Bondet to the living, (of Westchester) and the parish being large enough to maintain two, we would likewise continue Mr. Mather and support him by subscriptions. The Vestry seemed to be extremely well pleased with this proposal and desired me to send for Mr. Bondet, which I immediately did -- hoping by that means to bring them over to the Church ; but Mather apprehending what I aimed at, persuaded the Vestry to alter their resolutions, and when he came they refused to call him.6

So that projection failing, (of inducting Mr. Bondet to the Farish of Westchester) Colonel Heathcote obtained his services for the French church at New Rochelle. At this early period both Mr. Vesey of New York and Mr. Bondet preached in several parts of the country, and administered the rite of Holy Baptism. Mr. Bondet's destitute condition soon after his settlement, is proved by the following document : --

PETITION OF REVEREND MR. BONDET, OF NEW ROCHELLE. [translated FROM THE FREXCn.]

" To His Excellency Milord Cornbury,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief. My Lord : I most humbly pray your Excellency to be pleased to take cognizance of the petitioner's condition.

I am a French refugee minister, incorporated into the body of the ministry of the Anglican Church ; I removed about fifteen years ago into New England with a company of poor refugees, to whom lands were granted for their settlement ; and to provide for my subsistence, I was allowed one hundred and five pieces

a His name does not occur in a list of the principal inhabitants in 169C, the year the settlement was broken up by an incursion of the Indians. b See Westchester Parish, p. 25.