Deeds Related to the Settlement of New Rochelle,
1689 and 1694
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TranscriptionJohn Pell and his wife, Rachell, deeded 6,000 acres of land to Jacob Leisler in 1689. This land now constitutes the City of New Rochelle, one of Westchester’s earliest settlements. Leisler was a wealthy French Huguenot who lived in New York City and who was, at the time, Acting Governor. He served as the agent for a group of Huguenot refugees who were seeking to establish a settlement. Leisler has been memorialized as one of New Rochelle’s founders by a statue and a small park near the Thomas Paine Cottage on North Avenue.
The 1694 deed transferred 642 acres of land near Eastchester Road from Andrew Rochelle Thauvett to Bartholomew Le Roux. Mr. Thauvett sites Jacob Leisler and his wife, Elsie, as his grantors.