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.

John Cornell, of Cowneck, another son of Thomas Cornell, of Cnrnell's Neck, and the ancestor of the Scaredale Cornells, had been in Dartmouth, Massjichusetts, perhaps also on the Penobscot, but came in lii7C, with his wife, JIary Russell, and several small children, to Hempstead, under {he priitection of Governor Andros, having been driven, the records say, from his home in the East by the Indians. This was the date of King Philip's War. Governor .\ndros granted to John Cornell, in l('i77, a tract of land on Manhassett B.iy, a couple uf miles south of Sanil's Point, on which he spent the remainder of his life, and on which some of his descendants are still living. In a sheltered valley of his grant, John Cornell set apart a burial plot, where are interred the remains of himself and of his wife and of umuy of their descendants. His children were: 1. Richaixl of Scai-sdale, born 11170; married Hannah Thome. 2. Joshua, married Sarah Thorne. 3. JIary, born 1679 ; married James Sands. 4. John born lO.Sl ; married Mary Starr. .'>. Caleb, born 1683 ; married ElizaV>eth Hagner. 6. Rebecca, married Starr.