John Pell (landowner)

[3] Young John was educated under his father and served as a Sewer in Ordinary, a page who passes meat to the King, to Charles II.

[4] In 1654,[5] Pell's uncle Thomas signed a treaty with Chief Wampage, and other Siwanoy Indian tribal members, that granted him 50,000 acres (20,000 ha) of tribal land, including all or part of the Bronx and land to the west along Long Island Sound in what is now Westchester County, extending west to the Hutchinson River and north to Mamaroneck.

[7] In 1685, Pell sold off City Island,[9] and the land grant was renewed in 1687 by Governor Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick as "The Lordship and Manor of Pelham.

[11][12] As partial payment, the Huguenots agreed to pay to Sir John, "the Lord of the Manor, the Pell heirs and assigns forever, one fatte calf.

Her father had first settled in Boston, then Fairfield before buying, with nine other men, a large tract of land called "Ten Farms" on the Hutchinson River (in what is now Westchester County) from his uncle Thomas Pell in 1664.

[6] The Pell family burial plot faced the Pelham Bay waterfront on the eastern side of the manor.