This is a very pretty place, well compact, and good, handsome houses, clean, good, and passable roads, and situated on a navagable river, abundance of land, well fenced and cleared all along as we passed, which caused in me a love to the place, which I could have been content to live in it. Here we rid over a bridge made of one entire stone, of such a breadth that a cart might pass with safety, and to spare. It lay over a passage cut through a rock to convey water to a mill not far off,c Here are three fine taverns within call of each other, and very good provision for travellers. v<r

The advantages presented by the proximity of the sound are of- great importance to New Rochelle.

Upon the whole, New Rochelle is a place of considerable wealth and enterprise, and from its fine location it must eventually arrive at some importance.

a The present street which passes In front of the Episcopal church. The Gulon family appear to have been among the first residents and proprietors of the village.

b This stone must have occupied the site of the present bridge which crosses the Chrystal Lake stream.

c Madame Knight's travels In 1704.

PELL AND PICKNEY COAT OP ARMS, FOUND UNDER THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEW ROCHELLE.

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THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE.

Coeval with the foundation of the village was the organization of a church, in which the Huguenots appear to have adhered to the principles and as far as they were able at that time to have maintained the Articles, Liturgy, Discipline and Canons, according to the usage of the Reformed Church in France. " It was for their religion that they suffered in their native country, and to enjoy its privileges unmolested they fled into the wilderness."