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F Mary Benedict

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Information from Ancestry.com World Tree Project: Pettypiece.

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.

Headstone North Bay Cemetery, Pelee Island, Essex Co., ON, transcribed by the Essex Branch of the OGS:
In memory of Mrs. Mary Cornwall who died January the 7th 1836 aged 87 years and 5 months.

UPPER-CANADA-L Archives, Rootsweb
Subject: [UPP-CAN] CORNWALL, Essex County, 1806
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:01:31 -0400
I'm seeking some definitive evidence that Mary CORNWALL, wife of Francis RICHARDSON (m.c. 1823, Essex County) is indeed the daughter of Wheeler CORNWALL (son of John CORNWALL, U.E., and Mary BENEDICT) and Sylvia Unknown.
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My best clue to date that Wheeler's daughter Mary was Francis's wife:

Mary's paternal grandmother, Mary BENEDICT CORNWALL, sold 100 acres in Lot 2, Concession 2, Colchester Township, to Francis RICHARDSON for the paltry sum of 5 shillings (according to the township's Abstract Index) in 1833.

The grandmother, Mary BENEDICT CORNWALL, then wrote a will 7 days later, leaving land to all of her grandchildren - excluding Wheeler's daughter, Mary CORNWALL. The property for those grandchildren surrounded the land she had just sold to Francis RICHARDSON.

I assume that families tried to keep large tracts of land intact. Would a potentially savvy old woman (she'd been granted land herself as the wife of a U.E., and inherited his when her husband died) sell 100 acres in the midst of her hundreds of acres to someone who wasn't family? (She lived another 4 years after the will was written and died at age 87.)
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Mary Beth McKimmy
Williamsburg, VA

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, Connecticut, stated in his petiton for land, that "in 1775, when the commotions run very high, found means with some others to consult Governor Tryon who advised our raising men for his Majesty's service, which we undertook to do until a treacherous person of the party named Christopher Glover gave information upon oath against me." Cornwall 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 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.
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