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Chapter Entitled "Pelham" From A History
Of The County Of Westchester From Its First
Settlement To The Present Time (PP. 513-59)
by Robert Bolton, Jr. (NY: Alexander Gould 1848)
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COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.
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[Engraving of Christ's Church, Pelham.]
PELHAM.
Christ's Church, Pelham.

This town is enclosed on the east
and north by the township of New Rochelle, on the west by Hutchinson's
river, which separates its from Eastchester, and on the south by the
Sound. a
Prior to the Revolution, Pelham
formed a portion of the old manor of that name, which originally embraced
nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six acres. The name itself is of
Saxon origin, and compounded of the two words Pel (remote) and
Ham (mansion.) b The former, being the ancient
surname of the manorial proprietors, affords us a very good reason for its
adoption in connection with the last.
The Indian appellation of these
lands has not been preserved. Its early inhabitants appear to have
been a tribe of the Mohegans called Siwanoys, whose possessions
extended, it is well known, from Norwalk to the neighborhood of Hellgate.
From the Indians, this tract of land (with others adjacent) passed to the
Dutch West India Company, A.D. 1640. In the year 1642, Mrs. Anne
Hutchinson, to avoid the bitter persecutions of the Puritans, fled here
for protection, and commenced a plantation. Neal, the Puritan
historian, asserts that "Mrs. Hutchinson being turned
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a Pelham is situated ten miles south
of the village of White Plains and distant 140 miles from Albany.--Disturnell's
Gazetteer.
b Pelham is the name of a lordship in
Herefordshire, England, and recorded to have been part of the possession
of Walter de Pelham, A.D. 1293.
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out into the wide world, went first with her disciples to
Rhode Island, but not liking to stay there she removed with her family
into one of the Dutch plantations called Hebgate, where within a
little while, the Indians murdered her and her whole family, to the number
of sixteen persons. a Chandler in his criminal trials, says,
"the whole family of the Hutchinsons removed beyond New Haven to
Eastchester in the territory of the Dutch." b O'Callaghan
observes, that "the greatest terror prevailed everywhere," (arising from
the Indian war then raging,) Pavonia, Achter Col, the greater part
of Manhattan, and most of Long Island were in the hands of the Indians,
now consisting of seven different tribes, amounting, it was estimated, to
fifteen hundred warriors. While the work of destruction was going on
in the above quarters other parties of savages crossed over to the main,
and cleared all before them as far as Stamford. Thither the
celebrated Mrs. Anne Hutchinson had retired from her persecutors in
Massachusetts, but the Indians had discovered her retreat. They
appeared at first friendly, as was their wont when making their visits,
but on discovering the defenceless condition of the inmates they killed
her and her son-in-law, Mr. Collins, with her son Francis, and all the
other members of her family, besides a number of other persons in the
neighborhood belonging to the families of Mr. Throgmorton and
Mr. Cornhill. Eighteen persons in all fell victims here to these
barbarians, who putting the cattle into barns, burnt the whole." c
To the above account Mr. Drake adds, "a greater slaughter would have been
made at this time and place, but for the arrival of a boat while the
tragedy was enacting, into which several persons, women and children,
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a Neal's Hist. of New England, vol. i.
178.
b Chandler's Criminal Trials, vol. i.
27.
c O'Callaghan's Hist. N.N. 287.
Wild's Rise, Regin, and Ruin of the Antinomians contains this pious
exultation at the destruction of Mrs. Hutchinson: "The Indians set
upon them and slew her and all her children, save one that escaped, (her
own husband being dead before,) a dreadful blow! Some write that the
Indians did burn her to death with fire, her house and all the rest that
belonged unto her, but I am not able to affirm by what kind of death they
slew her.......God's hand is more apparently seen herein to pick out this
woful woman, to make her and those belonging to her, an unheard of heavy
example of their cruelty to others."
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escaped, but two of the boat's crew were killed in their
humane exertions to save these distressed people. The daughter of
Mrs. Hutchinson remained a prisoner four years, when she was delivered to
the Dutch governor at New York, who restored her to her friends. She
had forgotten her native language, and was unwilling to be taken from the
Indians." a The residence of Anne Hutchinson appears to have
been situated on Pelham neck, formerly called Ann's hoeck,
literally, Ann's point or neck, hoeck being a Dutch name for a neck or
point, for, up to a very late period, her farm was distinguished as the
Manor of Anne hooks neck. A small stream that separates this
town from Eastchester on the west still retains her surname
Hutchinson's river. One of the principal Indian proprietors of
this territory also assumed her christian surname, as we find it recorded
in the early deeds, Ann-hoock alias Wampage. This individual
may have taken an active part in the destruction of Mrs. Hutchinson, for
nothing was more common among the Indians than for a warrior to assume the
name of his victim. b
Upon the 14th of November, 1654,
Thomas Pell of Fairfield, in Connecticut, obtained a grant from the
ancient Indian proprietors, embracing all that territory bounded on the
east by a stream called Stoney brook or river, and so running northward as
the said brook or river runs, eight English miles into the woods, thence
west to Broncks's river, then down the stream of Broncks's river to a
certain bend in the said river, thence by marked trees south until it
reaches the tide waters of the Sound which lyeth between Long Island and
the main land, together with all the island in the sound, &c., &e.
This grant was signed by the sachem Ann-hoock and five other Indians.
A. Dyckman occurs as
[Facsimile of Ann-Hoock's Mark from Treaty]
An hoock
AH
his mark

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a Drake's Book of the Indians, 69.
b There is also a rock upon the south
side of the neck bearing the same name, which is said to have been a
favorite fishing place of the above chief.
