Document I.44 · Published Genealogies · transcription: partial
Carile Santos, Coriell-Coryell Family (no date; published 1952 per Page 53 footer) — partial subject-page sweep on disk: 6 pages (6, 43, 53, 66, 158, 170) covering Coryell-Van Court intermarriages + Elias Coryell of Long Hill + Samuel Coryell 1750 will naming Elias Van Court Sr 'his cousin'
I.44: Carile Santos, Coriell-Coryell Family (no date…Transcription and notes
Source
- Filename:
Books/Carile Santos/Coriell-Coryell Family/(folder of PNG-image scans of book pages, with bracket-tagged Van-Court cross-references in filenames) - Author: Carile Santos, NJ genealogist
- Title: Coriell-Coryell Family (book; no front matter on disk; Page 53 footer reads "This record was compiled by ____ Date: Nov 1952" suggesting compilation 1952)
- Companion work by same author: Runyon manuscript, August 1989 (referenced in A.12 v165.5 §11 bibliography but not yet catalogued)
- Reliability tier: medium per user direction 2026-05-05 v186.5 — better than user-built family trees (low) and Find A Grave (medium-low to medium); below primary-source / parish-register-grade. Use as published-secondary lead with citation forwarding to underlying primary sources where Santos provides them.
- Date viewed: 2026-05-05 v186.5
- On-disk page coverage: Pages 6 + 43 + 53 + 66 + 158 + 170 (6 pages of unknown total page count); the book likely has more Coryell-family pages not on disk
§1 — Page 6: Abraham Coryell × Catryntje Van Court
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Head of family | Abraham Coryell |
| Parents | Son of Abraham [Sr] and ( ) Coriell |
| Spouse | Catryntje Van Court, dau. of [blank] |
| Children | 1. son baptized Jan 29, 1757/8 at 1st Reformed Church Raritan Somerville Somerset Co. NJ (cites Somerset Co. Hist. Quarterly II:300); 2. baptized Jan 5, 1763 [name not legible]; 3. blank; 4. blank |
| Comments | "Source of this information was not given, but stated as fact in book of Ingham Coryell" v187.5 update: the "book of Ingham Coryell" = now primary-source-located on disk + catalogued at I.48 — Ingham Coryell, Emanuel Coryell of Lambertville, New Jersey and his Descendants (1943, Philadelphia). Santos's Page 6 Abraham × Catryntje data derives directly from this Ingham Coryell book. |
Discrepancy with F.67 §2: F.67's Gangaware-typescript Raritan DRC sweep records "1737/8 Jan 29 Koriel, Abraham & Catreyntye → Abraham" — i.e., 1737/8 not 1757/8. 20-year discrepancy. Possible reconciliations: - Two different children of same couple, 20 years apart (= long childbearing window) - Father-son same-name pattern: Abraham Sr × Catryntye 1737/8 + Abraham Jr × Catryntje 1757/8 - One source has a year-transcription error (need to verify against original Raritan DRC ms via FHL Film 16584 per FHL registry)
§2 — Page 43: David Coryell × Elsie
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Head of family | David Coryell |
| Spouse | Elsie (Slecht) per Santos primary read; OR (Van Court) per filename bracket-tag — handwriting-margin annotations suggest both readings have been entertained |
| Children | 8 listed: Agnes 1755, Jonet/Jannet 1761, Eliza 1762, David 1763, Abraham 1771, Elias 1773, Susannah 1779, Esther |
| Baptism location | First Reformed Church Somerville + Raritan (= same parish as Anne Cooper Van Court's children) |
| Note | Page-author annotation: "Mosse-the paper certifies that this man and woman are head of family. According to Mr. Jenkins, child Moses (?) bapt at New Brunswick" |
** Page also lists Henry Coryell + Catharine Coryell** as a separate couple — possibly David's siblings or another generation.
