Cornwallis, Thomas ( 1605 - 1675 )
Wife: 1. by 1638, name unknown, 2. by 1654, Penelope. Children (wife #2): William, Thomas; (prob. wife #2): Frances, John, Mary, Penelope, Penelope, Katherine, Penelope, Mary. Provincial Offices: commissioner of the colony, 1633-1637; Council, 1637-1642, 1657; deputy governor, 1638; Assembly, special writ, 1638, 1639, 1642; acting lieutenant governor, 1641; Burgess, St. Inigoes Hundred, 1658; justice, Provincial Court, 1658. Military Offices: chief military officer, Maryland, 1630'2 and 1640's; captain of an expedition against the Indians, 1643. Returned to England by 1663.
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