Rachel Corwin

Notes:

also listed as born 1771, age 75 at death

Buried:
Said to have had Rachel's and Alexander's graves moved in 1883 to (their son) Gordon's plot. It is unclear if that plot was in the same non-located cemetery (Old Kirkyard, in Bowmanville). They did have a son named Drummond Gordon Fletcher.

Rachel married Alexander Squire Fletcher. Alexander (son of Archibald Fletcher and Flora MacNab) was born in 1769 in Scotland; died on 6 May 1846 in Darlington, Ontario, Canada; was buried after 6 May 1846 in Old Kirkyard, Bowmanville, Darlington, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

A pen picture of Alexander Fletcher was written in 1896 by his grandson J. Wesley Fletcher. Grandfather soon after marriage settled below the Whirlpool on the British side of the Niagara where Uncle John was born. He afterward about 1800 moved to Darlington where he was Major of the 2nd Durham Militia and one of the first magistrates of Durham County then a part of York. He was a small man of considerable attainments; was very bright, systematic, shrewd, active, nervous, quick tempered, a very loyal British subject and a strict Presbyterian. He died in his 78th year and Grandmother (Rachel Corwin Fletcher) in her 72nd year." —The Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell, Finch 1976

1. John Fletcher was born in 1796 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada; died on 12 Jul 1872 in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Bowmanville Cemetery, Clarington, Ontario, Canada.
2. Archibald Fletcher was born in 1800 in Darlington, Ontario, Canada; died in 1882.
3. Allen FLETCHER was born in 1801; and died.
4. Alexander Fletcher was born on 17 May 1804 in Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada; died on 24 Jun 1862 in Toronto, York Co, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Franklin Pioneer Cemetery, East Gwillimbury, York Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada.
5. Elizabeth FLETCHER was born in 1806; and died.
6. Jane Fletcher was born in 1801; and died.
7. Drummond Gordon Fletcher was born on 12 Sep 1812; died on 14 Jul 1858 in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Bowmanville Cemetery, Clarington, Ontario, Canada.
8. Duncan FLETCHER was born in 1814; and died.
9. James FLETCHER was born in 1816; and died.

Joseph married Elizabeth Hixon. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Hixon and Margaret) was born in 1731; died on 16 Apr 1814; was buried in Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Bartholomew Corwin was named after his maternal grandfather, Bartholomew Gedney.

Bartholomew married Esther Burt. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Margaret. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

George Corwin (February 26, 1666 ? April 12, 1696) was the High Sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. He signed warrants for the arrest and execution of those condemned of witchcraft. On September 16, 1692, he was ordered by the Court of Oyer and Terminer to preside over the interrogation, under torture of Giles Corey, who was pressed to death for refusing to stand trial for witchcraft. Corwin died of a heart attack, in 1696, at the age of 30, after which his burial was delayed by a Salem resident named Phillip English, who was accused during the Witch Trials, and had his property seized by Corwin. English put a lien on Corwin's corpse, and delayed its burial until he had been reimbursed for the property he lost to Corwin.

George Corwin was the Grandson of John Winthrop, the Younger, the Governor of Connecticutt. His wife, Lydia Gedney, was the daughter of Bartholomew Gedney, one of the magistrates involved in the witch trials.

George married Lydia Gedney. [Group Sheet]

William married Phebe. [Group Sheet]

Jonathan married Margaret Winthrop. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Bartholomew Gedney was a physician and native of Salem, Massachusetts, who participated as a magistrate in the Salem witchcraft trials.

Gedney was present at several of the examinations and later served as a member of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. He was present at the examination of his friend John Alden on May 31, 1692, in Salem Village. When Gedney saw how Alden tormented the girls, he told Alden that he had "always look'd upon him to be an honest Man, but now he did see cause to alter his judgment."

Bartholomew married Hannah Clarke on 22 Oct 1662. Hannah (daughter of William Clarke) was born after 11 Nov 1647 in Lynn, Essex Co, NY; died on 06 Jan 1695 in Salem, Essex Co, MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Parents of Captain George Corwin are not known and documented as of this writing. There is some non-conclusive evidence that his father is John Corwin, and that his grandfather is Matthias Corwin. Further research is needed before including his parents.



Birth:
Emigrated from Northampton, England in 1638, immigrating to Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Americas.

