_This 20th day of January, 1723-4. <*

a Count. Rec. Lib., E, 3SS, 99. The original Document is in the possession of Mr. Drake ol Scarsdale.

THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE. 673

According to information derived from the Allaire family the above lot embraces the site of the present Presbyterian parsonage, the northern part of which lot was formerly used as a grave yard. On this spot the " Reformed Protestant Congregation of New Rochelle " erected a church about 1723-4; this edifice having fallen into decay was afterwards removed in 1783 by John Guerrineau, carpenter. We have already seen that the first edifice erected by the Huguenots on March 19, 1697, stood a little east of the last mentioned structure and was destroyed by fire about 1723.

The first pastor of the Reformed Protestant church at New Rochelle, after the conformity, was the " Reverend Jean Brumeau de Moulinars, who was undoubtedly a son of Jean Brumaud, Sieur de Moulinars, pastor of Champagne Mouton, Poitou, France, and afterwards of Chatellerault, who fled to Holland after the Revocation. Jean Joseph was ordained by the Walloon Synod in Holland, and came to New York in 17 18 to be colleague of the Rev. Louis Rou. He seems to have been highly esteemed by the people ; but disagreeing with Rou, he retired to New Rochelle where he had previously officiated at stated times from the period of his coming to America,"" Moulinars treatment of his superior, Monsieur Rou, is very much censured by many members of the New York congregation in 1724. In a petition to Governor Burnet, Roux's friends say, " that they are too sensibly touched with the disadvantages they lye under from the misfortunes of their want of his Pastoral care over them, whose exemplary Piety and Instruction for upwards of fourteen years have rendered him exceedingly estimable to all who know him, and which can't but be acknowledged even by those who are now the occasion of your Pet'rs, giving your Excellency this trouble and who side with his assistant, Mr.