1700 On March 26, Jonah Fordhan sold a tract of land called little Success to Edward Cornell of Hempstead. [1]
1713 On 30 March, "I Mary Cornell of succes w't in ye bounds of Hempsted in Quens County in her maj'ties Collini of neuyork in america widdow for & in ye valueble consideration of ye sum of sixty pounds Curant silver money of ye Colliny afore sd to me in hand be fore ye ensealing hereof well & treuly paid by Derick De Motte of ye same place blacksmith" ... for "a sartain peice or parcell of Land scituat lying and being in sucsees [Success] afore sd and in ye county and Colliny afore sd butted aud bownded as followeth yt is to say easterly by ye road southerely & westerly by Thomas May and northerly by success pond Containing in all fifteen acars & half" Mary Cornell was the widow of Edward Cornell. [2]
[1] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_390, QR196, Liber A-173, [AncestryImage].
[2] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 2 (1897), 486, [InternetArchive].