Information on Israel, Jesse, James, and Joanna came from records found in the county historian office at Lyons NY. Specific Dates and Nathan identified by David A. Macdonald. Separate writeup to be added to each, David A Macdonald has pieced this information together and it now fits with the early census records of 1810-1840.
born no earlier than 1769 and no later than 1775, almost certainly in New Jersey. He was a resident of Chester Township, Morris County, New Jersey, when he and three other Corwins were named in the New Jersey Tax Lists, 1772-1822:
1802, August, p. 4 Israel Corwin Chester
1802, August, p. 3 James Corwin Chester
1802, August, p. 4 Jesse Corwin Chester (x2)
1803, June, p. 4 James Corwin Chester
1803, June, p. 5 Jesse Corwin Chester
1815, August, p. 2 James Corwin Chester (x2)
1816, June, p. 2 James Corwin Chester (x2)
Between 1802 and 1825 no further record concerning Israel Corwin has been identified. By deed dated 12 March 1825 Joshua Van Wagenen and Mary, his wife, both of Lyon, Wayne County, New York, conveyed to Israel Corwin of the same a lot of land containing 50 acres ion the south side of Mud Creek in Township No. 12 of the first range of townships in the Town of Lyon.
By deed dated 12 March 1825 Israel Corwin and Mary, his wife, conveyed to Jesse Corwin of Lyons ten acres of the lot of land just acquired.On 26 January 1832 Israel Corwin, son of James Corwin, deceased, applied to the Surrogate of Wayne County, New York, for the probate of the will of said James Corwin, and a writ issued to Samuel Soverhill for the production of the will.
By deed dated 31 May 1832 Israel Corwin and Mary, his wife, of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, conveyed to Robert N. Lattimore of the same in consideration of $700 the lot of land on the south side of Mud Creek in Township No. 12 that Israel Corwin had acquired in 1825, except about 10 acres that Israel Corwin had conveyed to Jesse Corwin and Jesse Corwin in turn had conveyed to Asahel Collins.
On 1 September 1834 Israel Corwin was issued a patent for 240 acres of land, the Southeast 1/4 and the East 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 2, Town 2 South, Range 8 East (Canton Township, Wayne County, Michigan).By deed dated 23 December 1834 Israel Corwin and Mary, his wife, of Wayne County, Michigan Territory, conveyed to Jesse Corwin of the same the Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20, Town 2 South, Range 8 East, containing 40 acres more or less and being the south half of the 80-acre lot that Israel Corwin purchased at the United States Land Office at Detroit on 27 September 1834. Israel Corwin signed by hand and Mary Corwin by mark.
On 3 August 1839 Israel Corwin was issued a patent for 40 acres of land, the Southeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 2, Town 2 South, Range 8 East (Canton Township, Wayne county, Michigan)Israel Corwin has last been found in Michigan on 9 July 1836. By 1840 Israel Corwin had sold all of his land
Israel Corwin was enumerated at page 110 of the 1820 census of the Town of Lyons, Ontario County, New York, immediately following the entries for James Corwin Jr. and James Corwin and immediately preceding the entries for Jesse Corwin and Joshua Van Waggenen
13. daughter Corwin
She was under 10 at the time of the 1820 census. No more known.
14. daughter Corwin
No more is known.
3. Jesse Corwin
Information on Israel, Jesse, James, and Joanna came from records found in the county historian office at Lyons NY. Specific Dates and Nathan identified by David A. Macdonald. Separate writeup to be added to each, David A Macdonald has pieced this information together and it now fits with the early census records of 1810-1840.
JESSE CORWIN (James), son of James Corwin and ____ ____, was born in 1779-80 in Morris County, New Jersey
Like his brother James he became a shoemaker
He was married on 10 July 1803 in Morris County, New Jersey, to Sarah Terry, both being of Chester, by Daniel Horton, J. P.
He served in the War of 1812 in Noble’s New York Militia and applied for a pension, file SC-16503. The family lived variously in Ontario, Chautauqua, and Cattaraugus Counties, New York. He died around 1879.
He and another Jesse Corwin were residents of Chester Township, Morris County, New Jersey, when he and three other Corwins were named in the New Jersey Tax Lists, 1772-1822:
1802, August, p. 4 Israel Corwin Chester
1802, August, p. 3 James Corwin Chester
1802, August, p. 4 Jesse Corwin Chester (x2)
1803, June, p. 4 James Corwin Chester
1803, June, p. 5 Jesse Corwin Chester
1815, August, p. 2 James Corwin Chester (x2)
1816, June, p. 2 James Corwin Chester (x2)
Jesse Corwin was enumerated at page 110 of the 1820 census of the Town of Lyons, Ontario County, New York, immediately following James Corwin, Jr., James Corwin, and Israel Corwin and immediately preceding Joshua Van Waggenen, as:
Jesse Corwin
1 male ≥ 45 [Jesse]
1 female 26 < 45 [Sarah]
3 females 10 < 16 [???, ???,
???]
