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.*^

Circa 1663, " the legislature of Connecticut determining to secure as far as possible the lands within the limits of their charter, authorized one Thomas Pell to purchase of the Indian proprietors all that tract between Westchester and Hudson's River, and the waters which made the Manhadoes an island, and resolved that it should be added to Westchester." This statement is made on the authority of Trumbull and Webster, although no record now remains of the transaction. e

Mr. Pell's death must have occurred sometime between the date of his will, 21st of September, 1669, and that of the order for the taking of an inventory of his estate, on the 13th October, 1669 ; tradition asserts he was buried at Fairfield. f

The last %vill of Thomas Pell.

In ye name of God, Amen -- It hath pleased ye all wise God many years to exercise me wiih much weakness of body, and having lately taken to himselfemy beloved wife Lucy, it being ye good pleasure of God to deny me natural issue of my owne body, his good hand of mercy continueing unto me to keep me in perfect memory and my understanding in a comfortable measure, according to proportion of wisdom and knowledge, where he saw meet to proportion to me, I desire in faith to give up my soule to God which gave it, my body to a