CORSON, Zebulon

Other Events and Attributes:

• Web Address: https://amongourancestors.com/lebanon-maine/
• Occupation: Laborer
• _DNA: Match (maternal)
• _MILT: 1746, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Somersworth Army under the command Colonel Thomas Wallingford,

Notes:

Mary was mentioned in will of grandfather Samuel Tibbetts as "Mary Corsen". On Ap. 17, 1742, "Mary Corson, daughter of Capt. Samuel Tibbets of Dover, deceased, conveyed to Capt. John Wallingford all right and title to an eighty-acre grant to said Samuel in the Salmon Falls Woods."

Zebulon was in the army in 1746 when the family was living in Somersworth, near Dover. He and Mary moved upriver to nearby Lebanon, York Co. ME in their later years with most of their adult children. Zebulon was baptized as an adult by the Rev. Hasey in June 1773. In July and Aug. of that year Hasey was at Zebulon's house to pray with his sick daughter Lydia.

On Jul 28, 1784 the Rev. Hasey wrote that 'Zebulon Corson said he heard a chorus of Angels' and after he became speechless that he "visited and prayed with him.

Zebulon was described as a laborer and died from "decay of nature". Mary died at the home of son Moses.

From ancestry:

ID: I0028
Name: Zebulon CORSON
Sex: M
Birth: 17 JUN 1712 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire 1
Death: 28 APR 1786 in Lebanon, Maine 1
Note:
Zebulon was a laborer, and his wife, Mary, were both of the Somersworth
section of Dover, New Hampshire, sold to Thomas Wallingford of the same
town, for 25 pounds (British) that portion of an 80 acre grant not yet sold or disposed of that had been originally granted to Captain Samuel Tebbets, Mary's grandfather, and conveyed to her father, Samuel Tebbets and inherit-
ed by Zebulon and Mary. The deed was witnessed by G. Wentworth and M.
Hogden. The deed was signed by the 'X' marks of Zebulon and Mary, dated
April 17, 1742 and recorded on February 16, 1745. Zebulon was in the Somersworth Army under the command of Captain Thomas Wallingford as of
July 23, 1746. Zebulon was apparently residing at the time in the Rochester/Somersworth area of Dover, New Hampshire. (Somersworth was
only an administrative district of Dover). He later moved from there and sometime before 1766 was an early settler at Lebanon, Maine. This was
according to the journals of Reverend Isaac Hasey. Hasey was at Zebulon's
on February 4, 1773 and again on February 11, 1773. On April 5, 1773, reference is made to Zebulon having Hasey's horse to go to Pine Hill, in
Berwick, Maine. Zebulon was baptized as an adult by Rev. Hasey on June
27, 1773. Rev. Hasey was at Zebulon's house again on August 2, 1773, to
pray with his sick daughter, Lydia.

Father: Samuel CORSON b: ABT. 1685 in Cochecho Point, Dover, New Hampshire
Mother: Mary POTTS b: 6 JUL 1690 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire

Marriage 1 Mary TIBBETS b: 18 NOV 1718 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire
Married: ABT. 1738 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire 1

ID: I0028
Name: Zebulon CORSON
Sex: M
Birth: 17 JUN 1712 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire 1
Death: 28 APR 1786 in Lebanon, Maine 1
Note:
Zebulon was a laborer, and his wife, Mary, were both of the Somersworth
section of Dover, New Hampshire, sold to Thomas Wallingford of the same
town, for 25 pounds (British) that portion of an 80 acre grant not yet sold or disposed of that had been originally granted to Captain Samuel Tebbets, Mary's grandfather, and conveyed to her father, Samuel Tebbets and inherit-
ed by Zebulon and Mary. The deed was witnessed by G. Wentworth and M.
Hogden. The deed was signed by the 'X' marks of Zebulon and Mary, dated
April 17, 1742 and recorded on February 16, 1745. Zebulon was in the Somersworth Army under the command of Captain Thomas Wallingford as of
July 23, 1746. Zebulon was apparently residing at the time in the Rochester/Somersworth area of Dover, New Hampshire. (Somersworth was
only an administrative district of Dover). He later moved from there and sometime before 1766 was an early settler at Lebanon, Maine. This was
according to the journals of Reverend Isaac Hasey. Hasey was at Zebulon's
on February 4, 1773 and again on February 11, 1773. On April 5, 1773, reference is made to Zebulon having Hasey's horse to go to Pine Hill, in
Berwick, Maine. Zebulon was baptized as an adult by Rev. Hasey on June
27, 1773. Rev. Hasey was at Zebulon's house again on August 2, 1773, to
pray with his sick daughter, Lydia.

