 Pell died on October 28, 1840 and was buried at Saint Paul's Church Cemetery in Mount Vernon, New York.His widow died on October 3, 1848.Through his son Morris, he was a grandfather of John Howland Pell (1830–1882), father of, among others, Stephen Hyatt Pell (who spearheaded the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga, founded the Fort Ticonderoga Association in 1931), and William Howland Pell (1833–1911).