Captain Cornelius Howard, Sr.

I have posted a permanent page devoted to Captain Cornelius Howard, who was born sometime between 1630 and '43 and died in 1680. He is my 9th great-grandfather through my great-grandmother Lucy Jane, as indicated below:

• Captain Cornelius Howard (1630/43-1680), m Elizabeth
  
• Captain Cornelius Howard, Jr. (c 1670-1717), m Mary Katherine Hammond (1689-1714)
  
• Captain John Howard (1698-1765), m Elizabeth Gassaway (1712-?)
  
• Hannah Howard (1735-?), m Caleb Osborne (1731-1781)
  
• Elizabeth Abigail Osborne (1757-1856), m Zachariah Wells (1745-1825)
  
• Dr. Jeremiah Wells (1792-1845), m Elizabeth Culbertson (1792/96-1859)
  
• David W. Wells (c 1815-1865), m Nancy Jane Elkins (1822-1887)
  
• Virginia Elizabeth Wells (1857-1917), m Squire Benjamin Bentley (1849-1903)
  
• Lucy Jane Bentley (1875-1948), m Nelson Hyder (1875-1959)

The page is an extended quotation from Anne Arundel gentry: a genealogical history of twenty-two pioneers of Anne Arundel county, Md., and their descendants, by Harry Wright Newman (Baltimore, Md.: The Lord Baltimore press, 1933), 261-262. More information on Cornelius Howard can be found at this site.

In a future post, I will write about Cornelius' mysterious father, Matthew, whose parentage is subject to dispute but who appears to be a descendant of the Dukes of Norfolk, the senior peerage of the realm in England.