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. To his son, John, the golden inheritance from the rich uncle in America must have been singularly welcome. John Pell, the successor of Thomas iu the " lordship " of Pelham Manor, was born on the 3d of February, 1643. He arrived in America and entered into his proprietorship in the summer of 1670. On the 25th of October, L687, a new royal patent of Pelham Manor was issued to him by Governor Dongan, the reason for this proceedingbeing, as stated in the patent, that he desired " a more full and firme grant and confirmation " of his lands. The bounds of the manor as specified in the new instrument were precisely the same as those prescribed in the Nicolls patent to his uncle -- Hutchinson's River on tin1 south and Cedar Tree or Gravelly Brook on the north, with the neighboring islands; but the dignities attaching to the manorial lordship were somewhat more elaborately defined, and instead of paying to the royal governor as quit-rent " one lamb on tin1 first day of May," as had been required of Thomas Tell, he was to pay "twenty shillings, good and lawful money of this province," "on the five and twentyeth day of the month of March." He married (1685) Rachel, daughter of Philip Pinkney, one of the first ten proprietors of East-