But in recurring to the history of the eastern portions of the county and of the gradual movement of settlers thence into the interior, Ave shall first review the progress of events in the two large proprietary estates of that division: the Pell estate, which, when last noticed, had been erected into a manor under the lordship of its founder, Thomas Pell; and the estate of John Pdchbell, of Mamaroneck, transmitted after his death to his wife, Ann, and from her purchased by Caleb Ileathcote, who soon afterward procured its erection into the Manor of Scarsdale. So many of our immediately preceding pages have been devoted to the origin and early history of Fordham, Morrisania, Philipseburgh, and Cortlandt Manors, that similar accounts of the two remaining manors may very fittingly follow here. This, with some general observations, will complete what is necessary to be said about the foundations of the manors of Westchester County.

CHAPTER PELHAM

MANOR AND NEW ROCHELLE CALEB HEATHCOTE AND SCARSDALE MANOR GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANORS

HOMAS TELL died in the month of September, 1669, three years after obtaining from Governor Nicolls the manorial patent for his magnificent estate on the Sound, stretching from Hutchinson's River to RichbelPs Mamaroneck grant. Leaving no issue, he willed all his possessions, excepting certain personal bequests, to his nephew, John Pell, then residing in England, the only son of his only brother, the Rev. John Pell, D.D. Doctor Pell, Thomas's brother, was a man of brilliant intellectual accomplishments, served as ambassador to Switzerland under Cromwell, and subsequently took orders in the Church of England. But despite his talents he had faults of temperament which prevented him from advancing in the church, and being of an improvident disposition he wasted his property to such a degree that he was committed to the King's Bench Prison for debt.