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

Of Scarsdale, jE.80, born 1761, died 1841.

lii.'j family in Scarsdale, like the ancient patriarch, had a special regard for his "youngest son Benjamin," and his will, after providing him a competence, adds the special bequest, "to my son Benjamin, my Clock."

Richard, Jr., the eldest sou of the first Richard

The early English name was written Cornewall. Two generations hefore Thomas, ofCornell's Neck, " Richard Cornewall, Citizen and Skynner of London " (as it stands in his will), who died in 1.58."), left a portion of the wealth he had made in hides to found and endow "a free grammar .Scholeiu New Woodstock, the town where 1 wits born," and the school stands there yet, near the handsome church of Woodstock. Some of the English branches of the family still write the name Cornewall. Burke's " Landed Gentry of Great Britain " gives two branches, the senior one writing Cornewall and the other Cornwall. Burke's " Peerage and Baronetage" adds a third branch, a family of Baronets in Hereford, who retain Cornewall, and Burke traces the lineage of the whole family up through the Barons ofBurford to Rii hardde Cornewall, son of Richard, Earl of Cornewall, second son of King .John, younger brother of Richard Cieur de Lion. Richard long remaiued^a family name.