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» The seal of John Pell, Esq., attached to the patent of New Rochelle, is charged with the arms of this ancient family, viz : ermine, on a canton azure, a pelican or, vulned ^ulf^s ; this coat appears to have been granted October the 19th, 1594, the gold pelican and azure field are also a portion of the charges belonging to the coal armor of the rdhain family.

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king's cup," livino^ in 1597, who married Margaret Overend, the only daughter of William Overend, Esq., and had six sons and three daughters ; his eldest son- was John Pell, in holy orders, Rector of Southwyck, in Sussex County, England, who died A. D. 1616. This individual was the father of two sons, Thomas Pell, first proprietor of the manor of Pelham, and the Rev. John Pell, D. D., Rector of Fobbing in Essex. Thomas Pell appears to have been born at Southwyck, in Sussex, cir. 1608; the exact period of his arrival in America is uncertain ; that he was one of the first settlers of New England however, there remains no doubt, for at a very early period we find his name associated with Roger Ludlow, a member of the Rev. Joim Warham's company, who settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, June, 1630, and afterwards removed to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1635 ; subsequently Ludlow, with ten families, commenced a plantation at Unquowa, (the Indian name for Fairfield, Conn.) here we find Mr. Pell in 1635. The name of Thomas Pell first occurs in the New Haven colonial records, as attorney for the executors of Richard Jewell, in 1639.a