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witness. It was subsequently confirmed in council. a
Thomas Pell stated before a court of assize, held in 1665, that he had
obtained a license to make the purchase, from the authorities of
Connecticut, and that he had paid large sums of money for the same. b
In 1654 it was resolved, at a meeting of the director general and council
of the New Netherlands, "that whereas a few English are beginning a
settlement at a great distance from our outposts on lands long before
bought and paid for, near Vreedlan, to send there, interdict, and
the attorney general, Cornelius van Tienhoven, and forbid them to proceed
no farther, but to abandon that spot. Done at Fort Amstel on the 5th
of November, 1654 in New Netherlands," c "On lands purchased
from the Indians by the Hon. Thomas Pell of Fairfield, Connecticut."
Notwithstanding this and further protestations made by the Dutch
authorities, Thomas Pell continued the settlement of his lands until the
surrender of the Dutch in 1664. The two principal Sachems of Pelham,
Ann-hoock (Wampage) and Himham or Nimham, d lived to advanced
ages. In 1675 the Indians must have been residing on the neck in
considerable numbers, for at a general court of assize held the same year,
it was resolved, "that the Indyans at Mr. Pell's or Anne Hook's neck, be
ordered to remove to their usual winter quarters, within Hellgate,
upon this island; and further that all canoes belonging to Christians or
Indyans on the north side of Long Island to the east of Hellgate shall be
(within three days from the publication of this order,) brought to the
next townes and delivered to the constables to be secured near the
block-house. Any canoes found upon the sound after that time to be
destroyed." This order is said to have been made to prevent the
Indians of Long Island joining King Philip against New England. e
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a This grant was seen some years since by Mr. John
Soulice of New Rochelle, To his kindness we are indebted for the above
particulars. The original is supposed to be in the possession of the
Pell family.
b Assize Rec. Albany, 1665 to 1672.
c Alb. Rec. vol. ix. 275.
d Nimham, sachem of Miereckacky, occurs in 1669.
e Dunlap's Hist. of N.Y. vol. ii. appendix, cxxiii.
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Near the entrance of Pelham neck, is situated
the favorite burying ground of the river tribes, to which the Indians
brought their dead even from Horseneck, Connecticut, for interment. Numerous mounds are
still visible near the water's edge, on the property of the late George Rapelje.
Two of the largest mounds are pointed out as the sepulchres of the Siwanoys
sachems, Ann-hoock and Nimham. The former was opened some years since, and
found to contain a large sized skeleton, by the side of which, lay the
stone axe and flint spear head of the tenant of the grave. We have
examined several mounds near the water's edge; one of these held the
remains of an Indian boy about 12 years old, in a sitting position,
together with a beautiful specimen of native pottery formed by the hand
alone, rudely ornamented with zigzag lines; in this we discovered an arrow
head and the bones of a small animal. This practice of burying their
favorite utensils and weapons with the deceased, is known to be an ancient
Indian custom. Near the residence of Mrs. King, the remains of an
Indian were found in a perfect state of preservation with a gun by his
side. On the extreme point of this beautiful neck which commands the
magnificent scenery of Hutchinson's Bay, lies another Indian cemetery.
The shores of the "Great Bay of the Island of shells," shaded with their
ancient forests of nut and oak, interspersed with grassy glades must have
afforded favorite sites for the Indian villages. On the property of
Mr. Roosevelt north of the post road, great quantities of Indian arrow
heads have been discovered in one particular spot, leading to the
supposition, that an extensive manufactory of that article once existed
here. Fine specimens of Indian hatchets, and javelins of chart,
quartz and horn stone, are constantly found in the neighborhood of these
shores.
Upon the sixth day of October, 1666, a large
proportion of the Indian grant of 1654, was confirmed to Thomas Pell,
Esq., by his excellency Richard Nicolls in the following manner.
RICHARD NICOLLS ESQ., GOVERNOR
Under his Royall Highness the Duke of York, of
all his territories in America. To all to whom these presents shall
come,
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sendeth greeting. Whereas, there is a certain tract of land
within this government upon the main, situate, lying and being to the
eastward of Westchester bounds, bounded to the westward with the river
called by the Indians, Aqueouncke, commonly known by the English, by the
name of Hutchinson's river, which runneth into the bay lying between
Throckmorton's neck and Ann Hooks neck, commonly called Hutchinson's bay,
bounded on the east, by a brook called Cedar Tree Brook or Gravelly brook,
on the south by the sound which lyeth between Long Island and the main
land, with all the islands in the sound, not already granted or otherwise
disposed of, lying before that tract of land so bounded as is before
expressed, and northwards, to run into the woods about eight English miles
in breadth as the bounds to the sound, which said tract of land hath
heretofore been purchased of the Indian proprietors, and due satisfaction
given for the same. Now know ye, that by virtue of the commission
and authority unto me given, by his Royal Highness, James Duke of York,
&c., upon whom by lawful grant and pattent from his majesty, the
proprietary and government of that part of the main land, as well as of
Long Island, as all the islands adjacent, among other things is settled, I
have thought proper to give, grant, confirm and ratify unto Thomas Pell of
Onckway, alias Fairfield, his majesty's colony of Connecticut, gentleman,
his heirs and assigns, all the said tract of land bounded as aforesaid,
together with all the lands, islands, sea-bays, woods, meadows, pastures,
marshes, lakes, waters, creeks, fishing, hawking, hunting and fowling, and
all other profits, commodities, emoluments and hereditaments, to the said
tract of land and islands belonging, with their appurtenances, and of
every part and parcel thereof; and that the said tract of land and
premises, shall be for ever hereafter held, demand, reputed, taken and be
an enfranchised township, manor and place itself, and shall always from
time to time, and at all times hereafter, have, hold and enjoy, like and
equal privileges and immunities, with any town, enfranchised place or
manor, within this government, and shall in no manner of way be
subordinate or belonging unto, have any dependency upon, or in any wise be
under the rules, orders
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519
or directions of any riding, township or townships, place or
jurisdiction, either upon the main or upon Long Island, but shall in all
cases, things and matters, be deemed, reputed, taken and held, as an
absolute, entire, enfranchised township, manor and place of itself in this
government, and shall be ruled, ordered and directed, in all matters as to
government accordingly, by the governor and his council, and the general
courts of assizes only, always provided, that the inhabitants on the said
tract of land granted as aforesaid, shall be obliged to send forwards to
the next towns, all public packets and letters, or Hue and Cries, coming
to this place or going from it, to any other of his majesties colonies, to
have and to hold the said tract of land and grant, with all and singular
the appurtenances, premises, together with the privileges, immunities,
franchises, and advantages herein given and granted, unto the said Thomas
Pell, his heirs and assigns, to the proper use and behoof of the said
Thomas Pell, forever, firmly, freely and clearly, in so large and ample
manner and form and with such full and absolute immunities and privileges
as before is expressed, as if he had held the same immediately from his
majesty the King of England, &c., &c., &c., &c., &e., his successors, as
of the manor of East Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in free and common
socage and by fealty only, yielding, rendering and paying, yearly and
every year, unto his royal highness, the duty forever, and his heirs, or
to such governor as shall from time to time, be by him constituted and
appointed, as an acknowledgement, one lamb upon the first day of May, if
the same shall be demanded. Given under my hand and seal at Fort
James, in New York, on the island of Manhattan, the sixth day of October,
in the 18th year of the reign of our sovereign, Lord Charles the second,
by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King,
Defender of the faith, &c., &c., &e., and in the year of our Lord God,
1666.
