History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 121 (part 3)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This was the third recorded land grant in point of time with-in the borders of what subsequently be-came Westchester Comity, being antedated only by the grants to Jonas Bronck of Bronxland and to John Throckmorton and asso-ciates of Throgg's Neck. From Thomas Cornell the estate passed successively to his widow, to his two daughters, Sarah ami Re-becca, aiid to his grandson, William Willett, son of his eldest daughter, Sarah, by her first husband, Thomas Willett. William Willett (born 1644) ir, 1667 obtained from the first English governor, Nicolls, a new patent to Cornell's Neck. He made his abode there, apparently, soon afterward, ami lived in quid enjoyment of his hand-some property until his death, in 1701. He was one of the first alder-