Father: Samuel CORSON b: ABT. 1685 in Cochecho Point, Dover, New Hampshire
Mother: Mary POTTS b: 6 JUL 1690 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire

Marriage 1 Mary TIBBETS b: 18 NOV 1718 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire
Married: ABT. 1738 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire 1

ID: I2422
Name: Zebulon CORSON
Sex: M
Birth: 17 JUN 1712 in Dover, NH
Death: 28 APR 1786 in Lebanon, ME
Note: Zebulon and his wife are buried behind the Meeting House, Lebanon, ME. Data taken from Corson Cousins, Vol 7, #EE5, Oct 1887; Pg 9, Vol 8, #3, 1988 (also Pg 4)

Zebulon married TIBBETS, Mary about 1738 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Mary (daughter of TIBBETS, Samuel and TUTTLE, Dorothy) was born on 18 Nov 1718 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 11 Jan 1803 in Shapleigh, York, Maine, USA; was buried in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. CORSON, Samuel was born in 1738 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 20 Mar 1785 in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA.
2. CORSON, Lemuel Samuel was born in 1750 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1820 in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA; was buried in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA.
3. CORSON, Aaron was born in 1740 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1813 in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA.
4. CORSON, Moses was born in 1744 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 29 Dec 1802 in Shapleigh, York, Maine, USA.
5. CORSON, Lydia was born on 8 Nov 1743 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; was christened on 8 Nov 1773 in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA; died on 1 Jan 1774 in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA.
6. CORSON, Issac was born in 1756 in Lebanon, York, Maine, USA; died on 27 Jul 1775 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
7. CORSON, John was born in 1754 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 27 Jul 1775 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
8. Living

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Maine, USA
• Residence: Between 1693 and 1850, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: Between 1700 and 1900, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

Samuel, along with Bartholomew Stevenson, Peter Mason Jr. and Stephen Jenkins were charged in September 1701 with aiding in the escape of Grace Hall, daughter of the Deacon John Hall, after being charged with bastardy (she was 27 years old at the time). Samuel was witness against Joanna Potts, his mother-in-law, for selling drink in 1707.
He owned 20 acres of land in 1719, presumably on his father Cornelius' grant on Fresh Neck Creek in Dover, left to him by his father. In 1719 Richard Waldren filed a suit in court against a dozen people "Pretenders to Land at Cocheco Point", including "Samuel Cosen. Planter." The suit dragged on for nine years and was settled in 1728 by dividing the land in question and giving half to Waldren. It appears that Samuel left his father's grant early in the 1720's but not because he was dispossessed. During the time of the lawsuit Samuel held a homestead in the Rollingsford (or Somerswirth) section of Dover. He was granted land in 1722 in Rochester, receiving a "thirdly third share," or one share to be divided equally between three poeple. He sold this property in 1725, but never lived on it, as the first permanent settler didn't move into Rochester until 1728.
Samuel's land was noted in Somersworth 9 March 1727 in a plan to lay out a highway from Salmon Falls to Cocheco, passing between Samuel Corson's land and the Wallingford's land.
Samuel "Cason" along with other inhabitants at the Somersworth section of Dover, signed a petition 17 April 1729 asking to separate Somersworth from Dover, stating: "the Dwellin places of your Ptitioners are at a great distance from the house of the Publick Worship of God in the Town of Dover where your petitioners live, by which their attendance thereon is rendered very difficult....It is humbly prayed by them that your Excellency .... sett them off as a Parish .... amongst themselves."
Samuel is believed to have moved into Berwick, Maine in the early 1730s, probably shortly after 17 March 1729/30 when he and his wife sold their homestead to Thomas Wallingford. The earliest mention of his name in York County was "Samnuel Corson of Berwick" among a group of men who bought the mill privileges at Great Falls in Somersworth in 1737. On 6 June 1739, Samuel Colson of Berwick, labourer, sold his property to Samuel Lord for 50 pounds. By 1742 Samuel was on the Rochester tax list, and there is no evidence he lived in Rochester before that date.
Samuel signed his "O" mark 19 Sept. 1753 in a deposition with two other men stating the "mark and dry pitch pine standing .... exact location then given .... seen the Letters thereon and have known it to be the reputed Bounds of Dover ... for thirty years past and upwards and further saith not." He received a summons issued to him in February 1756 for defaulting on a note on behalf of Job Clememnts.Judgement was obtained in Portsmouth by Clememnts for the balance plus two pounds, 18 shillings and 6 pence in costs.
He lived probably to 1764, and had moved over the Rochester line into Somersworth. In the First Annual Report of the City of Sommerworth a new road "over ye rocky hills" is described as "running ... to the old way below Samuel Corson's house."
By this time there were two other Samuel Corsons - one Samuel's son removed to Cherryfield, Maine, and his grandson Samuel (son of Zebulon) and in his 30s. His grandson was in the list of inhabitants of Lebanon, ME in 1760 and had purchased the land he was living on by 1766.

