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F Mary Cornwall

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The Loyalists in Ontario - Sons and Daughters of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada, William D. Reid, Hunterdon House, Lambertville, N.J., 1973, p.74:
CORNWALL, John m. Mary.
Mary, b. 1792; m. William McCormick of Colchester (Pelee Island). O.C. 5 March 1810.
Joshua.
Wheeler.
John.

Death record, Pelee Island, Essex Co., ON:
Arthur Montgomery McCormick, ... Father William McCormick, born Western District Canada. Mother Mary Cornwall, born Sandwich, Ont. Informant Norman McCormick, Pelee Island, son...

1851 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, p. 23:
Mary McCormick, Farmer, born Canada, C of England, 60, F, Widow;
Lucinda, born Canada, C of England, 35, F, Single;
Ann McCormick, born Canada, C of England, 25, F, Single;
Mary McCormick, born Canada, C of England, 23, F, Single;
Thos McCormick, born Canada, C of England, 32, M, Single;
Peregrine, born Canada, C of England, 21, M, Single;
Arthur, born Canada, C of England, 19, M, Single;
Marg't Comers, born Canada, C of England, 12, F, not a member of the family, Single;
framed house, 1 story, 1 family.

1861 personal census, Colchester Twp, Essex Co., ON, D2-13:
Mary McCormick, Farms, CW, C E, 65, F, Widow;
Burwell, born CW, C E, 21, M, Single;
Charlotte, born CW, C E, 19, F, Single;
Herbert, born CW, C E, 17, M, Single;
Charles, born CW, C E, 16, M, Single;
Tho's C., born CW, C E, 32, M, Single;
Lucinda, born CW, C E, 35, F, Single;
Anna, born CW, C E, 29, F, Single; Mary, born CW, C E, 30, F, Single;
Harriet Byton, born CW, C E, 17, F, Single, not a member of the family;
Angus Huffman, Fisherman, born CW, C E, 31, M, Single, not a member of the family;
log house, 2 stories, 1 family.

1871 personal census, Pelee Twp, Essex Co., ON, G-4:
McCormick Mrs Mary, F, 78, born Ont, C of England, origin: Welsh, Widow;
Thomas C, M, 50, born Ont, C of England, origin: Irish, Farmer;
Lucinda E, F, 48, born Ont, C of England, origin: Irish;
Sarah Ann, F, 42, born Ont, C of England, origin: Irish;
Charlotte L, F, 29, born Ont, C of England, origin: Irish.

1881 personal census, Pelee Twp, Essex Co., ON, 10:
McCormick Thomas, M, 60, born Ont, Ch of Eng, origin: Irish, Farmer.
Ann, F, 50, born Ont, Ch of Eng, origin: Irish;
Mary, F, 88, born Ont, Ch of Eng, origin: Irish, Widow.

Headstone North Bay Cemetery, Pelee Island, Essex Co., ON, transcribed by the Essex Branch of the OGS:
In memory of Mary second daughter of William & Mary McCormick died July 23, 1881 aged 24 years.

Death record, Pelee Island, Essex Co., ON:
Mary Cornwall McCormick died 10 February 1891, F, ninety eight years, Farmer's wife, Church of England, born Amherstburg, Heart failure, five weeks. Physician F. J. Ewing. Informant: F. J. Ewing M.D. Pelee Island, 21 February 1891.

The William McCormick Papers, H.E.I.R.S files
Sketch of William McCormick:
The year 1809 was important, for on January 29th (15) William was united in marriage to Mary Cornwall, only daughter of John Cornwall, a U.E. Loyalist, (16) and Mary Benedict Cornwall. Her elder brothers were Joshua, Wheeler, and John. John Cornwall's Grant of land of One Hundred and Thirty Seven Acres was: - "Lot Number Ninety Seven in the Front Concession of the said Township of Colchester." It was right on Lake Erie. This Grant was dated June 30, 1801, and endorsed: - John Cornwall Esqure U E."
Mary Cornwall was the first child born of United Empire Loyalists parents in the Western District, (17) on the 22nd of July, 1792. (18) She bore him twelve children, and survived him over fifty years, until her death on February 10, 1891. Her children were Alexander, John, David, William, Robert, Thomas C., Lucinda, Charles W., Mary, Sarah Ann, Peregrine, and Arthur Montgomery. To many of her greatgrandchildren, she was known as "Gramma-on-the-Island."
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Besides his military duties, William McCormick was busy during these years, - managed a farm, raised a family, ran a store, sold real estate, acted as the first postmaster of Colchester, having the first postoffice in an outbuilding in his yard. He was for many years a Justice of the Peace for the Western District, - and was appointed a customs officer for the Port of Colchester. From the year 1812 to 1824, he was a member of the sixth, seventh, and eighth parliaments, going overland on horseback to York, now Toronto, where Parliament met. On February 19, 1814, he was noted as "absent, prisoner with the enemy." (26)
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...William McCormick...on September 1, 1823, purchased the whole of Pelee Island for five hundred dollars. (30) Thus William became the first and only white owner of the whole of Pelee Island.
Finally, eleven years later, William left Colchester and in the summer of 1834, (31) moved across the water to Pelee Island. There, upon the "Point" at the "North End", were two cedar log houses, connected by a frame apartment built between, which formed the family residence. (32) Here, William and Mary and their eleven children still living, together with William's mother Elizabeth Turner, then aged seventy-five, and his sister, "Aunt Betsy," - fifteen in all, made up the family group...