George married Elizabeth Herbert. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Born at Groton, in Suffolk, February 12, 1605/06, he was fitted for college in the celebrated Free Grammar School founded by Edward VI. at Bury St. Edmunds, where he learned to think and act for himself, as every boy of spirit must when away from home and thrown upon his own resources. p.1...(Sketch)

He had now entered the seventieth year of a life which had
involved unremitting exertion and much exposure to severity of climate. It is not therefore to be wondered at that the pressure of physical infirmities had begun to bear heavily upon him, but when, for the third time, he asked permission to relinquish the helm to a younger pilot, proposing to recruit his health by a voyage to England,'(^2) he was met by such a chorus of remonstrance that he resigned himself to die in harness, nor had he long to wait. In September, 1675, he proceeded to Boston to attend a protracted session of the Commissioners of the United Colonies. In March, 1676, when preparing to return to Hartford, he took cold, became feeble, and on the 10th of April was laid beside his father in what is now King's Chapel grave-yard. - "Sketch of John Winthrop the Younger" p.58

Name:
Governor of Connecticut, 1651-1676

John married Martha Fones in 1630. Martha was born on 21 Jan 1609. [Group Sheet]

John married Sarah Mary Bartholomew after 1637 in Salem, Essex Co, MA. Sarah was born about 1612 in Norfolk, England; died after 1648 in Salem, Essex Co, MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

This is the paragraph immediately following the family tree image in "The Corwin Genealogy."
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Now, this "tree," without a word of explanation more than the names arranged as above, makes Thomas Curwin, the Quaker, Matthias Corwin, of Long Island, and George Curwin, of Salem, three original immigrants, though at different times, to be brothers, and the sons of a John Curwin, of England., Thomas and George may have been brothers, but the remarks already made, and the general tenor of the Introduction, will apparently quite forbid the placing of Matthias here. Probably this arrangement by Rev. George Curwin was a supposition, upon which he was beginning to work out a Curwin Genealogy ; but his death soon after, (1717.) prevented him from either verifying or disproving the same. It seems impossible to allow such a record to overturn all the testimony which the reader will find respecting another origin of Matthias Corwin. We hope, however, that the truth may be elucidated. The writer would simply observe that the family of Matthias Corwin, on Long Island, have never possessed (so far as his knowledge extends) the Curwen Arms, which the family of George, both in the East and in the West, have cherished; that the early generations of these families are not known to have ever visited or even corresponded with each other. The name of Matthias might have become known to Rev. George, from the neighboring Ipswich records where it yet remains. Rev. George was but two years old when his grandfather died. Matthias moved from Ipswich to Long Island about the time of the birth of the first George's children, 1640 ; while Thomas doee not, as far as known, appear in this country till forty or fifty years after the arrivals of George and Matthias.

Notes:

Birth:
As of the publication of The Story of John Winthrop 1st Gov of MA in 1891, this birth date (Jan 12 1587) was expressed in modern calendar dates as January 22, 1588.

Name:
1st Governor of Massachusetts Colony

Died:
But the governor's hour was come. He fell asleep, "in the great consolations of God," March 26, 1649, in his sixty-second year. - John Winthrop First Gov MA

Buried:
The funeral was delayed till John could come from Connecticut. It was to be so ordered - as said the summons, dated "your father's parlor," despatched by fleet-footed Indian messenger, the ever troublesome Bellingham its first signer-" that it may appeare of what precious account & desert he hath ben, & how blessed his memoriall." It took place April 3, being conducted " with great solemnity and honour," both civic and military. The place of interment was what is now called the King's Chapel Burying-ground, - the spot to be seen at this day.

John married Mary Forth on 16 Apr 1605 in Great Stambridge, County Essex, England. Mary (daughter of John Forth and Thomasine Hilles) was born on 01 Jan 1583; died on 06 Jun 1615 in Groton, MA; was buried in St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Groton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary was of Greaat Stanbridge, County Essex, England, and was the first of the four wives of John Winthrop, Sr., followed by Thomasine Clopton, Margaret Tyndal, and Martha Rainsborough. (information from Clopton Family Tree)

Notes:

John and Mary were married by Ezekiel Culverwell.

Notes:

Birth:
Adam III was born in a house on Gracechurch Street. Some records give a location as described as London, St. Peter's Parish.

Adam married Anne Browne on 20 Feb 1579. Anne (daughter of Henry Browne and Agnes) was born on 13 Jan 1544 in Edwardstone, Babergh District, Suffolk, England; died on 19 Apr 1629 in Groton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England; was buried in St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Groton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Buried:
Burial in churchyard of St. Bartholomew's.

Notes:

Anne Browne was Adam III's second wife, after Alice Still of Grantham, County Lincolnshire, England, daughter of William Still. Alice died in childbirth in 1577.

"John, the only sonne of Adam Winthrop and Anne his wife, was borne in Edwardston abovesaid on Thursday about 5 of the clocke in the morning the 12 daie of January anno 1587 in the 30 yere of the reigne of Qu: Eliza:"

So, exactly, reads his birth-record, - a smiling one, plainly,?as his father set it down in his private diary a little more than three hundred years ago. The date is expressed after the rule of the Old Style; now it would be Jan. 22, 1588. Win the year preceding the fated Queen of Scots had laid her fair head upon the block. The last night of the July following saw the signal-fires flaming all up the coast that announced the arrival of the Armada in the Channel. The child was born away from home, under the roof, probably, of his maternal grandparents. Adam Winthrop lived at Groton, contiguous to Edwardston, in the lower part of Suffolk, sixty miles northeast of London; was lord of Groton Manor, an estate granted to his father - also named Adam, as was his father before him - by Henry VIII, at the dissolution of the monasteries.

John married Thomasine Hilles. [Group Sheet]