Thomas Cornwaleys(lis), St. Mary's Co., MD; 1643
I am not researching this man, but there is information on him in the book "History of St. Mary's County, Maryland" by Regina Combs Hammett, 1977:
"Another small, but equally important, segment of the body of St. Mary's County's first citizens consisted of seventeen 'gentlemen' who arrived aboard the Ark in 1634.While no complete passenger list for that first voyage survives, the list of gentlemen passengers does endure.(Among others was) Thomas Cornwallis, Esq. (Cornwaleys)."
"Thomas Cornwaleys, Esq., was another of the original adventurers.In addition to his political position of commissioner for the colony, Cornwaleys played an important financial and military role in early Maryland.His original financial investment in the venture included 1/8 interest in the Dove and the transport of twelve servants on the first voyage.He transported forty-five more servants in the next ten years.Cornwaleys later engaged in Indian trade, was an exporter of tobacco, and was the colony's leading creditor.Militarily, he was the Miles Standish of Maryland, the leader of Calvert's efforts to subdue William Claiborne."
"Cornwaleys built the first framed house in the colony about 1638.He also built a house on Cross Manor, his grant located on St. Inigoes Creek.The construction and operation of a mill at St. Mary's City was another of his investments in the successful planting of the Maryland colony."
"...when Governor Calvert departed for England in April of 1643, Giles Brent (appointed Acting Governor during his absence) and Thomas Cornwaleys, military leader of the colonial forces, concluded a peace with the Nanticokes.Cornwaleys also led an expedition against the Susquehannocks."
There is further information on this man in the book.