[1] Pell studied botany at Columbia College under Dr. David Hosack, a well-known botanist and horticulturalist who founded Elgin Botanic Garden in 1801.

[2] During a steamboat trip to Burlington, Vermont, Pell spotted the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain.

[4] The Pell family later hired English architect Alfred Bossom to restore the fort, which was formally opened to the public in 1909 as an historic site.

[9] Pell died on October 28, 1840, and was buried at Saint Paul's Church Cemetery in Mount Vernon, New York.

[1] Through his youngest son Clarence, he was a grandfather of Herbert Claiborne Pell (1853–1926), who married Katherine Lorillard Kernochan.