8. Amy Corwin
She married around 1820 Peter J. Cole, probably in New Jersey as the New Jersey census of that year does not exist and he is not to be found in the 1820 census of New York. In 1830 they moved to “near Detroit, Mich.” and in 1840 to Lima, LaGrange County, Indiana. Their son Daniel W. Cole, who was born on 22 August 1822 in Wayne County, New York, left Michigan and settled in Lima, LaGrange County, Indiana, in 1840, later also acquiring land in St. Joseph, Michigan.
41. Daniel W. Cole
See note on mother's file
9. Jesse Corwin
Jesse son of Israel Corwin and Mary ____, was born in 1800, according to the 1850 and 1860 censuses. He removed, along with his parents and siblings, from Chester, Morris County, New Jersey, to central New York about 1825-30.
He married around 1818 Sarah ____.
By deed dated 12 March 1825 Israel Corwin and Mary, his wife, of Lyon, Wayne County, New York, conveyed to Jesse Corwin of the ten acres out of 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 that Israel Corwin had acquired the same day from Joshua Van Wagenen and wife.
By deed dated 28 August 1828 Jesse Corwin and Sarah, his wife, of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, conveyed to Asahel Collins of the same, in consideration of $250, the same land.
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.
By deed dated 3 October 1854 Jesse’s brother Nathan and Eliza Ann, his wife, quitclaimed the 40 acres just mentioned to Peter Cole. This suggests that Jesse and Sarah Corwin had already conveyed the land to Peter Cole and that for reasons that cannot be known without a search of the records Israel Corwin had some interest in the land that required his giving a quitclaim deed to clear Peter Cole’s title.
The family was enumerated at page 80 of the 1830 census of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, as:
Jesse Corwin 2d
1 male 30 < 40 [Jesse]
1 female 20 < 30 [Sarah]
1 male 10 < 15 [???]
1 male 5 < 10 [Justus]
2 males < 5 [Calvin, Erastus] 1 female < 5 [Mary]
at page 288 of the 1840 census of Canton Township, Wayne County, Michigan, as:
Jesse Corwin
1 male 30 < 40 [Jesse] 1 female 30 < 40 [Sarah]
2 males 15 < 20 [???, Justus]
2 males 10 < 15 [Calvin, Erastus]
1 male 5 < 10 [Amos] 3 females 5 < 10 [Cordelia,,Mary,
Rosetta]
1 male < 5 [Nelson] 1 female < 5 [Lorena]
at page 318 of the 1850 census of Canton Township, Wayne County, Michigan, as:
96/96 Jesse Corwin 49 Farmer b. New Jersey
Sally Corwin 48 b. New York
Amos Corwin 19 b. New York
Lorena Corwin 12 b. Michigan
Nelson Corwin 10 b. Michigan
Tillman Corwin 5 b. Michigan
at page 452 of the 1860 census of Canton Township, Wayne County, Michigan, next to two Franciscos, as:
241/225 Jessee Corwin 60 Farmer b. New Jersey
Sarah Corwin 58 b. New York
Uriah [!] Corwin 22 [female] b. Michigan
Stillman Corwin 15 b. Michigan
and at page 41 of the 1870 census of Canton Township, Wayne County, Michigan, as::
263/245 Jessie Corwin 70 Farmer b. Pennsylvania
Sarah Corwin 58 b. New York
/246 Stillman Corwin 24 Farm b. Michigan
Laborer
Susan Corwin 20 b. Canada
Annie Corwin 1 b. Michigan
Eleven children were listed elsewhere: Justus, Calvin, Erastus, Amos, Cordelia, Lorena, Nelson, Stillman, Rosetta, Mary, and Polly. Mary and Polly died young; Cordelia married 13 July 1851 Whiteley Woodworth [a name not supported by the census], Rosetta married Cyrus Simmons; Lorena married ____ Chambers.
Neither site referred to the oldest son, born around 1820, who was still living at the time of the 1840 census.
The 1880 census shows Jesse and Sarah living with their son Tillman/Stillman who was a farmer in Washtenaw Michigan
42. Son Corwin
was still living at the time of the 1840 census
45. Mary Corwin
She would be the Mary/Polly who died young, leading to a second Mary in 1830.
