History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 44 (part 3)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] One of Throckmorton's compatriots was Thomas Cornell, who later settled and gave his name to Cornell's Neck, called by the Indians Snakapins. He emigrated to Massachusetts from Essex, England, about 1636; kept an inn in Boston for a time; went to Rhode Island in 1611; and from there came to the Vredeland of New Netherland. On the 26th of July, 1616, he was granted by the Dutch a patent to a " 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 (marsh) which runs back around this land." This patent for Cor-nell's Neck was issued at about the same time that the grant to Adrian Van der Donck of what is now Yonkers was made. The 94 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY Cornell and Van der Donck patents were the first ones of record to