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Thomas Cornell is an ancestor to a number of prominent and notorious Americans: Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University; William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence; Ezekiel Cornell, a Revolutionary War general who represented Rhode Island in the U.S. Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782; [4] Bill Gates; Presidents Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon; First Ladies Elizabeth ...
Thomas Cornell (politician) (1814–1890), American politician and businessman Thomas Cornell (publisher) (fl. 1780–1792), British publisher and printseller Thomas Cornell (artist) (1937–2012), American artist
According to the Rhode Island Historical Society website, one of Thomas Cornell's sons discovered Rebecca's dead body, on fire, in the house where both Rebecca and Thomas and his family lived ...
The Cornell family of New England and New York began with the arrival from Saffron Walden, Essex, England of Thomas Cornell in Rhode Island in Boston in the 1630s. Cornell was a contemporary of Anne Hutchinson and was compelled to leave Puritan Boston due to the Antinomian Controversy for Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he connected with Roger Williams.
These women are brides waiting to be auctioned off on the white stone stepped pedestal featured in the middle ground of the painting. [11] Upon this pedestal the first bride is currently being auctioned; she is displayed for purchase by another darker-skinned woman. [17] To their left stands an auctioneer, presenting the woman to be sold. [18]
A series of rare photos of American icon Marilyn Monroe are set to hit the auction block soon and they're expected to fetch a pretty penny. Six photos taken by photographer and friend George ...
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One sale in 1756 in Dublin was interrupted by a group of women who rescued the wife, following which the husband was given a mock trial and placed in the stocks until early the next morning. In about 1777, a wife sale in Carmarthenshire produced in the crowd "a great silence", and "a feeling of uneasiness in the gathering". [ 54 ]