§3 — Page 53: David A. Coryell × Charity
Different person from §2 David. Santos identifies him as Generation III per page header.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Head of family | David A. Coryell |
| Spouse | Charity (Sebrius / Sebrina [Irwin / Caryll]) |
| Children | John (b. 1796 NJ; d. 1850s; m. Mary Ellis), Andrew (1808-? Indiana), Frances (1812-1815?; m. Carpenter), Andrew #2 (8th child + youngest); 8 children total |
| 1830 Census | Romulus NY listed Cornelius Coryell — 1 male under 5; 2 5-10; 1 male 10-15; 1 15-20; 1 30-40; 1 female under 5, 1 5-10, 1 10-15, 1 30-40 |
| Sources | "Mrs. Osterman, Mich. and Ind. State Libraries via Osterman; J.W."; Carile B. Santos compiler date Nov 1952 |
| Note | Mentions Cornelius Vermeule of Somerset Co. NJ + sons John and Frederick Eader and Cornelius; "my brother Frederick and my granddaughter Charity, wife of David Cornell" + 8th P. Family Bible Records were in possession of a daughter living in Monroe City Mich + David said to have been baptized by father, Lt. David |
§4 — Page 66: Elias Coryell of Long Hill (= the will-executor of Daniel Sr's 1791 will?)
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Head of family | Elias Coryell (Generation III per Santos) |
| Parents (Santos primary read) | son of David Coryell + Elsie (Slecht) |
| Parents (alternative read per "The Runyon Gen.") | son of Abraham Coryell + Catharine Van Court |
| Birth | 6/22/1741 (per Philomene Jenkins, Mrs. C. H., of Lincoln Nebraska 1930 letter) |
| Death | 1814 |
| Residence | "Settled on Long Hill on Lot of Berkeley Tract adjoining Solomon Boyle's tract" |
| Spouse | Sarah Runyon (b. 1745; dau. of Richard Runyon × Jane Van Court — Jane Van Court = Anne Cooper Van Court's daughter Jane per project pr.8 Anne Cooper Van Court sister (RESOLVED).md) |
| Burial | not stated |
** KEY: "Settled on Long Hill on Lot of Berkeley Tract adjoining Solomon Boyle's tract" places Elias Coryell on the SAME Berkeley Tract where Daniel Cooper Sr "bought lot No. 2 of the Berkeley tract, containing 500 acres" per I.4 Littell p. 90. Daniel Cooper Sr and Elias Coryell were Long Hill / Berkeley Tract neighbors.**
This Elias Coryell (b. 1741, d. 1814) is the strongest candidate for Elias Coriell of Morris County named as executor of Daniel Sr's 1791 will per A.8. Cross-corroborated by J.104 1793 newspaper notice.
§5 — Page 158: Nathan Coryell (Civil War colonel)
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Head of family | Nathan Coryell |
| Parents | son of George + Clarissa (Catlin) Dunningham Coryell |
| Birth | 2/11/1816 |
| Death | 3/22/1880 at Ithaca NY |
| Residence | Montour Falls Havana NY; in grocery business; Civil War colonel; town clerk of Catharinetown |
| Spouse | (multiple marriages listed) |
| Children | Catherine M., 6+ others |
Not directly relevant to Daniel Sr era; descendant generation. Catalogued for completeness as part of the 6-page on-disk Santos sweep.
§6 — Page 170: Samuel Coriell + will (Generation II) — 1750 per Santos / 1760 per Honeyman v187
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Head of family | Samuel Coriell (II Generation per Santos page header) |
| Parents | son of Abraham [Sr] and ( ) Coriell (= sibling of Page 6 Abraham Jr if reading Page 6 as the brother of Samuel; ambiguous) |
| Birth | annotation: "b. abt 1700 prob in NJ" |
| Death | annotation: "d. after Jan 1760" — but the will-date below contradicts (1750 not 1760); typo in margin annotation |
| Residence | "Bridgewater, NJ (?)" with margin note "Can find no such town; cf Bridgewater N J is now Robur, NJ - cor Gen Map of NJ Sept 1941, p. 116" — so Bridgewater NJ → Robur NJ |
| Spouse | (blank in Santos; speculated to be a Van Court — see Note below) |
| Children | 1. Michael b. 1758; 2. Joseph b. 1755 d. 1814 Orangeburg KY; 3. John b. ; 4. Daniel b. ; "doubtless were near Sam, where Abraham + Cati (Van Court) were near" |
** PRIMARY-SOURCE LANGUAGE in Samuel's will (per Santos Note):**
Samuel Coryell's will was dated 1/15/1750: mentioned minor children, and leaves them to the guardianship of his brother David and his cousin Elias Van Court. Samuel's wife may have been a Van Court and Elias a brother in law of Sam.
