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. He had an estate at Little Neck, and suhseriueutly removed to Rockaway, where he died in IfisH. He is hence usually distinguished as Richard Cornell, of Rockaway. He left a widow, Elizabeth, and five sons, -- Richard, William, Thomas, Jacob and John. His grandson, Thomas Cornell, long represented Queens County in the Provincial Assembly, sitting from 173'.t till his death, in 17154. A little later, Sarah Cornell, daughter of his grandson .Samuel, married General JIatthew Clarkson, of New York, and lier sister Hannah, married Herman Leroy, and their sister, Elizabeth, married William Bayard. One of the grandsons of Thomas Cornell, of the Provincial Assembly, was Whitehead Cornell, who represented (ineens County in the State .\ssembly in 1788-98, and lived in dignity in the old homestead of his grandfather, while his elder and his younger brothers, who were Royalists in the Revolution and officers in the British Army, were glad, after the war, to take refuge in Nova Scotia. One of Whitehead ('ornell's grandsons is John B. Cornell, now for many years the head of the well-known iron-works of New York.