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.

HISTROY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

by enlistings in the King's service and by death; nevertheless, the number of his communicants is seventy-four, and he had baptized within the present half year, fifteen white and five black children.""

The ministry of this zealous and successful missionary was brought to a close by his death in July, 1760. The Rev. Henry Barclay, D.D., rector of Trinity church, New York, in a letter dated September 3d, 1760, encloses the following address to the Society from the church at New Rochelle, wherein they acquaint that body with the death of the Rev. Pierre Stouppe, who for thirty-seven years had been their missionary :

VESTRY OF NEW ROCHELLE TO THE SECRETARY.

"New Rochelle, July ye Z0t7i, 1760.