Will-body language: "his brother David" (= David Coryell, sibling of Samuel) + "his cousin Elias Van Court".
v187 2026-05-05 DATE CORRECTION: Honeyman Calendar of NJ Wills Vol. XXXII p. 72 abstract dates Samuel's will 17 Jan 1760, proved 25 Feb 1760 (Lib. G p. 128) — see A.19. Santos's "1/15/1750" is most parsimoniously a transcription error (1750 misread for 1760). This changes the identity of "cousin Elias Van Court": the 1750 reading would place Elias Van Court Sr (1689-1750) as cousin (he died Aug 1750, plausible if will-writing was Jan 1750), but the corrected 1760 reading must mean Elias Van Court Jr (Anne Cooper Van Court's son baptized at Raritan DRC 26 Jul 1719 per F.67; age ~41 in 1760). Per page-author annotation "Samuel's wife may have been a Van Court and Elias a brother in law of Sam" — under the 1760 reading, Samuel's wife would be a Van Court daughter of Anne + Elias Sr (= sister of Elias Jr).
Catalog implication: The will-body kinship language "his cousin Elias Van Court" is primary-source attestation of a Coriell-Van Court family-by-marriage tie. Combined with A.16 Elias Van Court Sr's own 1750 will language "my brother in Law Daniel Cooper" + A.18 Emanuel Coryell's 1745 will naming Daniel Cooper as Overseer — three published abstracts span 1745-1760 with primary-source familial-kinship terms across the Cooper / Coryell / Van Court surname-cluster, consistent with 18th-c. NJ usage of "brother" and "cousin" for relatives-by-marriage and not strictly biological siblings.
Catalog implications
Generation reconciliation across Santos pages
Per Santos's page-headers ("II Generation" Page 170, "III Generation" Page 66) and the implied genealogy:
| Generation | Person | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Gen 1 (1663 immigrants per M.23) | Elias + Emanuel + David Coriell + perhaps Abraham | Corsican French Huguenots |
| Gen 2 (b. ~1690-1710) | Abraham Coryell Sr (Page 6 Abraham's father; Page 170 Samuel's father); Samuel Coriell (b. ~1700 NJ, d. 1750); David Coryell (= Samuel's brother per 1750 will); Emanuel Coryell of Lambertville ferry-operator 1733 per M.23 (= a Gen 2 or possibly Gen 3 Emanuel) | |
| Gen 3 (b. ~1720-1750) | Abraham Coryell Jr (m. Catryntje Van Court, son b. 1737/8 OR 1757/8 per discrepancy); David Coryell Jr (m. Elsie Van Court / Slecht; 8 children 1755-1796); Elias Coryell of Long Hill (b. 1741 d. 1814; m. Sarah Runyon = Anne Cooper Van Court's granddaughter) | |
| Gen 4 | David A. Coryell (Page 53; m. Charity); various Coryell descendants |
Working hypothesis: the Coriell brothers (Samuel + David + Abraham Jr) of Gen 2-3 lived in Bridgewater/Somerville/Piscataway/Raritan area in NJ, while Emanuel Coryell migrated to Lambertville (Hunterdon Co.) c. 1733 to operate the ferry. Multiple Coryell men in this cluster married Van Court women, creating a dense Coriell-Van Court intermarriage pattern.
The "brother Immanuel" question revisited
Per project pr.2 Daniel Sr father search.md v186.5 user direction: an actual "Immanuel Cooper" Cooper-male brother of Daniel Sr is unlikely; brother-in-law via marriage to a Cooper sister is more likely.
The Santos pages don't directly resolve which Coriell married a Cooper sister. No Santos page documents an Emanuel Coryell × Cooper-surname-wife marriage. Emanuel m. Sarah Tunison per L.31. His siblings Samuel m. ?Van Court, David m. Elsie Van Court, Abraham Jr m. Catryntje Van Court — three Van Court daughters-in-law, no Cooper.
Possible interpretations of "brother Immanuel": - (a) A different Cooper-Coriell connection at the GRANDPARENT level (Daniel Sr's mother was a Coriell? = Theory 4 widow-remarriage) - (b) Emanuel Coryell was a brother-in-law via Daniel Sr's wife Grace Runyon — would require Emanuel to have married a Runyon sister of Grace's. Per Santos Page 66, Elias Coryell (Gen 3) married Sarah Runyon (Anne Cooper Van Court's granddaughter). Could a Gen 2 Coryell-Runyon marriage have established the Cooper-Coriell brotherhood-by-marriage tie? - (c) The "brother" relationship is loose 18th-c. usage applied to the brother-in-law of Daniel Sr's sister Anne Cooper Van Court — i.e., Anne's husband Elias Van Court Sr called his Coriell-married brothers-in-law (Samuel + David + Abraham Jr) "brothers" to himself, and Daniel Sr (Anne's brother) extended the brotherhood term to include them via the family network. = Daniel Sr's 'brother Immanuel' = Elias Van Court's brother-in-law Emanuel Coryell (= via the Van Court intermarriage cluster).
