John Corey of
Roxbury, Massachusetts
When sending inquires or
corrections,
please indicate
John of Roxbury
branch of the family.
The following is from Dr. Joan S. Guilford, a Cory Family
Society member, who has spent many years researching this line.
There is a very important correction to Al Cory's
Corys of America: Ancestors and Descendants, 1994, Vol. II in which
John of Roxbury appears. The correction is to the section which
addresses the descendants of Thomas1 Cory of Chelmsford, MA.
His son John2 who married Elizabeth (surname unknown) is not
the John1 who married Mary Griggs of Roxbury as is stated on
page 2 of the Thomas section. Proof of this is found in the fact
that John2 (Thomas1) was still married to
Elizabeth in 1727 when they jointly made a deed at Chelmsford. By
this time, John1 had eight children born at Roxbury.
One should also note that our John1 had a son John2
while Thomas1's son John was living. Furthermore, the
estate of John1 does not include any of the children born to
John2 (Thomas1) although a number of that John's
children were living when John1 died.
Dr. Guilford has supplied me with a preliminary copy of
her publication about this line, Corey/Cory Miscellany, A Contribution
to the Cory Family Society. I have added the information
supplied by Dr. Guilford to a the new John Corey database, but was unable
to remove it from the Thomas Cory database. It turns out that the
two Cory/Corey lines intermarried. Therefore, I have left the two
databases combined.
