THE TOWN OF PELHAM. 67 



Duncan Tell was the finest looking man of his day in Wall street, but 

 to this he added not only commercial skill, but a love of learning, which 

 was shown by the prize which he founded in the Free College in this 

 city. Mr. Pell was not afraid to administer reproof, and the writer is 

 indebted to him for a very valuable one. I was at that time (which is 

 thirty years ago), a clerk in a small retail store in Broadway. One 

 morning having swept out, I sat down to read the paper; but soon was 

 addressed by some one, whom I answered in an indifferent manner, and 

 without lifting my eyes from the paper. In a moment I heard a voice 

 of thunder exclaiming, " Look up, young man and mind your business." 

 The reproof needed no repetition. I looked up and saw a noble-look- 

 ing man, whose frown at once passed away as he saw the effect of his 

 words. 



These three elegant men are now dead (as well as a fourth brother, 

 James K. Pell), but the firm is still in successful existence in Hanover 

 Square. a 



Duncan Pell being Lieut. Gov. of Rhode Island, and his son, Duncan 

 Archibald. Colonel on Genl. Burnside's staff during the war of i86t. 



The eldest of the five brothers was Archibald Pell, Esq., the father- 

 in-law of Edward A. Leroy of New York. The only daughter of Ben- 

 jamin Pell, just mentioned (and sister of William Ferris Pell), was Maria, 

 a noble and excellent woman, who married at the age of nineteen Jacob 

 Treadwell Walden, a leading merchant of New York in the India trade. 

 Their two sons, Alfred Pell Walden and Joseph Walden, died unmar- 

 ried ; and of four daughters, only one now survives, viz ; Emma Wal- 

 den, the wife of Samuel Cooke, D. D., Rector of St. Bartholamew's 

 church, New York City. The second son of William Ferris Pell, was 

 Alfred Sands Pell, who married Adelia, daughter of Col. James Duane, 

 first Mayor of New York after the Revolutionary war, and a Judge of the 

 Supreme Court of the United States, whose son is the present Robert 

 Livingston Pell, of Pelham, Ulster Co., N. Y. 



The descendants of Philip Pell, Esq., (fifth son of Thomas, the eldest 

 son of John Lord Pell), are also numerous and distinguished. His 

 eldest son Philip, who married Hannah Mott, 6 died in 1788, and was 

 the father, first of the Hon. Philip Pell, Judge Advocate of the Continen- 

 tal Army in the revolutionary war, and a member of the Cincinnati 

 Society. This illustrious individual had the honor of riding by the side 

 of General Washington when he entered New York City upon " Evacu- 



a Sfcetch.es of some of our old auctioneers. Evening Post, March 3d, 1871. 



l> This marriage took place before the Quaker meeting assembled at Westbury, L. I., 5th of 

 March, 1731. The marriage certificate is signed by 20 witnesses ; among these occurs the name 

 o! his brother Caleb Pell. 



