of the sick, as formerly practised in the French Reformed church of this place in 1697. One of the prayers is thus entitled:

u Oraison au fidele detenu en captivite."

The catechism of the French church is also added, and the psalms in metre with their appropriate tunes. On a blank leaf occurs the following memoranda :

Cette Bible appartient a moy Yaltlicr Humbert du Locke & de la de fond Bourgeois Mangin Laule Sept cent et uu PI.

Au nom de Dieu Isaac Gieon a Marie ma fillc Marie le 25 d'aoust 1710 par Monsieur Le roux ministre de l'eglise Francoise de la nouvelle York JxJ en presence de monsieur Paul Drouillet aucien & pour temoins abraham Girard et sa femme X

For some time, all the exertions the Huguenots could make -- men, women and children united -- were necessary to prepare the land for cultivation, and enable them to pay for its purchase ; which perseverance at last accomplished. Yet, amid all the hardships and suffering incident to a laborious life, in an uncultivated and strange country, they wrote to their friends in France, expressing their gratitude to Heaven for the advantages they enjoyed in this land of liberty.

That heart must be hard indeed that cannot appreciate the following pious ejaculations set forth in the last will of John Machet, one of these sufferers for conscience sake :

Our help be in the name of God, which made the heavens and earth, Amen.

I, John Machet, a ship carpenter, born and bred in ye town of Tremblade, in France, and dwelling in Bordeaux, and being fugitive by the persecution, with my family, viz: Jeanne Thomas my wife, and Peter, John, Jeanne and Mary Anne Machet, my children, sons and daughters, and having all abandoned and forsaken all my goods for my religion's sake, which I profess in the purity of a Christian commonly called Protestant, and being now established in these places, lands and dependencies of New York, in the town called New Jtochelle, under the dominion of the high and mighty monarch, our king, William of plaine memory, to which God preserve his sceptre and crowne, and that under his reign we might live in God's fear, and being sick of body with a fever, notwithstanding sound of mind and memory, and willing to provide my business for the