68 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OK WESTCHESTER. 



ation Day," Nov. 25th, 1783. He was a graduate of Kings College 8 (now 

 Columbia), in 1766 and is said to have been one of the best Greek schol- 

 ars of that day. His only son was Philip Pell of Pelham, the father of 



Philip Pell of San Francisco, Cal. The second son was Major Samuel 

 Treadwell Pell of the Second New York Regiment, who greatly dis- 

 tinguished himself under General Gates at Saratoga, in October, 1777. 

 For his services on this memorable occasion he received from the State, 

 three-hundred acres of bounty land. The following epitaph is inscribed 

 on his head stone in East Chester church-yard. 



MAJOR SAMUEL PELL, 



ob. 29 Deer. 1786, 



in the 32nd year of his age. 



" Thus after returning victorious," 



From the Field of Mars, he 



Cheerfully obeys the summons 



Of eternity from whence there 



is no return. 



The third son of Philip Pell was Colonel David Jones Pell, also an 

 officer in the Continental army, whose son was the late Stephen Snedan 

 Pell, the father of Ogden Philip Pell and Walter Turnbull Pell, both of 

 X w York city. 



Caleb Pell, the sixth and youngest son of Thomas Pell, oldest son of 

 Tohn Lord Pell, also left a numerous family whose descendants are scat- 

 tered throughout the country. 



A beautiful valley, called Swiss Dale, borders the Acqueanouncke or 

 Hutchinson's River on the west side of the town. The Acqueanouncke 

 or more properly the Acquacknouncke (an Indian name, descriptive of 

 the red cedar tree,j rises in the town of Scarsdale, upon the lands of 

 Lewis G. Morris. 



Pelham Dale, the property of Hargous, is delightfully situated near the 

 junction of the salt and fresh waters of the Acqueanouncke. This estate 



a Philip Pell was admitted to Kings Coll. 1766. 



