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Stephen Cornell

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Stephen Cornell

Birth
Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Death
1716 (aged 59–60)
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Burial
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Stephen Cornell (per Ezra Cornell's papers at Cornell University) is the son of Thomas Cornell II, who was the sone of Thomas Cornell--both of Essex, England, later Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He is related to the man that endowed Cornell University.


See also early Cornell ancestors' history.

Courtesy Dave Waz

[He] probably died between 1716 and 1723 in Dartmouth. The following information regarding Stephen is extracted from Rev. John Cornell's "Genealogy of the Cornell Family", New York, 1902. p 37):
1673, Witness at the trial of his father Thomas2.
1686, freeman.
1688, grand juror, Portsmouth.
1716, Stephen and wife Hannah deed homestead to son William, and in 1755 William to son Caleb, deed of the former homestead of his father, Stephen, deceased, in Dartmouth.
1723, John Cornell buys from William Cornell land in Dartmouth.
Stephen Cornell (per Ezra Cornell's papers at Cornell University) is the son of Thomas Cornell II, who was the sone of Thomas Cornell--both of Essex, England, later Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He is related to the man that endowed Cornell University.


See also early Cornell ancestors' history.

Courtesy Dave Waz

[He] probably died between 1716 and 1723 in Dartmouth. The following information regarding Stephen is extracted from Rev. John Cornell's "Genealogy of the Cornell Family", New York, 1902. p 37):
1673, Witness at the trial of his father Thomas2.
1686, freeman.
1688, grand juror, Portsmouth.
1716, Stephen and wife Hannah deed homestead to son William, and in 1755 William to son Caleb, deed of the former homestead of his father, Stephen, deceased, in Dartmouth.
1723, John Cornell buys from William Cornell land in Dartmouth.


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