Email #6 & 7

From: David A. Macdonald 
To: John E Hoyt 
Cc: James Gibbs ; Terry Colegrove 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:16 PM
Subject: Phineas Corwin marriage


John,


It occurs to me that I gave information for the Colegrove marriages of Hannah Corwin and Edward Corwin but not that of 
Phineas Corwin, probbably because I was looking in the wrong place for the information.


Phineas Corwin was admitted on 4 November 1779 to the Newent Congregational Church of Lisbon, Connnecticut.[1]   On the 
same day Phineas Corwin of Norwich, Connecticut, John Rice, Justice, to Phoebe Colegrove of Coventry, Rhode Island, 
daughter of Stephen Colegrove.[2]   Thus the marriage was no doubt conducted in Lisbon, even if it was entered into the 
vital records of Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island. 


[1] Barbour Collection, citing Newent Congregational Church Records, 1: 92.  See also Detroit Society for Genealogical 
Research Magazine, 23 (1959) 97.
[2] James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1830 First Series, 1: 17, citing 1: 164; Barbour Collection,  
citing  Norwich Vital Records, 3: 243.


David


#2
From: "David A. Macdonald" 
To: "John E Hoyt" 
Cc: "James Gibbs", "Terry Colegrove" 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 7:50 PM
Subject: Colegrove-Corwin


John,

As my message of earlier today to James Gibbs indicated, it looks  
as though the hunt for the identity of Martha Colegrove is reaching  
an untidy end.

The Colvin names that appear in the Riverview Cemetery do not  
suggest that any of them were Corwins.  The only David and Sarah  
Corwin that I know of in the relevant time frame were solidly in  
Orange County, New York, and there is no reason to believe that they  
would have made an excursion to eastern Connecticut.  That simplifies  
my future greatly.

Thank you once more for the helpful attachments.  I think that we  
are probably through.

David