John Miller describing the Province of New York in 1695, says: " There is a meeting-house at Richmond, (Staten Island.) of which Dr. Bonrepos is the minister." Upon the 9th day of March 1696, "David

a Doc. ntst. N. Y. vol. 1. p. 29S.

b Iu 14(i0 Jean de la Baume appears as Seigneur de Bonrepos and de Valusln, vovcz tome vlj de cette histoire, p. 45, 420, Tom viij. c Doc. Hist. N. Y., vol. 11., p. 304.

THE TOWN OV NEW ROCHELLE.

de Bonrepos of New York City, Doctor of Divinity, and Blanche, his wife, did grant to Elias de Bonrepos of New Rochelle, husbandman -- all that certain parcel of land situate and lying at New Rochelle, in the manor of Pelham, &c, containing fifty acres of ground."'* Upon the 6th day of February, 1696, letters of denization were granted to David de Bonrepos, V. D. M.& He must have died sometime in the Spring of 1734.

THE WILL OF DAVID DE BONREPOS.

lu the name of God a-nen the sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-three, I, David de Bonrepos. minister of the Gospel in the County of Richmond and the Province of New York, being by the grace of God in good health and of pcifcct mind and memory. Therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say and principally and first of all I give and recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian and decent manner, at the Discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection at the Last Day, I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God.