Bartholomew Corwin

Notes:

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

Bartholomew married Esther Burt. [Group Sheet]

1. Joseph Corwin was born on 24 Nov 1724 in Salem, Essex Co, MA; died on 25 May 1805 in Ontario, Canada; was buried in Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada.

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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]

Jonathan married Margaret Winthrop. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Bartholomew Gedney was a physician and native of Salem, Massachusetts, who participated as a magistrate in the Salem witchcraft trials.

Gedney was present at several of the examinations and later served as a member of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. He was present at the examination of his friend John Alden on May 31, 1692, in Salem Village. When Gedney saw how Alden tormented the girls, he told Alden that he had "always look'd upon him to be an honest Man, but now he did see cause to alter his judgment."

Bartholomew married Hannah Clarke on 22 Oct 1662. Hannah (daughter of William Clarke) was born after 11 Nov 1647 in Lynn, Essex Co, NY; died on 06 Jan 1695 in Salem, Essex Co, MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Parents of Captain George Corwin are not known and documented as of this writing. There is some non-conclusive evidence that his father is John Corwin, and that his grandfather is Matthias Corwin. Further research is needed before including his parents.



Birth:
Emigrated from Northampton, England in 1638, immigrating to Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Americas.

George married Elizabeth Herbert. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Born at Groton, in Suffolk, February 12, 1605/06, he was fitted for college in the celebrated Free Grammar School founded by Edward VI. at Bury St. Edmunds, where he learned to think and act for himself, as every boy of spirit must when away from home and thrown upon his own resources. p.1...(Sketch)

He had now entered the seventieth year of a life which had
involved unremitting exertion and much exposure to severity of climate. It is not therefore to be wondered at that the pressure of physical infirmities had begun to bear heavily upon him, but when, for the third time, he asked permission to relinquish the helm to a younger pilot, proposing to recruit his health by a voyage to England,'(^2) he was met by such a chorus of remonstrance that he resigned himself to die in harness, nor had he long to wait. In September, 1675, he proceeded to Boston to attend a protracted session of the Commissioners of the United Colonies. In March, 1676, when preparing to return to Hartford, he took cold, became feeble, and on the 10th of April was laid beside his father in what is now King's Chapel grave-yard. - "Sketch of John Winthrop the Younger" p.58

Name:
Governor of Connecticut, 1651-1676

John married Martha Fones in 1630. Martha was born on 21 Jan 1609. [Group Sheet]

John married Sarah Mary Bartholomew after 1637 in Salem, Essex Co, MA. Sarah was born about 1612 in Norfolk, England; died after 1648 in Salem, Essex Co, MA. [Group Sheet]

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This is the paragraph immediately following the family tree image in "The Corwin Genealogy."
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Now, this "tree," without a word of explanation more than the names arranged as above, makes Thomas Curwin, the Quaker, Matthias Corwin, of Long Island, and George Curwin, of Salem, three original immigrants, though at different times, to be brothers, and the sons of a John Curwin, of England., Thomas and George may have been brothers, but the remarks already made, and the general tenor of the Introduction, will apparently quite forbid the placing of Matthias here. Probably this arrangement by Rev. George Curwin was a supposition, upon which he was beginning to work out a Curwin Genealogy ; but his death soon after, (1717.) prevented him from either verifying or disproving the same. It seems impossible to allow such a record to overturn all the testimony which the reader will find respecting another origin of Matthias Corwin. We hope, however, that the truth may be elucidated. The writer would simply observe that the family of Matthias Corwin, on Long Island, have never possessed (so far as his knowledge extends) the Curwen Arms, which the family of George, both in the East and in the West, have cherished; that the early generations of these families are not known to have ever visited or even corresponded with each other. The name of Matthias might have become known to Rev. George, from the neighboring Ipswich records where it yet remains. Rev. George was but two years old when his grandfather died. Matthias moved from Ipswich to Long Island about the time of the birth of the first George's children, 1640 ; while Thomas doee not, as far as known, appear in this country till forty or fifty years after the arrivals of George and Matthias.

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Birth:
As of the publication of The Story of John Winthrop 1st Gov of MA in 1891, this birth date (Jan 12 1587) was expressed in modern calendar dates as January 22, 1588.

