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1881. They were the parents of three sons 

 and one daughter. 



Captain Samuel A. VV. Patterson entered 

 the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1876, 

 and graduated in 1882, after making sev- 

 eral cruises as a student. After gradua- 

 tion he was attached to the flagship "Hart- 

 ford," of the Pacific Squadron, where he 

 served twcr years. He left the navy in 1884, 

 and in 1885 was appointed as a clerk in 

 the United States Pension Office at Phila- 

 delphia under General W. W. H. Davis, 

 pension agent, and filled that position for 

 four years and six months. From 1886 to 

 1896 he resided in Doylestown, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania. In May, 1896, he 

 entered the U. S. Revenue Cutter service, 

 where he served until January 17, 1900. He 

 Vfas in the blockading squadron at Cuba 

 during the Spanish- American War. He re- 

 entered the U. S. navy in January 1900, 

 and was stationed at the Boston Navy 

 Yard until ordered to China, June, 1900, 

 as second lieutenant of the U. S. Marine 

 Corps, and was promoted to first lieuten- 

 ant, July, 1900, during the Boxer troubles 

 in China, where he participated in the 

 famous march to Pekin to relieve the im- 

 prisoned legations. At the close of the 

 Chinese imbroglio he was ordered to the 

 Philippines, and served on the U. S. S. 

 "New Orleans," at China and Japan, and at 

 Cavite and Olongapo, Philippine Islands. 

 After two years and eight months' service 

 abroad he was stationed for a time at the 

 New York Navy Yard, from whence he 

 was ordered to the Isthmus of Panama, 

 where he served for six months. Return- 

 ing to the New York Navy Yard he was 

 promoted captain in November, 1903, and 

 is now (1905) cruising on board the U. S. 

 battleship "Kentucky," of the North At- 

 lantic Fleet. 



Captain Patterson. February 18, 1886, 

 married Margaret Sprague Davis, daugh- 

 ter of General W. W. H. Davis, of Doyles- 

 town. Bucks county. Pennsylvania, a 

 sketch of whose distinguished career and 

 ancestry is given in this volume. Captain 

 and Margaret (Sprague) Davis Patterson 

 have been the parents of three children, 

 Anna Davis, born December 27, 1886, 

 died December i. 1894: Thomas Harman, 

 born April 15. 1889. died August 12, 1889; 

 and Daniel Walter, born April , 14, 1891, 

 who survives. 



CORNELL FAMILY. Gulliame Cor- 

 neille, (variously spelled. Cornele, Cor- 

 nale, Cornelise. in the Dutch records 

 of New Netherlands) wa<: of un- 

 doubted French origin, probably a Hue- 

 guenot. and possibly of the same family 

 as Pierre and Thomas Corneille, the 

 noted dramatists and poets of Rouen, a 

 supposition strengthened by the fact that 

 he named his eldest son Peter, the 

 French of which would have been 

 '"Pierre." He settled on Long Island 

 •early in the seventeenth century, and 



died at Flatbush prior to July 17, 1666, 

 at which date his son Pieter Guilliamse 

 paid for the burial of both his father 

 and mother, as shown by the town rec- 

 ords. On August 9,-1658, he procured 

 from Director Stuyvesant, a patent for a 

 large plantation at Flatbush, and in 

 i66r he and his son Pieter purchased a 

 "bouwery" and several building lots in 

 Flatbush. He left five children Pieter, 

 Gulliam or Gelyam, Cornelis, Jacob and 

 Maria, who have left numerous descen- 

 dants in Kings county. Long Island, 

 New York, New Jersey, and in Bucks 

 county and other parts of Pennsylvania. 

 The name for nearly a century was 

 spelled Cornele, with the accent on the e. 



Pieter Wuellemsen, as he wrote his 

 name, the eldest son of Guilliam Cornele, 

 was a prominent man in the early history 

 of Flatbush and Kings county. As above 

 stated he was joint purchaser with his 

 father of a large plantation in Flatbush, 

 and later was alloted other building lots 

 in the town. He was commissioned as 

 "Pierre Guilleaum" on October 8, 1686, 

 a lieutenant of the Flatbush company of 

 Kings county militia. His will is dated 

 May 23, 1689. He married in 1675 Mar- 

 gueritie Vercheur, or Vernelle, as the 

 marriage record gives it. and they were 

 the parents of at least five children: 

 Gulliame. born 1679; Cornelis, 1681 ; Ja- 

 cob, 1683; Maria, 1686, and Pieter. 

 Cornelis, the second son, married Jan- 

 netje — and had children: Johannes, bap- 

 tised September 21, 1718; Adrien, bap- 

 tised November 19, 1721; Cornelis, mar- 

 ried Anne Williams in Philadelphia in 

 1746. and probably several others, some 

 of whom are said to have settled in Bucks 

 county. Pieter, the j^oungest son of 

 Pieter and Margaret, married Catharine 

 Lanning and settled in New Jersey. 

 Adrien, son of Cornelis, is erroneously" 

 confounded with Adrien, son of Guilliam, 

 who settled in Bucks county; the former 

 probably never lived in Pennsylvania. 



Gilliam Cornell, eldest son of Peter 

 and Margaret, was born at Flatbush, 

 Long Island, in 1679, married November 

 4, 1714. Cornelia Van Nortwyck, daugh- 

 ter of Simon and Folkertje Van Nort- 

 wyck, of Blanckenbufg, in the Nether- 

 lands, and remained until 1723 at Flat- 

 bush. removing from there to New 

 Utrecht, and is said to have accompan- 

 ied some of his children to Bucks county 

 prior to 1750. of which latter fact we 

 have no proof, unless a tombstone, be- 

 side those of his sons Gilliam and Wil- 

 helmus. in the old Dutch Reformed 

 burying ground near Feasterville. marked 

 "Q x C," maybe considered as such. He 

 purchased a. "house and lot in Flatbush as 

 early as 1708. His children as shown 

 by the records of the Dutch Reformed 

 churches of Flatbush and New Utrecht 

 and from the Bucks county records, 

 were: Adrien: Jacobus, baptised October 

 2, 1720: Wilhelmus, baptised July 29, 