46. Cordelia Corwin
Cordelia, born 1827-8. She married Barnard Williams. Or was she the Cordelia Corwin of Wayne County who married on 13 July 1851 in Wayne County Whitely Woodworth? http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gsfn=&gsln=corwin&sx=&gskw=&f5Day=&f5Month=&f5Year=&f6=&f0=&f1=&f2=&f3=&prox=1&f5=++&db=mimarr&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=mp-mimarr&gst=&so=3
The family was enumerated at page 319 of the 1850 census of Canton Township, Wayne County, Michigan, as:
102/102 Bernard Williams 34 Farmer b. Ireland
Cordelia Williams 22 b. New York
with children 12 and 10, apparently by an earlier marriage, and son Thomas, 1.
48. Mary Corwin
Mary, born 20 January 1830
She married on 16 June 1846, as his second wife, Elias Palmiter. He had been born on 19 July 1815, son of Asahel Palmiter and Sarah (née) Palmiter, and had married (1) Mary P. Brooks, who died on 20 March 1846.
Elias Parmiter [sic], 30, and Mary Corwin, 16, of Canton, were married on 16 June 1846 by Benjamin Huston, J. P. The witnesses were Jessey Corwin and Erastis Corwin.
51. Lorena Corwin
Lorena, born 1837-8. She is said to have married ____ Chambers, but she has not been identified in any census. There may have been some confusion with Loran Chambers, 19, in the household of 695/637 Alfred Chambers, 58, and Olive Chambers, 57, at page 785 of the 1860 census of Nankin Township, Wayne County, Michigan
52. Nelson Corwin
Nelson, born 1839-40. He was enumerated at page 337 of the 1860 census of Niles, Berrien County, Michigan, in the household of his brother Justus, as:
Nelson C. Corwin 20 b. New York
10. Nathan Corwin
NATHAN CORWIN, son of Israel Corwin and Mary ____, was born on 15 March 1810 in that part of Ontario County, New York, that later became Wayne County. In 1834 he moved to Wayne County, Michigan, as did several of his family, where he cleared timber. Two years later he moved to La Grange County, Indiana, where he remained thirteen years. (Nathan Corwin, Steven Corwin, and David Jewett [sic: Jewell] were among the early settlers of Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
In 1848 he moved to Will County, Illinois, first living for two years in Plainfield Township and then for three years in Lockport Township, where he farmed. Then he kept a hotel in Lockport itself for three years. In 1855 he removed to Horner Township, Will County, where he still lived in 1878 and had been poor master and school director.
He married (1) on 30 June 1831 Sophia Jewell, who had been born on 12 June 1811, daughter of David Jewell and Alice Tremain, and died on 26 January 1843 in Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana,
and (2) on 4 June 1844 in Lagrange County, Indiana, Ester Ann Nolan.
After her death he married (3) on 4 July 1848 in Will County, Illinois, Eliza Ann Cole,
who had been born on 9 April 1827 in the Town of Lyons, Wayne County, New York, the family moving when she was seven to Michigan, where she grew up, then to Iowa for a few years, and finally to Will County, Illinois.
Her father was quite likely Erastus Cole, who was enumerated in the 1830 census as living in the Town of Jerusalem, Yates County, New York, with a daughter under 5, and in the 1850 census of Will County, Illinois, the only Cole there old enough to be Eliza Ann’s father.
By deed dated 3 October 1854 Nathan Corwin and Eliza Ann Corwin, his wife, of Will County, Illinois, quitclaimed to Peter Cole of Michigan the Southwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20, Town 2 South, Range 8 East, situate in Wayne County, Michigan, containing 40 acres. The witnesses were Charles A. Weeks and A. J. Tower. Reg. H. R. Nolan.
The land in question had formerly belonged to 15.1.1 Jesse Corwin, but no search has been made for the conveyance from Jesse to Nathan.
The records of Nathan Corwin’s death and burial have not been sought or encountered.
According to her obituary Eliza Ann Corwin, widow of Nathan Corwin and mother of seven Corwin children of whom only four sons and one daughter survived her, died on 13 February 1911 at the home of her son, David I. Corwin, in Russell, Russell County, Kansas, and was buried in the Russell Cemetery.
