In consequence he has. given us his farewell sermon, this Lord's day morning, April 15, 1764, we accompanying it with our own most siucere prayers, praying that God would take him under His mighty protection, conduct happily wherever His providence may call him, and bestow His blessing upon his person and his ministry, to the end that he may contribute effectually to the glory of our great God, and lead souls captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ. Done in Consistory, and a true copy given to Mr. Jem Carle at New Rochelle, this 15th day of April, 1764.

(Signed,) Samfel P. Gii.let,

Michel Hoxore, Jean Badeau, Jean Paroot.<*

From this time (1764) no record appears to have been made of the state or progress of the French Protestant congregation in New Rochelle, as a distinct body ; probably about this period, such of its members as had not conformed to the Church of England, allied themselves to the Presbyterian form of worship.

Upon the 23d of February, 1808, the Presbyterian church was incorporated under the title of the " French Church in New Rochelle," Matson Smith, John Reid, Thomas Carpenter, Robert Givan, Gideon Coggleshall, and James Somerville, trustees. A re-organization appears to have taken place "on the 30th of May, 181 2, under the direction of a committee appointed by the Presbytery of New York, consisting of the Rev. Walter King, Philip Milledolar, D.D., and Henry Rutgers, elder." The church edifice was raised in 1815, and dedicated the same year. The land on which it stood was the gift of Mr. George Pelor, 12th of May 1814. In 1827 Samuel Bayard, of the borough of Princeton, in the State of New Jersey, and the Rev. Lewis P. Bayard,6 of the town