Thomas Pell

He was the eldest of two sons born to the former Mary Holland, from Halden in Kent, and the Rev.

His younger brother was the mathematician and political agent John Pell.

[4][5] In 1654,[6] Pell 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 what is now 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.

[8] This dispute was finally resolved by Pell in September 1664 when the British Navy, supported by a militia invasion force consisting largely of City Island colonists and led by Pell himself, entered New Amsterdam and forced Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch Governor of New Netherland, to surrender the colony to the British.

His nephew traveled from England to New York and took up residence as the 2nd Lord of the Manor of Pelham.