If those facts are true, David I. Corwin was born out of wedlock, as he would have had to be one of Eliza Ann’s seven children and one of her four surviving sons. He had been born in 1846 and his father did not marry Eliza Ann Cole until 1848. There is no reason to believe the obituary was incorrect, as it was at his house that his mother died and he would have been the person to provide details such as the date of her birth and the movements of her family.
One can only speculate concerning the facts. Perhaps Ester Ann spent her last days as an invalid, possibly ever since the birth of Charles Andrew in 1845, and that it was only her death, the date of which has not been determined, that permitted Nathan Corwin to marry David’s mother.
The family was enumerated at page 167 of the 1840 census of Bloomfield Township, Lagrange County, Indiana, with a Stephen Corwin in Clay Township, as:
Nathan Corwin [indexed Convin]
1 male 30 < 40 [Nathan]
1 female 20 < 30
1 female 5 < 10 [Melissa]
2 males < 5 [Horace, Henry] 1 female < 5 [Mary]
at page 1 of the 1850 census of Lockport, Will County, Illinois, as:
12/12 Nathan Corwin 40 Farmer b. New York
Eliza Ann Corwin 22 b. New York
Melissa Corwin 17 b. New York [Mich]
Mary Corwin 15 b. New York
Horace Corwin 13 b. New York
Henry Corwin 11 b. New York
Lydia Corwin 9 b. New York
David Corwin 3 b. New York
Austin Corwin 1 b. New York
at page 101 of the 1860 census of Homer Township, Will County, Illinois, as:
863/790 Nathan Corwin 50 Farmer b. New York
Eliza A. Corwin 34 b. New York
Henry Corwin 22 b. Indiana
Lydia Corwin 17 b. Indiana
Charles A. Corwin 14 b. Indiana
David Corwin 13 b. Indiana
Austin Corwin 11 b. Indiana
Jesse D. Corwin 9 b. Illinois
Dewitt C. Corwin 7 b. Illinois
Alice Corwin 4 b. Illinois
Edward L. Corwin 1 b. Illinois
and at page 108 of the 1870 census of Homer Township, Will County, Illinois, as:
118/118 Nathan Corwin 60 Farmer b. New York
Eliza A. Corwin 43 b. New York
David Corwin 24 b. Indiana
Nathan A. Corwin 21 b. Illinois
Jesse L. Corwin 19 b. Illinois
De Witt C. Corwin 17 b. Illinois
Alice S. Corwin 15 b. Illinois
Edwin L. Corwin 11 b. Illinois
William Corwin 2 b. Illinois
The children were listed in the history of Will County cited above as: (a) by Sophia Jewell: Melissa, Mary U., Horace T., Henry E., Lydia; (b) by Eliza Ann Cole: David R., Austin, Leroy, De Witt C., Alice, Edward L., William F. Except as otherwise noted, all of the following information concerning the children is from that source or from The Jewell Register that is cited in the footnotes.
The son David was born before his father’s marriage to Eliza Ann Cole, but there is good reason to believe that he was her son rather than Ester Ann Nolan’s.Nathan CORWIN, farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Lockport; was born in Wayne Co., N.Y., March 15, 1810; he lived there, engaged in farming, up to the time he was 24 years of age, when he came West, and first moved to Wayne Co., Mich., and was engaged in clearing up timber land; two years afterward, he moved to La Grange Co., Ind., where he remained thirteen years; he came to this county in 1848, and first lived in Plainfield two years, and then in Lockport Twp. three years, farming, and in Lockport three years, keeping hotel; in 1855 he came to this township, where he has since resided; has been Poor Master and School Director. Married his first wife Sophia JEWELL, of Arcadia, Wayne Co., N.Y., June 30, 1831; she died Jan. 26,1843; they had five children - Melissa, Mary U., Horace T., Henry E. and Lydia. He married his second wife, Eliza Ann COLE, of Wayne Co., N.Y., in 1848; they had seven children - David R., Austin, Leroy, De Witt C., Alice, Edward L. and William F. (Homer Township) from web site:
WAYNE COUNTY, NY ANCESTRAL SIGHTINGS: From Other States, Part 4
54. Melissa Corwin
Melissa, born 22 July 1834 in Dearborn, Wayne County, Michigan
. She married on 28 January 1852 Jesse H. Greenly.