RICHARD NICOLLS.
Entered and recorded in the office of New
York, the 8th day of October, 1666.
MATTHIAS NICOLLS, SECT'Y
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The Pells who were formerly lords of the
manor, boast a very remote antiquity, tracing their descent from the
ancient family of that name, in Lincolnshire, England, a branch of which
afterwards removed into the county of Sussex; a of this family was
John Pell, Esq., of the county of Norfolk, "steward, or master of the
[Drawing that reproduces the figures from stone
effigies of John Pell, and Margaret (his wife)
in Dersingham Church, Norfolk, England]
Stone effigies of John Pell, and Margaret his wife, in
Dersingham Church, Norfolk, England.

MIC JACET JOHANNES PELL ARMIGER QUANDUM MAJOR TINN AE
REGIS
QVI BXOREM DVXIT MARGARETAM FILIAM VNICAM GVLIELMI
OVEREND ARMIGER ANNOS 61 ET VNVM FAELIO TER VAN VIXERVNT
SEX FILIOS ET TRES FILJAS INTER SE HABVERVNT ILLE VERO CVM
ANNOS 81 COMPLEVERAT QVINTO DIE FEBRVAIE ANNO DOMINI
1607 MATVRA SENECTVE MORTEM OBIIT ET OCTAVO DIE
EIVSDEM MENSIS CORPVS SEPVLCHRO CONDERATVR.
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a The seal of John Pell, Esq., attached to
the patent of New Rochelle, is charged with the arms of this ancient
family, viz: ermine, on a canton azure, a pelican or, vulned gules;
this coat appears to have been granted October the 19th, 1594, the gold
pelican and azure field are also a portion of the charges belonging to the
coat armor of the Pelham family.
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521
king's cup," living in 1597, who married Margaret Overend,
the only daughter of William Overend, Esq., and had six sons and three
daughters; his eldest son was John Pell, in holy orders, Rector of
Southwyck, in Sussex County, England, who died A.D. 1616. This
individual was the father of two sons, Thomas Pell, first proprietor of
the manor of Pelham, and the Rev. John Pell, D.D., Rector of Fobbing in
Essex. Thomas Pell appears to have been born at Southwyek, in
Sussex, cir. 1608; the exact period of his arrival in America is
uncertain; that he was one of the first settlers of New England however,
there remains no doubt, for at a very early period we find his name
associated with Roger Ludlow, a member of the Rev. John Warham's company,
who settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, June, 1630, and afterwards
removed to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1635; subsequently Ludlow, with ten
families, commenced a plantation at Unquowa, (the Indian name for
Fairfield, Conn.) here we find Mr. Pell in 1635. The name of Thomas
Pell first occurs in the New Haven colonial records, as attorney for the
executors of Richard Jewell, in 1639. a
On the 10th of March, 1646, at a
general court at New Haven were recorded the names of the people as seated
in the meeting house; 1st middleseat, the governor and deputy governor &c.
In the cross seats at the end, 1st seat, Mr. Pell, Mr. Tuttle and brother
Fowler, &c. b
The next year Mr. Pell is
attached for ₤200, a debt which his wife, late
widow of Mr. Francis Brewster, had contracted before her marriage with
him. This debt it appears Mr. Pell refused to pay, notwithstanding
the court took the liberty to inform him that his wife's debts were his
own. On being afterwards brought up to court, he declared "that it
was against his judgment to take an oath." c
A.D. 1654,
(the same year of his purchase in this town,) Mr. Thomas Yale, presented
to ye general court held at New Haven, a noute under the hand of Mr.
Thomas Pell, wherein he desires ye
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a New Haven Col. Rec. vol. i. 63.
b New Haven Col. Rec. vol. i. 280.
c New Haven Col. Rec. vol. i. 315, 316, 317,
335, 391.
