Ancestry of
Lizzie Borden

Accused Murderess

Thomas Cornell Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Lizzie Borden — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 130 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Cornell 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Briggs   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 21 Oct 1627 
  • Christening Location:
  • Saffron Walden, Essex, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 23 May 1673 
  • Death Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Earle
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1668 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Innocent Cornell (Ahnentafel No:65 )

  • 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.

• Additional marriages for Thomas Cornell Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth - - - - - -

• 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.