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| Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:09:14 EST CaroleeRI@aol.com Dear Charles, I don't know if you are related to the Bartows of "mansion" fame, but if not, you should certainly be able to find record of the family in the collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Their collections are indexed and often found in good libraries - I have no doubt that some facility in Indianapolis holds them. Here's what I can tell you about the Bartow-Pell Family Burial Ground: It was a private cemetery. It has 8 gravestones dating from 1748 to 1790. The cemetery is located on Shore Road, north of Split Rock Road, in Pelham Bay Park, Bronx. Thomas Pell, an Englishman, purchased more the 9,000 acres from the Siwanoy Indians in 1654. The mansion, third on the site, was built by Pell's descendants, Robert and Marie (Lorillard) Bartow. New York City purchased the house and grounds in 1888 as part of a program to develop parks in the city. The house stood vacant until 1915, when the International Garden Club made its headquarters there, restored the house and grounds, and planted gardens. David Pell Secor, in a letter to the New York Tribune in 1903, wrote that there were more headstones in the graveyard when he visited the grounds in the1860s. At that time, many of the graves had been ploughed up, and their markers had been placed against a stone wall near the burial ground. The Department of Parks reported that "a member of the Garden Club siad that the site has no bidies, the gravestones were scattered throughout the area and consolidated into one site." Members of the Pell family are also buried on City Island, in Green-Wood Cemetery, and in New Rochelle, New York. I contacted the Garden Club about this cemetery some time ago, and they made it very clear that they don't know anything about it. One resource is the DAR, New York State Cemetery, Church, and Town Records. Volume 70. 1935. Page 1. (Gravestone Inscriptions). By the way, Steve and I would love to meet you! We'll let you know what our plans are as soon as we make them. Best wishes, Carolee ________________ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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