He emigrated to Massachusetts from Island Rhode to went time; a for Boston in inn an kept about 1636; d. in 1611; and from there came to the Vredeland of New Netherlan a On the 26th of July, 1616, he was granted by the Dutch a patent to " certain piece of land lying on the East Rh er, beginning from the kill of Bronck's land, east-southeast along the river, extending about half a Dutch mile from the river to a little creek over the valley back around this land." This patent for Cor(marsh) whichwasruns issued at about the same time that the grant to nell's Neck The Adrian Van der Donck of what is now Yonkers was made.

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

Cornell and Van der Donck patents were the first ones of record to lands in Westchester County bestowed by Dutch authority subseIt is claimed for Thomas quently to the Throckmorton -rant of 1043. settler in Westearliest the was he Cornell, of Cornell's Neck, that chester County whose descendants have been continuously identified He was the ancestor of Ezra with the county to the present day. govversify, and Alonzo R. Cornell,county Cornell, founder of Cornell I'ni in the first settlement of the His part ernor of New York. has been traced in an interesting and valuable pamphlet from the pen Both Throckmorton and Cornell escaped the of Governor Cornell.1 to which Anne Hutchinson fell a vicIndians murderous fury of the It is supposed that they were in New Amstertim in the fall of 1643. dam at the time with their families, or at all events with some of their Certain it is that the infant settlement on Throgg's Neck children. Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts, in his " Hiswas not spared. tory of New England from 1630 to 1646/' says: " They [the Indians] came to Mrs.