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said Mr. Yale to make entry of the lands he had sold to
Allen Ball, James Russel and Will Bradley, &c. a
Upon the 9th of February, 1653,
Thomas Pell purchased lands in Fairfield of Henry Rowland, Philip
Pinckney, Alexander Briant and others; also a house which was sometimes
Nathan Gold's in 1654. b
At a court holden at Fairfield,
October the 19th, 1658, the court desired Mr. Thomas Pell and John Wheeler
to be husbands and administrators upon the estate of Thomas Demond. c
Upon the 25th of June, 1669, the
town of Fairfield granted certain lands to Thomas Pell, Esq. d
Circa 1663, "the legislature of
Connecticut determining to secure as far as possible the lands within the
limits of their charger, authorized one Thomas Pell to purchase of the
Indian proprietors all that tract between Westchester and Hudson's River,
and the waters which made the Manhadoes an island, and resolved that it
should be added to Westchester." This statement is made on the
authority of Trumbull and Webster, although no record now remains of the
transaction. e
Mr. Pell's death must have
occurred sometime between the date of his will, 21st of September, 1669,
and that of the order for the taking of an inventory of his estate, on the
13th October, 1669; tradition asserts he was buried at Fairfield. f
The last will of Thomas Pell.
In ye name of God, Amen -- It
hath pleased ye all wise God many years to exercise me with much weakness
of body, and having lately taken to himselfe my beloved wife Lucy, it
being ye good pleasure of God to deny me natural issue of my owne body,
his good hand of mercy continueing unto me to keep me in perfect memory
and my understanding in a comfortable measure, according to proportion of
wisdom and knowledge, where he saw meet to proportion to me, I desire in
faith to give up my soule to God which gave it, my body to a
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a New Haven Col. Rec.
b Fairfield Town Rec.
c Probate Rec. Fairfield Co.
d Fairfield Town Rec.
e Trumbull's Hist. Conn. 272.
Webster's Letters, 205.
f Hazard's State Papers, vol. ii. 245, 336, 342,
343.
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comely burial, that I may be decently buryed in such a comely manner
that God may not be dishonored. It beinge my desire that peace may
be attended in enjoyment of what God hath been pleased to give to me --
this being my last will and testament -- I doe make my nephew, John Pell,
living in ould England, the only sonne of my only brother John Pell,
Doctor of Divinity, which he had by hsi first wife, my whole and sole
heire of all my lands and houses in any parte of New England, or in ye
territoryes of ye Duke of Yorke. I also give to my nephew John Pell
(my whole and sole heire) all my goods, moveable or immoveable whatsoever
-- money, plate, chattells and cattle of all kinde -- except such parcells
and legacyes which I give and bequeath to persons as followeth, my just
debts being first paid : and if my nephew, John Pell, be deceased, and
hath left a sonne or sonnes surviving him, then what I have above given to
my nephew, John Pell, I give to such issue of his ; and in ye default of
such issue, it's my will that my brother John Pell's daughter shall enjoy
ye abovesaid portion ; and in case they or any of them be deceased, then
it is my will that the children of my brother's daughters shall inherit
the abovesaid portion, to be equally divided amongst them. It is my
will, that in case my nephew, John Pell, my brother's sonne by his first
wife, be deceased, and hath left no male issue, if my brother hath a sonne
or sonnes by his last wife, he or they shall enjoy ye above said portion ;
and in ye default of them or their male issue, then my brother's
daughters, or their children, shall enjoy ye above portion as is above
expressed. I give to Abigail Burr, ye wife of Daniell Burr, ye best
bed in my house in Fairfield, and boulstis, with two blancoates, a rug and
dormink suit of curtains, six cushions, two paire of sheets, six chairs,
the brewing kettle in use, two new keelers, a brewing tub, six silver
spoons, with ye use of all ye plate in the house, if she desire of my
executors of trust, till my heirs or heires come or send his or their
order how or whcih way all things shall be disposed of. Item
-- I give to Daniell Burr all my horses and horse colts which I have in
New England, and in ye territoryes of ye Duke of Yorke : I except my mares
and mare colts, which I do not give him ; I except my saddle gelding,
which my heire is to have if he come over -- otherwise, Daniel Burr is to
have him, Daniell Burr is to take ye horse flesh as they run ; without any
further dehinery, lett the mares be disposed of according to ye
understanding of my executors of trust. Item -- I give to my
sonne, Francis French, all my tobacco, grwoing or not growing, in casks,
or otherways made u in rolls or twist. Item -- I give to
Nathaniell French two young cowes and one young bull. Item --
To Elizabeth White I give the worst feather bed and boulster, one iron
pott, six porringers, six spoons of alcamy, six pewter platters, one brass
skellet, and fifteen pounds more in goods or cattle, current pay, and two
comely suits of apparel, one for working days, another for Sabbath dayes,
with two paire of shoes. Item -- to Mary White I give six
pounds and one suite of aparell of serge, with two shifts, and wool for
stockings. I give to Nathaniell White, an apprentice to some
handicraft trade ; and if it be for his advantage, to give tenne pounds
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with him out of my estate, not diminishing his twenty pounds, which is
to be improved for his use. I give to Barbary, my servant -- I sett
her at liberty to be a free woman a month after my burial, except my
nephew, John Pell, come in person ; she then to attend his occasions
whilst he is there, not exceeding three months. Further, I do gibve
to Barbary, my servant, one flock bed and boulster, and two blancoats, a
pair of sheets, and cotton rug, one iron pott, an iron skellett, six trays
and chest, with a lock and key to it, six porringers, two pewter platters,
six pewter sppons or ye value of them, two cowes or the value of them.
I give to my ancient maid, Katharine Rysten, five pounds in cattle or
county pay. I make, ordain, constitute and appoint Daniell Burr and
John Bankes to be my executors of trust, and order them to pay, after my
burial, all my just debts and legacyes, and to make sale of any utensils
which are subject to decay -- old cattle -- and to be accountable to my
heire or heires and to keep up housing and fencesupon my heires' charge,
that the estate may not suffer. I give to my said executors of trust
twenty pounds apiece, and to be paid what first charge they are at upon
any incumbrances. Item -- I give those poor men their debts
upon my booke, whose names follow -- Joseph Pathon, James Evers, Thomas
Bassett, Roger Percy : and that this is my last will. In witness
whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand this twenty and one yeare of the
raigne of our sovereigne lorde, King Charles, and the twenty first of
September, 1669.