Their family was enumerated at page 118 of the 1860 census of St. Vrain, Boulder County, Colorado, as:
104/104 Jesse Greenly 42 Farmer b. Ohio
Melissa Greenly 37 b. Indiana
with a number of children.
55. Mary S Corwin
Mary S.
born 21 November 1835. She married on 28 September 1852 in Will County, Illinois, Almon J. Tower.
She appears to have been the woman who was identified in her stepmother’s obituary as Mary Corwin, then living in Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado. In fact she was enumerated as Mary U. [sic] Tower, 75, widow, in the 1910 census of that place
57. Henry E Corwin
Henry E., born 5 October 1838. He married on 31 January 1867 in Will County, Illinois, Pluma R. Smith. They lived in Lockport, Will County, Illinois. His Civil War records place his birth in Indiana. According to his stepmother’s obituary he lived at the time of her death in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa.
58. Lydia Corwin
Lydia, born 13 January 1840. She lived in Lockport, Will County, Illinois.
Nathan Austin, born 1849-50. He appears to have died between the 1870 and 1880 censuses.
Jesse Leroy, born 15 May 1851. He was born in West Lockport, Will County, Illinois, but his parents moved to Homer Township when he was three years old. He married on 5 September 1875, in Richland County, Wisconsin, Miss Hannah Adams, of Indiana, who had been born on 11 February 1855.
According to his mother’s obituary he lived at the time of her death in Lockport, Will County, Illinois.
De Witt C., born 1852-3. According to his mother’s obituary he predeceased her. He was still unmarried at the time of the 1880 census, where he was enumerated as Clinton Corwin, and it is assumed that he died without issue, as none were mentioned in his mother’s obituary.
Based upon 1880 Census for Dansville, Ingham, Michigan in LDS file 1254582 page 302D
64. Alice S Corwin
Alice S., born November 1855. She married on 19 October 1876 in Will County, Illinois, Alexander Lowry. According to her mother’s obituary she lived in Harrison, Sioux County, Nebraska, and indeed they were enumerated at page 2 of the 1820 census of Harrison, Sioux County, Nebraska.
65. Edward L Corwin
Edward L., born 1858-9. According to his mother’s obituary he lived at the time of her death southwest of Russell, Russell County, Kansas
66. William F Corwin
William F., born 1867-8. According to his mother’s obituary he lived at the time of her death Russell, Russell County, Kansas
11. Joanna Corwin
She married on 10 October 1835, while the family was living in Wayne County, Michigan, Joseph Lindsley Dickerson, born on 10 October 1810, son of Thomas Dickerson and Ruth Johnson. The Dickersons went from Pennsylvania to Perrinsville, Nankin Township, Wayne County, Michigan, then to Kent County and Ottawa County. Joseph Dickerson died on 10 February 1886. The children were: James, Thomas J., Lewis P., Ruth E., William, Alaster W. Henry Lee, Esther A., Sarah, Nancy, Joseph Lindsley, Jr.
The family was enumerated at page 8 of the 1850 census of Tallmadge, Ottawa County, Michigan, as:
23/23 Joseph D. Dickerson 39 Farmer b. Pennsylvania
Johanna Dickerson 37 b. New York
Thomas J. Dickerson 12 b. Michigan
Lewis T? P? Dickerson 10 b. Michigan
Ruth E. Dickerson 8 b. Michigan
Wm. D. Dickerson 6 b. Michigan
Alaster W. Dickerson 4 b. Michigan
Henry L. Dickerson 2 b. Michigan
Esther A. Dickerson 1/12 b. Michigan
See notes on wifes file
12. Stephen Corwin
They were enumerated at page 169 of the 1840 census of Clay Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, as:
Stephen Corwin
1 female 60 < 70 [???]
1 male 20 < 30 [Stephen]
1 female 15 < 20 [???]
