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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Paper Dated March 20, 1731/32 in Which Thomas Pell Renounced Right To
Serve as Executor of Will of Thomas Parsal
As I noted in last Friday's posting to the Historic Pelham Blog,
recently, while preparing for a workshop presentation on using the Web to
find "primary" sources to support historical research, I ran across a
couple of fascinating Pelham-related items in the "Witness
to Early American Experience" collection developed jointly by the
New-York Historical Society and New York University. One of those items
was a paper bearing the signature and seal of Thomas Pell executed on
March 20, 1731/2 in which he renounced his right to serve as Executor of
the last will and testament of Thomas Parsal. The paper is from The
Richard Maass Collection, Fales Library, NYU (Identifier No.
055-002-a-0230).
Below is a link to an image of the item, followed immediately by a
transcription of the item:
http://dlib.nyu.edu/maassimages/maass/jpg/000186s.jpg
"Mannor of Pelham in Westchester
County D: 1731/2 this 20 Day
of March
These are to notify all whom it may concern that I Thomas Pell one of the
Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Parsal and for diverse
good reasons having renounced my right of Executorship to the Said Will
per this [illegible] whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day & year
first above written
Sealed and Delivered
in the presence of
Tho: Pell [Pell Seal on Red Wax]"
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