Upon the sixth day of October, 1666, Richard NicoUs, governor of the province, did give, grant, ratify and confirm unto Thomas Peil, gentleman, all that tract of land lying to the eastward of Westchester bounds, (subsequently known as the manor of Pelham,) &c., " which said tract of land hath heretofore been purchased of the Indian proprietors, and ample satisfaction given for the same."^

In 1669, the patentee devised the whole manor of Pelham to his nephew John Pell, (commonly called Lord Pell,) who obtained a further confirmation for the same from Thomas Dongan, governor of the province, on the 29th of October, 1687.^

Upon the 20th of September, 1689, we find John Pell, Lord of the manor of Pelham, and Rachel his wife, conveying to Jacob Leisler of the city of New York, merchant, "all that tract of land lying and being within the manor of Pelham, containing 6000 acres of land," (fcc, <fec., (the present township of New Rochelle,) "The grantee and his heirs yielding and paying unto the said John Pell and his heirs, &c., as lords of the said manor, one fat calf on every four and twentieth day of June yearly, (fee., if demanded," ifec.d

^ One of these was situated on the property of John SouUce, where there is also a quarry of quartz from which the Indians manufactured their javelin and arrow heads.

b See Pelham, for Thomas PeU's patent.

c See Pelham, for John PeU's confirmation.

<! Whenever the fat calf was demanded by the lords of the manor, (on the festival