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August 3, 2007
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Friday August 3, 2007
Abstract of Sale of Lands of Joshua Pell, Jr. of Pelham Manor by the
Commissioners of Forfeiture in the Southern District of New York State
in August, 1784
Following the close of the Revolutionary War, the "Commissioners of
Forfeitures in the Southern District of New York State" conducted sale
proceedings involving lands of those who were not loyal to the Patriot
cause during the War. On August 23, 1784, the Commissioners of Forfeitures
sold a 146-acre farm located in the Manor of Pelham that once had belonged
to Loyalist Joshua Pell, Jr. Pell served as an officer in the Bugoyne
campaigns during the War. (To read his diary, see October 2,
2006:
The Revolutionary War Diary of Loyalist Joshua Pell, Jr. of the Manor of
Pelham.)
Below is a transcription of an abstract of the Commissioners' records of
that sale from abstracts published in The New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record in April, 1928.
"ABSTRACTS OF SALES BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF FORFEITURES IN THE SOUTHERN
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK STATE
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COPIED AND CONTRIBUTED BY THERESA HALL BRISTOL. (MRS. ROBERT DEWEY
BRISTOL), Life Member and Member of the Publication Committee of the New
York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
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August, 1784. . . .
No. 3. Sold to Isaac Guion of the City of New York, Merchant; a farm in
Manor of Pelham; bounded N. by James Pell; W. by Eastchester Creek; S. by
Edward Pell; e. by lands forfeited by conviction of John Pell; 146 a.;
forfeited by the conviction of Joshua Pell [excepting and reserving
thereout to Phebe Pell, widow and relict of Joshua Pell late of
Westchester Co., farmer, her right of Dower]."
Source: Bristol, Theresa Hall, Abstracts of Sales by the Commissioners of
Forfeitures in the Southern District of New York State in The New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. LIX, No. 2, pp. 108-09 (NY, NY:
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, April 1928).
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