Houdiu must leave us, tho' he is the o:ily Minister in the place ; and Indeed there are but few Besides professors of the Church of England in the Place, and we have reason to hope that they may be induced to conform, should a worthy Minister continue among us. Upon those considerations, we beg your Honor will be pleased to grant a Brief, through this Province, to collect the aforesaid sum of four Hundred Pound, for building a new Parsonage House, to repair the church in this place, and your Petitioners as iu bound, shall ever Pray, &c,

Barnard Rynlandeb, Peter Bartine, Isaac Guion, Jacobus Bi.eecker, James DeBlez, Jean Soclicb.

David Lisrenard, August 10th, 1761, read in Council and granted.""

During the incumbency of Mr. Houdin, Trinity church received its first charter from King George the Third, under which the present corporation still enjoys its trust and exercises its powers. The following extracts are taken from the petition to the Governor:

PETITION OF THE FRENCH CHURCH AT NEW ROCHELLE. " To the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq., Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of New York, and the Territories depending thereon in America, &c.

In Courxil.

The petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the Township of New Rochel in the Manor of Pelham, in the County of Westchester, Humbly Siieweth :

That the petitioners are members of the French Church at New Rochel aforesaid, and principally descendants from French Protestants, who fled from the religious persecution in France in the year oue thousand six hundred and eightyone, &c.