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."<^ -

A. D. 1654, (the same year of his purchase in this town.) Mr. Thomas Yale, presented to ye general court held at New Haven, a noute under the hand of Mr. Thomas Pell, wherein he desires ye

» New Haven Col. Rcc. vol. i. 63. b New Haven Col. Rec. vol. 1. 280. c New Haven Col. Rec. vol. i. 3ir>, 316, 317,335, 391 YOL. I. 66

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said Mr. Yale to make entrv of the lands he had sold to Allen Ball, James Rnssel and Will Bradley. 6cc.^

Upon the 9th of February, 1653, Thomas Pell purchased lands in Fairfield of Henry Rowland, Philip Pinckney, Alexander Briant and others ; also a house which was sometimes Nathan Gold's in 1654.b

At a court hoi den at Fairfield, October the 19lh, 1658, the court desired Mr. Thomas Pell and John Wheeler to be husbands and administrators upon the estate of Thomas Demond.<=

Upon the 25th of June, 1669, the town of Fairfield granted certain lands to Thomas Pell, Esq.*^