" The court having heard the case in difference between the plaintiffs and defendant debated at large concerning their title to a certaine parcell of land, commonly called Cornell's neck, adjoining to Bronx land, near Westchester, and having also seen and perused their writings and evidences, it was committed to a jury, who brought in their verdict for the plaintiffs, viz , that thee land in question doth of right belong to the plaintiffs, and that the defendant shall pay the costs and charges of suit, and sixpence damage. The couit dolh give their judgment accordingly, and do likewise order that the high sheriff or the under sheriff of ye north riding of Yorkshire, upon Long Island, do put the plaintiffs in possession of the said lands and premises, and all persons are required to forbear the giving the said plaintiffs, or tiieir assigns, any molestation in their peaceable and quiet enjoyment thereof/'iJ

In 1709 Col. Thomas Willett.c of Flushing, Long li>land, conveyed to his eldest son, Willianri Willett, '-all that certain parcel

a The legislature of Connecticut, (says the historian Trumbull,) determining to secure as far as possible the lands within the limits of their charter, authorized one Thomas Pell to purchase of the Indian proprietors all that tract between Westchester and Hudson's river, and the waters which made the Manhadoes an Island ; and resolved that it should be added to Westchester, 1G63. -- Trumbull's Hist, of Connecticut, 273.

b Alb. Assize Rec. p. 15.

c Col. Thomas Willett was the son of the Hon. Thonias Willett, first mayor of the city of New York, in 1GC5,