[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Pelham,) is situated on g the south-east side of i the county, distant eight miles south of the vil-lage of White Plains, and one hundred and Indian imagp stone a forty miles from Albany; bounded by Scarsdale on the north, by Mamaroneck and Scarsdale on the east, by Hutchinson's river and Pelham on the west, and on the south by the Sound. This tract of land was originally included in the grant made by the Indians, in the year 1640, to the Dutch West India Com-pany, but no settlement was actually commenced upon it until long after Thomas Pell's purchase, which occurred in 1654.^ The aborigines appear to have resided principally on Daven-port's Neck, where they had a large settlement, denominated Shippa. Within a very short period there were old persons {living in the town) who could well remember when the neck was covered with Indian wigwams. ^ Of this the extensive "shell beds," on its southern shores afford conclusive evidence. * This image stone was discovered on the lands of John Soulice some few