Webb, Betsey Pell
John M. McDonald interview — 1850-10-22
Betsey Pell Webb (1786-1860) was the daughter of James Pell and stepdaughter of Caleb Pell. She describes the route of the road that led south from the Boston Post Road in present-day Pelham Manor to Pell’s Point in present-day Bronx County. She also describes the location of the farm that belonged to Loyalist Captain Solomon Fowler, and notes that it was confiscated after the end of the Revolutionary War.
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- Hufeland Index Page 1044 -
October 22d Mrs. Betsey Webb, born Pell, afterwards Hinman, widow of Ransom Hinman, deceased: “The old road to Pell’s Point ran from the King’s highway or Post road, south of where Mrs. Hayes’s house now is, making a circuit about his grounds, and so came along in front of this, the old Caleb Pell place, or rather, more correctly, the James Pell place – the same having been owned by my father James Pell, deceased. Caleb Pell, the blacksmith married my fathers widow. Captain Solomon Fowler of Delancey’s corps, owned and occupied the farm in East Chester, where Judge Schieffelin now resides. This place, at peace, was confiscated.