Thomas Cornell, of Cornell's Neck, was also an ancestor of the Westchester Willets, once a prominent family in the county and in the province -- and also of the Woolse\'s, of Bedford and elsewhere, and therefore should be named here. Cornell's Neck was situated on the East River and was granted to Thomas Cornell in June, 1646, by the Dutch Governor, Kieft, who described it as running " from the Kill of Broncks land, east southeast along the River." ^

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- Thomas Cornell, of Cornell's Xeck, was from Essex, England, born about 1595, and emigrated to Boston about 1030. In interesting illustrations of the rigorous self-watchfulness of the infant Boston Colony, then only eight years old, it was voted at town-meeting on the inth of -August, 1638, that "Thomas Cornell may buy brother William Brtlstone's house and become an inhabitant." He was in Khode Island in IG-fl, with Roger Williams, and came to New Amsterdam in lij42, with John Throckmorton, seeking shelter among the Dutch from the rigors of Massachusetts orthodoxy. Throckmorton, for himself and thirty five associates, obtained in IG43, from Governor Kieft, the original grant of what is now, in abbreviation of his name, called Throgg's Neck, and he and Cornell, and some of their associates, immediately began settlements, for the Dutch records relate that in the massacre of October, 1643, the Indians " killed several persons belonging to the families of Jlr. Throckmorton and of Mr. Cornell. " Probably the slain were servants, and Thomas Cornell and his family were then in New Amsterdam, where his eldest daughter, Sara, married, on the 1st of September, 1613, Thomas Willett, of Bristol, England, the ancestor of a distinguished family. W'illiam Willett, the eldest son of Thomas Willett and Sarah Cornell, was baptized in New Amsterdam on the 0th of July, 1644, and their second son, Thomas, on the 26th of November, 104.5.