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

On the 10th of March, 1646, at a general court held at New Haven were recorded the names of the people as seated in the meeting house ; 1st middle seat, the governor and deputy governor, <fec. In the cross seats at the end, 1st seat, Mr. Pell, Mr. Tut tie and brother Fowler, &c.b

The next year Mr. Pell is attached for £200, a debt which his wife, late widow of Mr. Francis Brewster, had contracted before her marriage with him. This debt it appears Mr. Pell refused to pay, notwithstanding the court took the liberty to inform him that his wife's debts were his own. On being afterwards brought up to court, he declared " that it was against his judgment to take an oath."<^ -