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.
John of Cowneck, always wrote his name Cornwell, and many of his descendants still retain that form. The name of Richard of Rockaway was often written Cornhill, and these forms, as well as Cornwall, Cornell «nd some others, appear on the tombstones in the family burial plot.
ried, in 1701, Hannah Thorne, of Flushing, and brought her andtheirten children to Scarsdale in 1727. He early became a Friend, and most of his descendants have been of that faith. Friends had settled early in Scarsdale, and the " Mamaroneck Meetinghou.se" is now within tlie Scarsdale borders. Richard Cornell was a diligent and prosperous man, and his will, dated in 175*), divides among his children much land in Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, and New Rochelle, besides other property and slaves. For even Friends then held slaves, although intiuences were already at work which abolished slavery in the Society before the American declaration of the inalienable right to liberty in 1776, and even required Friends to continue to maintain the negroes who had grown old or infirm ill their service. Richard Cornell, the patriarch of