THE TOWN OF PELHAM. 43 



we find his name associated with Roger Ludlow, a member of the Rev. 

 John \Varhams' a company who settles first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, 

 June, 1630, and afterwards removed to Windsor Connecticut, in 1635, sub- 

 sequently Ludlow, with ten families, commenced a plantation at Unquowa, 

 (the Indian name for Fairfield, Conn.,) here we find Mr. Pell, in 1635. His 

 name first occurs in the New Haven colonial records, as attorney for the 

 executors of Richard Jewell in 1639. 3 In 1642, he was a resident there; 

 and on the 10th of March, 1646, his name is recorded as the occupant 

 of the first seat, on the cross-benches or pews at the end of the meeting 

 house.'* In 1647, he traded to the Delaware and Virgina. The year 

 following, he was called upon to take the oath of allegiance to New 

 Haven, but he declined compliance with this order, on the ground that he 

 had taken the oath in England, " and should not take it here." This 

 refusal we think was not prompted by his attachment to the royal cause* 

 but from conscientious scruples in taking any oath at all ; for this he 

 was pronounced guilty of contempt, and fined. He would not pay the 

 fine, however; and, as "his carriage had been full of high contempt." 

 he was again summoned before the authorities and again amerced. J In 

 1646-7, he married Lucy, widow of Francis Brewster, of New Haven, 

 and in June or July of that year removed to Fairfield. 



A.D. 1654 (the same year of his purchase here , Mr. Thomas Yale 

 presented to the General Court, held at New Haven, a note under hand of 

 Mr. Thomas Pell, wherein he desires the said Mr. Yale to make entry of 

 the lands he had sold to Allan Ball, James Russell and William Bradley/ 



and Ministers of ye parish, that they were conformable to the 01 of England, 



and are no subsidy men. Tney have taken the oath of supreniacie and allegience die et an prd. 



A carpenter, Thos. Pell, 26. 



Marie Pell, 26. 



Marie Pell, l. 



These names are said to be crossed out in the original MSS. ii=t of emigrants to America 

 160O-1T00. J. W. Bouton, >". Y., " April. 1635, iu the Hopewell, Will. Burdock, master, bound 

 to New England ; a tailor, Thos. Pell, aged 22. : ' Mass. Coll. " Founders of New England," 

 by Samuel Drake. 



a John Warham was a pious and celebrated preacher at Exeter, England, but was forced 

 * / New England for refuge from the storm. Previous to his departure, a congrega- 

 tion being gathered at Plymouth, he was after solemn fasting and | none of its 

 pastors ; and in tlie year 1636, many pious families out of Devo.. and Somer- 

 setshire, accompanied them to New England. Lives of the Pnrita jk. Princes 

 Chron Hi>r. . 204. 



b New Haven CoL Kec. vol. i, p. 63. 



c • At a genera] court, held on that day and year were recorded the names of the people as 

 : i the meeting house; first middle seat, the Governor ami Deputy Governor, 4c 

 the cio- the end, first seat, Air. Pell, Mr. Tuttle and brother Lowler," Ac. New Ha- 



ven Kec., vol. i, p.280. 



d }\ I >'Callighan, vol. ii., p. 2S3 ; see note. 



eln lwr Mr. Pell was attached for .£200, a debt which hi3 wife, late widow of Mr. Francis 

 Brew6ter, had contracted before her marriage with h::a. This debt, it appears, Mr. Pell re- 

 fused to p \v, notwithstanding the court took the liberty to inform him that his wife's debts 

 were his own. on being af tei wa: da brought up to court, he declared " that it was against his 

 judgment to take an oath." New Haven Col. Kec.. vol. i.. 315-391. Eighteen pages of the Col. 

 Kec. are occupied with the trifling details of a trial of Lucy Brewster for slander: but this 

 was before hf r marriage to h.-r second husband, and may have contributed to produce it in 

 order to obtain manly protection, lavages' Lis. Lie;. 



/ New llavt-n CoL Kec. 



