There is a tradition that one of the old Huguenots, who daily repaired to this place, " and turning his eyes in the direction where he supposed France was situated, would sing one of Marot's hymns, and send to heaven his morning devotions ; others joined him in these pious remembrances of their God, and of their beloved climes from which they had been so cruelly driven by the merciless fires of persecution." It is more than probable that the Bonnefoy family gave name to this portion of the Neck. The name of Bonnefous, or Bonnefoy, frequently occurs in a history of the French Synods ; for at the Colloquy or Conference oi Ronergus, there appeared Peter Bonnefous, one of the ministers of Milland Cressel and Senerate ; and at the Colloquy of Sauragais, appeared John Bonnefous, of Pay Laurens and Pechandier. The Coutant family, of New Rochelle, possess the Bonnefoy Bible, printed at Amsterdam, by

Jean Frederic Bernard, Revue et corrigee sur le texte Grec par les Pasteurs et les Professeurs de l'Eglise de Geneva.

Davenport's Neck, which has a fine deep water front, is now laid out in choice building sites occupied by the residences of the late T. W. Thorne, Honorable Clarkson N. Potter, Adrian Iselin, Robert R. Morris, W. W. Evans, Robert Edgar, Montgomery G. Davenport, son of the late Lawrence Davenport, Esq., De Lancey Kane, Daniel Edgar, and others. This neck suffered severely during the Revolutionary War, both from the enemy's shipping and the incursions of the whale boit men. Here General Knyphausen landed the second divison of Hessians and the Twenty-second Regiment of Waldeckers, October, 1776, ten days previous to the battle of White Plains. On the Cedar street road, near the entrance of the neck, is Rockton, the residence of Robert C. Fisher, which commands beautiful views of the neck and adjoining waters.