The salary subscribed for the minister by the members of New Rochelle church amounts at present to £10 19s., money of this province, of which, through negligence or pretended poverty of the subscribers, there is little more than half part of it actually paid : so that the provisions of firewood which they make to their minister for the time being, is by much the better part of his salary -- though little in itself.

There is no other endowment belonging to the church that I know of. This is all what I can say upon that head.

2nd. I come now to the second. The number of people that first settled New Rochelle was about a dozen families ; the most part of them were in Europe, trading-merchants ; being French refugees, they were all at first addicted to the Confession of Faith of the formerly Reformed Protestant Church of France. These few families, I say, have conjointly bought of the Lord Pell, 6000 acres of land and divided it into lots and parcels, from 20 to 30, 40, 50, 60, 100, 200 and 300 acres a piece ; have sold afterwards the said lots and parcels to any who had a mind to buy them, English, French or Dutch ; but so it happened that more of the French than of the other two nations proved desirous to settle among them. To this, if you add the increase and settlement of their children since that time, each of which have their particular houses, or dwelling places, being settled npon so many respective lots and parcels of ground, the present number of inhabitants, comprehending young and old of both sexes, amounts to very near 400 persons. There is a dozen of houses near the church, standing pretty close to one another, whic h makes that place a sort of town ; the remainder of the houses and settlements are dispersed up and down as far as the above said GOOO acres of land could bear.