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Monday, August 6, 2007

1714 Letter Reporting on the Establishment of the Church at East Chester Built in 1692

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.For more nearly two centuries after its first settlement, the sparsely populated rural settlement that came to be known as Pelham had no church of its own. Many Pelham residents traveled quite a distance to attend the church in East Chester. A church building was

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

1805 Real Estate Advertisement Offering Prevost Estate in Pelham for Sale

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.A small advertisement appeared in the April 24, 1805 issue of the Morning Chronicle published in New York City offering the Prevost estate for sale in Pelham. The pertinent excerpt of the advertisment appears immediately below."BY A. & R. S. BARTOW, . . .At private