Ancestry of
Ezra Cornell

Co-Founder of Cornell University,
Founder of Western Union

Richard Maxson

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ezra Cornell — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 70 
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  • ABT 1613 
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  • AFT 1640 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • ----- Maxson
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  • ABT 1639 
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  John Maxson

  Rebecca Maxson (Ahnentafel No:35 )

  • Notes: 

  • Sources claiming that Richard Maxon was killed by Indians in 1638 are false. Evidence exists showing that Richard Maxson was alive in 1639.

    The widow of Richard Maxon, whose name is unknown, married John Harndell by 1647.

• Sources for Richard Maxson

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 9, p. 268.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1984, Vol. 60, p. 170.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 224.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 102-104.
  • ⁵ Brown, Walter LeRoy, The Maxson Family: Descendants of John Maxson and Wife Mary Mosher of Westerly, Rhode Island, Albion, New York: Unknown (1954), 1-3.
  • ⁶ Chamberlain, Mildred (Mosher) and Laura (McGaffey) Clarenbach, Descendants of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson Through Seven Generations, Unknown: Unknown (1980), 1.