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Anna Smith (Cornell)

Also Known As: "Anne", "Anna Cornell"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Merrick, Queens, Queens County, New York, British Colonial America
Death: between September 03, 1728 and February 13, 1729 (64-74)
Hempstead, Queens County, Province of New York, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Richard Cornell and Elizabeth Cornell
Wife of Jeremiah Smith, of Kerricks in Hempstead
Mother of Hannah Cornell; Thomas Smith; Benoni Smith; Ruth Rachel Wiltse; James Smith and 5 others
Sister of Richard Cornell, Jr.; Sarah Cornell Washburn (Arnold); Thomas Cornell; Elizabeth Lawrence; Joshua Cornell and 7 others

Managed by: Marilou Goldfarb
Last Updated:

About Anna Smith

Anna CORNELL b: ABT 1659 in Merrick, Queens County, New York

Will, Abstract of

"In the name of God, Amen. September 3, 1728. I, ANNE SMITH, widow of Jeremiah Smith, of Hempstead, in Queens County, being very sick. I leave to Robert Clark, 5 pounds. To Cornelius Wiltsee, a great table and two benches. To John Cornell's wife, 10 shillings. To James Smith's wife, 10 shillings. I make and ordain Mr. Santa, George Clarke, and John Smith, executors. All the rest I leave to Mary Cocks, of Monmouthshire, England." Witnesses, Micah Smith, Elly Thews, J. Purdy. Proved, February 13, 1728/9.

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John "Nan" Smith (1625?-1694) married about 1646 Anna Gildersleeve. Their children were:

4. Jeremiah Smith (1656-1726) m.c1679 Hannah Carman, m(2) Hannah, m(3) Anna Cornell . ... children Jeremiah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Ruth, John, Ann, Richard, Thomas, and James Smith

Jeremiah Smith's will, 1725, names his eldest daughter Hannah, who d. leaving daughters Elizabeth and Ann, also his second daughter Elizabeth Cornell, who had daughters Elizabeth and Hannah. It does not clearly appear who these were, for it is hardly probable that the father of John Cornell's wife was living in 1725 (see Thomas,^ Thomas, Thomas,^ Richard,'^ Thomas,' also No. 28.)


Comments

Not listed as child of Elizabeth Cornell & Richard Cornell at Genealogy of the Cornell family : being an account of the descendants of Thomas Cornell. by Cornell, John, 1839-1926 Publication date 1902. Archive.Org

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-46981

John Cornell's wife Hannah could not have been identical with Hannah Smith, the daughter of Jeremiah Smith, as Rev. John Cornell's genealogy suggested. The 1698 Census of Hempstead shows John Cornell and wife Hannah, along with children John, Elizabeth, William, and Edward. Jeremiah Smith's daughters Hannah and Elizabeth were still unmarried and living with their father in 1698. Jeremiah's household on the 1698 census consisted of Jeremiah Smith, Hannah Smith, Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Hannah Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Ruth Smith, John Smith, Ann Smith, Richard Smith, and Thomas Smith. Obviously since John and Hannah Cornell were already married and with children in 1698 and Jeremiah Smith's daughter Hannah was unmarried and still living in her father's household at that time, they could not be the same woman.

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Anna Smith's Timeline

1659
1659
Merrick, Queens, Queens County, New York, British Colonial America
1679
1679
Hempstead, Long Island, Nassau County, New York, United States
1680
November 8, 1680
Hempstead, Long Island, Nassau County, New York, United States
1681
1681
Hempstead, Nassau County, NY, United States
1682
1682
1686
1686
Hempstead, Long Island, Nassau County, New York, United States
1687
1687
Hempstead,Nassau,New York,USA
1692
1692
Herricks, Nassau, New York, USA
1693
April 3, 1693
Herricks, Nassau County, New York, Colonial America