Reading (c) is the most parsimonious given the Santos data. The "brother" in House of Cooper p. 11 family tradition is then a 2-removes-by-marriage relationship: Daniel Sr → sister Anne → Anne's husband Elias Van Court → Elias's "cousin" / brother-in-law Emanuel Coryell.
Open follow-ups
- PRIORITY 1 (REVISED v187 2026-05-05): Pull Samuel Coriell's actual will body — Honeyman Calendar of NJ Wills Vol. XXXII p. 72 published abstract per A.19 gives Lib. G p. 128 (NJ Secretary of State register), will dated 17 Jan 1760, proved 25 Feb 1760 as the file location (NOT 1/15/1750 as Santos transcribed). Pull the recorded body via NJ State Archives Trenton ($10.73 standard request) for the verbatim "brother David ... cousin Elias van Court" language + named children (Santos lists Michael 1758 + Joseph 1755 + John + Daniel; will body would confirm)
- PRIORITY 2: Resolve Page 6 Abraham × Catryntje 1737/8 vs 1757/8 baptism discrepancy via FHL Film 16584 Raritan DRC original manuscript (FHC trip)
- PRIORITY 3: Search Carile Santos book for an Emanuel Coryell page (the on-disk subset may be incomplete; the book likely has a dedicated Emanuel page)
- PRIORITY 4: Pull Ingham Coryell book — Santos cites "book of Ingham Coryell" as source for Page 6 Abraham × Catryntje data — would be an earlier Coryell genealogy
- PRIORITY 5: Pull Cor[iell] Gen Map of NJ Sept 1941 per Page 170 margin annotation (= a 1941 published Coryell genealogy with map)
- PRIORITY 6: Pull "The Runyon Gen." (= probably Runyon family genealogy) for the alternative Page 66 Elias Coryell parentage reading (= son of Abraham + Catharine Van Court vs Santos's primary read son of David + Elsie Slecht)
- PRIORITY 7: Investigate Mrs. Philomene Jenkins of Lincoln NE, 1930, who provided the Elias Coryell birth/death dates per Santos Page 66 — possible additional family records
- PRIORITY 8: Cross-check Cornelius Vermeule of Somerset Co. NJ (Page 53) appearance — Vermeules are well-documented Somerset Dutch family
Cross-references
- A.8 — Daniel Sr's 1791 will naming Elias Coriell of Morris Co. as executor; Page 66's Elias Coryell of Long Hill is the leading candidate for that executor
- A.12 — Elias Van Court's 1750 will "my brother in Law Daniel Cooper"; primary-source kinship term parallels Page 170's "his cousin Elias Van Court" 1750 will (= same year)
- F.67 §2 — Raritan DRC Coryell cluster 1737-1745 (Abraham + Emanuel + David); cross-references Santos's Page 6 Abraham × Catryntje (with 1737/8 vs 1757/8 discrepancy noted)
- I.4 — Littell p. 90 — Daniel Cooper Sr's Lot No. 2 Berkeley Tract = same tract as Page 66's Elias Coryell
- M.23 — SCHS 1916 Vol. V p. 189 Honeyman — Coriell-family origin (Corsican French 1663) + Emanuel of Lambertville 1733 ferry
- J.104 — 1793 NJ Journal Daniel Pierce / Elias Coryell Long Hill notice — primary-source neighbor attestation
- L.31 — Brother Immanuel Research docx (= maintainer's prior notes; per user 2026-05-05 "should not be taken as gospel")
- Project
pr.8 Anne Cooper Van Court sister (RESOLVED).md— Anne's daughter Jane m. Richard Runyon 1745 → Sarah Runyon m. Elias Coryell c. 1765 = grand-niece-by-marriage relationship - Project
pr.16 Cooper-Coriell Y-DNA mystery.md— Cooper-Coriell Y-DNA mystery; Santos's medium-reliability reading of Coryell Corsican-French origin + Coryell-Van Court intermarriage cluster reshapes the Theories 3/4 framing - Project
pr.2 Daniel Sr father search.md— "brother Immanuel" reinterpreted v186.5 as brother-in-law not actual Cooper-male brother