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CORSON, Samuel

CORSON, Samuel

Male 1685 - 1764  (79 years)

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  • Name CORSON, Samuel  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Birth 1685  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Gender Male 
    Residence Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence Between 1693 and 1850  Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Residence Between 1700 and 1900  Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Death 1764  Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I3015  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Father CORSON, Cornelius,   b. 1652, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1729, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother HOBBS, Hannah Mary,   b. 1661, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1705, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 3 Feb 1685  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F846  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 POTTS, Mary,   b. 6 Jul 1690, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1775, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage Aft Apr 1708  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Married 1711  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. CORSON, Zebulon,   b. 17 Jun 1712, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Apr 1786, Lebanon, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. CORSON, Ichabod,   b. Abt 1725, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. CORSON, Samuel,   b. 2 Nov 1719, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1810, Cherryfield, Washington, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. CORSON, Joannah,   b. 15 Jul 1717, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. CORSON, Hatevil,   b. 9 Dec 1714, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1791, Castine, Hancock, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. CORSON, Mary,   b. 9 Nov 1722, Stratford, Coos, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. CORSON, Hannah,   b. Bef 1727, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1801, Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. COURSON, Charles William,   b. 1711  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F849  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Marriage 1708  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Family ID F12620  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1685 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - Maine, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Between 1693 and 1850 - Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Between 1700 and 1900 - Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1708 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Aft Apr 1708 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 1711 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1764 - Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Photos
    Historical memoranda concerning persons and places in old Dover, N.H.
    Collections of the Dover, N.H., Historical Society
    Corson Family Tree
    COL Walton's Men 1710 - Samuel Corson

    Histories
    Samuel Corson - Rootsweb    		Samuel Corson - Rootsweb

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1540] Ancestry.com, Maine Court Records, 1696-1854, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).

    2. [S1280] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 23977.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 3.

    3. [S1767] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    4. [S1750] Ancestry.com, Historical memoranda concerning persons and places in old Dover, N.H, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2004;).
      Historical memoranda concerning persons and places in old Dover, N.H.      		 Historical memoranda concerning persons and places in old Dover, N.H.


    5. [S1774] Ancestry.com, Collections of the Dover, N.H., Historical Society, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2005;).
      Collections of the Dover, N.H., Historical Society      		 Collections of the Dover, N.H., Historical Society


    6. [S2531] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).


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