Me, THOMAS PELL.
Signed in the presence of us,
Nathan Gould,
John Cabell.
John Cabell gives oath that he was witness to Mr. Pell signing this
will, with Mr. Gould, as he hath entered his hand. Taken upon oath
before me,
Nathan Gould, Assistant,
This 3d of -------------, in his Majestie's
Colony of Connecticut, September, 1669. a
Upon the 13th of October, A.D. 1669, the Court
of Assize issued the following order, authorizing and appointing Mr. John
Richbell, Mr. William Leyden, and Mr. Samuel Drake, to take an inventory
of the estate of Thomas Pell, deceased:
"Whereas, Mr. Thomas Pell of Ann Hook's Neck,
is lately deceased, and having left a considerable estate in this
government, of which no inventory is as yet returned." b
In the inventory, we have a thorough and
particular account
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a This will may be found in the Probate Rec. of
Fairfield Co. 1665 to '75.
b Assize Rec. Albany, vol. ii. 78.
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of the whole furniture and household array of a wealthy merchant and
gentleman of that early period.
An inventory of ye estate of Mr. Thomas Pell,
late deceased, appraised by us whose names are underwritten, and yt
according to an order or commission directed unto us by ye Rt. Hon'ble ye
Govern'r, and his Royal High., ye Duke of Yorke, of all his territories in
America.
| Imprimis 1 old feather
bed, 2 feather bolsters, 2 pillows, 1 rug, 1 blankett, 1 coverlett, 1
bedstead, and 1 pr. of old sheets |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
14 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 paire of old
kitterminster curtains and vallance, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| 63 yds. of canvass at 2s.
pr yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
6 |
6 |
0 |
| 36 drest buck and doe
skins at 4s. pr piece, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
7 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 pr. of wooden scales and
weights, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
3 |
0 |
| 2 paire of old sheep
sheres |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| 1 table and frame,
|
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| 6 silver spoons and 1 dram
cup, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| 9 pound of tacks, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| 1 pr. of brasse scales and
pound weights, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
5 |
0 |
| 1 piece of girt web and
lead lyne, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
6 |
0 |
| 1 pound of pepper, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| 4 knives, |
. . . . . . . . . .
. |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| 14 buckles and 2 bridle
bits, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| 2 1/2 yds. of bongala at
3s pr yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
7 |
6 |
| 14 yds. of peniston at 2s.
p. yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
8 |
0 |
| 6 yds. of Holland at 4s.
p. yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
4 |
0 |
| 21 yds. 1/2 of bockram at
1s. 6d. p. yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
12 |
3 |
| 60 lbs. of pewt. at 12d.
pr lb. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| 8 old napkins, 1 table
cloath and towell, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
14 |
0 |
| 1 old lynnen wast coate, 1
pr. of drawers and 2 shirts, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
16 |
0 |
| 1 chest, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
5 |
0 |
| 1 old wast coate,
|
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
6 |
0 |
| 5 pr. of woosted stockings
at 4s. pr pair, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 pr. of home spun
stockings, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| 1 pair of serge boot hose
and tops, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
6 |
0 |
| 4 cushion cases, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| 13 yds. of several
remnants of several stuffs at 2s. pr yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
4 |
6 |
0 |
| 12 yds. more ye sd stuffs,
|
. . . . . . . . . . . |
4 |
6 |
0 |
| 9 yds. of remnants of
serge at 3s. pr yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
7 |
0 |
| 1 piece of serge, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| 11 1/2 yds. of remnants of
kersey at 4s. pr yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
6 |
0 |
| 24 yds. of flew lynnen at
2s. p. yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
2 |
0 |
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526
HISTORY OF THE
| 4 yds. of penistone at 2s.
pr yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
8 |
0 |
| 5 yds.of cotton at 2s. 6d.
p. yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
12 |
6 |
| 3 lb. of black and browne
thread, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
6 |
0 |
| Remnants of gimp and other
laces, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 pair of cotton cards,
|
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
1 |
6 |
| 14 lb. and 1/2 of lead in
barres at 3d. p. lb. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
3 |
2 |
| 1 pair of bridle reines, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
1 |
6 |
| 3 quire of paper, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
1 |
6 |
| 1 chest with a lock,
|
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| 2 joynt stooles, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| 3 chaires at 2s. pr chaire, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
6 |
0 |
| 7 lb. of powder at 1s per
lb. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
7 |
0 |
| 1 old neckcloath, 5 old
bands, 2 handkerchiefs, and old red cap, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| 3 gunnes |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 old patcht flock bead, 2
boulsters, 3 old blanketts, 1 old coverlett, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 chaffe bed being broke,
1 feah. bolster, 1 per of coarse sheets, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 hammock, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
12 |
0 |
| 1 old coate, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| 2 feather bol. 1 pillow, 2
blanketts and 1 coarse sheet, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 dressed boar skin, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| 1 very old boat sayle, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| 1 old bible, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| Culpeper's dispensatory,
wh 3 other small books, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| 2 of Cradock's works in
quarto, |
. . . . . . . . . . .
|
0 |
|
0 |
| 2 brushes, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| 18 old fashioned felt hats
wh bands, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| 2 yds. of bayes and
duffets for 1 paire of Indian breeches, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
7 |
0 |
| 15 bushells of winter
wheat at 6s p. bushell, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| 3 bushells of Indian corn
at 2s 6d. p. bushell, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
7 |
6 |
| A parcell of sheep's wool,
|
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| A parcell of cotton wool,
|
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
6 |
0 |
| A parcell of lumber casks
in ye chamber, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
12 |
0 |
| 380 lb. of nayles at 10d.
p. lb. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
15 |
0 |
8 |
| 7 bolts for dores, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| 2 paire of bridle raines,
|
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
3 |
0 |
| 1 paire of bridle bitts, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| 1 feth'r bed, 1 boulster,
2 blanketts, 2 rugs, 2 pillows, 1 pr. of sheets, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 large feather bed, 1
boulster, 2 blanketts, 1 rug, 1 pr. of old sheets and 1 pillow, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
7 |
0 |
0 |
| 2 blanketts, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 old feather bed, 1
boulster, 1 pillow, 1 paire of sheets, 1 blan- |
|
|
|
|
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COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.
