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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



1722; Gilliam, baptised October 23, 1724; 

 Johannes, baptistnl June 16, 1727, married 

 May 23. 1750, Maria Lott, and remained 

 in Flatbush; Simon, baptised July 13, 

 1729; and Abraham, baptised October 10, 

 1731. Margaretta Cornell, who married 

 Rem Vandcrbclt, of Southampton, and 

 had a son Gilliam baptised at South- 

 ampton in 1742, is also supposed to have 

 been a daughter of Gilliam. Of the above 

 named sons of Gilliam and Cornelia Cor- 

 nell, four (Adricn, Wilhelmus, Gilliam 

 and Simon) came to Bucks county, and 

 settled in Northampton and Southamp- 

 ton, and where the first three left nu- 

 merous descendants. Adrien was the an- 

 cestor of most of the Cornells who now 

 reside in Bucks, and a more detailed ac- 

 count of him will be given below. 



^WILHELMUS CORNELL, born at 

 Flatbush, Long Island, July 13, i7.-2f. 

 probably came to Bucks county with 

 his elder brother Adrien and their pa-- 

 rents prior to 1740. He was married at 

 the Southampton church, April 14, i744- 

 to Elshe (or Alice) Kroesen. H'ls first 

 purchase of land was in connection with 

 his younger brother Gilliam in 1755, and 

 consisted of three tracts of land near 

 Churchville, eighty-two acres on the 

 Northampton side of the Bristol road, 

 and IIS acres opposite in Southampton, 

 including the present site of the church. 

 In 1762 he conveyed his interest in 

 these tracts to Gilliam, and purchased 

 of Jacob Duffield 2331^ acres in South- 

 ampton, and subsequently acquired con- 

 siderable other land there. He died Oc- 

 tober 14, 1783, and his wife Elshe died 

 October 8, 1802, at the age of seventy- 

 seven years; they are buried side by side 

 in the old grave yard af Feasterville. 

 They were the parents of Seven children: 

 Gilliam, born January 2, 1745, died Au- 

 gust 17, 1755; John, born January, 1750, 

 died January 24, 1811. leaving sons Gil- ; 

 Ham, Wilhelmus, Jacob, John and Isaac, 

 and daughters Elizabeth, wife of Henry 

 Feaster, and Cornelia, wife of Gilliam 

 Cornell; Cornelia, baptised February li, 

 1753, married William Craven; Margaret, 

 baptised December 14, 1755, married 

 Henry Courson; Elizabeth, baptised June 

 7, 1761; and Gilliam, baptised September 

 17, 1758, married Jane Craven. The lat- 

 ter was known locally as "Yompey Cor- | 

 nell." He was buried on his farm at 

 Southampton Station. 



Gilliam Cornel, born on Long Island 

 in 1724, married there May 23, 1750. Mar- 

 garet Schench, and removed to Bucks 

 county. He purchased land as above 

 recited in 1755 in connection with his 

 brother Wilhelmus, and purchased the 

 latter's interest therein six years later. 

 He died in Northampton, July 17. 178=;. 

 and his wife Margaret died September 

 5, 1805. They had seven children: 

 I. Phebe, who married her cousin Cor- 

 nelius Cornell, the son of Simon. 2. 



Cornelia, baptised April 11, 1757, mar- 

 ried William Bennett. 3. John, baptised 

 December 31, 1758, married Catharine 

 Sleght. 4. Abraham, baptised January 28^ 

 1760. died August 31, 1801, married Agnes 

 Bennett. 5. Gilliam, baptised August 27, 



1764, married Rachel and left 



Bucks county. 6. Margaret, baptised 1767. 

 7. John, baptised June 12, 1774, died 

 young. 8. Maria, baptised August 24, 

 1778. 



Simon Cornell, born on Long Island 

 in 1729, married Adrienne Kroesen and 

 settled in the neighborhood of South- 

 ampton, though probably in Philadelphia 

 county; his sons Cornelius and John were 

 baptised at Southampton church in 1761 

 and 1772 respectively. The former mar- 

 ried Phebe, daughter of his uncle Gil- 

 liam, and had children Gilliam, John, 

 Cornelius, Isaac, Jane, who married 

 Peter Bailey, and Margaret. 



ADRIEN CORNELL, eldest son of 

 Gelyam and grandson of Peter Guil- 

 liamse Cornel, was born in Flatbush, 

 Long Island, August 22, 1713, as shown 

 by his family Bible now in possession of 

 Thompson Cornell of Philadelphia, a 

 great-great-grandson, and died July 28, 

 1777. He was eldest son of Gelyam Cor- 

 nell by the first marriage of Gelyam, who 

 was a landholder in Flatbush as early as 

 1708. Historians have erroneously stated 

 that he was a son of Cornelis, the brother 

 of Gelyam. Bergen, in his "Early Settlers 

 of Kings County," makes that statement 

 and gives the date of his baptism as 

 November 19, 1721, but this is effectually 

 disprove!! by the Bible record, as well as 

 by the will of Gilliam of Bucks county, 

 who is shown to be a son of Gelyam and 

 Conelia, and makes "my nephew Gilliam 

 Cornell, son of my brother Adrien," one 

 of the executors of his wilj^' Adrien 

 Cornell married Mattie Hegeman, born 

 at Brooklyn. Long Island, November I, 

 1718, daughter of Rem and Peternella 

 (Van Wycklen) Hegeman, grand-daugh- 

 ter of Elbert and Marytje (Rappalye) 

 Hegeman, great-granddaughter of Jo- 

 seph and Femmeltje (Remse) Hegeman,. 

 and great-great-granddaughter of Adrien 

 and Catharine Hegeman, who emigrated 

 from Amsterdam in 1650, settling first at 

 New Albany, but later removing to Flat- 

 bush. Long Island, where Adrien was a 

 magistrate in 1654 and died in April, 

 1672. Adrien Cornell removed to Bucks 

 county prior to June 7, X739, at which 

 date he purchased 250 acres in North- 

 ampton township, where he was already 

 a resident. In 1751 he purchased sixty- 

 one acres adjoining his first purchase 

 and 205 acres additional in 1772. Tliis 

 land was located in the heart of the 

 Dutch settlement known as Holland, and 

 much of it still remains the property of 

 his descendants. He died on his plan- 

 tation purchased in 1739. July 27. 1777, 

 and his wife Mattie died July 4, 1790;; 



