Phebe Cornish

Biography

Phebe Brown, (also known as Phoebe Browne) was born before 1 October 1620, the date of her baptism, at Rusper, Sussex, England. She died as Phebe Cornish on 22 December 1664 at Northampton, Massachusetts.

She was the daughter of William Browne and his wife Jane Mills. Jane Mills had previously married John Burgis or Burges.

Phebe Brown married three times:

• m. (1) Thomas Lee, in England; he died 1645 with small-pox leaving three (3) children, Phebe, Jane and Thomas;
• m. (2) about 1657 Greenfield Larrabee he died leaving five (5) children, Greenfield, John, Elizabeth, Joseph and Sarah; Joseph died young;
• m. (3) about 1661, James Cornish and had two sons, James and one still-born, with which Phebe (Brown) Lee-Larrabee-Cornish died in child-bed at Northampton. James Cornish survived her, and died 29 Oct 1698 at about age 84 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.

Family

Thomas Lee born ?, married before 1640, Phebe Brown In Rusper, England. He died of smallpox on their ship to New England in 1645. Her parents traveled with the Lees, and Phebe’s mother also died of smallpox on that voyage.

Children of Thomas Lee and Phebe Brown, baptized at Rusper, England: (Hartford Times 4/22/1959)

1. Jane Lee Baptized 9/12/1640, Rusper, England Married (1) Samuel Hyde of Norwich, Conn,, (2) John Birchard.
2. Phoebe Lee Baptized 5/20/1642, Rusper, England, married John Large of Long Island
3. Lieut. Thomas Lee E.A.,, Baptized 9/29/1644, married (1) Sarah Kirkland, (2) Mary De Wolf (1676)

When she married Greenfield Larrabee, Phebe was identified as the widow of Thomas Lee and the daughter of William Brown of Ruskin, England, Saybrook, CT, and South Hampton and Hempstead, Long Island.

Children with Greenfield Larrabee (from http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=134&p=surnames.lar...), according to Saco Valley Settlements:

1. GREENFIELD,2 b. Apr. 20, 1648; m. Alice, dau. of Thomas Burke, in March, 1672, and settled in Norwich, Conn., on the eastern side of the river near his father-in-law. In this place he prospered, acquired extensive lands, and brought up a family of children as will presently appear. His name is found on many early documents. Alice, his wife, d. Nov. 23, 1729. He d. Feb. 3, 1739, rising 90.
2. JOHN,2 second son of Greenfield, 1st, b. Feb. 23, 1649; removed to Windham, Conn., from Norwich with a family. In 1697, he had broken land, built a house, and established himself upon a tract granted him on condition that he build upon it and run the ferry for seven years. He was admitted and enrolled as one of the inhabitants of Windham, May 30, 1693. Children's names with third generation.
3. ELIZABETH,2 b. Jan. 23, 1652.
4. JOSEPH,2 b. in March, 1655; d. Aug. 10, 1657.
5. SARAH,2 b. Mar. 3, 1658; m. John Fox, of Concord, June 20, 1678.

Grace Cooke was not daughter of Greenfield Larrabee & Phebe Cornish. They did not have a child called Grace.

Children with James Cornish:

1. James Cornish, b. 1663; d. 2 April 1740, m. 1) Elizabeth Thrall 2) Hannah Hilliard, widow of Thomas Humphrey
2. one still-born, b. 1664.

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From Joshua Hempstead's diary p 684. April 10, 1757.

Thomas Lee Sr. came from Rusper, Sussex, vicinity of Kenilworth, England. He embarked for America with his wife Phoebe, and three children, Thomas Jr., Jane and Phoebe in the year 1645. Together with the Lees were the Reverend William Brown and Jane (Burgis) his wife, father and mother of Mrs Lee, and their Children, a son and a daughter. On the passage both Mr. Lee and Mrs. Brown died of smallpox and were buried at sea. Mrs. Lee and her children together with her father Reverend Brown, settled in Saybrook, as all of this region was then called, where the Browns remained for a time, afterwards going elsewhere but leaving the Lees there. As the Lees have lived at this place from a time which the memory of man runneth not, their holdings going back of any known records, it is believed by most familiar with the family history that they came to Land already secured by Thomas Lee, first, either by a previous visit or through his old friend and neighbor in England, Matthew Griswold, first, who had just taken up land adjoining the Lee holding on the South. The brief stay of the Reverend Mr. Brown at Saybrook may well have been for the purpose of seeing his widowed daughter settled on the estate selected for her by her late husband. Widow Phoebe (Brown) Lee married 2nd Greenfield Larrabee, probably in 1647. Their daughter Elizabeth married Joshua Hempstead, father of the diarist Joshua. Phoebe married (3) James Cornish.

Incorrect data

Children of Chad Brown and Elizabeth are

1. PHEBE2 BROWN, b. England; [NO - m. (1) THOMAS LEE; m. (2) GREENFIELD LARRABEE. ]
2. JAMES BROWN, b. England; d. 1683.
3. JEREMIAH BROWN, b. England; d. 1690.
4. CHAD BROWN, d. May 10, 1663.
5. DANIEL BROWN.
6. JOHN BROWN, b. 1630, England; d. 1706.

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References

1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47963186/phoebe-leelarabeecornish
2. Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: May 28 2021, 15:53:33 UTC
3. Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 3 2018, 21:47:34 UTC
4. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 251
5. WikiTree contributors, "Phoebe (Browne) Cornish (1620-1664)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Browne-523 : accessed 15 November 2024).
6. WikiTree contributors, "Thomas Lee (abt.1615-abt.1645)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lee-2114 : accessed 15 November 2024).
7. WikiTree contributors, "Greenfield (Larrabee) Larabee Sr. (abt.1620-1661)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Larrabee-19 : accessed 15 November 2024).
8. WikiTree contributors, "James Cornish I (abt.1614-1698)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cornish-40 : accessed 15 November 2024). cites
   1. Joseph E. Cornish, The History and Genealogy of the Cornish Families in America (Boston, Massachusetts: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1907), 6 < Archive.Org >
9. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60602215/jane-burges_brown Her maiden name is Mills (d/o Thomas and Margaret Mills). Jane was baptized in Rusper, Sussex, 28 June 1596, but was probably born in 1585. She first married John Burges on May 25, 1609 in Twineham, Sussex, England (England and Wales marriages 1538-1940) . She married second William Browne on August 20, 1611 in Rusper, Sussex, England (England, Select Marriages 1538-1973). Jane emigrated to America with William & their family in 1646 but died of smallpox on the voyage.