b Upou the 31st of Oct. 1767, Peter Flandreau and Samuel Gelliott, released to the ministers and members of Trinity church at New Rochelle, " all that certain 100 acres of land, kc, which was giveuand granted by John Pell and Kachel tiis wife, by deed poll dated 2oih of September, 10t>9, for the French church, also granted by the said deed poll (excepting and reserving hereout a certain messuage and dwelling House wherein .rames Klaudreau now lives, and also about two acres of of gronnd lying on the east side of the main road m New Rochelle town aforesaid, which the said Peter Flandreau holds by virtue of a title derived under Mrs. Morin. and also excepting hereout one acres of ground more, lying on the west side of the said two acres and adjoiuiug thereto ami being bounded 011 a creek and also by a

THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE.

Stouppe, (sole executrix and heir of the last will and testament of ye Reverend Peter Stouppe of New Rochelle, in the County of Westchester and province of New York, late deceased,) also gave releases to the Church in 1767. "°

The old church glebe was sold during the years 1800 and 1804, and the purchase money subsequently loaned on the late parsonage lands, &c , which fell to the church by a foreclosure of the mortgage in Chancery, A. D., 182 1.

The Rev. Michael Houdin continued his labors here until October, 1766, when he departed this life. He was esteemed a worthy missionary, of considerable learning and irreproachable morals. His remains were interred by the side of his predecessors, Bondet and Stouppe, beneath the chancel of the old French church; but since the removal of this edifice, the ashes of these worthy and laborious missionaries repose in the highway, without a stone to mark the spot or commemorate their worth.