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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, ordeis or directions of any riding, 

 township or townships, place or jurisdiction, either upon the main or upon 

 Island, but shall in all cases, things aad matters, be deemed, reputed, taken and 

 held, aa 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 court 

 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 tov. 

 public packets and letters, or line and Cries, coming to this place or going from it, 

 to any oilier of his majesties colonies, to have and to hold the said tract of land 

 and giant, 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., etc., &c, &c, &c, 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 acknowledgment, 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, vice., &c., &a, and in the year of our Lord God, 

 1666. RICHARD XICHOLLS. 



Entered and recorded in the Office of New York, \ 

 the 8th day of October, 1666. \ 



Matiiias Nicolls, SicVy. 



The Pells, who were formerly lords of the Manor, boast a very remote 

 antiquity ; tracing their descent from the ancient family of that name at 

 Walter Willingsley and Dymblesbye in Lincolnshire, England. In the 

 ■visitation of Lincolnshire in 1564, "William Harvey, Clarenceux, King at 

 arms, by his deputy. Robert Cooke, Chester Herald, records "William 

 Pell as first seated at Walter Willingsley in the year (about) 1368 ; his 

 son was Thomas Pell of the same place, whose son Richard was the 

 father of John Pell, whose eldest son, William Pell of Walter Willings- 

 ley, married Alice, daughter and heiress of Robert Buller of Barkeston, 

 by Joane, his wife, daughter and heiress of Robert Wyther of Barkeston, 

 whose wife, Joane, was the daughter and heiress of John Pounder. The 

 only son of William Pell by Alice Buller was Thomas Pell, of Walter 



