In addition to the purchase money, " said Jacob Leisler, his heirs and assigns,1' were to yield and pay " unto the said John Pell, his heirs and assigns, lords of the said Manor of Pelham, to the assigns of them or him, or their or either of them, as an acknowledgment to the lords of the said manor, one fat calf on every four and twentieth clay of June, yearly and every year forever -- if demanded." This proviso was incorporated conformably with the customs of the times, which required the vouchsafing of peculiar courtesies to the lords of manors on the part of individuals upon whom they bestowed their lands. The ceremony of the presentation of the fat calf was duly observed for many years, and was always made a festival occasion. Although the deed of sale specified the Bronx River as the westernmost boundary of the tract, its bounds as finally established stopped at Hutchinson's River or creek. The six thousand acres comprised the whole northern section of the manor, Pell retaining the southern portion, a wedge-shaped territory, about one-half less in area than the part conveyed to Leisler. Shortly after the consummation of the purchase, Leisler began to release the lands to the Huguenots, and the place was settled with reasonable rapidity. It was called New Rochelle in honor of La Rochelle in France, a community prominently identified with the

HISTORY

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Huguenot cause in the religious wars. From the first the French to the popurefugees proved themselves most desirable additions lation of our county, and the entire history of New Rochelle is a gratifying record of progress. It will be remembered that John Rickbell's original purchase from the Indians of what is now the Township of Mamaroneck-- a purchase confirmed to him at the time by the Dutch authorities, and later by the English governor, Lovelace-- comprised three necks on the Sound Pell's lands, and that between the Mamaroneck River and Thomastwenty miles northward the interior extension of the purchase was " into the woods." Of the three necks, called the East, Middle, and West Necks, the first was deeded by Richbell to his mother-in-law, Margery Parsons, and by her immediately conveyed to his wife, Ann; to Richbell's and finally but "the latter two were mortgaged estate.