In a General Assembly of the inhabitants of this place, according to Justice Mott's warrant, it has been agreed by the plurality of votes, that above the hundred acres of land given by Sir John Pell for the church of this place, the said one hundred acres shall be taken on the undivided land, according to the choice of the elders of the church, as they will find the more profitable for the church and people. "a

At a meeting of the Justices and Vestry, held in the town of Westchester, on the 5th day of May, 1704, appeared Mr. Peter Hulse, (constable for the town of New Rochelle in 1702,) who produced two receipts for ^5, the minister's rate for that year."6

The clergy of New York, addressing the Society on the 17th of October, 1704, says: "Mr. Daniel Bondet has gone further and done more in that good work (converting the heathen,) than any Protestant minister that we know ; we commend him to your pious consideration as a person industrious in ye service of the Church and his own nation, ye French, at New Rochelle."

The following is Dr. Bondet's first letter to the Secretary of the Venerable Society.

MR. BONDET TO THE SECRETARY.

New Rochelle, July 24<7<, 1707. Sir :-- Col. Hcatheote has done me the favor to communicate to me the extract of a letter, where you make mention to him of me, and the part the Honorable Society is pleased to take in what concerns my life and service. If it had pleased God that the ships had come hither, which he expected, I doubt not but according to your opinion, I had had proofs of their good will and approbation, as also directions from my Lord Bishop of London, concerning those things whereof I did myself the honour to inform his Lordship, with the testimony of several eminent and creditable persons. 'Twould be needless, Sir, to repeat things whereof my Lord of London and the Honourable Society are fully informed.