THE TOWN OF PELHAM. 87 



The last legible inscription is : 



Is Memory 



of JOHN, son of 



James and Pikebe Besnett, 



who died Augt 6, 1763, 



Aged 21 months. 



In 1 86 2 a white marble slab was erected on the spot, by the late James 

 K. Pell, Esq., of New York, with the following inscription : 



This Stone 



is placed here in token of 



respect for the 



memory 



of, and to mark the spot where 



lie buried the mortal remains of 



several of the descendants of 



JOHN PELL, 



who was born in the year 1643. 

 and died in the year 1700. 



The son of 



the Rev. John Pell, D.D., 



of Essex, in England, 



and nephew of 



Thomas Pell, 



the first proprietor 



of the 



Lordship and Manor of Pelham. 



born in the year 1603. 



Not very far west of the site of the old manor house stood, a few years 

 ago, one of the largest and finest oak trees in the country ; interesting as 

 the very tree beneath which the Indian sachems ceded these lands to 

 Thomas Pell, on the 14th of November, 1654. 



On what was once the Bartow estate is located the Bartow station of 

 the Harlem River branch of the New York and New Haven Railroad. 

 The distance is computed to be seven miles from New York centre, and 

 fifty-three minutes from business centres. From this station are daily 

 lines of stages connecting with Yonkers, Mount Vernon and City Island. 



