CORNELL, Thomas Jr.

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He was found guilty of murdering his mother and was hanged for it. However, the murder was never really solved. You can read about it all in the book "Killed strangely: The story of Rebecca Cornell, by Elaine Forham Crane. A local record of the account, "Rebecca Cornell, widow, was killed strangely at Portsmouth in her own dwelling house, and twice viewed by the Coroner's Inquest, digged up and buried again by her husband's grave in their own land.' On May 23 her son Thomas was charged with murder. John Cornell, in his Genealogy of the Cornell Family, wrote that the trial "reads like a farce. It appears that the old lady having been sitting by the fire smoking a pipe, a coal had fallen from the fire or her pipe, and that she was burned to death. But on the strength of a vision which her brother John Briggs had, in which she appeared to him after her death and said: ‘See how I was burned with fire.' It was inferred that she was set fire to, and that her son who was last with her did it, and principally on this evidence Thomas Cornell was tried, convicted and hung for her murder...."

Thomas married FISCOCK, Elizabeth on 2 Nov 1642 in Portsmouth, RI. Elizabeth was born in 1625 in England; died in 1658 in Portsmouth, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. CORNELL, Thomas was born in 1653 in Portsmouth, RI; died on 14 Oct 1714 in Portsmouth, RI.
2. CORNELL, Stephen was born in CA 1656; died before 1723.
3. CORNELL, John was born in 1658 in RI; and died.
4. CORNELL, Edward was born in CA 1665 in RI; and died.

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• Arrival: Between 1620 and 1650, Boston, MA
• Residence: Between 1635 and 1870, Washington, NY
• Arrival: 1636, Boston, MA

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Sources for this information may be had through trade with your docume nted sources by contacting John H Potter at AbiesAlba1@aol.com. March 2007

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Thomas married BRIGGS, Rebecca. Rebecca was born on 25 Oct 1600 in London, London, England; died on 8 Feb 1672 in Newport, RI; was buried in Portsmouth, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sources for this information may be had through trade with your docume nted sources by contacting John H Potter at AbiesAlba1@aol.com. March 2007

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