Bonrepos, 1718 to 1725.

THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE.

Ambrose Sicard, Jr., and Daniel Sicard to convert in moneyed rents at six per cent, the forty shillings that each of them owes which make four pistoles for ten acres of ground sold to them by said inhabitants, &c, and begin to pay the rent from the first to the last of May of the year, 1694. Signed, Thauvet Ecotonxeau, J. Machet,

Theroude, Guillaume le Conte and Daniel Streing.""

By an act of General Assembly passed on the 24th of March, 1693, which was subsequently confirmed, the manor of Pelham became one of the four districts or precincts of Westchester parish. In 1702, New Rochelle contributed towards the rector's maintenance and poor of the parish jQ-j $s. In 1720 her quota had increased to ^12 14J i\d. At a meeting of the church wardens, vestrymen, free holders and parishioners of ye borrough of Westchester, &c, in Westchester, 10th day of January, Anno Domini 1709-10, &c, &c, Mr Anthony Lespinard was chosen and appointed a vestryman of New Rochelle.

The next minister of the French Reformed church of New Rochelle was the Rev. Daniel Bondet, A.M., a native of France. He was born in the year 1652, studied theology at Geneva, and afterwards entered the ministry. On the revocation of the edict of Nantes he fled from France to England.6 Here he received Holy Orders from the Right Rev. Henry Compton, Lord Bishop of London, and soon after accompanied the French emigrants who arrived at Boston, Mass., in the summer of 1686. For eight years he was employed by the Corporation for propagating the Christian Faith among the Indians^ at a place called New Oxford, near Boston, and was also a 'minister of the French congregation there as appears from a letter Avritten by him to some person in authority, (probably Gov.