The following is from the Society's abstracts for A.D. 1756: -- "The Rev. Mr. Stouppe, the Society's missionary both to the English and French, at New Rochelle, informs the Society, by his letter of June 16th, 1756, that the Church continues there in a good state, and he officiates to numerous congregations, both of English and French ; and that the number of the communicants is increased to eighty, and he had baptized, in the preceding twelve months, thirty four white and six black children.""

Mr. Stouppe informs the Society, by his letter of June 5th, 1758, "that since the war broke out, there have been great alterations in his congregations, which have lost many of the members by removals, and

a Town Rook, Lib. A. ITS. 'Tpon the petition of flfty-3ix free-holders and inhabitants of New Rochelle on the 2nd of April, 1771, the Commissioners of the Town closed a certain road, formerly laid out, running between the laud of Joseph Drake and the Church Glebe' begiuuipg at the school house, and so to run up to the post road, the highway, or coutainiusr i>y estimation two acres and three quarters of land, which money was to be applied and paid by the Town Clerk to the collector, for and towards thj parish rates for the year ensuiug.'' Town Rec. pages 178, 268.

b New York MS"v from archives at Fulhara, vol. ii. pp. 153, 154. (Hawks.) c Printed abstracts of Veo. Prop. Soc. from 20th Feb., 175C, to 18th Feb., 1757.