Re: CORNISH Gravesend, Long Island, N Y
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Re: CORNISH Gravesend, Long Island, N Y
Kate Millard 10/07/03
Hi, I am a day late and a dollar short here. Ambrose and Mary Cornish London are my ancestors. I will quote the Golden Lyon : LONDON(LONNEN, LUNDEN), Ambrose, (Honorable)(Col.)(Maj) b. Eng./Holland in New Amsterdam by 1641 m. Gravesend, L. I. New Amsterdam (N.Y.) (in Northampton Co. VA by 1663/4 , in Somerset Co. MD by 1665 Born around 1618, he arrived in America before 1641, and was among the first settlers of Gravesend, Long Island, where he made several land purchases and contracted to have a house built. In 1653, Ambrose petitioned for a pass to go to Virginia, and in JUN 1659 he was in Northampton County with his wife. Apparently, he was back on Long Island by 1661, when he gave a note for the purchase of a house and plantation on the North River. In 1663/4, he was back in Northampton County, Virginia again, in trouble with the court for his non-conformist behavior. The Northampton Grand Jury charged him "for not coming to church and being brought before the court demeaned himself insolently and appeared under the notion of a Quaker" and fined him 1000 lbs of tobacco "for Sabbathbreaking and his said Insolent behavior." In 1665, Ambrose and his family came to the Annemessex section of Somerset County, Maryland, where he became a prominent planter and landowner. He was very active in the county's civil and military affairs and was commonly referred to as "Major". He was a Justice of the Peace in 1683, and was elected to the Lower House of the Maryland General Assembly in JAN 1671, though there is no evidence that he took his seat. Ambrose died prior to NOV 1706. In 1641, he married Mary CORNISH, b.16-- Gravesend, L.I., New Amsterdam (N.Y.) d. Somerset Co. MD, daughter of John CORNISH of Flatlands, Long Island.
Mary and Ambrose had 5 known children: Samuel, Mary, Thomas Ruth, and Abigail. I descend from Mary London Riggin. Maryellen