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Pell was legally challenged by the Dutch courts, who considered the "English were trespassing on Dutch territory". This dispute was finally resolved by Pell in September 1664 when the British Navy, supported by a militia invasion force consisting largely of
394: 147:". He named the area Pelham in honor of Pelham Burton, who had been his tutor in England (Although there is reason to believe this attribution is not correct). 390: 136:. There are no contemporary records of the price he paid for the land, but an 1886 source states that the Siwanoy were paid with "sundry 456: 481: 461: 245: 183:(1643–1702), son of Thomas's only brother John. His nephew traveled from England to New York and took up residence as the 2nd 471: 120:
Indian tribal members that granted him 50,000 acres (20,000 ha) of tribal land, including all or part of what is now
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Sources variously give the date of the transaction as June 27, November 11, or November 14, 1654.
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and has remained prominent to the present, with family members including U.S. Ambassador
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New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
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in what is now Westchester County, extending west to the
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Index

physician
Pelham, New York
Bronx
Westchester County, New York
Westchester
Westchester Creek

Sussex
Halden
Kent
Southwick
Sussex
John Pell
Cambridge
New England
Fairfield, Connecticut
Chief Wampage
Siwanoy
the Bronx
Long Island Sound
Hutchinson River
Mamaroneck
hogshead
Jamaica
rum
City Island
New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
New Netherland
Fairfield, Connecticut

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