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 :

Daniel Lambert, Jacoo Scurman,

Ehe Badcau, Ambroise Sycart,

Daniel Giraud, Benjamin Fancuil,

Gregoire Gougeon, Alexander Allaire,

Daniel Bonnett, Jean Pemeau,

Elie de Bonrepos, J. Levillain,

Jean Magnon, Bolts,

Besly, Daniel Rayneau,

Isaac Mercicr, Guilleaume Le Counte,

Bartholomew Le Roux, Francois Le Counte,

Pierre Valleau, Zacharie Angevin, Frederick Schorman.

Upon the 17th of April, 1724, we find the following freeholders

a Extracts from the Lespinard Diary in possession of the late Peter Oanlladet, T'poer Rochelle. The French Huguenot ladies brought out their Bibles rolled up in their hair, one of these Bibles is now in possession of Servoss, Esq., of Harlem.

6 -Massachusetts Hist. Collect. Vol. II. 'H.

600 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

"granting to Anthony Lespinard a portion of land (situated on Davenport's Neck) for the erection of a mill."a

Besly, Peter Samson,

Oliver Besly, John Coutaut,

Simon Mabe, F. Bolt, jr.

Francis Ganyard, Zaccarie Angevin,

Frederick Scurmau, Pierre Elisee Gallaudet,

Gilleaume Clapp, Isaac Mender,

John Cla:k, Lancinie Thauvet,