Ancestry of
Andrew Borden
(1816–)
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- 3rd Great-grandfather of Andrew Borden — 6th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 34
- Father:
- Thomas Cornell
- Mother:
- Rebecca Briggs
- Birth Date:
- Birth Location:
- Christening Date:
- 21 Oct 1627
- Christening Location:
- Saffron Walden, Essex, England
- Death Date:
- 23 May 1673
- Death Location:
- Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Spouse Name:
- Sarah Earle
- Marriage Date:
- BEF 1668
- Marriage Location:
- Child:
Innocent Cornell (Ahnentafel No:17 )
- Notes:
Thomas was convicted of the murder of his mother Rebecca Briggs and hanged. It appears that his mother was sitting by the fire smoking a pipe when a coal appears to have fallen from the fire or her pipe. She was burned to death in the resulting fire. Her brother John Briggs claimed to have had a vision in which she appeared to him and said, “See how I was burned with fire.” The inference was that someone set fire to her and subsequently Thomas was tried and convicted on this evidence.
Thomas Cornell Jr.
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Additional marriages for Thomas Cornell Jr.
- Spouse:
- Elizabeth - - - - - -
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Sources for Thomas Cornell Jr.
- 1 Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 7, p. 699.
- 2 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1897, Vol. 51, pp. 218-219.
- 3 New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1905, Vol. 36, p. 66.
- 4 The American Genealogist, 1982, Vol. 58, p. 78.
- 5 The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 107.
- 6 Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 118.
- 7 Brenneman, Richard E., "Notable Kin - New England in Hollywood, Part Three: The Possible Rhode Island Ancestry of Marilyn Monroe", www.americanancestors.org/notable-kin-the-possible-rhode-island-ancestry-of-marilyn-monroe, (accessed 10/09/2014).
- 8 Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R.I., New York: Press of T.A. Wright (1902), 17, 25-27.
- 9 Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 337.
- 10 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 95.