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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 85

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] tion, proprietorship, and patronage. But in recurring to the history of the eastern portions of the county and of the gradual movement of settlers thence into the interior, Ave shall first review the progress of events in the two large proprietary estates of that division: the Pell estate, which, when last noticed, had been erected into a manor under the lord-ship of its founder, Thomas Pell; and the estate of John Pdchbell, of Mamaroneck, transmitted after his death to his wife, Ann, and from her purchased by Caleb Ileathcote, who soon afterward pro-cured its erection into the Manor of Scarsdale. So many of our im-mediately preceding pages have been devoted to the origin and early history of Fordham, Morrisania, Philipseburgh, and Cortlandt Man-ors, that similar accounts of the two remaining manors may very fittingly follow here. This, with some general observations, will complete what is necessary to be said about the foundations of the manors of Westchester County. CHAPTER IX PELHAM MANOR AND NEW ROCHELLE CALEB HEATHCOTE AND SCARS-DALE MANOR GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANORS