[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Moreover, the THE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES 275 successors of John Pell in its kk lordship " did not compare in influ-ence or public activity with the descendants of the founders of Mor-risania, Philipseburgh, Van Cortlandt, and Scarsdale Manors; and the roll of members of the colonial assembly from Westchester County during the eighteenth century does not contain the name of a single Pell. However, the manor was preserved as such until the death of the last " lord," Joseph Pell, in 1776; and the Pells in their various branches were always a numerous and respectable family, contracting advantageous marital alliances in both the male and female lines. The principal person of the Pell name in later colonial and Revolutionary times was Philip Pell, a conscientious, able, and prominent patriot, who represented the State of New York in the con-tinental congress of 1788, served as judge-advocate of the American army, and after the war was sheriff of the county, his son, Philip Pell, Jr., serving for many years as surrogate. A family of very notable importance in political activity and rep-resentative character for many years — rival-ing, indeed, the Morrises, Philipses, de Lan-ceys, and Van Cortlandts — was the ancient Willett family of Cornell's Neck on the Sound. The plantation of Cornell's Neck, identical with the present (Mason's Point, was granted to Thomas Cornell, a former colonist of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, by the Dutch di-rector, Kieft, in 1040.