Hello...I ck'd your posts and only found this single one, for you...I will be interested to read Tom Cornell's response to it. I feel there's a link to my Corn/w/ells, but thus far the missing link is yet to be found, for certain and I didn't find it in your post, either, regretably. Anyone who hasn't gone to the Cornell University site and read the history behind it, certainly should. Much food for thought, there.
Anyway, I am very interested in your Taber surname and how it might have become involved with the Cornell name, the Millers, others you list as names of interest to you. Do you have any links that you know of, to the early Virginians, the Ohio Valley...Kanawa Valley..etc? A lot of history was "lost" when West VA was created from VA and I think there's a lot of clues to be had during that time. Without going into the lengthy history of my Gardners, they ended up in Greenup Ky awaiting a settlement from France, due to the conflagrations of the Caribbean plantations and he went into a brief partnership with some businessmen there, for a salt mining venture...The Taber Salt Mine.
Some of your names, figured into that time and my Gardners, Millers, Williams, Young, etc...I can't find much on the Tabers...Rev John Young purchased that land...one his dtrs married my Gardner's bro in law..Louis Raison. Another Gardner, married a Bloomer, who's parents were Price/Bloomer. Daniel Bloomer was another partner in the Taber Salt mine, who also had a Tavern in the "Ky Bottoms".
My Gardner sold his pt and moved over to the VA side of the Ohio, river, then Guyandotte Locks..where there was a Miller, I believe on the Ohio side and Joseph Gardner manned the Va side...then they moved into Barboursville, Cabell Co., VA abt 1823..got their French settlement and built the lst frame house there..tho there was a sort of famous brick furnace there for making bricks and some of them ended up in Washington DC, in the building of it. Many political ties, such as you mentioned, also; Joseph Gardner and his Bro in Law Louis Raison were postmasters of Greenup Ky, also...an aside note..and were also assisted by Stephen Garrard's fleet, in escaping St. Dominguez (now Haiti) Garrard also built the lst huge bank in Wash DC and the university which wanted to be secular, as opposed to religious...like most were.. in those days. I digress...
I have found only the reference of my Corn/w/ells moving from NJ to the Clermont area (SW corner/east of Cincinnati) Ohio, early 1800's. Later, using the Cornell spelling, instead, tho I found the Bloomer/Gardner/Cornwell links in NY..Scipio...earlier than the NJ link. I doubt if any of this makes much sense to most Cornell/well researchers, tho one offered to send me a book on it if I could "prove" these connections...right. It's been tantamont to finding where the original material from old quilts came from!
Anyway, here's this some of it and maybe someone might happen upon it and add more to it...who knows, Miracles still happen ;) BTW...I found on Cornwell/el in Morgan/Magoffin Co's, Ky with others of "our" names in common, but never could find more on him...same thing with a few others of same time/period...A lot of folks took any opportunity, it seems, to distance themselves from other lines of their families...and did a great job of it!..Wright is another name that follows my lines to this day...from earliest VA, into OT and on, tho I'm not directly kin. Ck Highland Co., OH..MD/PA/VA around Hagarstown..around Berkley..etc. When Cox came and took New Amsterdam from the Dutch and named it NY, he did a lot of dastardly things, which caused huge upheaval and many of the PA Dutch, went down the river, and picked up some NJ kin, who were down there, from "NY" (Cornell/well)(Manhattan)..and some went south, and created a New Hopewell in the Carolinas and some went "west"..Ohio and some had already taken it upon themselves to go out to the Great Lakes region (Ezra Cornell) and buy up a bit of land, just in case of this taking place...There were two Cornwells in the NJ papers..can't recall the name of those documents..brothers..I read a long while back that they had a divided opinion of what was going on and one went south, the other "west"...(They'd gone down to NJ, seems to me, because of the death of a Cornell Matriarch, blamed on her son...and used the Cornwell spelling) Don't ask me for "proof"...there's a wonderful 2-3 part post in the NJ msg boards from way back...posted by a woman who descends from one of these NJ families who "escaped" (due to taxes/religion) Can't think of her name off hand. I have recently seen the name, Taber in the Carolinas, tho and I was wondering about it, as there's some Gardners there who have quite a colorful Tree, online..available thru a Google search. One uncle with Caribbean/Cincinatti link, also.
PS...some "Civil Engineers" were, in a previous life, charters of the oceans and the lands out there, who used those skills to map the west, prior to the L&C expedition.