Robert Coe, high sheriff or his deputy, to cause this execution to be served. *^ ' • . .'. ; .: • " •

By the will of Mr. Thomas Pell, it will be observed, that he bequeathes all his " lands and houses in any part of New England, or in ye territory of ye Duke of York," to his nephew John Pell living in Ould England, the only son of his only brother, John Pell, Doctor of Divinity. ., ... - ^

Dr. Pell, the immediate ancestor of the Pell family in this country, was "an eminent n-athematician, and descended of an ancient family in Lincolnshire, whence this branch having removed some time into Sussex, i/iis s^entleman had his birth in that county, on the first of March, 1610, at Southwycke, of which place his father Mr. John Pell (as we have shown before) was then minister, but he did not live to see his son above six years of age, who after this loss, was put to a grammar school then newly founded atSteyning in that county. « When scarcely thirteen years of age, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, England. . . . . - ,

» See Westchester. ^ Assize Rec. Alb. 215

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In 1630, lie wrote and published his Modus Suppiitandi, Ephemerides, Astronomicas, also a key to unlock the meaninor of Johannes Trithimius, and a discourse on Steganography. He had previously written a description and use of the Quadrant. His great patron at this time, was the Prince of Orange, who presented him with tlie professorship of mathematics, at Breda in Holland.