Ancestry of
Ezra Cornell

Co-Founder of Cornell University,
Founder of Western Union

Ruth Pierce

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• • Great-grandmother of Ezra Cornell — 4th Generation
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  • 9 
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  • John Pierce 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Stephen Cornell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Jun 1719 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Elijah Cornell (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Ruth Pierce

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Swansea, Vol. 1, p. 380, Marriage record for Stephen Cornel and Ruth Perce in Dighton.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dighton, Vol. 1, p. 19, Marriage record for Stephen Cornel and Ruth Perce.
  • ³ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1905, Vol. 36, p. 66.
  • ⁴ 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), 36, 41-42.