527
| kett and 1 coverlett, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| 17 yds. of coarse broad
cloth at 7s. p. yd. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
5 |
19 |
0 |
| 17 lumber casks, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
17 |
0 |
| 1 old chest without a
lock, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
5 |
0 |
| 4 iron potts, 1 skillett,
3 pair of pot hooks, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
10 |
0 |
| 3 brasse kettles, 1
skillett, 2 chafing dishes, 1 pestell and mortar, and 1 copper
skillett, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| 2 trammells, 1 dripping
pan, 1 spitt, 1 frying pan, 1 paire of tongues, 1 gridiron, 1
smoothing iron, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
15 |
0 |
| 2 doz. trayes, 2 boults, 1
cheesplate, 5 wooden bottles, 8 peales, 1 1/2 bushell, 1 peck, 1
quarter cann, 1 old small churn, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
5 |
0 |
| 2 ploughs, 2 shares, 2
coulters, bolts, collars and 1 pr. of chaines, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| 3 draught chaines, 1
timber chaine, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| 2 paire of geres for
horses, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| 6 falling axes and 1
hatchett, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
14 |
0 |
| 2 mattocks, 2 spades, 2
iron crowes, 2 sledges, 6 wedges, 1 drawing knife, 1 hedging bill, 1
clapboard hoe, 1 crosse cut saw, 1 hand saw, and beetle rings, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 piece of an iron barre, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| 2 old carts, 3 paire of
wheels, 1 paire of them shod with iron, and 1 cart rope, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
5 |
9 |
0 |
| 3 old table napkins, 1
table cloth, 6 old towells, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 warming pan, &c. |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
16 |
0 |
| 24 barrow teeth, 1 swivell,
1 horse lock, 1 small chaine, 3 gimbletts, 8 howes, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 small bag with ginger, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| 20 yearling cattle, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
40 |
0 |
0 |
| 9 2 yeare old, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
22 |
10 |
0 |
| 9 3 yeare old, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
31 |
10 |
0 |
| 6 4 yeare old, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
27 |
0 |
0 |
| 6 milch cows, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
27 |
0 |
0 |
| 12 oxen, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
72 |
0 |
0 |
| 5 calfes, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 hogsd. and 1 barrell of
mollasses, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
4 |
0 |
0 |
| 4 barrells of salt, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| 16 lumber casks, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
16 |
0 |
| All ye tobacco, old and
new, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
50 |
0 |
0 |
| 2 hydes, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 parcell of feathers in a
pillow case, and 1 pr of old stockens, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
4 |
0 |
| Horses and horse colts as
they run in the woods, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
40 |
0 |
0 |
| Mares and mare colts, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
50 |
0 |
0 |
| 53 sheep, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
22 |
0 |
0 |
| Swyne, small and greate, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
40 |
0 |
0 |
| House and land in
Westchester |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
20 |
0 |
0 |
*P. 528
528
HISTORY OF THE
| The howsing, lands, barnes,
islands, adjoyning from Hutchinson's Ryver westward, and so far
eastward as were Mr. Tho. Pell's inst. and lawful right, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
500 |
0 |
0 |
| 6 new scythes, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
18 |
0 |
| 6 unwashed fleeces of
wool, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
12 |
0 |
| 6 old scythes, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
14 |
0 |
| In Applebyes keeping, 2
cows and 1 plow chaine, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
9 |
8 |
0 |
| In Jonathan Burge his
keeping, 2 oxen, 3 cowes, 2 yearlings, 4 calfes, 1 timber chaine, 1
plough chaine, 1 colter, 1 share and boult, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
35 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 plough share, colter,
boult, coller and yoke irons, in John Holy's hands, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| 64 load of hay, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
16 |
0 |
0 |
| 5 firkins of sope and
parcell of tallow, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| 1/2 barrell of rum, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 paire of stillyards, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| 3 yoaks and 2 grind
stones, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
12 |
0 |
| 1 canow, parcell of beef,
and 2 small parcells of sugar, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| 4 cowes more, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
18 |
0 |
0 |
| 4 oxen, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
24 |
0 |
0 |
| 2 of 2 yeare old, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| 2 of 3 yeare old, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
7 |
0 |
0 |
| 2 calfes, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 bull stag, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| Wheate, |
. . . . . . . . . . .
|
12 |
0 |
0 |
| 30 bushels of Indian corne, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| Old wheat, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| 2 draught chaines, 1
timber chaine, 1 pr. cart wheels, boxes and rings, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| 1 colter, 1 share colter
and boult, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 broad axe, 3 iron
wedges, 1 pr. of beetle rings, 1 cart rope, 1 coller for a horse, 2
pitchforks, 1 grind stone, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 fflock bed and boulster,
1 handsaw, 2 augurs, 2 hamers, and 1 paire fell'rs, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| 1 iron pott, pot hooks and
tramell, 1 brass kettle, 1 kellett and candlestick, 1 pewter pint pott,
2 old pewter platters, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| 6 alchymy spoons, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| 15 old lumber casks, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
15 |
0 |
| 1/2 firkin butter and 2
cheeses, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
15 |
0 |
| 2 cowe hydes, |
. . . . . . . . . . . |
0 |
10 |
0 |
| Total sume, |
. . . . . . . . |
1294 |
14 |
4 |
This inventory and appraisem't was finished ye
20th of October, 1669, as witness o'r hands, we having according to o'r
best knowledge and understand-
*P. 529
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER
529
ing, done as witness o'r hands ye day and yeare aforesaid, we have
appraised as money of this country,
John Richbells.
