Some of the Huguenots must have been " aided in their escape from France by the English vessels that lay for some time off the Island of Rhe, opposite La Rochelle, in which they were conveyed to England."' Tradition says that many of them were subsequently transported to this place in one of the king's ships. The point on Davenport's Neck called Bauffet's or Bonnefoy's Point, was the spot where they first landed. Others who afterwards joined them -- viz., Theroulde, Allaire, Le Vilain, Machet, Bongrand, Thauver, Mercier, Mastier and Jouneau, &c, had been in New York a year or more previous to their settlement at New Rochelle.

Upon the 17th of April, 1695, we find letters of denization granted to Francis Le Count, under oaths appointed to be taken/

On the 6th of February, 1695-6, letters of denization were issued under the seal of the province, " to David de Bonrepos, Alexander Allaire, Henry Beignon, Esaye Valleau, Andrew Thaunet, David Bonnea Jurieu's Pastoral Letters.

b Christian Intelligencer ; Mr. Disosway's Sketch of the DuguenotS. c Smedley'B Hist, of the Reformed Religion, iii. 21T. rfSee Charter of Trinity Church in this town.

e So rapid and instantaneous appears to have been their flight, that one family in particular (the GralonB) " left their pot boiling on the lire." An earthen jug, rescued on this occasion, was in ihe possession of the late Airs. Julia Law-ton, daughter of Frederick Gulon. /Alb. Book of Pat. vi. 527.

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