1 female < 5 [???]
and at page 105 of the 1850 census of East Greenfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, as:
1432/1439 Stephen Corwin 37 Laborer b. New York
Anna Corwin 35 b. New Jersey
Charles T. Corwin 6 b. Indiana
Maria Nill 12 b. Michigan
Charles Corwin, 15, farm laborer, born in Indiana, was enumerated at page 683 of the 1860 census of Greenfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, in the household of 706/719 Sarah Brown, 76, born New York.
74. Charles T Corwin
Charles Corwin, 15, farm laborer, born in Indiana, was enumerated at page 683 of the 1860 census of Greenfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, in the household of 706/719 Sarah Brown, 76, born New York.
Also see notes on fathers file
19. Rachael Corwin
Rachael, born 1807. She was baptized on 17 September 1817 in the West Aurora Congregational Church, Town of Aurora, Erie County, New York. She married William King, and their family was enumerated at page 265 of the 1850 census of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, as:
2118/2255 Wm. King 50 C. Laborer b. New York
Rachael King 45 b. New York
Nathan King 22 Com Lab b. New York
Ransom? King 20 Com Lab b. New York
Eliza King 18 b. New York
Elisha King 15 Com Lab b. New York
Andrew King 9 b. New York
Hannah King 4 b. New York
Fidelia King 2 b. New York
Simeon Bryant, born 1809 in Erie County, New York. He was baptized on 17 September 1817. He married in 1834 Lydia A. Kelley
SIMEON BRYANT CORWIN son of James D. Corwin and Mary ____, was born in 1809 in Erie County, New York. He and five of his siblings were baptized on 17 September 1817 by Rev. Bacon in the West Aurora Congregational Church, Town of Aurora, Erie County, New York. He married in 1834 Lydia A. Kelley, who had been born on 31 July 1814.
In 1859 the family was listed in the Buffalo City Directory, Simeon a pail maker, living on Niagara Street. Simeon Corwin died on 21 November 1869, aged 60 years 2 months, and was buried in Lot No. 171, Griffin Mills Cemetery, Erie County, New York. Lydia Corwin died on 2 April 1892. She and sons Wallace, Jesse, and James were buried in the same lot.
The family was enumerated at page 233 of the 1840 census of the Town of Aurora, Erie County, New York, as:
Symon B. Corwin
1 male 30 < 40 [Simon]
1 female 20 < 30 [Lydia]
1 male 5 < 10 [James]
3 males < 5 [Erastus, Oscar, Jesse]
It has not been identified in the 1850 census, but the census of that year suggests that James and Lucinda had been deposited with an aunt and uncle while rest of the family went elsewhere. The family is again found at page 20 of the 1860 census of Ward 11, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, as:
121/131 S. B. Corwin 50 Pale manufacty b. New York
Lydiann Corwin 45 b. New York
Jesse Corwin 20 [female] b. New York
Lusona Corwin 18 b. New York
and the following, enumerated at page 537 of the 1870 census of Ward 10, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, appears to be the widow although no Susie M. Corwin was enumerated with the family in 1850.
828/812 Lydia A. Corwin 54 b. New York
Susie M. Corwin 26 teacher at sch. b. New York
Oscar Corwin was not named in the source, although it indicated that there was an unidentified son. He was enumerated on the same page as James and in the same ward as Simeon; he seems to have married a sister of James’s wife; he named a son James. He has been placed in this family for those reasons, and he has been placed before Erastus because he married three or four years before Erastus.
Erastus Wallace, born 1837. He probably married on 25 December 1859 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, Emily F. Richardson. He was a corporal in Company M., 11th New York Cavalry. He died on 10 December 1863 at Camp Relief, Washington, D. C. of disease and was buried in Griffins Mill Cemetery, Aurora, Erie County, New York
85. Jesse K Corwin
Jesse K., born 1839-40. He died n 9 June 1863 at Post Hospital, Leonardstown, St. Mary County, Maryland, and was buried in Griffins Mill Cemetery, Aurora, Erie County, New York
86. Lucinda Corwin
Lucinda, born 1840-1. Lucinda Corwin, 19, born in New York, was enumerated at page 14 of the 1850 census of Boston, Erie County, New York, in the same household as her brother James. The 1840 and 1860 censuses show that her age in 1850 should have been shown as 9 rather than 19.