Wm. [Sideways H] Hoyden.
his marke.
Samuell Drake.
John Bankes one of ye Exec'rs of
ye said will entered into bond of ₤200 Sterl. to
perfourme ye said will. Ye bond was dated ye 13 of October, 1669.
During the
same year an execution was granted against ye estate of Thomas Pell of Ann
Hooks neck, for ₤16 19 10, of ye goods or chattels belonging and reserved
by ye executors, in trust, for the use of his heirs, the said sum being
due for several charges relating to a matter in difference between Charles
Bridges and Sarah his wife, plaintiffs, and ye said Thomas Pell defendant,
wherein ye said defendant was overthrown, and condemned to pay ye costs of
suit. a
FRANCIS LOVELACE.
To Mr. Robert
Coe, high sheriff or his deputy, to cause this execution to be served.
b
By the will of
Mr. Thomas Pell, it will be observed, that he bequeathes all his "lands
and houses in any part of New England, or in ye territory of ye Duke of
York," to his nephew John Pell living in Ould England, the only son of his
only brother, John Pell, Doctor of Divinity.
Dr. Pell, the
immediate ancestor of the Pell family in this country, was "an eminent
mathematician, and descended of an ancient family in Lincolnshire, whence
this branch having removed some time into Sussex, this gentleman
had his birth in that county, on the first of March, 1610, at Southwycke,
of which place his father, Mr. John Pell (as we have shown before) was
then minister, but he did not live to see his son above six years of age,
who after this loss, was put to a grammar school then newly founded at
Steyning in that country. c When scarcely thirteen years of
age, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
_________________________________________________________________
a See Westchester.
b Assize Rec. Alb. 215
c Biographia Brittanica, vol. v.
VOL. I.
67
*P. 530
530
HISTORY OF THE
In 1630, he wrote and published his Modus
Supputandi, Ephemerides, Astronomicas, also a key to unlock the meaning of
Johannes Trithimius, and a discourse on Steganography. He had
previously written a description and use of the Quadrant. His great
patron at this time, was the Prince of Orange, who presented him with the
professorship of mathematics, at Breda in Holland.
In April, 1654, he received his appointment
from Oliver Cromwell, as English resident Ambassador to the Swiss cantons.
The Pell papers in the Lansdowne and Birche
collections afford interesting illustrations of Dr. Pell's domestic and
literary character.
These papers contain numerous letters from Sir
William Moorland, Sir William Lockhart, Sir William Cavendish, Secretary
Thurloe and other distinguished men of that day to Dr. Pell.
To which is appended Dr. Pell's diary during
his residence at Zurich.
The latter commences thus: "April 5th,
dismissed my Lord Protector, supped with my wife and bade her adieu."
The first article in his correspondence (as
ambassador) opens with a letter to Mr. Secretary Thurloe, dated Utrecht,
April 20th, old style, 1654. a
In a letter from Mr. Moorland, to the Right
Hon. John Pell, dated, Whitehall, January 15th 1656-57, he makes the
following allusion to the family of the latter: "to-morrow, God
willing, I shall not fail to go and present your five children with
five gold angels according to your order, as I have this evening sent her
ladyship a note, though it were after I received the enclosed from her to
you," &c. &c.
August 26th, 1654, Mr. Pell thus writes to his
wife concerning his children.
Let Mary learn to cut and carve with
her right hand. Take heed that John b lose not his Roman with
learning Secretary, or else get a rambling hand writing, neither of them
well, &c."
_____________________________________________________________
a The year of his brother's purchase.
b John here alluded to, was the second proprietor
of the manor. In Mr. Pell's diary, Feb. 3, 1654, he remarks, "my son
eleven years old."
*P. 531
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.
531
To Mrs. Pell, at her house behind six trees,
in Gardiner's lane, near King street, Westminster. In a letter of
August 28th O.S. 1655, to his wife, he writes, "you have reason to thank
the councillor that persuaded you to write to me for pearls and jewels.
You tell me you know I have rich presents; you might do well to tell me,
who gave them me, when, and where, and what they are, for I know none of
all these. Nobody wears pearls or jewels here. If they were to
be sold, they cannot be sent safely to you in a letter through the hands
of many posts, and I have no other way to send to you from hence. It
would a great deal better become you, to advise your daughters to cast off
all thoughts of such bravery, as would not be fit for them, though their
father were worth twenty times as much as he is, all his just claims being
reckoned with thta which he hath now in his power. This letter will
come to Whitehall, about the very beginning of the parliament, so that Mr.
Secretary and those about him, may be so full of business, that they may
forget to send you this letter in due time, and then it may miscarry,
which is the cause that this time I tell you no more of my mind concerning
Ma. and the rest, of whom, I cannot think without much sadness.
God Almighty bless them and direct you.
Zurich, May 26th. Mr. Pell to Mrs. Pell.
Since my last of April 20th, &c. &c., I have received two of yours.
In them you ask advice concerning my son. If he be not fit to get
long lessons, by heart, he will never be fit for that school; but you must
take heed that you displease not Mr. B. by taking him away. If our
friends can help you to find out a good school for him, you may send him
thither in the school vacation; or else my uncle may help you to an
excuse, by pretending a desire to see him; and then (as if it were his
humor in my absence to have him better grounded before he return to such a
great school) he may be sent to some other school, where there are fewer
boys; for in large schools, the masters are forced to ease themselves by
laying great burdens upon their scholars' memories. But it will be
very hard to find a good school. God Almighty direct you and bless
him and his sisters.
