Susan Cornell (Casse) - Parents

I have no evidence to support who Susan's parents were. Best of luck in your search

Erica Howton, as Debbie Gambrell noted earlier, I don't think we have any sources for the parents of Susan Casse Cornell. Nothing is showing up that I can find.

Sorry, Erica Howton, I understand now.

Thomas Cornell is the immigrant ancestor and then there is daughter of Thomas Ann Lepper

I am a bit concerned that Thomas is in Rhode Island and Ann in NC, but it has happened depending if they came over together and/or if Ann made a Southern Migration as happened more often than one might thing. They both were born in England at least, but still needs scrutiny, I think.

Wikitree https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cornell-77 makes the case that Ann and her first husband Thomas Kent migrated to NC from Rhode Island:

Ann, daughter of Thomas Cornell and Rebecca (Briggs) Cornell was probably born around 1635 in Essex, England. This is based on the ages of her children.

Ann emigrated to the US with her parents and most of her siblings in 1638 when she was about three[1].

Ann married Thomas Kent in 1659 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island[2]. They had at least four daughters together.

During the 1660s she and Thomas moved to the Perquimans district in the Carolinas which had just been opened up for land grants and was attracting numerous Quaker families.

Following her mother's death in 1673, Ann received the following bequest:

And I doe give and Bequeath unto my second Daughter Ann tenn acres of Land lyinge in the bounds of Portsmouth neere George Layton's mill and butts upon the land of her Husband Thomas and after the decease of herself and Husband the said Land is to go to her daughter Sarah. And I doe give unto my daughter Ann the sum of Tenn pounds to be paid out of the aforesaid hundred pounds.[3]
In 1679 Thomas was alledgedly killed by Tuscarora Indians. (per Florence Fulford Moore)[4].

At the January 1694 court meeting Ann appeared and proved her rights for the land she held[5].

Ann remarried Thomas Lepper within a few months this date[5]. Thomas had been involved in proving her rights in January 1794, so perhaps it was soon after this. Certainly by 1 April 1694 she and Thomas are co-signing a sale of land to her son-in-law, James Hogg[5]. Thereafter, Thomas, and presumably Ann, moved to Beaufort County on the Pamlico River in North Carolina.

Children

Mary was born 14 Feb 1669[6].

Hannah was born 10 May 1673 in Perquimans, North Carolina, United States[7]

Elizabeth Kent was married William Charles on 08 Nov 1683, in N.C. [8]

Ann Kent married James Hogg 10 Jun 1679, in N.C. [9] She was killed by Tuscarora Indians. [
10]

Sources

↑ Genealogy of the Cornell family : being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell; by Cornell, John, 1839-1926; Publication date 1902 link

↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985), page?

↑ [http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~woolsey/genealogy/resources/wills/rh... Last Will and Testament of Rebecca Cornell, Newport, Newport Co, RI ]. Transcribed from Rohde Island Wills, vol. ?, page ?

↑ onlinefamily tree. Better source sought.

↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Mrs. Watson Winslow , History of Perquimans county as compiled from records found there and elsewhere... Raleigh : Edwards & Broughton co., 1931, page 8 (1694 court record); p 304 (second marriage); p 44 (land sale to son-in-law)

↑ link (broken)

↑ "North Carolina Births and Christenings, 1866-1964", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZR9-QMH : 12 February 2020), Thomas Kent in entry for Hannah Kent, 1673.

↑ "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8F4-RDZ : 14 February 2020), Thomas Kent in entry for ...lliam Charles, 1683.

↑ "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979", database, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8F4-YPN : 14 February 2020), Thomas Kent in entry for James Hog, 1679.

↑ Wilkes Family Tree. Better source sought.

Looks like Thomas Cornell, II Ann Lepper's brother and the one who hanged for reputedly killing their mother, needs clean up with multiple wives of the same name Elizabeth who have been merged in. A very interesting family for sure.