Historic Pelham Blog Archive
July 2006

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Mon. July 31, 2006:  Sale at Auction of P. L. Rogers Estate on Mainland Across from Hunter's Island in Pelham in 1869

Fri. July 28, 2006:  Image of Bolton Priory in the Town of Pelham Published in an 1859 Treatise on Landscape Gardening

Thu. July 27, 2006:  1799 Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Pelham Manor Lands Owned by Augustus James Frederick Prevost, Stepson of Aaron Burr

Wed. July 26, 2006:  A Brief Account of Visits to Bolton Priory in the Early 1880s

Tue. July 25, 2006:  A Walking Tour of Pelham and Surrounding Areas Published in 1878

Mon. July 24, 2006:  A Statute Enacted in 1666 Seems to Have Prompted Thomas Pell To Seek a Royal Grant Confirming His June 27, 1654 Land Acquisition

Fri. July 21, 2006:  Patriots Saved Pelham's Cattle from the British Early in the Revolutionary War

Thu. July 20, 2006:  Efforts To Sell The Bernard Rynlander Farm in the Manor of Pelham in 1767 and 1770

Wed. July 19, 2006:  Pelham Manor Runaway Slave Notice in June 30, 1777 Issue of The New-York Gazette; And The Weekly Mercury

Tue. July 18, 2006:  Aaron Burr Tries to Pull a Fast One in the 1790s and Must Sell His Farm in Pelham

Mon. July 17, 2006:  1780 Letter to George Clinton from American Patriot Philip Pell of Pelham Manor, Commissary of Prisoners of the State of New York

Fri. July 14, 2006:  Capture of the British Ship Schuldham in Pelham Waters During the Revolutionary War

Thu. July 13, 2006:  Notice of Public Sale of Island Known Today as City Island, Published in 1754

Wed. July 12, 2006:  A Brief History of City Island Published in a Book by Stephen Jenkins in 1912

Tue. July 11, 2006:  Genealogical and Family History Information Regarding Members of the Horton Family of City Island, Once Part of Pelham

Mon. July 10, 2006:  Streetcar Strike of 1916 Included Violence in Pelham

Fri. July 7, 2006:  The Involvement of Thomas Pell's Family in the Witchcraft Persecution of Goody Knapp

Thu. July 6, 2006:  Who Was the Skipper on the Pelham Manor Trolley the Day Fontaine Fox Rode the Line and Was Inspired?

Wed. July 5, 2006:  Bricks Laid by Washington Irving and Ivy from Kenilworth Castle at the Bolton Priory in Pelham Manor

Tue. July 4, 2006:  Seth T. Lyman, Pelham's Own Medicine Man of the Late 19th Century

Mon. July 3, 2006:  Where Is Thomas Pell's Handwritten Copy of the Treaty Signed With Local Native Americans on June 27, 1654?

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