An area of six thousand acres, a part of the M.anor of I'elhain, was conveyed to their friend and agent, .lacob Loislcr, nicri:hant of New York, on acceiitjiblo terms, in 1G8'J, surveyed and divided into lots or fanns by Alexander Allaire and Captiiin Bond, in lG!)'.i ; named New Kochelle in memory of the old fortress of Protestantism in France, and then the family life of the two people, by its own interior law of development, grew into a civil and social unity, 'compact together,' under the sway of a cominon sentiment, as if all gloried in the same genealogical origin.

" In this retrospective view of Bi-centennial history we can hardly trace the fortunes of rich domain so beautiful as was this broad, picturesipic area of almost ten thousand acres, so near the rising metropolis, constituted by royal, ducal and colonial authority, under lawful grant and patent of his majesty, Charles II., and also of his sterner brother. King James II., 'an absolute, entire, enfmncliised township and place of itself, in no manner of way to be subordinate or under the rule of any rilling, township, or place of jurisdiction,' and then ob.serve how it was ' willed ' at once by its first proprietor, Thomas Pell, into the possession of an English heir, his nephew, a young man, only twenty-five years of age, without being sympathetically alive to the import of the doubtful questioning put by the more advanced of the exiles. ' What manner of man is this lord of the Manor? What have been his antecedents? Is his spirit akin to that of the intriguing, persecuting royal duke, James of York, now king, through whom, by special porinission of his majesty, Charles II., the earlier charter of proprietorship was received?' The inquiry was serious, the answer was encouraging.