At 12:30 PM 8/23/2008, M.E.Sorensen wrote: >In the local news section of the Orlando Sentinel this morning it >tells of a 100 million bequest to Rollins College from a George D >Cornell who died a few years ago. He was an heir of Haviland china >and a distant cousin of Thomas Cornell who arrived on the Mayflower. I find no record of a Thomas Cornell on the Mayflower. See Governor Bradford's list of passengers in "Of Plymouth Plantation" or the online list at: http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/passengers.php The first record I know of concerning a Thomas Cornell/Cornhill/Connell/Cornwell in New England is the Thomas Cornhill who was in Boston in 1638 [Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686" (Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1853-1854), 1:238; "Second Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, 1877, Containing the Boston Records, 1634-1660, and the Book of Possessions" (4th ed.?) (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1877; Municipal Printing Office, 1905), 35, 38]. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net ____________________________________________________________ Shop now for huge discounts on quality surveillance cameras. Click here! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3mYPvbmQHGLlj3texATNQyc4LUgollrHD2c9wiS1s7CVIfoB/