History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
He married" Rachel Pinckney" and died about the year 1700, leaving a number of children and grandchilintention to ignore his determined opjioBition to all efforts beyond those of remonstrance ; and yet we read those papers amiss, and his speeches, and his vote, with all his earnestness of diction, if we are not juslified in saying that, beneath, is all the wounded spirit of one who feels the wrongs of his brethren, whom a selfish and impnideut jmrent has provoked to wrath. < Journal of Gen. Assembly of New York-, February 24, 1775.
THE COLONIAL PERIOD.
dien. The family intermarried in the eighteenth century with the Eustises, Honeywells, Bartows, Sands, Wards, Treadwells, Archers, Snedeus, Lawrences, Pinkncys and other families of the County. At the (.ommencement of the Revolutionary period the following members of the Pell family were living in Pelham and towns adjacent: Thomas Pell, who married Margaret Bartow, and who lived at the homestead in Pelham, now known as the residence of Robert Bartow ; John Pell, who lived on what is now the Schuyler Place ; Joshua, Jr., who married Abigail Archer, and who lived on what is now the property of Mr. George A. Prevost ; James, who married Martha Pugsley, and who lived on Prospect Hill, in the house which General Howe took possession of, October 18, 1776, as his headquarters; Philip, in the war Judge-Advocate of the American army, who lived on the old Boston Post Road, above Pell's Bridge; David I. his brother, who lived near the same bridge, but on the road sometimes called Pelham Lane, where Mr. James Hay afterward built the fine stone house now standing; Caleb, a brother of James, who lived in Eastchester town, on the old Boston Post Road, where is now the Bathgate estate, and Joseph, who resided in Upper Eastchester, on the westerly side of the White Plains Road, nearly opposite the road running down to Burtis's Mill on the Hutchinson's River.