Know all men by these presents, that I, Thomas Pell, have granted to James Euestis and Philip Pinckney, for themselves and their associates, to the number of ten families, to settle down at Hutchinsons, that is where the house stood at the meadows and uplands, to Hutchinson's River, they paying according to ye proportion of the charges which was disburst for the purchase, and other necessary charges, only liberty to have the disposing of two lotts upon the same terms with them, because that I might provide them some tradesmen for their comfort, as a smith, or weaver, or what else with their approbation. Witness my hand, this 24ih of June, 1664. ^

Thomas Pell.

The above grantees appear to have emigrated from Fairfield, Connecticut, to this place, for, in the year 1649, we find the following names recorded in the town books of Fairfield, viz. : James Euestis, Philip Pinckney, John Tompkins, Moses Hoit, Samuel Drake, Andrew Ward. Walter Lancaster, Nathaniel Tompkins, Samuel Ward, &c. These individuals subsequently took an active part in the affiiirs of East Chester.

The following covenant was drawn up in 1665, for the' future government of the proprietors, entitled:

Articles of agreement betwixt us whose names are underwritten, A. D. 1665.

Imprimis, that we, by the grace of God, sett down on the tract of land lying betwixt Hutchinson's brook, where the house was, imtil it comes unto that river, that runneth in at the head of the meadow.

2. That we endeavour to keep and maintain christian love and sivill lionesty.