| 8. | Capt Cornelius Howard, Sr. was born in 1636 in Norfolk Co, Virginia (son of Matthew "of the Severn" Howard, Sr. and Anne Evans Hall); died on 15 Oct 1680 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland. Other Events and Attributes:
- Birth: 1635, Great Britain
Notes:
Capt. Howard's will mentioned wife, Elizabeth and five children: Joseph, Cornelius, Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth.
Capt. Cornelius Howard, Gent., born in Great Britain 1635, died Maryland 1680. Cornelius came to the Severn River area from Norfolk, Virginia, with the Puritan Exodus of 1650-58. He was commissioned Ensign under Capt. Benson, Burgess 1671-1676, Justice of the Peace 1679.
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Captain John SISSON (2) appears as an officer in the royal colonial army and the comrade of wealthy tobacco planters and large landholders of the Tidewater region. Capt. Cornelius Howard, a brother army officer and himself a wealthy planter on the Severn River, . . . in his will affectionately names "Capt John SISSON" as "my brother" (i.e., in friendship) and appointed him executor of his will . . . dated in 1663 (Ref: "Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland" J.D. Warfield, ed., [Baltimore: Kohr & Pollock, 1905]).
John Sison married, probably in Virginia, Frances Gorsuch, daughter of Rev John Gorsuch. In 1659, John and his wife Frances immigrated to Maryland. In 1660 his daughter Joane was transported to Maryland. John Sison's will, probated 16 Mary 1663 in Anne Arundel County, names wife Frances, eldest daughter Jean Sison, daughter Eliza Sison, brother Benjamin Sison, brother Cornelius Howard (i.e., brother-in-law) . . . John's wife's Frances Gorsuch's sister Elizabeth Gorsuch Howard, the wife of Cornelius Howard. The land of Jane and Elizabeth SISSON is included in the Maryland Rent Rolls of Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties in 1666 and 1667.]
Cornelius married Elizabeth Gorsuch about 1657. Elizabeth was born about 1637; died after 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1735 - 1782 (47 years)