Civitas Bmstol. -- These are to certify that the hearer thereof, Daniel Bonnett, weaver, (as we arc very well assured by persons of credit and repute of the French refugees here,) is a French Protestant of good repute, and hath here lived ten years.. But iu hopes of better maintaining himself and family, is intending to settle himself, with his wife and four children, in some of his Majestie's plantations in America. In testimony whereof, we have hereto subscribed our names, and caused the seal of the mayoralty of this city to be hereto affixed this sixteenth day of November, one thousand and seven hundred. Tuos. Caky, Clerk. William Daines Mayor.

Richard La:;e, Samuel Wallis, William Jackson-, Thomas Day.

On Daniel Bonnett's arrival in New Rochelle, he purchased land of Bartholomew Le Roux, one of the first settlers, which property is still occupied by his descendants. Some of his family appear to have been elders in the Church of Chaalous upon Saone, for at the Synod of Gap in 1603, for Burgundy, Lyonois, &c, was one Job James Bonnett.6 Daniel was born in France in 1665, his wife Judy in 1670. Their children were Daniel, John, Peter, Mary, Johanna, and Susanna. Daniel Bonnett took out naturalization papers in New York on the 3d of July, 1700.

The following incident is related of this family: "Daniel and his wife were attempting to reach the French coast with two small children concealed in the paniers of a donkey, covered with fresh vegetables. The mother having enjoined upon the children to keep perfect silence, no matter what might occur, they had scarcely commenced their joura Alb. Hook (jf Pat. Vol. L