60 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



In 16S4-5 John Pell married Rachel, daughter of Philip Pinckney, 

 Esq., one of the first ten proprietors of the town of East Chester, a lineal 

 representative of the Pinkney's, of Pinkney's manor, in the county of 

 Norfolk, England." 



"On the 20th of September, 1689, John Pell, gentleman, and Rachel 

 his wife, for a valuable consideration, conveyed to Jacob Leisler of New 

 York, merchant, all that tract of land in the manor of Pelham, (now 

 called New Rochelle), containing six thousand acres, and also one hun- 

 dred acres of land for the use of the French church erected or to be 

 erected thereon." and " The grantees and his heirs yielding as an ac- 

 knowledgement therefore unto the said John Pell and his heirs, as lords 

 of the manor," one fat calf on the festival of St. John the Baptist. 



By a writ of summons served on the 20th of March, 1691, John Pell 

 was returned by the High Sheriff to represent the county of West Chest- 

 er, in the Provincial Assembly/' He was also Judge of the Court of 

 Common Pleas for this county, from 16SS until the day of his death. 



The Hon. John Pell is said to have been cast away and drowned in 

 his pleasure boat which foundered in a gale oft City Island, sometime 

 in the fall of 1702. He died intestate, leaving issue by his wife Rachel, 

 two sons and two daughters. 



Thomas Pell, the oldest son, was born at Pelham in 1686, and 

 became invested with the inheritance and legal rights of his deceased 

 father. 



On the 3rd of March, 1729, occurs an indenture between : — 



Thomas Pell of the Manor of Pelham, in the County of West Chester in Colony 

 of New York, Esq., and Anna his wife of the first part, and Edward Blagge of 

 the City of New York, gent, of the second part, for the consideration of £50, 

 "hath granted, bargained, aliened and confirmed unto the said Blagge, his exec- 

 utors and administrators all that certain full equal one-fifth of all that large 

 Tract of land which is contained in the bounds of the said Manor of Pelham to 

 wit : of that part of the said Manor, which lyes on the north side of the Boston 

 Boad 01 Highway, which leads from East Chester to New Rochelle, and also 

 the one full equal fifth part af all that tract of land within the said manor which 

 byes to the eastward of New Rochelle bounds, with all the hereditaments and 

 appurtances thereunto belonging, excepting and reserving out of this present 

 grant, all those lands which do belong to the Township of New Rochelle, and 

 also all that plantation on which Phillip Pell now lives, and also all that land 

 formerly conveyed to Isaac Coutine, Daniel Samson, John June, and William 



a The arms of Pinkney or Pinchene (of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Northamptonshire 

 townships, Edward 1 1 as given -by Burke, are -r-or four lozenges ia fesaegu: which exactly 



round In the corner stone of the French church at 

 New I: chelled poaited in 1697. B r r for Pinckney family. 



/ Smith's History of New York, quarto ulition 73. 



