THE TOWN OF PELHAM. 57 



"The Lordship axd Manor of Pelham." under the feudal tenure of 

 paying yearly, thereupon, twenty shillings at the city of New York, on 

 the 25th day of March (Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary). 



THE ROYAL PATENT OF PELHAM MANOR. 



Tiiomas Dongan, Captain General and Governor-in-chief in and over the 

 province of New Yorke, and the territories depending thereon in America. 

 bis most sacred Majesty, James the Second, by the grace of God, Kinge 

 of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c — to all 

 to whom these presents shall come, sendeth greeting: Whereas, Richard 

 Nicholls, Esq., late governor of this province, by his certaine deed in writing, 

 under his hand and seale. bearing date the sixth day of October, in the eighteenth 

 year of the reigne of onr late sovereigne lord, Charles the Second, by the 

 grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Kinge. defender of 

 the faith, &c, and in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred 

 sixty and six— did give, grant, confirm and rattefye, by virtue of the commis- 

 sion and authoritye unto him given by his (then) royal highness,' James, Duke 

 of Yorke, &c, (his now Majesty,) upon whome, by lawful grant and pattent 

 from his (then) Majesty, the propriety and government of that part of the 

 maine land, as well of Long Island and all the islands adjacent. Amongst 

 other things was settled unto Thomas Pell, of Onkway, alias Fairfield, in his 

 Majestye's colony of Connecticut — gentleman— all that certaine tract of land 

 upon the maine lying and being to the eastward of "Westchester bounds, 

 bounded to the westward with a river called by the Indians Aquaconounck, 

 commonly known to the English by the name of Hutchinson's River, which 

 runneth into the bay lyeing betweene Throgmorton's Neck and Anne Hooke's 

 Neck, commonly called Hutchinson's Bay, bounded on the east by a brooke 

 called Cedar Tree Brooke, or Gravelly Brooke ; on the South by the Sound, 

 which lyeth between Longe Island and the maine land, with all the islands in the 

 Sound not before that time granted or disspossed of. lyeing before that tract of 

 land so bounded as is before expresst : and northward to runne into the woods 

 about eight English miles, the breadth to be the same, as it is along by the Sound, 

 together with all the lands, islands, soyles, woods, meadows, pastures, marshes, 

 lakes, waters, creeks, fishing, hawking, hunting and fowling, and all other proff- 

 >mmodityes and hcridetaments to the said tract of land and islands belong- 

 ing, with their and every of their appurtenances, and every part and parcel there- 

 of ; and that the said tract of land and premises should be forever thereafter held, 

 deemed, reputed, taken and be an intire infranchised towneshipp, manner and 

 place of itself, and should always, from time to time, and at all times thereafter, 

 have, hold and enjoy like and equall priviledges and immunities with any towne 

 infranchised, place or manner within this government, &c, shall in no manner 

 of way be subordinate or belonging unto, have any dependance upon or in any 

 wise, bounds or the rules under the direction of any riding, or towne. or towne- 



a Th- vear of oar Lord, until a century ago, was reckoned from the 23th of March because 

 with the "miraculous conception, the work of our redemption : and hence the era of Grace 

 began. "The clians>- of New Yea'" Day from SStti of March to th" 1st of January was 



tnd a i Ireland at the 

 chaag.oi Btyie, 1752." Chambers Mi.scellau ous Questions, by J. C. Lippinoott <fc Co., 1868. 



