincent Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, and Actan Reynold Bart, repre- sentative of that most ancient and distinguished family, bears a shield of twenty-five Quarterings." Crests, (to the arms,) first an ele- phant ar. armed or. on his back, a castle triple towered of the last trappings or. and sa. second a squirrel sigant or. mottoes, and for the arms. CORBIT, in Court from Windsor, in two cases at Hartford, Dec. 2, 1647 ; Cobbett James, aged 23, and Josias, 21, embarked in the Elizabeth and Avon, for New England, April 29, 1635.
CORBE, WILLIAM, Abraham Dibble, from Windsor, were two of the 28 original proprietors and settlers of the town of Haddam, which was invested with town privileges in Oct., 1668, and called Haddam, probably after Haddam, or Hadham, in England. The
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proprietors took possession of their land about 1662. (See Cobbett Ante.) 3 by the name of Corbett, graduated at Harvard College, before 1822.
CORBETT, JOHN, from Lebanon, Conn., to Sharon, in 1743. (See Cobbitt, pages 626-7, of this work.) Three graduated at Har- vard, before 1822.
CORDENT, CORDANT, RICHARD, in Connecticut, in 1663.
CORIGG, or CARIGG, ROBERT, m. Hannah Welles, of Col- chester, Conn., in 1757 ; John Chilly, was in Conn., in 1663.
CORBET, THOMAS, m. Grace Woodworth, at Colchester, by Rev. Eph'm Little, Oct. 10, 1733.
CORNELL, or CORNILL, PAUL, m. Susanna Bouton, of New Haven, Aug., 1701. (See Cromwall ;) see also marriages in New Haven ; Cornell, has 3 coats of arms. He appears not to have been one of the Cornwell family of Wethersfield, and Hartford.
CORNELIUS, LAURENCE, (Dutchman, ) his certificate (and the townsmen of the Pequot) having been read by the Court, Feb. 26, 1656, confirmed the act of the town, in admitting him an inhabitant of Pequot, to have free trade amongst them, if he observed the laws and orders of the jurisdiction, and such as should be made. Cornel- ius has 1 coat of arms; one graduated at Dartmouth College, 1829.
CORNING, SAMUEL, was admitted freeman in 1641, and was one of the founders of the church in Beverly, in 1667. ( Farmers Genealogical Register.) May 15, 1665, " there were chosen at a pub- lick meeting for to make the rate for Mr. Hail's maintenance for 65 as followeth : Captain Lathrop, Wm. Thorndike, Roger Conant, Samuel Corning, Joseph Rootes." (Beverly Town Records.) This appears to have been the first choice of what have since been termed selectmen by the inhabitants of Beverly, although the town was not incorporated until 1668. In 1667, among those chosen as above is " Ensigne Corning." In 1668, among those chosen to procure wood .for Mr. Hale, was " Ensigne Corning," from his house to Mr. Conaut's Bridge. Same year Samuel Corning, sen'r, and Lot Conaut, " to see the rate for Mr. Hale brought in 1669." Samuel Corning, sen'r, one of the selectmen, and also on a special committee to
treat * and to settle boundary with Wenham, 1682, to see the rate brought in. June 2, 1670, " Samuel Corning is chosen to keep an ordinary ; " 1670, " Samuel Corning chosen assistant ; " Feb. 22, 1670, " William Ramdut is chosen a selectman instead of Samuel Corning ;" March 6, 1671, " Richard Brackenbury, and Samuel Corning, sen'r, have leave to make a seat at the north end 60*
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of the pulpit." May 29, 1671, "Samuel Corning, sen'r, for and in consideration of a parcel of land near the meeting-house in Beverly, and for a highway lying on the backside of the 20 acres of land which he bought of Osmaud Wark, which was Jonathan Porter's, is granted a parcel of land lying between the meadow of Captain Lowthropp, and the farm of the said Samuel Corning, be it more or less." Sept. 1, 1674, "Ensign Corning," on committee to lay out land to David Perkins, a smith; 1674, "Ensign Corning," chosen one of the selectmen ; also in 1675 ; in 1676, collector of rate ; 1677, selectman ; 1678, committee on boundaries ; 1679, Samuel Corning, sen'r, had 20 trees for building and fencing. He died before March 11, 1694-5, when Samuel Corning 2d, Nathaniel Hayward, sen'r, and his wife Elizabeth, and Nathaniel Stone, sen'r, and his wife Remember, divided the lands of their late father, " Ensign Samuel Corning, sen'r, deceased," whose widow was Elizabeth. These three, Samuel, Jr., Elizabeth and Remember, were probably all the children of Samuel, sen'r, of Beverly ; only one son.
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