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. The young lord's biography was easily traced. His environment suggested cheerful prophecies, although his youthful years had been passed amid a general unscttlement of things in church and state. Adverse to the pursuit of his studies continuously in due course, his home-life and school-life under his father's eye furnished advantages quite exceptional for liberal selfculturj, adapted to qualify him for the place of lordly eminence bo-

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

iHieatlied to him in this new world as the protector of an oppressed people, the fonndcr of a coiiniiunitv truly unicjiie as to condition and character.

"At this point of our retrospect let us take np the exiled Huguenot s (piestion. What were this young lord's antecedents ? His father, wliose name figured largely in the st;ite papers of the protectorate as the right Honourable John Pell, was eminent among English educators. Horn on the first <lay of March, Kill), at Sonthwycke, Sussex County, England, of wliicli parish bis father, the Rev.