sentences:  His grandfather was Thomas Cornell (settler).Cornell owned much land in Rockaway, much of which was partitioned into 46 parcels in 1820, which were eventually sold to outsiders, property was still being sold even in the late 19th century, as for example the sale of the land comprising the present-day neighborhood of Bayswater to William Trist Bailey in 1878.The homestead of the Cornells by the beachfront later the site of the Marine Pavilion.