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.

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HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Cornell, of Scarsdale, was born in 1708. He settled near his father and has had many descendants, esteemed among their neighbors in Scarsdale and elsewhere. One of them, Thomas Cornell, now of Rondout, born in White Plains in 1814, removed to Ulster County, where he was elected, in 1866, to the Fortieth Congress of the United States, and in 1880, to the Forty-seventh Congress, in each case a Republican elected by a large majority in a strongly Democratic district. He is president of the First National Bank of Rondout, of the Cornell Steamboat Company, etc., and has long been prominent in political and financial circles.'

' The four sons and six daughters of the first Richard Cornell, of Scarsdale, were as follows :

I. Mary, born at Cowneck, 1703, died 1762 ; married Kev. Henry Sands.

II. Deborah, born at Cowneck, 1705, died 1772; married Matthew

Franklin, a Quaker preacher.

III. Richard Cornell, .Ir., born 1708 ; married Mary Ferris, and had

Peter of Maniamneck, born 1732, died 1765, married 1751. Sarah Haviland, born 1734, died 1787, and had : First-- Mary, born 1753; married Nathan Palmer and had