Mary (Stone) Cornish - Sourcing effort needed

Started by Erica Howton on Friday, September 10, 2021
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9/10/2021 at 11:10 AM

For Mary Cornish and her parents John Stone of Gloucester & Abigail Stone

Locations don’t match.

Cory Gray Is asking.

9/10/2021 at 1:52 PM

Thomas Cornish Was profiled recently. She mentions his wife Mary Cornish as daughter of John Stone of Gloucester

https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2018/06/long-island-puzzles/ She mentions:

” Other accounts say that Martha must have married a son of that Francis Swain (who was twenty years her senior, not to mention that he had been in trouble with the law and the family in Exeter when he was accused of making unwanted advances to Thomas Cornish’s wife – so, then, how did he end up married to the daughter?). “

9/10/2021 at 1:57 PM

John Stone disappears from the Gloucester records after 1644 and being fined for arguing with Puritans.

“ He may have gone with the Wheelwright crowd, of which, Thomas Cornish years later.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wheelwright

”As this controversy reached a peak, Hutchinson and Wheelwright were banished from the colony. Wheelwright went north with a group of followers during the harsh winter of 1637–1638, and in April 1638 established the town of Exeter in what would become the Province of New Hampshire. Wheelwright's stay in Exeter lasted only a few years, because Massachusetts activated an earlier claim on the lands there, forcing the banished Wheelwright to leave. He went further east, to Wells, Maine, where he was living when his order of banishment was retracted. He returned to Massachusetts to preach at Hampton (later part of the Province of New Hampshire), where in 1654 his parishioners helped him get the complete vindication that he sought from the Massachusetts Court for the events of 17 years earlier.

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The peripatetic Thomas Cornish was in Exeter, so perhaps that’s where we can find out what became of this John Stone.

No source for his wife’s name as Abigail Crispin or mention of the other children as yet.

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