2 males < 10 [Jesse H., Richard]] 3 females < 10 [???, ???, ???]
1 in manufacture
and at page 80 of the 1830 census of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, on the same page as Jesse Corwin 2d and Israel Corwin, as:
Jesse Corwin
1 male 50 < 60 [Jesse]
1 female 40 < 50 [Sarah]
1 female 20 < 30 [???]
1 male 15 < 20 [Jesse H.] 1 female 15 < 20 [???]
1 male 10 < 15 [Richard] 2 females 10 < 15 [???, ???]
1 male < 5 [David] 1 female < 5 [???]
and at page 74 of the 1840 census of the Town of Manchester, Ontario County, New York, as:
Jesse Corwin
1 male 60 < 70 [Jesse]
1 female 50 < 60 [Sarah]
1 male 20 < 30 [Jesse H.]
1 male 15 < 20 [Richard]
1 male 10 < 15 [David]
but there is an identical Jesse Corwin in Chenango County
and at page 311 of the 1850 census of Manchester, Ontario County, New York, as:
141.142 Jessee Corwin 70 ShoeMaker b. New Jersey
Sally Corwin 67 b. New Jersey
David Corwin 27 b. New York
and at page 353 of the 1860 census of Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York, as:
Jesse Corwin 80 b. New Jersey
in the household of 129/117 Stephen Parsons, 51, Carpenter, born in Massachusetts, and Mary Parsons, 52, born in New York, with daughter Bethia Parsons, 14, born in New York.
Jesse Corwin has not been identified in the 1870 census.
There is no known documentary evidence for the parentage of the first two children listed below, but the censuses indicate that there were three sons and both of the first two listed below were residents of Ontario County, as were the parents and as was no other branch of the Corwin family whose identity is not well established.
It is assumed below that Jesse H. Corwin was a person distinct from 15.2 Jesse, but the assumption has no documentary basis. If they were the same person, then the son who was shown as < 10 in the 1820 census, 15 < 20 in the 1830 census, and 20 < 30 in the 1840 census remains unidentified.
Descendants of Richard have believed him to be a son of Jesse and Sarah.
15. Jesse H Corwin
Jesse H., born . By deed dated 23 April 1835 Jared Wilson conveyed in consideration of $300 a parcel of land in the Village of Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, situate on the north side of and adjoining cross street east of the square being part of and on the east line of a piece of land designated as Lots No. 3 and 4 in the subdivision of Lot No. 1 east of Main Street and north of the square, being 40 feet in breadth in front, bounded on the west by the taverns and owned by Solomon S. Chiilds
17. David Corwin
No other information is known at this time
4. James Corwin
Information on Israel, Jesse, James, and Joanna came from records found in the county historian office at Lyons NY.
Specific Dates and Nathan identified by David A. Macdonald. Separate writeup to be added to each, David A Macdonald has pieced this information together and it now fits with the early census records of 1810-1840.
JAMES CORWIN was born on 4 July 1785, according to his gravestone, and like his brother Jesse he became a shoemaker.
He married around 1803 married Mary “Polly” ____, who had been born in 1786 in Oneida County, New York.
Perhaps she was born a Bryant. Simeon Bruant was an executor of the will of James Corwin’s father, and James and Mary named sons Simeon Bryant and Israel Bryant. The family was living in or near the Town of Aurora, Erie County, New York, in 1817, when Rev. Bacon baptized six of the children in the West Aurora Congregational Church.[3]
It is said that the family was still there in 1819, and there is presumably some documentary reason to support that. The family has not been identified in the 1820 census, suggesting that it may have moved by then.
In 1830 the family was enumerated as that of James Corwin in the census of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, but James himself was not enumerated with it. In 1840 the family was enumerated in the Town of Sodus, Wayne County, New York, but son Israel was separately enumerated in the same town and the son Simeon had remained in Erie County.
James and Mary Corwin subsequently removed to the Town of Sodus, Wayne County. James Corwin died on 29 June 1850, aged 65 years 11 months 25 days, and was buried in the Brick Church Cemetery, now called the Baptist Rural Cemetery, in Sodus Center, Town of Sodus, Wayne County, New York.
Mary Corwin was reportedly enumerated in the New York State census for 1855 but has not been identified in the 1860 census.
