" 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.

And the Petitioners further shew unto your Honour, that their said Church is at presently greatly decayed and out of repair, and their Minister or Pastor but indifferently provided for, &c.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray, that your Majesty's Royal Charter confirming to them the said Church, and the Lauds and other Rights thereunto appertaining, and also creating and constituting them, and the rest of the members of the said Church, a body politic and Corporate, &c.

And the Petitioners as in duty bouud shall ever pray. &c. New Rochelle, 1st of Feb., 1762. Michael Hocdin, Minister.

(signed by 91 others. )

12th of May, 1762, read in Council and granted. nb

a Doc. ITtst. of N. Y., vol. ill. pp. 954-5 6 Doc His. of N. Y., VOL U, p. 955.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

The Royal Charter granted in 1762 was exemplified by his Excellency George Clinton, in 1793, after the following manner:

CHARTER OF TRINITY CHURCH.