Thomas Pell (1608 - 1669) was a physician who was famous for buying the area known as Pelham, Westchester, New York, as well as land that now includes the eastern Bronx and southern Westchester County. He is recorded as travelling from Fairfield, England to North America to attempt to set up new colonies. He was the brother of the mathematician John Pell and uncle of Sir John Pell, first Lord of the Manor of Pelham. Wikipedia
A New York City landmark, the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is one of the most beautifully located historic houses in the City. www.bartowpellmansionmuseum.org/
The tree was a stylized view of Thomas Pell's Treaty Oak surrounded by its circular iron fence as shown in a famous photograph taken in about 1903. www.historicpelham.com/
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"In the woods not far from the large stone Pell mansion is the 'Lord Howe chestnut' beneath whose unbrageous branches Lord Howe and his officers lunched with a number of Westchester loyalists whom he had invited for the occasion. historicpelham.blogspot.com/