public highway loading from the said creek and which divides the aforesaid 10(1 acres of land from the lands of Benjamin Hrowne.) and of, In and to all, Ac," Couutv Records, Lib. 11. p. 850. " llto, affidavit of Jonathan Fowler, Charles Vincent. Thomas Butler and Lewis Quion, all of the County of Westchester in the suit of Trinity church at New Rochelle against Peter Flandreau, S.umiel Gelllottand Elizabeth Ry lander." Land Papers, Vol. 1,-1648, 1803, p. 30. "Dec. 23, affidavit of Jacobus Bleecker In an action of the minister Ac. of the Church ofNew Kochelle against Peter Flandreau and others.'' Land Papers, Vol. u-1013, 1S03, p. 30.

a Co. Roc Lib. G. pp. 554. 556. See also Lib. II. 349.

o New York MSS. from archives at Fulhani, vol. 11. (Ilawfcs.)

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

consists of near two hundred people, decent and well behaved, part English and part French. The French all understand English tolerably well ; and except half a dozen old people in whose hands is the chief management of affairs, full as well as they do French. The greatest part of them would prefer an English to a French minister; and none are warm for a French one, but the half a dozen above mentioned.

They had a glebe of near one hundred acres of land left them formerly, thirty acres of which they have recovered; the rest is kept from them under pretence that it was given to a Presbyterian or Calvinistic French church. They have also a parsonage house ; but whether these endowments are so made, that an English minister could not enjoy them, I cannot yet learn New Rochelle is seven miles from this place, three from Eastchester, eight from Rye and perhaps about that distance from Philipsburgh. I have been thus particular, that the Society may be able to judge whether it is expedieut for them to send another missionary to New Rochelle or not.