Benjamin Corssen

Abt 1718 - 1774

• Name	Benjamin Corssen
  Born	Abt Jul 1718	Staten Island, Richmond Co, New York
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Mar 1774	Bucks Co, Pennsylvania
  Buried	Richborough, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania
  Notes	The Corsons, of this and other counties, are descended from Benjamin, son of Cornelius Courson, or Corssen, a Huguenot who left France in 1685 and settled on Staten Island. Benjamin Corson, a son, came to Northampton [Bucks*] county, 1726, and bought 250 acres of Jeremiah Dungan for 350 pounds, on the Middle road, just below Richborough, which was in the family one hundred years. The father died on Staten Island [in 1692-3, his will being probated Dec. 1, 1693.*] Benjamin brought with him to Bucks county his son Benjamin, born 1719 and died in 1774 at fifty-five. His wife was Mary Seidam (2) born 1721, died 1792, aged seventy-one. She and her husband were buried in the graveyard at Richboro. The first Benjamin Corson was buried in the middle of the aisle of the old Reformed Dutch church, North and Southampton, near the Buck tavern in the latter township. Benjamin Corson the second had eight children: Benjamin, grandfather of Doctor Hiram Corson, Plymouth, Montgomery county; Richard, father of Doctor Richard Corson, New Hope; Cornelius; Henry, grandfather of William Corson of Doylestown; John who died on the old homestead in 1823, married Charity Vansant and had two daughters, Jane and Mary; Abraham; Mary, who married Enoch Marple and left several children in Montgomery county; and Jeannette, who married John Krewson. Benjamin, eldest son of Benjamin the second, married Sarah Dungan, and had eleven sons and daughters who married into the families of Harvey, Bennet, Blaker and Morris. Of this family of eleven children all were living and in good health when the youngest was seventy [fifty*] years of age. They were large, strong and healthy, but are now [1876] all dead. The family are numerous and scattered into various parts of the country. Alongside the Corsons in the old graveyard at Richborough, lie the remains of DuBois, Krewson, Larzelere and other Dutch and Huguenot settlers and their descendants. (2) The present spelling is Suydam. !THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: CHAPTER XXI: NORTHAMPTON, 1722 from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905* editions..
  Person ID	I38270	Bryant
  Last Modified	18 Aug 2002

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Corssen,   b. 1686, Staten Island, Richmond Co, New York ,   d. 18 Sep 1740, Northampton Twp, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania
  Mother	Blandina Viele,   b. Abt 1688, Schenectady, Schenectady Co, New York ,   d. Abt 1740, Northampton Twp, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania
  Married	1712	Staten Island, Richmond Co, New York   [1]
  Family ID	F2193	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Marijke Suydam,   b. 1721,   d. 1792, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania
  Married	02 Mar 1742	Dutch Reformed Church of North and Southampton, Churchville, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania   [2]
  Family ID	F2791	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt Jul 1718 - Staten Island, Richmond Co, New York Married - 02 Mar 1742 - Dutch Reformed Church of North and Southampton, Churchville, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania Died - 19 Mar 1774 - Bucks Co, Pennsylvania Buried - - Richborough, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S328] Corson Families in America, Corson, Orville, (Author, Middletown, Ohio, 1939), 2:103. [S270] Jordan, Gen. Northern Penn., Jordan, John W., (Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York, 1913), p.439.