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- CROOK An American Family, 1698-1955, Compiled and Published by Charles Henry Leavitt, Printed by The Recorder Printing & Publishing Company, San Francisco, California Call Number: CS71.C947 [Excerpt Page 75] George Corliss was born about 1617 in the County of Devonshire, England. He came to the New World in 1639 and soon after, settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He married Joanna Davis October 26, 1645. She was a native of Wales. The original tract of land on which he built a log cabin in 1647 was in West Parish of the town of Haverhill. The farm was later known as "Popular Lawn." It was a beautiful place. As late as 1875 the estate had never been out of the possession of his direct descendants.
Ancestry and Genealogy of Thomas Grover Author: Joel P. Grover, Call Number: CS71.G882 Compiled by Joel P. Grover, Los Angeles, California, 1959 Pages 175-176 [Excerpt] George Corliss, b. abt 1617-18, in England, son of Thomas Corliss of Devonshire, Eng.; died 19 Oct. 1686, Haverhill, Mass.; Came to New England in 1639, and first resided in Newbury, Mass., then removed to Haverhill in 1640-41, where he was Constable, 1650, and Selectman, 1648 to 1679. (-ref: "Americana", 31:205). He married, 26 Oct. 1645, at Haverhill, Mass., Joanna Davis, (b. abt 1625, "from Wales, England"; da. of Thomas Davis and his wife Christian(???), of Ipswich, Mass.) This marriage was the second marriage performed in the town of Haverhill, Mass., then a very small frontier village, among the hostile Indians.
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Abt 1625 - Yes, date unknown
