[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] make that place his permanent abode. In 1652 he disposed definitely of the whole property, conveying it, by virtue of permission petitioned for and obtained from the Dutch director-general, to one Augustine Hermans. From him are descended, according to Bolton, the Throck-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 aban-don his attempt at residence in the Vredeland. His daughter Sarah 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 cattle," This daughter, Sarah, was married in New Amsterdam on the 1st of September, 1643, to Thomas Willett. She inherited Cor-nell's Neck from her father, and it remained in the possession of her descendants — the Willetts, of whom several were men of great prom-inence in our county — for more than a century. Thomas Cornell, after being driven away from Cornell's Neck, returned to Rhode Is-land, where he died in 1655. Some Beginnings of Westchester County History. Published for the Westchester County Historical Society, 1890. THE EARLIEST SETTLERS 95