Will - Person Sheet
Will - Person Sheet
NameCORNISH, Mary 
, 10G Grandmother
, 10G GrandmotherBirth Date1 Jul 1648
Birth PlaceGloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts
Death Date9 Apr 1702 Age: 53
Death PlaceHuntington, Suffolk County, New York
FatherCORNISH, Thomas (~1595-1662)
MotherSTONE, Mary (1620-~1652)
Spouses
1COREY, John II , 10G Grandfather
, 10G GrandfatherBirth Date19 May 1639
Birth PlaceSuffolk County, Long Island, New York
Death Date1 Jan 1685 Age: 45
Death PlaceHuntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
FatherCOREY, John I
Mother(COREY), Joan
Misc. Notes
John Corey lived only 47 years but in that time he made his mark and left numerous descendants across Long Island who have resided there for over three hundred years. We learn from H. F. Seversmith's "Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut," that John Corey or Cory was born about 1638, probably in America, the son of John Corey Sr. and Ann Salmon. He was probably a resident of Southold, one of the earliest settlements on Long Island, and as a young man some transaction occurred between his father and John Conkling that left him without an inheritance in Southold so he removed to Huntington where he would live out the rest of his natural life.
Seversmith states "...On 7 July, 1663 he bought the homestead from Jonas Wood "Oram" that had been that of his father, Edmund Wood, in Huntington. Corey was to take possession of it in the fall. After the crops had been taken off. The property represented a hundred pounds right. less meadow. On 1 January 1668, the town granted him two acres on the south side of his home lot, and two acres or more if found "in the hollow". He was also a holder on one of the ten farms on land seized by Huntington 16 and 17 April 1672, sharing farm No. 9 with Abiel Titus, Content Titus (*in 1711 his widow Mary Cornish took a third husband a Content Titus of Newtown, page 787 CORNISH) and John Matthews. This land was lost to John Corey when the courts decided adversely to Huntington." Once again he loses property for reasons not of his making.
Seversmith continues.."...In 1677 Corey was elected overseer of the town of Huntington, and re-elected in 1678. While in that capacity he served also as town clerk de jure while the clerk (recorder) was absent; and from 1684 to his death in the following year he was the town clerk." This would then to support the fact that he was a man in the prime of his life when he died about 16 November 1685 leaving a wife and numerous children.
He married Mary Cornish 15 December, 1667 as recorded in the Huntington Court Records and had issue 1. Mary born 20 Oct 1668, my ancestor, who married Samuel Smith, a son of Nicholas Seversmith; 2 Abigail, born 13 Nov 1670; 3 Elizabeth 9 Jan 1672; 4. John, born 3 Feb 1674; 5 Martha born 17 Feb, 1677; 6 Elnathan, born 1 Jun 1679; 7 Thomas born 21 Sep 1681; 8 Abraham born 28 Oct, 1683. H. F. Seversmith gives parents of Mary Cornish Corey as Thomas Cornish and Mary Stone (page 767, COREY.)
Seversmith states "...On 7 July, 1663 he bought the homestead from Jonas Wood "Oram" that had been that of his father, Edmund Wood, in Huntington. Corey was to take possession of it in the fall. After the crops had been taken off. The property represented a hundred pounds right. less meadow. On 1 January 1668, the town granted him two acres on the south side of his home lot, and two acres or more if found "in the hollow". He was also a holder on one of the ten farms on land seized by Huntington 16 and 17 April 1672, sharing farm No. 9 with Abiel Titus, Content Titus (*in 1711 his widow Mary Cornish took a third husband a Content Titus of Newtown, page 787 CORNISH) and John Matthews. This land was lost to John Corey when the courts decided adversely to Huntington." Once again he loses property for reasons not of his making.
Seversmith continues.."...In 1677 Corey was elected overseer of the town of Huntington, and re-elected in 1678. While in that capacity he served also as town clerk de jure while the clerk (recorder) was absent; and from 1684 to his death in the following year he was the town clerk." This would then to support the fact that he was a man in the prime of his life when he died about 16 November 1685 leaving a wife and numerous children.
He married Mary Cornish 15 December, 1667 as recorded in the Huntington Court Records and had issue 1. Mary born 20 Oct 1668, my ancestor, who married Samuel Smith, a son of Nicholas Seversmith; 2 Abigail, born 13 Nov 1670; 3 Elizabeth 9 Jan 1672; 4. John, born 3 Feb 1674; 5 Martha born 17 Feb, 1677; 6 Elnathan, born 1 Jun 1679; 7 Thomas born 21 Sep 1681; 8 Abraham born 28 Oct, 1683. H. F. Seversmith gives parents of Mary Cornish Corey as Thomas Cornish and Mary Stone (page 767, COREY.)
Marr Date15 Dec 1667
Marr PlaceStamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut