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. Hutchinson in way of friendly neighborhood as they had been accustomed, and, taking their opportunity, they killed her and . . . and all her family, and such Mr. Collins, her son-in-law, of Mr. Throckmorton's and Mr. Cornell's families as were at home, in all sixteen, and put their cattle into their barns and burned them." Throckmorton did not return to the Neck to live, or at least did not In 1652 he disposed definitely make that place his permanent abode. of the whole property, conveying it, by virtue of permission petitioned for and obtained from the Dutch director-general, to one Augustine From him are descended, according to Bolton, the ThrockHermans. mortons of Middletown, N. J. Cornell, after receiving the grant to Cornell's Neck, erected buildings there, which he occupied until forced for the second time by hostile Indian manifestations to abanHis daughter Sarah don his attempt at residence in the Vredeland. testified in September, 1665, that he " was at considerable charges in building, manuring, and planting" on Cornell's Neck, and that after some years he was " driven off the said land by the barbarous violence of the Indians, who burnt his home and goods and destroyed his This daughter, Sarah, was married in New Amsterdam on cattle," She inherited Corthe 1st of September, 1643, to Thomas Willett. nell's Neck from her father, and it remained in the possession of her descendants -- the Willetts, of whom several were men of great promThomas Cornell, inence in our county -- for more than a century. away from Cornell's Neck, returned to Rhode Isdriven after being land, where he died in 1655.