In testimony whereof, I have signed these presents with my handwriting, caused the scale of the province to be thereunto affixed, and have ordained that the same be entered upon record in the secretary's office, the five and twentyeth day of October, in the third yeare of the Kinge Majestyes reigne, and in the year of our Lord, one thousand six hundred eighty and seven.

"Thom.is Do.noa.v."

In the year 1689, John Pell sold to the Huguenots of New Eochelle, through the agency of Governor Leisler,^ a tract of land consisting of six thousand

> The fate of Leialer through whom this purchase was made is fully related in the contemporaneous history of those times. He took the lead in a popular movement, in 1088, against the constituted authorities, and assumed or wiis chosen by his partizans to the government. For this act, he was tried, found guilty of treason, and hung in chains, on the 17th of May, 1691, on the spot now occupied by the City Hall

PELHAM.

one hundred ai res, from the Manor of Pelham, for the sum of about one dollar per acre. The one hundred acres was a free gift to the French Huguenot Church, erected or to be erected by the inhabitants. The Manor of Pelham had originally contained nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six acres, so that nearly two-thirds of it now constitute the town of New Rochelle.

The islands in the sound opposite Pelham, belong to that town. These are Minneford's (now City Island) containing about two hundred and thirty acres; Hunter's Island, two hundred and fifty acres; and Hart Island, eighty-five acres. The heir of Thomas Pell to the Pelham Manor, was John Pell, his ne|)hew, whose death, according to the inscription upon his monument, happened in the year 1700.