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.

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per annum, from the funds of the Corporation for the Propagation of the Go. pel among the savages. I performed that duty during nine years with a Buccesa approved and attested, by those who presided over the aliairs of that Province.

The murders which the Indians committed in those countries caused the dispersion of our company, some of whom fell by the hands of the barbarians. I remained after that, two years in that province -- expecting a favorable season for the re-establishment of affairs ; but after waiting two years, seeing no appearance, and being invited to remove to this province of New York, by Colonel Heathcote, who always evinces an affection for the public good, and distinguishes himself by a special application for the advancement of religion and good order, by the establishment of churches and schools, the fittest means to strengthen and encourage the people, I complied with his request and that of the company of New Rochelle, in this province, where I passed five years 011 a small allowance promised me by New Rochelle, of one hundred pieces and lodging, with that of one hundred and five pieces which the corporation continued to me until the arrival of Milord Belamont who, after indicating his willingness to take charge of me and our Canton, ordered me thirty pieces in the Council of York, and did me the favor to promise me that at his journey to Boston he would procure me the continuation of that stipend that I had in times past.