The grantees and his heirs yielding as an acknowledgment therefore unto the said John Pell and his heirs as lords of the manor of Pelham, one fat calf on the 24th day of June, yearly.^

By a writ of summons served on the20ih of March, 1691, John Pell was returned by the high sheriff to represent the county of "Westchester in the Provincial Assembly.^ He was also judge of the court of common pleas for this county.

The Hon. John Pell appears to have died intestate cir. 1700, leaving issue by his wife Rachel Pinckney, two sons and several daughters.

Thomas, the eldest son, as heir at law, became invested with the inheritance and legal rights of his deceased father. By the will of Thomas Pell, 3 July, 1739, he bequeathes all his rights to his son Joseph Pell, whose son Joseph married his cousin Zipporah Pell, daughter of John Pell ; the sons of the late Joseph Pell, last mentioned, are Peter Pell of Eastchester, the eldest heir male of the Pell family, and Abner lately deceased, besides three daughters. Thomas Pell of Eastchester, the son of Thomas, by his will, dated A. D. 1753, "bequeathes his silver tankard and silver tumbler that formerly belonged to his grandfather, John Pell, to his son David Pell ; also the great bible. His executors he empowers to execute good and sufficient deeds and conveyances of his lands and remainders of the moneys which shall be arising from the sale of one half of his farm lying in Eastchester, and the island lying in ye manor of Pelham, and my right in lands lying within ye patent at the north end of New Rochelle lands, &c., and to dispose of my lands lying in Fairfield, Conn.^