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. Dudley,) complaining of the sale of rum to the Indians without order and measure, and of its baneful effects -- the date is lost with a line or two at the beginning, but it is endorsed : Air. Daniel Bendof s representation referring to New Oxford, July 6, 1691.^

o Town Hoc. Lib. A., 23.

b " I'p'm th;; revocation the rest of the ministers were allowed fifteen days for their departure: but it can hardly be believed to what cruelties and vexations they were exposed." " And yet," adds the English historian, " through rich mercy very few revolted; the far preat«'>t part of them escape. I, either inio England, Holland. < w\ many or Switzerland : yea, and some are now in New England " Quick's Syuodicon introduction in Sept., 16S6. Twentysix pounds were contributed for the relief of the French Protestants who came to New England, Mass. llist. Col., 3rd series, vol. IV., 62. "In 1693, Cotton .Mather sneaks of Mr Pondet as a faithful minister to the French congregation at New Oxford in the Xipmug," Magualia B. C. <>, 32, vol. 2, p. 3S2, Svo. ed , Hart, 2 vols.,lS20.