October 15th. Mr. Pell to Mrs. Pell.
Since my last of July 16, I have received seven of yours, &c. The
fourth tells me
*P. 532
532
HISTORY OF THE
that you like mine of July 16th so ill, that you may well content
yourself without my letters. In it you sent me a Latin letter
enquiring whether he that wrote it will be a scholar or a'prentice.
That question will be better answered three years hence; they that will
now judge of him may be very much mistaken in him; with your next, let him
send me the names of the books which he now learns at school, &c.
October 2d, 1656, concerning his daughter
Mary's marriage, he writes: "I perceive by yours, that M. hath much
abated the height of her first flight. First a rich husband or none
at all, then two hundred pounds a year at least; now, a younger brother,
that hath no land, but some money in other men's hands, almost enough to
purchase fourscore pounds a year free land.
Now she hath found one rich enough for her,
you must try whether he will account her rich enough for him, you may
therefore tell him or her that you have order to pay him two hundred
pounds upon the day of her marriage, without promise that she or hers
shall receive any more from me, or by me, till I am dead, &c. &c. a
On May the 6th, 1658, Mr. Pell received the
following letter of recall from the Protector.
Oliver Cromwell to Mr. Pell.
Sir: -- The state of affairs being much
altered in those parts, so that your longer abode there seemeth no so
necessary, and that your return hither may be more serviceable to us, I
have thought fit hereby to recall you; therefore you will do well, having
taken your leave their, in the best manner, to repair homewards, that we
may receive from you the account of your whole negotiation, and you from
us the encouragement which you have deserved. b
Sir, I rest your loving friend,
Oliver P.
By his highness's command, Jo Thurloe.
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a Mr. Pell's daughter was mar. Nov. 27, 1656.
b The tedious negotiations at Baden, ended in a
peace, which left the Swiss Cantons in the same relation to each other and
Europe as before.
*P. 533
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.
533
Mr. Pell arrived in England only a short time
prior to the death of his patron. Cromwell died on the 3d of
September, 1658, just three weeks after Pell's arrival in London, on the
13th of August. In his diary, Mr. Pell thus records the event.
September 3. "Olivarius Protector, obiit
Alb. aulee.
September 4. Ricardus Westmonasterii et
Londini proclamatur.
The following notes relate to his attendance
on the Protector's funeral:
Gardiner's Lane near King Street.
I do hereby request that the proportion of
cloth allowed unto me by the right honorable council as mourning for his
late highness, the lord protector, may be delivered unto my neighbor, Mr.
Samuel Hartlib the younger.
Written with mine own hand, Sept. 25th 1658,
JOHN PELL.
Whitehall, at the Green Cloth, Sept. 27, 1658.
MR. CLERK COMPTROLLER: I desire you to
direct the delivering of nine yards of black cloth, of twenty-four
shillings per yard, and six yards, of fifteen shillings per yard, for John
Pell, Esq.
BARRINGTON.
JOHN PELL, ESQ.: You are desired to
attend the funeral of the most serene and most renowned Oliver, late lord
protector, from Somerset house, on Tuesday the 23rd of November, instant,
at eight of the clock in the morning at the furthest, and to bring with
you this ticket, and that by Friday night next you send to the herald's
office, near Paul's, the names of your servants that are to attend in
mourning, without which they are not to be admitted, and also to take
notice that no coaches are to pass on that day in the streets between
Somerset house and Westminster. a
Mr. Pell was admitted to holy orders by the
Bishop of Lincoln in 1661, and obtained from the crown the rectory of
Fobbing in
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a Vaughan's Protectorate of Cromwell, vol. ii, 341,
342.
*P. 534
534
HISTORY OF THE
Essex, to which the Bishop of London added the rectory of Lavingdon, or
Lainden, in the same county, A.D. 1677-8.
Among the Pell papers occurs the following
letter from his curate, the Rev. John Nye, dated,
Lainden, Feb. 10, 1677-8.
REVEREND SIR, -- You expect, I presume, some
intimations concerning the place and people where, as your substitute, I
serve the cure; after tedious deliberation, I thought to give your worship
the following notice, viz.: -- as far as the winter extremities, the
incontiguity of country houses, and private necessities do permit, our
churches enjoy full congregations, the people being reverent and
observant, and lovers of the desk as well as pulpit. I know not one
perfect dissenter; only Mr. Andrews, of Lainden, once held a conventicle
in his house since my coming. The appearance at Christmas communion
was tolerable -- about twenty persons; and we hope Easter will exceed.
Our school is occupied by a licensed, grave, and good man. All
officers for church and town are legally qualified, i.e. men
honest, able, judicious. All church ornaments and repairs are exact,
except only Barseldon, where two casualties are fallen, viz.; the bell
roof is ready to drop, and one side of the church needs shoring; the total
charges are pre-estimated at about fifty pounds. As for my own
acceptance and success, it is not wholly in vain, praised be God! I
know not one drunkard nor swearer among us, except only Gaffar Fryer of
Lainden, who on many accounts forgets piety but especially by swearing and
miserableness. My Lord Biship of London urges the duty of
catechising with much fervor; I shall begin on the 17th of Feb. next,
being the first Sunday in season to short for such a work, and hardly
endured to have the matter contested. Our parishes have not observed
perambulations for several years; I suppose it will be convenient to stir
Reverend sir, I know your minutes are precious, your importances constant;
ergo, it is duty and love without rhetorical ambages to profess
myself, as I ought to appear,
Your worship's humble servant and ready
curate.
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