At a meeting of the committee of the Council, March 4th, WU-o, to report to the Governor, they assert that th" congregation of the French Protestant church had no authority to suspend their minister, p. 470.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

the incapacity for providing for a minister obliged the inhabitants to establish an Episcopal Church through the Bounty and Protection of the Society in England ; and they would still support this schism,

if their M was not taken up in the -custody of our Church of

which he keeps the keys to keep me out unjustly. In short they have always looked upon my inclination, esteem, and respect for the Church of England as a crime in me." Mr. Rou adds, " They have always been enemies of the Church of England as by laiu established ; they have always railed at her liturgy, her services and ceremonies"0. About one year after these disgraceful proceedings in New York, Moulinars retired to New Rochelle to annoy Monsieur Stouppe, the lawful minister of that place. " The will of John Joseph Moulinar in the County of Westchester and Province of New York, minister of the Holy Evangille in New Rochelle," bears date ist of October, 1741, and was proved 13th October, 1741,6 so that he must have died somewhere between the first and thirteenth of October of the same year. His wife was Judith Marie. On the 17th of October, 1726, John Parcot of New Rochelle, sold to Judith Marie Moulinars, gentle woman of the same place, his farm of forty-seven acres in New Rochelle. Moulinars had a daughter, Susanne Helene, born Feb. 8, 1719; and a son Jean, born Feb. 13, 1722 ; both of whom were baptized by Monsieur Rou, in New York. This son, Jean, I conjecture, was the John Moulinars who '' entered the service as first lieutenant, June 15, 1746.""