Israel Bryant, born in 1811-12. He was baptized on 17 September 1817. He married in 1840 Fidelia Adelaide ____.
ISRAEL BRYANT7 CORWIN son of James D. Corwin and Mary ____, was born in 1811-12. He and five of his siblings were baptized on 17 September 1817 by Rev. Bacon in the West Aurora Congregational Church, Town of Aurora, Erie County, New York. He married around 1835 Fidelia Adelaide ___, who had been born in 1806-7 in Newark, Wayne County, New York.
By deed dated 22 April 1839 Esbon Blackmar and Arabella, his wife, of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, conveyed to Israel Corwin of the same part of the Aldrich farm, known as Lots No. 25 and 27 in the Village of Newark, Arcadia County, New York.
Israel Corwin died on 7 August 1852 at McDonnelsville, Mormon Island, California.
It is commonly said that his wife, Fidelia Adelaide, died on on 2 October 1884, aged 78 years, and was buried in the North Main Street Cemetery, Newark, Wayne County, New York, but that is doubtful.
The published records of that cemetery list a burial of “Corwin, Fedelia Adelaide, Oct. 2, 1884 78 yr. wife Isaac.” ., but despite the naming of her husband as Isaac the listing appears amid the burials of a number of Corwins in the family of Israel Bryant Corwin. Moreover, the 1880 census of the widow of Israel Bryant Corwin places her birth in 1806-7. But there was enumerated at page 34 of the 1880 census of Arcadia a Fidelia Miller, 73, born in Massachusetts. widowed, sister of Robert Frary, who appears in the 1850 census aged 42, with Mary Frary. Thus the latter Fidelia could well have become the wife of Isaac H. Corwin, whose first wife died in 1875, and so could well have been the Fidelia Adelaide Corwin who was buried in the Main Street Cemetery. It is also possible that the two listings in the 1880 census refer to the same woman. Without further research it is impossible to determine whether the Fidelia Corwin who was buried in the Main Street Cemetery was the widow of Israel Bryant Corwin, buried with her children and misidentified as widow of Isaac H. Corwin, or whether Isaac H. Corwin married Fidelia (Frary) Miller as his second wife and it was she who was buried there.
The family was enumerated at page 148 of the 1840 census of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, as:
Israel Corwin
1 female 30 < 40 [Fidelia]
1 male 20 < 30 [Israel] 1 female 20 < 30 [???]
1 male < 5 [???] 1 female < 5 [Arabella]
and at page 290 of the 1850 census of Newark, Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, as:
2503/2653 Israel Corwin 38 Boatman b. New York
Fidelia Corwin 42 b. New York
Arabella T. Corwin 13 b. New York
Theodore A. Corwin 9 b. New York
John L. Corwin 6 b. New York
Fidelia Corwin was enumerated at page - of the 1860 census of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, as:
1484/1559 Fidelia Corwin 50 b. New York
and at page 26 of the 1870 census of the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County, New York, as:
443/416 Phedelia Corwin 63 b. New York
enumerated at page 56 of the 1880 census of Newark, Wayne County, New York, as:
379/364 Fidelia Corwin 73 Widow b. NY; ENG; NY
Theodore A., Augustus T., and an unnamed son and unnamed daughter were listed as children in the source mentioned. The names of Arabella T. and John L. have been taken from the 1850 census.
Arabella T., born 1836-7. She has not been identified in any federal census later than 1850, nor is there a burial listing for her in the North Main Street Cemetery.
Theodore A., Augustus T., and an unnamed son and unnamed daughter were listed as children in the source mentioned. The names of Arabella T. and John L. have been taken from the 1850 census.
Theodore A., born July-August 1841. He was enumerated in the household of his uncle Benjamin K. Corwin in the 1855 census of Erie County. Theodore A. Corwin, Company E, III Regiment, N. Y. S. U., died on 10 February 1865, aged 23 years 6 months, and was buried in the North Main Street Cemetery, Newark, Wayne County, New York.
He died in the army hospital at Annapolis of typhoid fever.