The family was enumerated at page 82 of the 1830 census of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, as:
James Corwin
1 female 40 < 50 [Mary]
1 male 20 < 30 [Simeon Bryant]
1 male 15 < 20 [Israel Bryant] 2 females 15 < 20 [Joanna]
2 males 10 < 15 [Eleazer Miles, Benjamin]
1 female 5 < 10 [???]
1 male < 5 [James R.*] 1 female < 5 [Diana]
* James R. should have been shown as 5 < 10.
and at page 99 of the 1840 census of the Town of Sodus, Wayne County, New York, as:
James Corrin
1 male 50 < 60 [James] 1 female 50 < 60 [Mary]
2 males 20 < 30 [Eleazer Miles, Benjamin K.]
1 male 15 < 20 [James R.]
2 females 15 < 20 [???, Diana]
Mary Corwin was enumerated at page 176 of the 1850 census of the Town of Sodus, Wayne County, New York, as:
Mary Corwin 64 b. New York
In the household of 730/768 William M. Fuller [indexed as Fowler], 37, and wife Matilda, 35, both born in Vermont. The census would have been taken very shortly after her husband’s death, and she was probably living with the Fullers as a roomer.
She is reported to have been enumerated in the 1855 census of the Town of Aurora, Second Election District, Erie County, New York, as Mary Corwin, 69, widow, born in Oneida County, in family No. 97, the household of her son Benjamin.
The following list is of children is based on the censuses and on notes of Harold E. Corwin, which contain more detail than the source mentioned, presumably based on independent research although he cited no sources.
18. Maria Corwin
Maria, born 7 May 1804. She was baptized on 7 June 1817
22. Joanna Corwin
Joanna, born 1815. She was baptized on 17 September 1817. The spelling “Jeanna” in the source cited in footnote 1 is probably erroneous
26. Alanza Corwin
Alanza Corwin, Alanza Lyons, 1, resident of Galen, died on 22 July 1847 of cholera infantum.
He just about had to be a son of James R. Corwin, the only resident of Sodus in 1850.
27. Diana Corwin
Diana, born 11 March 1828. She died on 19 February 1845 and was buried in Lot No. 82, Griffith Mills Cemetery, Town of Aurora, Erie County, New York
In researching Stephen, some people have listed Orville C. Corwin as a child of Stephen and Phebe.
I have ruled him out because of the following facts.1) Phebe would have been 51 years old when he was born.
2)I have found him in the 1880 census which shows his birth place as PA,
age 25, and living with Frank and Jennie Avery, living in Mendon, St Joseph CO., MI.3) I have found no record of Orville Corwin in any census living with Stephen and
Phebe.However the information that I have (came from N.C) is Orille C. Corwin b. Jan/1/1848 d. Nov/7/1901 in South Haven, Van Buren Co. MI. Married Ella or Grace Unknown last name. Children were
Roda f. b.12/6/1890, Clara f. b.1897, Edward m. b. 1899 It is my opinion these may not have been his children as he would have been 47 having the first one. So none of these are listed in the Stephen Corwin line at this time.
Why the Corwin's may have moved to Michigan in the 1830's
In 1746, The Pioneers' Road officially opened a road across the Appalachian Mountains and to the west. From that time on, there were massive migrations west in what would soon be the United States. Overland there were the Forbes Road, the Fall Line Road, Braddock's Road, the California Trail, Boston Post Road, Great Valley Road, King's Highway,Mohawk Trail, Mormon Trail, National Road (Cumberland Road), Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Upper Road, Taos Trail Wilderness Trail, Zane Trace, plus all the water routes.And there began to be what we now call massive migrations. These massive migrations were often known as "fevers," as if they were some kind of sickness characterized by an emotional excitement and restless eagerness. The fever hit people of all classes--anyone who was anxious for a new beginning.
One of these fevers was called the "Michigan Fever." Between 1830 and 1840, Michigan saw the greatest population increase of any state or territory, with more than 200,000 people living in Michigan. Settlers were mostly from New England and western New York. By 1860, about 1/4 of the state's population were "York staters."
Stephen is listed in the following Census:
1840 Canton TWP Wayne County Mi
1850 Mendon TWP ST Joseph County MI
1860 Brady TWP Kalamazoo County MIFrom Cindy Lobb - on Rootsweb.com under Corwin board
In 1834, he purchased land in Canton Twp., Wayne County, Michigan from Lemuel Cole his wife Elizabeth. The land transfer records show him 'of Canton Twp' at the time. In 1836, he purchased about 40 acres from John Whiting and his wife, Minerva of Canton Twp.Corwin, Stephen Wayne MI 1835/11/19
found in the land records at http://www.in.gov/cgi-bin/icpr/cgi-bin/fwname.pl for Fort Wayne IN land records
GAC record on fiche shows 1801 as birth date
Harvett - Came from the Thompson Family Bible through the William Francis line, they say that the spelling there is Harvett.
