But this is not the place to pursue the history of the "Willettsof We,stchester, further than to show their descent from Thomas Cornell, of Cornell's Neck. The Neck has sometimes been called Willett's Neck.

Rebecca Cornell, a younger dausjhter of Thomas Cornell, was with her sister Sara, in New Amsterdam, and tliere married, in 1G47, George Woolsey, of Varmouth, Eufrland, said to have been of the family of Cardinal Woolsey ; and their descendants are numerous in Westchester County and elsewhere, several having obtained eminence, one of them being Theodore Dwight Woolsey, president of Yale College from 1846 to 1871.

Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell University, was born at Westchester Landing, between Cnrnell's Neck and Throgg's Neck, on the 11th of January, lSii7, and was descended from Thomas Cornell, of Cornell's Neck, through his son Samucd and grandson .Stephen, who settled in Swansea, Massachusetts, where Elijah Cornell, the father of Ezra, was born in 1771. Elijah Cornell married Eunice Barnard, born in Dutchess County, but of a New Bedford family. He, however, had been but a short time in Westchester when his son Ezra was born, and soon after removed to Tarrytown, and thence in 1819 to l)e Ruyter, so that neither Ezra Cornell nor his sou, Governor .\lonzo B. Cornell, can be called Westchester County men.

Thomas Cornell, of Cornell's Neck, had eleven children -- six sons (Thomas, Richard of llockaway, William, Samuel, John of Cowueck and Joshua) and five daughters (Sarah, Ann, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Mary). Several of his children settled in tne Eastern States, and he subsequently returned to Rhode Island and died there about lir)7. Two of his sons settled in Queens County. The first, Richard Cornell, was in New -Amsterdam under the Dutch, and was one of the patentees of Flushing, in the first English charter of lijlio and was long justice of the peace there.