Name:
1st Governor of Massachusetts Colony

Died:
But the governor's hour was come. He fell asleep, "in the great consolations of God," March 26, 1649, in his sixty-second year. - John Winthrop First Gov MA

Buried:
The funeral was delayed till John could come from Connecticut. It was to be so ordered - as said the summons, dated "your father's parlor," despatched by fleet-footed Indian messenger, the ever troublesome Bellingham its first signer-" that it may appeare of what precious account & desert he hath ben, & how blessed his memoriall." It took place April 3, being conducted " with great solemnity and honour," both civic and military. The place of interment was what is now called the King's Chapel Burying-ground, - the spot to be seen at this day.

John married Mary Forth on 16 Apr 1605 in Great Stambridge, County Essex, England. Mary (daughter of John Forth and Thomasine Hilles) was born on 01 Jan 1583; died on 06 Jun 1615 in Groton, MA; was buried in St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Groton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary was of Greaat Stanbridge, County Essex, England, and was the first of the four wives of John Winthrop, Sr., followed by Thomasine Clopton, Margaret Tyndal, and Martha Rainsborough. (information from Clopton Family Tree)

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John and Mary were married by Ezekiel Culverwell.

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Birth:
Adam III was born in a house on Gracechurch Street. Some records give a location as described as London, St. Peter's Parish.

Adam married Anne Browne on 20 Feb 1579. Anne (daughter of Henry Browne and Agnes) was born on 13 Jan 1544 in Edwardstone, Babergh District, Suffolk, England; died on 19 Apr 1629 in Groton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England; was buried in St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Groton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet]

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Buried:
Burial in churchyard of St. Bartholomew's.

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Anne Browne was Adam III's second wife, after Alice Still of Grantham, County Lincolnshire, England, daughter of William Still. Alice died in childbirth in 1577.

"John, the only sonne of Adam Winthrop and Anne his wife, was borne in Edwardston abovesaid on Thursday about 5 of the clocke in the morning the 12 daie of January anno 1587 in the 30 yere of the reigne of Qu: Eliza:"

So, exactly, reads his birth-record, - a smiling one, plainly,?as his father set it down in his private diary a little more than three hundred years ago. The date is expressed after the rule of the Old Style; now it would be Jan. 22, 1588. Win the year preceding the fated Queen of Scots had laid her fair head upon the block. The last night of the July following saw the signal-fires flaming all up the coast that announced the arrival of the Armada in the Channel. The child was born away from home, under the roof, probably, of his maternal grandparents. Adam Winthrop lived at Groton, contiguous to Edwardston, in the lower part of Suffolk, sixty miles northeast of London; was lord of Groton Manor, an estate granted to his father - also named Adam, as was his father before him - by Henry VIII, at the dissolution of the monasteries.

John married Thomasine Hilles. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Adam Winthrop left his home at the age of seventeen and bound himself as an apprentice to Edward Altham in London for ten years. A clothier, Altham was elected to be Sheriff of London. After fulfilling his contract, Winthrop became a citizen of London in 1526.

According to Mayo, he worked hard and advanced in the Clothworkers' Company of London, and by 1551, he was chosen a Master of the Company, although his progress was not without a few bumps in the road. In 1538, as one of the Stewards, he was chastised "for disobeying the wardens in the search because that he would not suffer them to carry the cloth out of his house." Noting drying that Winthrop may have been "a little too enterprising for his own immediate good," Mayo states in 1543, he served time in the Fleet Prison and could not get out until he paid 600 pounds into the royal coffers. "His offense was negotiating with foreigners contrary to an edict of the King of England, but we do not know the nature of the negotiations which proved to be so expensive."

His offence could not have been too costly to him, however, because the very next year he purchased the Manor of Groton. With the prucase he became Lord of the Manor and Patron of the Church, for the property carried with it the right to name the local rector.

Four years later Edward, VI granted him arms and the rank of Gentleman. The arms were confirmed to his son, John, in 1592. (Information from Clopton Family Tree)

Adam married Agnes Sharpe in 1534 in England. Agnes (daughter of Robert Sharpe) was born in abt. 1516; died in abt. 1565. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Agnes was the second wife of Adam II, after his marriage to Alice Henny of London November 16, 1527.

Henry married Agnes. Agnes was born in 1522 in Syferkuil, Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North-West, South Africa; died on 17 Dec 1590 in Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea Unitary Authority, Essex, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Gentleman

Adam married Joane Burton in 1498. [Group Sheet]