" It was my fortuiio to revisit, lecontly, after a long interval of nbsnnce, two lionies of my cliildluiod, tlio birth bomo at PeUiam, Westchester County, in the vicinity of Now York, and the churcli home at New Kocholle, the town adjoining, originally a part of Pelham, comprised within the area of the manor by the royal charter of liifiG, in the reign of Charles II. That charter was granted to Thomas I'cll, Esq., ' Centleman of the bed-chamber to King (Iharles I.,' and afterwards, in ICiST, was gmnted anew and confirmed to his legally recognized heir, the only son of his brother, the first resident proprietor, 'Lord John Poll,' according to the usage of addres.s hereabouts in the seventeenth century.

"The first object of interest that won attention within view from the railway station, two or three minutes' walk westward along the old historic 'King's Highway,' was the beautiful church edifice of stone, designated 'Trinity Church, of New Rochelle,' presenting itself to the eye of the inquiring visitor as the successor of the old ' French Church,' that hallowed that surrounding in the reign of Queen Ann. Having noticed, in a musing mood, the contrast between the showing of the rude, small, stony structure that I had first known in childhood as a house of worship, and that of the finely proportioned modern temple whose graceful spire now casts its shadow over the old site, I turned my steps toward the church burial-gro\ind, seeking the graves of my grandparents. Long-slmnbering memories were aroused, fii-st of all, by the sight of the marble that marked the grave of my grandmother -- Sarah Pell, widow of Captjiin|William Bayley -- whose funeral service, ministered in the church-yard by her aged relative, the rector, Kev. Tlieodosius Bartow, I had attended with a large family gathering in the month of March, 181U, being then eleven years of age.