Commemorative Biographical Record of Essex Co., p. 308-313:
Arthur Montgomery McCormick, postmaster and merchant on Pelee Island, is entitled to be classed among the prominent residents of that island for more than one reason. He is the only living child of the late William McCormick, the founder of the family on the Island...
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William McCormick was a mere child when brought by his parents to Canada, and nothing is known of his educational advantages...He had elevating environments in the society of the Loyalists, who had settled in the neighbourhood, and on Jan. 29, 1809, married a member of one of these families, Mary Cornwall, who was born in the County of Essex, July 22, 1792. They settled on the old homestead farm, the original acreage of which had been increased by purchase, finding a congenial company among their own people, and among the officials and army officers of the military station at Fort Malden, whose families lived there also...
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Mr. and Mrs. McCormick were the parents of thirteen children, two of whom died young, the other eleven with his aged mother and maiden sister, Betsy, moving to Pelee Island with him. We have the following record of his family: A daughter, born Dec 12, 1809, died in infancy; Alexander, born March 18, 1811, died Aug. 24, 1854, in Amherstburg, leaving a widow and two children. John, born May 26, 1813, died Feb. 25, 1856; his wife had died two years before, thus leaving five children to be cared for by the grandmother. David, born July 27, 1815, died June 6, 1888; he was a captain, and as he never married, made the old homestead his quarters when not sailing. William, born April 3, 1817, died Nov. 1, 1887. Robert, born March 7, 1819, died Feb. 2, 1823. Thomas C., born Feb. 11, 1821, died June 12, 1886; he never married and lived on the old homestead with his mother and two sisters. Lucinda L. was born Sept. 22, 1822, and never married. Charles W., born Jan. 21, 1826, died Dec. 18, 1844. Mary, born March 8, 1828, died July 23, 1861. Sarah Ann, born Sept. 18, 1829, died June 5, 1897, unmarried. Peregrine, born Feb. 22, 1831, died Feb. 4, 1902. Arthur M., born April 3, 1834, in Colchester township, is mentioned below.
...Many were the experiences of the McCormicks during the early years of their residence on the Island, and in the rebellion of 1837-38 they gathered up their families and crossed to the mainland on the ice, not returning permanently until the summer of 1839. But the disaster so affected William McCormick, that his health began to decline, and he passed away Feb. 18, 1840, aged fifty-six years. His wife survived him many years, dying on Pelee Island in 1891, at a very advanced age.
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Mrs. McCormick and her family deserve especial mention. She was the daughter of John Cornwall, a native of Wales, who came to the Colonies in 1772. He was very loyal to King George, and came from Conneticut to western Canada about the time of the revolution, settling in Sandwich in 1777. His wife and son were left in Conneticut, and it was twenty years before they joined him in Canada, the son by that time a grown man. John Cornwall became prominent and influential in Essex, and was the first representative of that county in the Canadian Parliament.
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Commemorative Biographical Record of Essex Co., p. 141-144:
Capt. Eugene W. McCormick. The McCormick family of Pelee Island, Ont., trace their descent through Alexander McCormick, the first American ancestor...
William McCormick was at the most not more than ten years old when his father brought him to Canada...Doubtless he was much indebted to the United Empire Loyalists around him, who formed the nucleus of an unusually good society for the time and place, a society to which the young man had access and where he met his wife, Miss Mary Cornwall.
On Jan. 29, 1809, at the age of twenty-five, William McCormick was married, and his wife, then seventeen years old, was the daughter of John Cornwall, who left Connecticut after the Revolution. The young couple settled on the old homestead farm alreadly enlarged by purchase of adjoining land. In the course of time they found themselves surrounded by a large family, thirteen children having been born to them, as follows: Alexander, in 1811; John, 1813; David, 1815; William, 1817; Thomas, 1821; Lucinda, 1822; Charles, 1826; Mary, 1828; Sarah Ann, 1829; Peregrine, 1831; Arthur M., 1834; and two others not named. Mr. McCormick's aged mother and a maiden sister also formed a part of the household.
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Mary (Cornwall) McCormick, the wife of William, was in many respects a remarkable woman. As her husband's business kept him away from home often, much of the responsibility of bringing up her large family fell upon her, and the circumstances and surroundings were most difficult, especially so after her husband's death. But her splendid constitution physically, her active mind with a retentive memory and her cheerful disposition, enabled here to prove equal to her task, her executive ability being particularly marked. She lived a widow for more than half of a century, seeing many changes on the island where she made her home so many years, and where her influence for good upon all about grew even greater as time passes. She died in 1891, nearly ninety-nine years old...

The Valley of the Lower Thames 1640 to 1850, Fred Coyne Hamil, University of Toronto Press, 19??. Appendix D, p. 347:
Cornwall, John - John Cornwall, a native of Danbury, Conneticut, ... was arrested by the Americans in New York in May 1776, and imprisoned at Epopus for five months; his estate was immediately confiscated, and his wife and three sons were "cast out and plundered of everything even to the last of their wearing apparel, and left in great distress during the fall and winter." In the fall of 1776 Cornwall escaped from prison ... in February 1778 he came to Detroit with the winter express. His sons Wheeler, John Jr., and Joshua, did not come from Danbury to join their father until the spring of 1789, when there were prospects of getting land. Their mother and sister Mary probably came at the same time.
...After a short time there he received a grant of Lot 97 in the New Settlement on Lake Erie, which he farmed until July 1789, when he sold it. Two years later he received a grant of Lot 13, on the Thames River in Camden Township; and his sons Joshua and Wheeler the next two lots above him. John Cornwall, Jr., received the lot behind his father, in the second concession. The elder Cornwall continued to live in the New Settlement, and represented Essex and Suffolk in the Provincial Assembly from 1797 to 1800...

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John Cornwall   Hannah Knapp    
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John Cornwall 1749-   Mary Benedict 1749-1836
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Mary Cornwall 1792-1891