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

THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE.

tranquility of my family, etc. Iniprimus, I commend my soul to God, the Father Almighty, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, that he might receive her in II is Heavenly kingdom among His blessed children. And as for my corpse, to be buried after the custom and manner of my religion and discipline, till the accomplishment of times, and until the resurrection when our Lord shall come for to judge the quick and the dead, &c, &c. The above will is dated New Rochelle, 17th of April, 1694.

Among the Lespinard papers (at Upper New Rochelle) is preserved a diary kept by a member of that family, prior to their leaving France, from which we make the following extracts (the originals are in the French language") :