90. John L Corwin
John L., born 1843-4. He has not been identified in any federal census later than 1850, nor is there a burial listing for him in the North Main Street Cemetery.
Augustus T., born 22 January 1849. Augustus T. Corwin died on 13 July 1849. aged 5 months 21 days, and was buried in the North Main Street Cemetery, Newark, Wayne County, New York
. Eleazer Miles, born 1816. He was baptized on 17 September 1817. He married in 1843 Almeda ____
ELEAZER MILES CORWIN, H was born 1816 and baptized on 17 September 1817. He married in 1843 Almeda ____.
Miles Corwin, formerly of Aurora, New York, aged 58, died on 1 July 1875 in Summit Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
The couple was enumerated at page 91 of the 1850 census of the Town of Aurora, Erie County, New York, as:
1309/1413 Miles Corwin 32 Lawyer b. New York
Amanda [sic] Corwin 27 b. New York
Jane Corwin 2 b. New York
Lucy Corwin 3/12 b. New York
at page 1054 of the 1860 census of Newell, Vermillion County, Illinois, as:
1436/1479 Miles Corwin 43 Farmer b. New York
Almeda Corwin 35 b. New York
Jane Corwin 12 b. New York
Lucy Corwin 10 b. New York
Mariette Corwin 6 b. New York
Matilda Corwin 5 b. New York
Elizabeth Corwin 3 b. Illinois
James E. Corwin 2 b. Illinois
and at page 53 of the 1870 census of Pilot Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, as:
171/147 Miles Corwin 53 Day laborer b. New York
Almeda Corwin 46 b. New York
Marietta Corwin 16 b. New York
Matilda Corwin 14 b. New York
James E. Corwin 12 b. Illinois
Elizabeth Corwin 13 b. Illinois
Sarah E. Corwin 7 b. Illinois
William D. Ackley 36 Day laborer b. New York
Owen Corwin 22 Day laborer b. New York
Owen Corwin of the 1870 census was a son of Eleazer Corwin’s younger brother James.
25. James R Corwin
JAMES R. CORWIN (James, James), son of James Corwin and Mary ____, was born in 1820-21 in Erie County, New York.
He and five of his siblings were baptized on 17 September 1817 by Rev. Bacon in the West Aurora Congregational Church, Town of Aurora, Erie County, New York. He married in 1834 Lydia A. Kelley, who had been born on 31 July 1814.
In 1859 the family was listed in the Buffalo City Directory, Simeon a pail maker, living on Niagara Street. Simeon Corwin, who died in 1869, and Lydia Corwin, who died on 2 April 1892, in Lot No. 171, Griffin Mills Cemetery, Erie County, New York.
She and sons Wallace, Jesse, and James were buried in the same lot.
The family was enumerated at page 233 of the 1840 census of the Town of Aurora, Erie County, New York, as:
Symon B. Corwin
1 male 30 < 40 [Simon]
1 female 20 < 30 [Lydia]
1 male 5 < 10 [James]
3 males < 5 [Erastus, Oscar, Jesse]
It has not been identified in the 1850 census, but the census of that year suggests that James and Lucinda had been deposited with an aunt and uncle while rest of the family went elsewhere. The family is again found at page 20 of the 1860 census of Ward 11, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, as:
121/131 S. B. Corwin 50 Pale manufacty b. New York
Lydiann Corwin 45 b. New York
Jesse Corwin 20 [female] b. New York
Lusona Corwin 18 b. New York
and the following, enumerated at page 537 of the 1870 census of Ward 10, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, appears to be the widow although no Susie M. Corwin was enumerated with the family in 1850.
828/812 Lydia A. Corwin 54 b. New York
Susie M. Corwin 26 teacher at sch. b. New York
Oscar Corwin was not named in the source mentioned, although it indicated that there was an unidentified son. He was enumerated on the same page as James and in the same ward as Simeon; he seems to have married a sister of James’s wife; he named a son James. He has been placed in this family for those reasons, and he has been placed before Erastus because he married three or four years before Erastus.
In the 1850 census her name was Laura, while in the 1860 census it is Lucinda.
28. James Corwin
1880 Census shows Arthur 5 years old grandson living with them. No idea on who the parent was. Also the census shows maloto for race on Arthur.
