70 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



The following item relates to the old well that formerly stood in this 

 vicinity, near the iron suspension bridge : 



"April, i 7 26, Joseph Fowler is permitted to erect a dam or mill on 

 the creek that runs between Mr. PeWs and Eastchester, at a certain 

 place commonly called and known by the town land, provided he makes 

 room for the water to be drawn off the meadows and for the canoes to 

 pass.'"' 1 



On the heights of Pelham, overlooking the village of Eastchester, 

 stands the residence of the late Remsen Hinman, whose wife, Elizabeth, 

 was a daughter of Col. James Pell, son of Roger Fell, fourth so 1 of 

 Thomas Pell, grandson of Hon. John Ford Pell. From the records of 

 of the Court of Chancery, it appears that Colonel Pe'.l's property orig- 

 inally consisted of four hundred and forty acres. His last will is re- 

 corded in 1790. Nearly opposite this place, which fronts on the Boston 

 Boulevard, a road pursues the eastern side of the heights towards Pel- 

 ham. This road passes on the left, Woodside, the residence of J. Co- 

 burn. From this place, many pleasant views of the valley and adjacent 

 country are obtained, with the meanderings of the Aqueanouncke, on its 

 way to the Sound. 



Pelham Neck, a portion of the southern extremity of this town (we have 

 seen >, was formerly called Ann Hook's Neck— subsequently Pell Point and 

 Rodman's Neck. Before entering the neck, on the high ground to the west, 

 stands the residence of the late Richard Morris, Esq., commanding a pretty 

 bay on the east, and some fine woodland scenery on the north-west. 

 Upon the north-west side of the Neck lies the "Indian burying-ground" 

 already alluded to. In fact, the whole of the Neck appears to have 

 been used by the Indians for the purpose of sepulture ; in proof of this, 

 their remains have been found in almost every part of it. The largest 

 proportion of mounds, however, are situated on the grounds of the late 

 George Rapelye, Esq. This individual was the son of Rem. Rapelye, a 

 noted royalist, who married March 14, 175 1, Ellen, daughter of Abel 

 Hardenbrook, and amassed a large fortune in mercantile pursuits in 

 New York. He died at Pelham in 1805, in his seventy-seventh year. 

 George Rapelye, his son, who was born in New York, August 9, 1 7 7 1, 

 and educated at Columbia College, married July 19, 1798, Susan Eliza, 

 daughter of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Prevoost, D.D., first Bishop of the 

 Diocese of New York. He was not only distinguished for his wealth, 

 but for his great public enterprises, and was a warm friend and sup- 

 porter of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was a liberal benefactor 

 to St. Paul's church, East Chester. He published a book of travels in 



a Eastchester Town Kec 



