Under the Dutch 31 



One of Throckmorton's companions at the Vriedelandt 

 colony was Thomas Cornell, a native of Essex in England, who 

 escaped at the time of the Indian massacre. On July 26, 

 1646, he was granted by the Dutch authorities a patent to 

 the land lying between "Brunk's Kill" and the creek, now 

 called Pugsley's, which enters the mouth of Westchester 

 Creek. The Indian name of the neck was Snakapins; but 

 when Cornell settled on the land it took his name. He erected 

 buildings and cultivated the land until again forced to vacate 

 by Indian aggressions. After his two experiences, Cornell 

 seems to have given up hope of establishing himself in New 

 Netherland and returned to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 

 where he is recorded as being on a coroner's jury in 1653, 

 and as a commissioner of the town in 1654. His daughter, 

 who married Thomas Willett, September 1, 1643, inherited 

 the neck, and it remained with her descendants for over a 

 century and a half. 



Throckmorton did not return to his colony after the catas- 

 trophe which had overtaken it, but settled in New Jersey. 

 On April 29, 1652, he petitioned Governor Stuyvesant for 

 permission to dispose of the land ; and in the following October 

 he sold it to Augustine Hermans. Shortly afterwards, 

 Hermans sold fifty morgens 1 of the land to Thomas Hunt, 

 who, after the English occupation, received from Governor 

 Nicolls a confirmatory grant, or patent, under date of Decem- 

 ber 4, 1667. 



In order to encourage the settlement of New Netherland, 

 the West India Company offered in 1629 great tracts of land 

 to any one who would establish a colony of fifty persons above 

 the age of fifteen years. If on a river, the domain was to 

 extend sixteen miles on one bank, or eight miles on each bank, 



1 A Dutch morgen, or acre, approximates two English acres. 