Hulet - Came from the records I received from Gerald Armstrong Corwin. Looking in more detail at these records I found a Marriage License of Elisha Corwin (age 75) to Nancy Harbin (age 72) dated Sept 11, 1909 record # 5616 Van Buren County MI. Place of marriage South Haven. Where his mothers name was Phebe Hulet. This is very clearly Hulet.
Hewlett - was enumerated at page 113 of the 1820 census of the Town of Lyons, Ontario County, New York, in which Stephen Corwin's parents and Stephen himself lived:Jeremy Hewlett
1 male ? 45 1 female' 45
1 male 16 < 26 3 females 16 < 26
0 males 16 < 18
1 male 10 < 16
1 female < 10There is no other Hulet/Hewlett family in the area, and there is no Harvett family anywhere at all. I think that Harvett came from someone misreading some old document; after all, the name came out of a 1917 death record of William Francis Corwin, and who in 1917 would have known much about a mother who died the better part of a century earlier?
I'm confident that her name was Hewlett and am willing to guess that she was a fourth daughter of Jeremy Hewlett who would have been 16 < 26 in that census if she hadn't already married. (from David A. Macdonald)
29. Jacob Corwin
Jacob Corwin (not sure if the same) married STANTON, SOPHIA on 4 AUG 1884 in IONIA COUNTY, MICHIGAN - EARLY MARRIAGE RECORDS - INDEXED BY GROOM http://www.rootsweb.com/~miionia/more.txt
Divorced in 1885 Ionia County Divorces http://www.rootsweb.com/~miionia/Iondivc3.html
Or he may have married Laura Pearlman. Need more research on Jacob...
Or he may have married Mary and had two sons Willis and Frank (1870 census Jacob 47, Marry 34, Willis 17, and Frank 14)1870 Allegan Village Census at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~miallega/1870alleganvil3.html
1860 Census shows him 38, Mary 27, Willis 8, Frank 5 living in Allegan Mich
1880 Census shows him 65 and Mary 42,living in Allegan Mich Dist 16maybe Marriage 1 Laura W. PORTMAN Married: 20 MAR 1847 in , , Michigan Laura from Brady Mich
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=boicourtbylines&id=I258531850 census shows Jacob age 28 and not married.
33. Philetus Corwin
Marriage record:
From LDS Film # 0984140 1831-1868 Marriage Records Kalamazoo county MI
State of Michigan Kalamazoo County
I do hereby certify that on this 4th day of April AD 1863 at the Village of Kalamazoo in said county and at the residence of H.D. Culver in said village. I united in marriage Philetus Corwin of the age of twenty three years of the township of Brady and Betsey L Culver of the sweet sixteen years of the village of kalamazoo and that these present as witnefsis of said marriage ceremony H. D. Culver and Abigail A Culver both of said village and all of the county kalamazoo aforsaid and all of the State of Michigan aforsaid
Kalamazoo April 4th AD 1863
Rollin Wood
Justice of the Peacelisted in the 1860 and 1850 census
Betsey's fathor and mother names were H.D. Culver and Abigail A Culver per marriage records. See note in Philetus Corwin file.
Information on Israel, Jesse, James, and Joanna came from records found in the county historian office at Lyons NY. Specific Dates and Nathan identified by David A. Macdonald. Separate writeup to be added to each, David A Macdonald has pieced this information together and it now fits with the early census records of 1810-1840.
The Holcomb family was enumerated on page 267 of the 1850 census of the town of Arcadia, Wayne county, NY.
The Holcomb family was enumerated on page 267 of the 1850 census of the town of Arcadia, Wayne county, NY
35. Hannah Holcomb
The Holcomb family was enumerated on page 267 of the 1850 census of the town of Arcadia, Wayne county, NY
36. Jeremiah Holcomb
The Holcomb family was enumerated on page 267 of the 1850 census of the town of Arcadia, Wayne county, NY
37. Moses Holcomb
The Holcomb family was enumerated on page 267 of the 1850 census of the town of Arcadia, Wayne county, NY
38. Eliza Holcomb
The Holcomb family was enumerated on page 267 of the 1850 census of the town of Arcadia, Wayne county, NY
39. Ruth Holcomb
The Holcomb family was enumerated on page 267 of the 1850 census of the town of Arcadia, Wayne county, NY
40. Lucretia Holcomb
The Holcomb family was enumerated on page 267 of the 1850 census of the town of Arcadia, Wayne county, NY