Samuel married POTTS, Mary after Apr 1708 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Mary (daughter of POTTS, Thomas and ROBERTS, Joanna) was born on 6 Jul 1690 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1775 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary was mentioned in will of grandfather Samuel Tibbetts as "Mary Corsen". On Ap. 17, 1742, "Mary Corson, daughter of Capt. Samuel Tibbets of Dover, deceased, conveyed to Capt. John Wallingford all right and title to an eighty-acre grant to said Samuel in the Salmon Falls Woods."

Zebulon was in the army in 1746 when the family was living in Somersworth, near Dover. He and Mary moved upriver to nearby Lebanon, York Co. ME in their later years with most of their adult children. Zebulon was baptized as an adult by the Rev. Hasey in June 1773. In July and Aug. of that year Hasey was at Zebulon's house to pray with his sick daughter Lydia.

On Jul 28, 1784 the Rev. Hasey wrote that 'Zebulon Corson said he heard a chorus of Angels' and after he became speechless that he "visited and prayed with him.

Zebulon was described as a laborer and died from "decay of nature". Mary died at the home of son Moses.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Court Case: 3 Feb 1686; Accused of striking his mother in law
• Court Case: Jun 1686, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; Accused of being in bed naked with Joanna Armitage (both married)

Notes:

The name has had many spellings, but we stick with the present Corson. Cornelius was known as Cosenwhit, Cossen, Cursenwhitt, and Corson. David Allen McNeal theorizes he may have been a Dutch mariner from New York, appearing first in Dover in 1685. He married Hannah Hobbs before 3 Feb 1686.
He was charged on that date with striking his mother-in-law, Hannah Hobbs. A Cornelius Cossen and Joanna Armitage, both married people were found in naked bed together and charged in Suffolk County (Boston) in June 1686. They were ordered to wear signs declaring they were being punished "For Adulterous and Lascivious Behavior to each other" for one hour, and that he was to be whipped with 25 stripes on the naked back and she was to get 20 stripes, or pay 70 pounds each.
Cornelius was listed as a resident lieutenant in Frost's Garrison in Kittery in 1704. Genealogical dictionaries suggest this was a son of Cornelius, but it may well have been the Cornelius who owned the 23 acre grant at Lower Salmon Falls River just above the Frost Garrison. It would have been very easy for him to get there by canoe (five miles at most). Cornelius' grant was on the lower, or south side of the present (1987) bridge from Dover to Eliot.
Research has suggested that the New England Corsons are not related to the New Jersey or South Jersey groups, though the lines may merge farther back than that. Cornelius may have been a descendant of John Cousins who settled on Cousins Island as early as 1627, or may have been associated with a William Cosin who lived in Boston in 1649 (a convenient time frame for Cornelius' birth).

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Ernest Shorey Tucker Jr.

This version printed in the year 2001
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preservation, correction and continuation
of this family history.

Cornelius married HOBBS, Hannah Mary on 3 Feb 1685 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Hannah (daughter of HOBBS, Henry and CANNEY, Hannah) was born in 1661 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1705 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1667, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
• Death: 1736, Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Thomas married ROBERTS, Joanna on 24 Mar 1689 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Joanna (daughter of ROBERTS, Sergeant Thomas III and LEIGHTON, Mary) was born in 1673 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 11 Oct 1729 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: //
• Residence: 1957, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

