This Day in Pelham History
June 24

06/24/1664 - Thomas Pell grants what came to be known as the Eastchester Planting Grounds to James Eustis and Philip Pinckney for themselves and their associates to the number of Ten Families, to settle down at Hutchinson's, that is where the house stood, at the meadows and uplands to Hutchinson's River"; this was the beginning of the Town of Eastchester.

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