There is but indifferent care taken to preserve the parish house in good repair, and as for the expenses, they are taken upon the members of the church each one.

Q. Have you any more cures than one, if you have, what are they, and in what manner served ? A. I have no other cure than the aforesaid.

Q. Have you in your parish any public school for the instruction of youth ?

A. There is no public school within the precinct of New Rochelle -- the parents take care to instruct their own children.

Q. Have you a parochial library ; if you have, are the books preserved, and kept in good condition ; have you any particular rules and orders for the preserving of them ; are these rules aud orders duly observed ?

A. My predecessor, Mr. Bondet, has left four hundred volumes for the use of the church forever; they are kept in pretty good condition, but I know no particular rules of preserving them. My Lord, &c,

Petek Stocppe."«

At the date of Mr. Stouppe's arrival, the elders or ancients (as they are sometimes styled,) of this church, were Isaac Quantein and Isaac Guion. The following extract is taken from Mr. Stouppe's first letter to the Society:

MR. STOUPPE TO THE SECRETARY. [extract.]

"New Rooiielle, Province of New York, May 12th, 1725. Sir: -- " But there are yet thirty families unconformed within New Rochelle bounds, and were it not for fear of the eager censures of Mr. Moulinars, one of the French ministers of New York, who comes quarterly amongst them, and some of the most creditable members of his congregation, who jointly with him do support their separation from the Church, all those yet dissenting families, without exception, would have been come over to it already.