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. Thomas Willett, the father, died about the time of the birth of hie second son, and his widow, Sara Cornell, in 1647, married Charles Bridges, well known in New Amsterdam, where the Dutch translated his name into Carel Ver Brugge, and the Willett children were brought up in their steiifather's house. William, the elder, inherited Cornell's Neck through his mother after the death of his grandfather, Thomas Cornell, but ultimately died without issue. Thomas, the younger son, became the distinguished Colonel Thomas Willett, of Flushing -- long prominent in colonial affair?, and member of the Governor's Council from 169U to 1698, where he sat with Colonel Caleb Heathcote, Frederick Philips, Colonel A'an Cortlandt and other magnates of the province. He was colonel of the Queens County militia, then the most niimeroua regiment in the province, and was i)ultlicly thanked by the Governor, Lord Cornbury, in November, 1704, that, on an alarm of an invasion by a French fleet, he had in ten hours brought a thousand men to within an hour's march of New York. Colonel Thomas Willett's cousin, Colonel John Cornell, of Kockaway, subsequently commanded the Queens County militia until his death, in 1745. After his brother's death. Colonel Thomas Willett, of Flushing inherited his grandfather's plantation of Cornell's Neck, and in 1709