Henry Hobbs (also found as Hobs and Hobes) purportedly came from England about 1650/1655 and settled at Dover, NH where he received land grants in 1657 and 1658. He appears on the July and September 1657 tax list for Dover Neck, Cocheco and Bloody Point, and was assessed 5 shillings each date to be paid in goods at rates set by the selectmen for that year. He appeared again in 1658 with the same assessment. On the list published 22 Sept 1659 he was assessed 19 shillings, 4 pence and an additional 18 shillings, each assessment presumably representing two different pieces of property.
He was deeded land, owned by his father in law, Thomas Canney, 12 July 1661, the land being located between Quamphegan and St. Alban's Cove (Dover). The lot, which had been granted to Canney in 1656 was assigned as an endowment after Henry married Canney's daughter, Hannah.
He was elected 17 Jan 1663 and again on 8 Feb 1667, with others, at a Dover town meeting to serve on the "Jury of Trialls." In 1675 he served on the Grand Jury.
Henry apparently had no problem with trespassing on the early land holdings of the Laconia Company, or of Capt. Mason's heirs in the tract lying between his land and the river. Henry used the land for his own purposes and later laid claim to it. Because of his claim, the town of Dover never granted the tract to anyone. In 1687 the circuit judge of Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall, referred to the cove in the lower extremity of the point as "Hobs his Hole, Quamphegan." It was called that because at high tide the water there was 40 feet deep. It faced down river and the location was used to build and launch small sloops and as a fair haven for seagoing vessels. Henry inherited a large part of his father-in-law's estate and resided in that part of town later known as Sligo. Henry Hobbs (also found as Hobs and Hobes) purportedly came from England about 1650/1655 and settled at Dover, NH where he received land grants in 1657 and 1658. He appears on the July and September 1657 tax list for Dover Neck, Cocheco and Bloody Point, and was assessed 5 shillings each date to be paid in goods at rates set by the selectmen for that year. He appeared again in 1658 with the same assessment. On the list published 22 Sept 1659 he was assessed 19 shillings, 4 pence and an additional 18 shillings, each assessment presumably representing two different pieces of property.
He was deeded land, owned by his father in law, Thomas Canney, 12 July 1661, the land being located between Quamphegan and St. Alban's Cove (Dover). The lot, which had been granted to Canney in 1656 was assigned as an endowment after Henry married Canney's daughter, Hannah.
He was elected 17 Jan 1663 and again on 8 Feb 1667, with others, at a Dover town meeting to serve on the "Jury of Trialls." In 1675 he served on the Grand Jury.
Henry apparently had no problem with trespassing on the early land holdings of the Laconia Company, or of Capt. Mason's heirs in the tract lying between his land and the river. Henry used the land for his own purposes and later laid claim to it. Because of his claim, the town of Dover never granted the tract to anyone. In 1687 the circuit judge of Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall, referred to the cove in the lower extremity of the point as "Hobs his Hole, Quamphegan." It was called that because at high tide the water there was 40 feet deep. It faced down river and the location was used to build and launch small sloops and as a fair haven for seagoing vessels. Henry inherited a large part of his father-in-law's estate and resided in that part of town later known as Sligo

Compiled and Edited by
Ernest Shorey Tucker Jr.

This version printed in the year 2001
All copyright rights waived in the interest of
preservation, correction and continuation
of this family history.

Henry married CANNEY, Hannah in 1661 in USA. Hannah (daughter of CANNEY, Thomas and UNKNOWN) was born in 1641 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 18 Apr 1720 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Margaret in 1661 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Margaret was born in 1646 in New Hampshire, USA; died in 1678 in Sagadahoc, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Said to have come with the Hiltons; probable as he was a fellow member of the Fishmonger's Co in London with the Hiltons
• Name: Thomas Roberts
• Residence: Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: Between 1635 and 1717, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1648, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

In 1640 Thomas Roberts succeeded Capt John Underhill as the fourth Governor of the Dover colony. Roberts served until the Massachusetts Bay colony achieved its ambition of annexing, in 1642, the Piscataqua River settlements, Dover, Strawberry Bank and Exeter, also Hampton, and making them a part of Norfolk County.

He had a leading part in the formation and establishment, in 1640, of “The Dover Combination,” an improved scheme of local self-government. He was one of 21 of the 42 signers of the Combination agreement in 1641, a protest against annexation to Massachusetts.

Gov Roberts was not of Puritanic mold. He possessed a liberality of thought which led him 20 years later to embrace the teachings of the Quaker missionaries, who had come here early in the ‘60s, and secured a following from among the orthodox Church people, only to be driven out of Dover in mid-Winter under harrowing conditions in accordance with Massachusetts laws against Quakers.

While he sympathized with the missionaries and was fined by being deprived of his cow for attending their meetings and staying away from public worship, his two sons, John and Thomas, both constables, zealously executed their appointed part of Massachusetts’ order expelling the missionaries from its jurisdiction.

Thomas married LEIGHTON, Mary about 1660 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Mary (daughter of LEIGHTON, Thomas and SILSBY, Joanna, daughter of Living and Living) was born about 1644 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1705 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]