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") :

"September 20th, 1671. -- I have been married to Abel de Forge. I beg the good God, that He gives us the grace to live a long time in His holy fear, and that it will please Him to give us a good paradise at the end.

October 2d, 1672.-- My wife has been confined of a girl Margaret, at about ten o'clock of the day, on a Wednesday. Margaret died, and has given her spirit to God, between six and seven o'clock of the afternoon."0

In 1 710 Margaret Lespinard, or Lepperner, (as it was then spelt) who was born in France in 1644, was living in New Rochelle with her two children, Anthony and Susanna.

" Between the French Huguenots who settled at Oxford in Massachusetts, and those who came to New York, it appears by the Bernon papers that there was some correspondence.' *

The Freeholders of New Rochelle in 1708 were as follows :