CORSON, Samuel
1685 - 1764 (79 years)Set As Default Person
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Name CORSON, Samuel [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Birth 1685 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [3] Gender Male Residence Maine, USA [1] Residence Between 1693 and 1850 Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [5] Residence Between 1700 and 1900 Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [4] Death 1764 Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [3] Patriarch & Matriarch CORSON, Cornelius, b. 1652, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1729, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 77 years) (Father)
UNKNOWN, b. Bef 1620 d. Bef 1652, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age < 32 years) (Great Grandmother)Person ID I3015 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father CORSON, Cornelius, b. 1652, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1729, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 77 years) Relationship natural Mother HOBBS, Hannah Mary, b. 1661, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1705, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 44 years) Relationship natural Marriage 3 Feb 1685 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Family ID F846 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 POTTS, Mary, b. 6 Jul 1690, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1775, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 84 years) Marriage Aft Apr 1708 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [2] Married 1711 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Children 1. CORSON, Zebulon, b. 17 Jun 1712, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 28 Apr 1786, Lebanon, York, Maine, USA (Age 73 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] ▻ TIBBETS, Mary m. Abt 17382. CORSON, Ichabod, b. Abt 1725, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. UNKNOWN, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. CORSON, Samuel, b. 2 Nov 1719, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1810, Cherryfield, Washington, Maine, USA (Age 90 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 4. CORSON, Joannah, b. 15 Jul 1717, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. UNKNOWN, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 5. CORSON, Hatevil, b. 9 Dec 1714, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. Aft 1791, Castine, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age > 78 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 6. CORSON, Mary, b. 9 Nov 1722, Stratford, Coos, New Hampshire, USA d. UNKNOWN, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 7. CORSON, Hannah, b. Bef 1727, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1801, Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, USA (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 15 Jul 2024
Marriage 1708 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [6] Family ID F12620 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Histories Samuel Corson - Rootsweb
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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, 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.
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Sources - [S1540] Ancestry.com, Maine Court Records, 1696-1854, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).
- [S52] 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.
- [S1662] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [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. - [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 - [S2260] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).
- [S1540] Ancestry.com, Maine Court Records, 1696-1854, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).