Rachel Corwin

Notes:

also listed as born 1771, age 75 at death

Buried:
Said to have had Rachel's and Alexander's graves moved in 1883 to (their son) Gordon's plot. It is unclear if that plot was in the same non-located cemetery (Old Kirkyard, in Bowmanville). They did have a son named Drummond Gordon Fletcher.

Rachel married Alexander Squire Fletcher. Alexander (son of Archibald Fletcher and Flora MacNab) was born in 1769 in Scotland; died on 6 May 1846 in Darlington, Ontario, Canada; was buried after 6 May 1846 in Old Kirkyard, Bowmanville, Darlington, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

A pen picture of Alexander Fletcher was written in 1896 by his grandson J. Wesley Fletcher. Grandfather soon after marriage settled below the Whirlpool on the British side of the Niagara where Uncle John was born. He afterward about 1800 moved to Darlington where he was Major of the 2nd Durham Militia and one of the first magistrates of Durham County then a part of York. He was a small man of considerable attainments; was very bright, systematic, shrewd, active, nervous, quick tempered, a very loyal British subject and a strict Presbyterian. He died in his 78th year and Grandmother (Rachel Corwin Fletcher) in her 72nd year." —The Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell, Finch 1976

1. John Fletcher was born in 1796 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada; died on 12 Jul 1872 in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Bowmanville Cemetery, Clarington, Ontario, Canada.
2. Archibald Fletcher was born in 1800 in Darlington, Ontario, Canada; died in 1882.
3. Allen FLETCHER was born in 1801; and died.
4. Alexander Fletcher was born on 17 May 1804 in Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada; died on 24 Jun 1862 in Toronto, York Co, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Franklin Pioneer Cemetery, East Gwillimbury, York Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada.
5. Elizabeth FLETCHER was born in 1806; and died.
6. Jane Fletcher was born in 1801; and died.
7. Drummond Gordon Fletcher was born on 12 Sep 1812; died on 14 Jul 1858 in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Bowmanville Cemetery, Clarington, Ontario, Canada.
8. Duncan FLETCHER was born in 1814; and died.
9. James FLETCHER was born in 1816; and died.

Joseph married Elizabeth Hixon. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Hixon and Margaret) was born in 1731; died on 16 Apr 1814; was buried in Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Bartholomew Corwin was named after his maternal grandfather, Bartholomew Gedney.

Bartholomew married Esther Burt. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Margaret. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

George Corwin (February 26, 1666 ? April 12, 1696) was the High Sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. He signed warrants for the arrest and execution of those condemned of witchcraft. On September 16, 1692, he was ordered by the Court of Oyer and Terminer to preside over the interrogation, under torture of Giles Corey, who was pressed to death for refusing to stand trial for witchcraft. Corwin died of a heart attack, in 1696, at the age of 30, after which his burial was delayed by a Salem resident named Phillip English, who was accused during the Witch Trials, and had his property seized by Corwin. English put a lien on Corwin's corpse, and delayed its burial until he had been reimbursed for the property he lost to Corwin.

George Corwin was the Grandson of John Winthrop, the Younger, the Governor of Connecticutt. His wife, Lydia Gedney, was the daughter of Bartholomew Gedney, one of the magistrates involved in the witch trials.

George married Lydia Gedney. [Group Sheet]

William married Phebe. [Group Sheet]