The 1900 census shows him at 25 years old living with and a servent at the Jenkins family in Kalamazoo, race was "B"
Still not sure whos child he was;
doubtfull it was Herbert as he was born in 1866 and Arthur was born in 1875
Could have been Halley or one of the girls.Kalamazoo Gazette August 17, 1896
James Corwin
Vicksbrg, MI, August 17,-(Special) - James Corwin, a pioneer, died suddenly Saturday morning. He seemed to be in his usual health and had just finished his breakfast, when he gasped several times and was dead. The funeral will be held today conducted by Rev. D. H. Reiter at the Jenkinson School house and burial in the cemetery there.This provided by Nancy Coriwn
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Gerald Armstrong Corwin had some notes that indicated that Stephen Corwin had given his Power of Attorney to his son in 1840 to sell some property in New York. So I started looking at the deeds of Wayne County NY for 1839-1843. Here is what I found. This ties to Stephen as he was listed in the Canton TWP for the 1840 Census. Below is what I have transcribed from the long hand file.
Wayne County New York Deeds and records 1840-1843 Liber #29 page 35-36 (LDS Film # 0479437)This Indenture made the Fourteenth day of November in the year of our lord One thousand Eight hundred and Forty between James Corwin of the town of Canton within the county of Wayne and the state of Michigan of the party of the first part and Wilhelamus Rowe of the town of Arcadia in the town of Arcadia in the county of Wayne and state of New York of the second part. Witnefseth, that the said party of the first part in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt where of hereby confessed and acknowledged hath bargained sold remised and quit clamed and by these present does bargain sell remiss and quit claim unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs and foregons forever all that certain piece or parcel of land located in the town of Arcadia a foresaid and bound on following viz on the south by land owned by Robert N Lattimore(SP) on the east by lands owned by Abraham Fairchild and the old Jessup farm on the north by land owned by Jonathan Sheldon and the said Wilhelmes Rowe and on the west by said Wilhelmes Rowe and Joshua Van Waggenen's land, containing thirty acre be the same more or lefs. Together with all and singular the hence it amounts and appurtenances there into belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents ifsus and profits thereof and all the estate right title interest claim and demands. What soever after said party of the first part either inlaw or equity of in and to the above bargained premises with the said hereditaminds and appurtenances. To have and to hold the said above described premises to the said party of the second part his heirs and afsigns to the sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever.
In witnefs where of the party of the fist part hath hereunto set his hands and seals this day and year first above written.James Corwin seal
Sealed and delivered inpresence of Richard P Williams State of New York Wayne County }fs: on the fourteenth day of November 1840 before James M Cain a justice of the peace in and of said county came James Corwin whom I know to be the individual described in and who executed the within deed and acknowledge that he had executed the same. James Cain
Acrue copy of the original record 17th Feb 1841 at 11 o'clock am
Jame Hawly Clerk
Rowe, Wilhelamus 75 yrs. July 21, 1860 Newark Main Street Cemetery
Wolverine Crank Vicksburg MI June 5, 1906
Obituary
Mrs. James Corwin died Friday at the home of he son, Herbert Corwin, after a few days illness, age 82 years.The deceased was born in NY in 1824 and came to MI with her parents when nine years of age. She was one of thirteen children, eight having preceded her.
She was married to James Corwin in 1843 and to them were born five children; Helen, Hester, Hattie, Hervert, and Holley. The three daughters and father having died several years ago. She leaves two sons to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate mother, Herbert of this place and Holley, of Lake City.
Besides the two sons, she leaves four sisters, 4 brothers, five grand-children, three great-grand children and a host of friends to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Corwin has been a resident if this vicinity since child-hood. She was a good Christian woman, home-loving and very ready to help others.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at her late residence. Rev. Kirn officiating. Interment in Jenkinson's Cemetery.
This provided by Nancy Corwin
Eliza Whiting Obit Identifies Harriet as Hattie.
30. John B. Corwin
1880 census shows him as a caprenter
Also death date of November 02, 1929 by Diana Horton
Also marriage date of April 16, 1857 by Nancy Coates
Died RR Train in Princeto IN
Died in Power Explosion, news article